Driving off someone from being online, as a troll, because it gives you a thrill.
This is an awfully specific flex, but it is a flex nonetheless, that people do feel to boast about. Because it’s just another form of a power-trip. Congratulations, you’ve driven away someone who could’ve been a contributory member of a community to make yourself feel better by orchestrating lies, performing witch hunts and huddling with your troll buddies in ways to figure out how to process this.
There’s nothing prideful about this to flex over.
“I got 12 femtoseconds of sleep last night”
Okay, but like turn off your phone and go to bed, that’s super bad for you and you are intolerable because you’re grumpy from not sleeping
It’s literally misery Olympics with my mom about sleep. I can’t mention anything about sleep without her cutting me off trying to 1-up me.
Me: I got called and had to remote in for work last night, didn’t get to bed until after 4a…
Mom: Welcome to my world I was awake until after 5 and maybe got only 2 hours of sleep so I sat up in bed with my iPad on full brightness reading
Welcome to (peri)menopause.
I’ll only mention that at work so people know why I’m stupid and irritable and I precede it with an apology.
Gen-X would like a word.