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teenage edgelords tend to be annoying about using archaic verbiage in large part due to insecurity about mimicry-driven linguistic provenance chains (slang) and instead rebase onto one they can exhibit competence with (literature-based)
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they feel left out of The Game and overwhelmed by how quickly fads evolve; they feel like they're missing something and that they Don't Get It, and this anxiety prompts the development of a defense mechanism, namely the belief that they're Better Than It, esp if they read a lot
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ngl this was me and being bullied for it actually helped bc it forced the issue and made me question why anyone cared, and then, why I was even doing it in the first place
bullying is an intersubjective regulatory mechanism converging social agents
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RT @pee_zombie
I think the day I truly grew up was when I realized that most of my school bullies were just cringing at how badly I was embarrassing & were trying to help me stop that t…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1485991032974200836
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the irony is that this very cope further isolates them from their peers and entrenches itself, when in reality what would help them most is interrogating why they Need To Get It, unlike everyone else who is just playing along