holy fuck, 'hating' on mods is suppose to be a fun meme in Twitch culture where you post animated BTTV janitor emotes (and even that has to take a toll for some) and they are going to ruin it for every one.

but the actual outrage here is the amount of intense negativity coming from these commentors. i hadn't realized it was getting this bad.

people have to start looking inside themselves and realize when the anger is coming from inside and not actually from an external and largely inconsequential factor.

At times, when comment conversations anywhere on the internet that are about something incredibly inconsequential get weirdly personal and nasty, I have a reaction that's similar to the one I have when I see people setting a trash can on fire because their hockey team lost.

I'm not convinced that anonymity or crowds — real or virtual — can create anger or incivility that isn't already there. They just become cultural flypaper, and extreme hostility sticks to them. You're not learning how angry sports make people, or how angry the internet makes people. You're learning how angry people already are.