the reply guy counter culture is so toxic
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the reply guy counter culture is so toxic
social media exists to talk to each other and to discuss and if you're annoyed by someone then just block and move on instead of screaming all day long about how replying in this or that way is problematic. it's antisocial and destructive and makes people scared of interacting with each other -
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@[email protected] it also hurts neurodivergent people who often come off as reply guys/girls/people because we show that we relate through sharing similar experiences (like this reply) or are confused by some part of the post and want more detail.
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@[email protected] @[email protected] unspoken rules are hard for us neurodivergent folk to grasp. It’s why I boost the replyguy posts explaining sort of people’s expectations of engagement on the platform. Personally though I just don’t respond to replies I don’t want to respond to. I also just straight up miss replies because my notifications are like Niagara Falls so I have plausible deniability there. I think the biggest actual problem with reply beings is when people reply to vent posts and try to start an argument there. I have been guilty of this occasionally because I misread the post and I’ve always felt bad about it.
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@[email protected] @[email protected] tl;dr - everyone can have a bit of replybeingism as a treat but when it gets to the extreme of responding aggressively to follower-only vent posts and other topics... that's a problem. It's up to the individual to enforce that boundary though and it doesn't really work out as an "unspoken social code".
