Question, when Corrupted Blood happened, it was studied by actual pandemic researchers, but people dismissed the data because it taking place in a video game meant people didn't treat it as seriously as a real pandemic.
But then Covid happened, and it turned out people did a lot of the same things from spreading it maliciously to blowing off quarantine.
So what made people dismiss it?
The age-old internet fallacy:
"People who grief and troll online just do it to get a rise. It doesn't reflect their actual personality. The things you do in a consequence-free environment don't reflect who you actually are."
Yes they fucking do. The way you act in an environment of no consequences is your most honest self. There is no such thing as "just trolling."
Anyone who's been on the internet for longer than one year knows that trolls are being completely, 100% genuine. And their claims otherwise is self-protective horseshit. Trolls need you to believe that. Give someone a target that it is socially acceptable to be cruel to, and they will show you how cruel of a person they are.
Pretending that people who behave like cruel monsters online aren't doing so sincerely was always the biggest mistake of the information age.


















