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Posted by
Psychopixi on Saturday, June 29, 2002 - 11:12 AM PST
I'm going to scream. I swear I am. I'm sitting at my computer randomly drifting through self-titled 'gothic' pages and just feeling bored out of my skull. There seems to be so little online now that's new or different. I'm sitting here thinking "I've read this all before and I was unimpressed the first time". Maybe my site isn't any different. Perhaps I'm just contributing to the growing pile of bullshit that's cluttering up the net. For every genuinely interesting site I find I'll have to trawl through a hundred pointless, Mansonitic, mind-numbing, crowd-following, illiterate, boring, unoriginal, and just generally crappy 'gothik' or, dare I say it 'vampyre' ::shudders:: sites.
Haven't you people heard of a spell checker? Don't even talk to me about your kEwLiEz 5ty1e of writing. It pisses me off. Okay, so perhaps I'm guilty of a few sins, aren't we all? I'll admit to having used the words 'boi' and 'kewl' at some point in my dark, mysterious past ::cue goth-as-fuck music:: but I'd like to understand what I'm reading, Please, for the sake of my sanity!
Then, of course, you get pages such as the Reality
Check or Goth Wanker of the Week which are just designed to criticize all the sites which they think are no good. Okay, so the sites featured really, really deserve to get the piss taken out of them. They suck, and in no small sense of the word. It just gets to me a bit, sometimes their criticism just comes off as pretension. "I'm so much gother than thou." I recognize that this makes this whole rant I'm now writing sound like nothing more than hypocritical, pretentious drivel. Maybe that's all this is - a conceited farce.
Am I really any better than all the other people whose sites I've been surfing? I speak from my heart. I write what I think. I like to think that I'm fair - that I don't act like I know better or *am* better than anyone else. But I *am* better Godamnit. When I've just spent a goodly amount of time reading 'Mystryss of the Nyght's site where she pours out her 'heart and sole' (sic) then I sincerely hope that I am better than that. That I don't seem shallow and vapid. That I act for me, do what I want and don't just follow a pre-conceived notion of 'cool' or the stereotypical perception of 'goth'. That I'm not a fake or a poseur. If you think I am then fine, just think for a minute, are you really so much better than me?
I'm just sick of it all. I'm thoroughly disillusioned with the 'gothic' and 'pagan' sites that the net has to offer. Do you really expect me to load up your site and go 'Oh, wow! Look at that cool spinning ankh.gif that I've only seen on every other bloody site in existence.'? Another major gripe - 'meet me' pages. I like them. I like knowing about whose site I'm reading. I know they're somewhat of an exercise in virtual egotism but I can't help it. I like finding out about people. Just the pages which read along the lines of "My name is Mystress of all things Dark and sp00ky and I am a 213 year old vampyre" irk me somewhat. You aren't a vampire. Get it through your head, into that vacuous space that your brain ought to occupy (had you not killed it through excessive bleaching in your 'trendy' phase). If I read a 'Meet Me' page it's going to be because I want to learn about the author of the site, not because I want to help the author indulge in their own little fantasy of 'I am vampyre, hear me roar.'. While I'm pissed off and bitching I suppose I ought to include this as well; I don't give a damn how good your content is if I can't read the bloody writing. If it's written like this or is dark brown on a black background (insert other difficult to view combination here) then I'm not going to want to know.
So, am I the most hypocritical moron you have had the misfortune to happen across, or do you think I actually have a valid point?
*At least I don't write bad poetry.*
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Re: Attack of the virtual clones.
by Poison on Jun 29, 2002 - 12:16 PM
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You have a point, but fuck, "live and let live". I don't like those sites anymore than you do, but you can easely close the browser. Maybe eventually those people will come to notice what shit they put up. Growing up changes your opinions and views. They'll wake up, sooner or later... hopefully.
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Re: Attack of the virtual clones.
by bettie_x (strangersangel@hotmail.com)
on Jun 29, 2002 - 01:12 PM
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Yeah, but you have to admit that it's like telling roger rabbit not to push the big red button...he knows an anvil is going to fall on his head, but he can't NOT push it.
I do understand your point, and there have been several points where I've just said "fuck it" and closed the browser because I couldnt' take it anymore. But some, dear, are JUST SO BAD IT'S GOOOOD. You can't NOT read....Can't NOT continue to cilck. Hell, anyone that's been to Cryptie's site will understand. Who can resist a 30+ year old guy with a frizzy mullett, pancake whiteface makeup and a headband wearing frederick's of hollywood *shreik* in a cemetary?
Or resist clicking on the picture of him at work which features so said potbellied frizzy man on a forklift in whiteface, a ratt t shirt with the arms and neck cut out, making devil horns at the camera with hands clad in black puffy ski gloves with the fingers cut off? I know I can't.
Sure, live and let live and all that jazz, but as long as you aren't singling them out and harassing them with email and making them miserable, it's not harmful to just having a nice, anonymous laugh at their expense.
The only people I have a problem with that do that are those that can't have a good laugh at themselves. Once you can laugh at yourself, you can laugh at the world all you want. Most people take themselves way too seriously, which is what i find has the most ticklish effect on my funnybone.
Bring us your weak, bring us your poor, bring us your poorly done eyeliner and bat poetry 'cause everyone hates us too.....bah. The last thing I want is to be part of some kid's teen angst club...but you have to admit when they take the time to put it onto the net, they're expecting a reaction. At least he's not a cliff yablonski...
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Re: Attack of the virtual clones.
by IamSquid (AAA@sockmonkeys.net)
on Jun 29, 2002 - 05:14 PM
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The vampire thing is the worst. Sure vampires are cooler and sexier than yoo are but yoo won't be cooler or sexier trying to convince everyone else yoo are one. If there's one thing I can't stand --especially on the internet-- it's people trying to convince everyone they're something they're not...........what?
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Re: Attack of the virtual clones.
by ravinsaend (-)
on Jun 29, 2002 - 05:33 PM
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People need ctisicism to realise they are being imbeciles, or that no, the world can't read black on black writing.(I have seen someone do an entire page in black type on a black background and actualy thought I would be able to read it)
Even if that criticism is a rant somewhere they'll never seen. eventually someone soemwhere who know someone and so on will inform them on their stupiity because someone that knows someone they know or some crap like that at some point actually read said rant and passed it on somehow.(You know how it works, that thing so called normal people call entworking which i really ust a way to make it seemm like they're more popular than they are.)
And now my incredibly hyper elf will hut up beofre i write a book here.
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Re: Attack of the virtual clones.
by Anya (-)
on Jul 01, 2002 - 06:20 AM
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I like vampires, but I see where you're coming from. The only bitch I have about that stuff is a lot of people think it's cool to pretend to be one (roleplaying as one is different, but literally irl thinking you are one means you need to grow hair on your balls heh). Yeah, I'm an anti-stereotype fan as well. I may generalize things (like calling things stupid "adorable") but eh.
I like paganism and vampirism stuff, so I don't have much to talk in that area. My biggest bitch there is the people thinking they're hot shit for being one (dominantly thinking it's cool to be Satanic, I personally don't swing there, but one to their own).
As for the improper grammar, I agree. Maybe quoting something now and then, but excessive 1 4/\/\ k3\/\/1 f0r /\/\4# \/\/r1t1/\/g gets old (yeah that didn't make sense but neither does their writing rofl). Am I making sense here?
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Alack a day.
by Monolycus on Jul 01, 2002 - 02:08 PM
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I think a very large part of the problem can be explained by the "90%-of-everything-is-crap" theory. When you have a greater amount of material that people are producing, you assume that you will find more "genuises" in the bunch. Very, very rarely has this ever happened. In practice, the converse seems to be true, that is, crap reproduces itself at a much faster rate than genius does. Just because a greater number of people are able to express themselves does not imply that a greater amount of worthwhile expression is going to happen. That is why you see the same cliches and stereotypes reproduced ad nauseum.
Genius apparently needs to be fostered and nurtured by a society. This is why there were more apparent geniuses during the Italian Renaissance than immediately before or afterwards. It is not that chance caused all of these geniuses to be born contemporary to one another... it is that their culture fostered genius and eschewed the trite and hackneyed. Today, we foster the trite and hackneyed and then wonder why we are up to our armpits in it.
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Re: Attack of the virtual clones.
by MorteAscendo on Jul 03, 2002 - 11:54 PM
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The internet says i'm cool, sexy, a ladies man and smart.....so it HAS to be right...right? Isnt the internet telling the truth!! Please say yes....
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Re: Attack of the virtual clones.
by Abbadon on Jun 10, 2003 - 12:18 PM
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To hate something you must understand it. Keep trawling and going to church so you can experience stupidity first hand. I love your site btw!!!
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Re: Attack of the virtual clones.
by darkistdreamer on Jun 10, 2003 - 05:47 PM
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valid point, definitly. as for bad poetry, has anyone else noticed that inflicting a person with enough *worse* poetry can sometimes sicken them enough that they come to their senses?
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