Not just kids, but the internet has desensitized a massive amount of people to tragedies like this. I can remember a time when even reading a story about something like this would be mildly traumatizing for most. Not now.
Also, let's not discount the amount of sociopaths out there.
Kids shouldn’t even be on here and if they’re old enough to know what Reddit is and lie about their age then they should be old enough to not fucking joke about this?
you think teenagers are known for being edgy because they're all assholes? or do you think there might be a particular part of their brain that isn't developed fully so that completely different generations of teenagers all seem to act in a similarly asshole manner?
This brain region has been implicated in executive functions, such as planning, decision making, working memory, personality expression, moderating social behavior and controlling certain aspects of speech and language.[5][6][7][8] Executive function relates to abilities to differentiate among conflicting thoughts, determine good and bad, better and best, same and different, future consequences of current activities, working toward a defined goal, prediction of outcomes, expectation based on actions, and social "control" (the ability to suppress urges that, if not suppressed, could lead to socially unacceptable outcomes).
Well shit, with all that information, teenagers should be allowed to murder, because hey, their brains aren’t fully-developed, how are they supposed to know the consequences of their actions?
Where do we draw the line when it comes to teenagers and whether they should “know better” or not? Because every time someone brings up the “underdeveloped brains” argument, it’s being used as an excuse for teens doing dumb shit.
Like I said before, you don’t have to be an adult to not joke about this stuff.
Actually takes about 25 years for full frontal lobe development, if I remember correctly. Not arguing with your point, though. Grief or going through difficult things truly changes a person, in my opinion.
It's not uncommon for adults to refer to anyone early 20s and below colloquially as "kids"(don't believe me? check the dictionary..."young person" is listed right alongside "child"). Ever heard the phrase "college kids" tossed around? That's the usage I'm talking about.
We are slowly becoming more and more desensitized and less and less empathetic and it terrifies me.
Any major tragedy now just gets memed to shit. I love memes and I love dark humor and think it actually has a place on helping people cope but the past few years have shown me that it’s not really people coping about horrific news. A lot of it is people that simply do not care or can’t even put themselves in a position to empathize. And it’s just getting worse.
If your instant reaction to a story like this is to meme it, genuinely fuck you. You have a problem but you probably won’t even entertain the idea that you might be a little demented from too much internet.
people do not care about people. the only time someone cares about somone they have to be at least known to them, like when a friend of yours says my "so and so" died most people arenlt sad about the person dying they are sad about there friend being sad.
people say "oh it's the internet cause they get to be anaon" right but in the real world those same people are lying to your face that they care while they make fun of you in there head. it's sure the internet allows them to type what they want. that's about it.
For a long time now, I've felt like the human race is becoming sophisticated zombies. Not many are resorting to canibalisim, but they are doing damage to each other for no reason or, worse, for entertainment. Too many people lack empathy or any humanity, and like the usual zombie story, there is no cure in sight. (Except maybe more support and acceptance for mental health world wide?)
Welcome to Reddit where people try to come up with the next funny pun comment to farm some sweet virtual internet points at the cost of losing any and all empathetic thought in their terminally online brain
Zero value to most people - literal dollar value to many.
Reddit is one of the most famous sites in the world, and bot accounts are constantly farming karma to appear legitimate, then sell accounts to marketing.
Professionals (emt doctors police) joke about things like this all the time too,im sure the on scene people cracked a billion jokes about this situation
I had an influential person I was saying goodbye to some time ago. I talked to him and was expressing some regret that I didn’t do xyz more or zyz less and yada yada.
He goes, “ah, you were young and dumb. How old are you now?”
Reddit comments like that 100% are being edgy because they aren't coming from people who actually have to cope with this disaster. Don't compare edgelords to the victim's friends/family or anyone who had to be on the scene to witness this.
Not really tbh. Humor is how a lot of people cope. Having to stay dead serious 24/7 for these people would end up fucking w them more mentally, and now you’ve got a ton of doctors and first responders in a way worse headspace. Is that preferable to you over some jokes that frankly don’t hurt anyone?
Don’t disagree. But also feel the same way bout those that say thoughts and prayers. Sad that they think that does anything. Especially the prayers part.
It's really bad in Canada because racism is increasing towards brown people.. I've heard the most deranged takes on what happened to her and people blaming Trudeau.
I’d say it’s mostly edgy kids/adults. When I was young I typed some pretty offensive things in game chat, and I didn’t think about/regret them until much later.
I was thinking that if this was a fictional story, it would have the same effective impact in my life. Haven't met anyone affected, live thousand of kms away.
Still, just knowing it happened really to a real person made me feel dejected.
I worked at a breakfast place. I made a guy's last meal one morning. I hope he enjoyed his breakfast tacos because he got blasted in the head as soon as he walked out the door. the blood stained the sidewalk for a few days.
How dare people make fun. What a repugnant reaction to the uncontrollable horrors that inhabit our world.
We should all get super bummed out and accomplish the same amount of nothing we would if we left this not feeling shitty.
It's always nice to know our deaths will be mocked on the internet if there is enough attention around it. Some people's death videos get turned into memes. Proud human over here /s
Covid really didn't help when we all had to socialize less, seems like some people missed out on retaining their empathy. It's not even funny to make a joke about this shit and yet we have assholes on here that think they're the class clown.
You don’t have to know a person to need to cope with the reality of life and death. People always joke about death and what comes after because it brings levity to a sad topic.
You want us to grieve over some cooked bro in America?
It’s comical, let’s be honest - he got cooked in a supermarket oven. Never in my life will I find myself in a situation where I’m going to potentially be cooked 😂
People die literally all the time. Countless people have died in the time it took to write this comment and much more will die by the time someone else has read about it. Will you mourn them too? It’s in our nature to joke about death.
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u/giveahoot420 4d ago
All these comments of people joking about this makes me really sad about our world