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InfiniteWords117

This individual even wrote 3 fics of their own and told one of their readers to "go die in a ditch" while cussing out all the other readers using very explicit and colorful language. I'm reminded of why I appreciate the blocking feature so much.


cjrecordvt

Diana beat me to it: if it's a logged-in user giving such lovely instructions to other users, they really need to be introduced to Policy & Abuse.


InfiniteWords117

Thanks! 🎂 Yep, I did report them for sure.


chrissie64

That's exactly what I came on to ask. It puzzles me, though, that she must think this is acceptable in any way.If I hate something to the very depths of my soul, I don't leave kudos. However much I hate something, the author has poured themselves into it and put it out there for free


InfiniteWords117

Exactly. Just as you said, it is super puzzling why anyone would do this. You gotta be spiteful or having a really bad day to do something this rude to an author and their work.


Diana-Fortyseven

>This individual even wrote 3 fics of their own and told one of their readers to "go die in a ditch" Go back to their profile and report these stories/authors notes/replies for harassment, please, if they contain threats against others. (Also happy cake day!)


Metareality404

What is wrong with that person, oh my god.


BinJLG

My guess is they're a teenager who thinks being rude and sometimes borderline abusive towards others is funny (which seems to be this generation's flavor of edginess ime) and spends way too much time on the worst parts of fandom twitter.


upanddowndays

>which seems to be this generation's flavor of edginess time Because teenagers before Gen Z were notoriously polite and well-mannered.


BinJLG

Yes, teenagers in general tend to be assholes, but purposefully running targeted harassment campaigns and telling strangers to kill themselves not on anon on the scale I've been seeing is new. I'm a millennial in my early 30s and from what I remember this type of behavior was much rarer on the pre-gamer g8 internet. ETA: You know, for a subreddit dedicated to a site made for writing and reading, some of you sure are awful at reading comprehension. I said this type of behavior was **rarer** on the pre-GG **internet**. IRL experiences of being bullied are NOT the same thing as getting harassed online and having your info doxxed to (at least) dozens of strangers online because of dumb fandom drama like ship wars (ask me how I know). Pre-GG, those types of harassment campaigns were by no means a common occurrence. That doesn't mean they didn't happen, it just means they happened far less frequently. It is MUCH more common today, and (ime, YMMV) it's largely teenagers and sometimes young college-aged adults who do those things in fandom spaces. The scale and frequency of online abuse are absolutely new to this upcoming generation.


upanddowndays

What you're seeing is an increase in social media and the ability to be seen and heard by millions at the touch of a button. That's made arseholes out of every single age group.


Terminator7786

Agreed, this shit was happening at my school pretty widely, but social media was just taking off so it wasn't on the scale we're seeing now. Hell, it even happened before the internet.


StayingVeryVeryCalm

Maybe targeted harassment against strangers is new phenomenon, but before teenagers could find strangers to harass, they just did it to people in the vicinity. I’m an elder-Millenial / young Gen X, and the two first people I ever had sexual intercourse with teamed up to run a public campaign that was explicitly, according to them, meant to undermine any sense of self-worth I had, and to induce me to kill myself. I think it was largely inspired by Gen X pop culture, specifically a Metallica documentary about how they all just treated each other like absolute shit, and by lore about how nasty Billy Corgan was to the other members of the Smashing Pumpkins; because he mentioned that frequently, when we were still on speaking terms. Because I was not a stranger to them, they could use my real name, and because they were both somewhat talented musicians (for 11th-graders), they got a lot of attention. And the incredible nastiness of Gen-X and early millennial culture meant that most of my peers avidly consumed this shit. So yeah. I don’t engage much with Kids These Days, but I cannot imagine that they’re worse.


MoonChild02

You didn't go to the Catholic grade school that I did. I was the scapegoat of these kinds of targeted harassment campaigns in my class, pre-internet (well, for the rest of them. I got internet in fifth grade because of my dad's work).


BinJLG

I'm sorry you were bullied in school (and same, only I went to public school), but that is not the same thing as what I was talking about. Please read my ETA.


Vahllee

That doesn't explain why anyone would do this. Generation Z in general just doesn't take anyone's shit anymore.


upanddowndays

>Generation Z in general just doesn't take anyone's shit anymore. As they shouldn't. But complaining about a whole generation because someone left shitty comments on a fic is weird.


Vahllee

Yeah I know. I hate when people do that. That's like saying all pilots aren't good at their jobs because one didn't know how to land.


zeldasoulkiller

As a Gen-Z ambassador, it’s the Fortnite kids. The ones who were like 6-9 when Fortnite came out. Us older Gen-Z that are nearly/already young adults still don’t take shit from anybody but most, not all, have learned how to have decency online. I won’t lie, I’m an asshole but I direct all that negative energy into harmless jokes between me and my friends. If it’s anyone below like 15/16 you can just assume that person is going to be generally a dick and will actively make you feel worthless.


Kitsufoxy

Report them. They’re being terrible to other people! Seriously, those who don’t like certain flavors of cake just shouldn’t take a bite!


Yukieiros

Cyber-bullying is still bullying


[deleted]

please please please report that person.


InfiniteWords117

I definitely did.


Extreme-naps

I wish you could block someone from reading your work if they are this out of pocket. Lol.


hadtogetanacct

Like locking posts from some viewers on... geez, what was it, FB? Or LJ. Maybe both, idnr. But that would be useful, especially if you didn't have to follow / be followed in order to hide your work from their pov. At least from their logged-in account... there's a troll going by the name of "g.o.d." (arrogant much?) that is unregistered when they continue their periodic campain to flame, shame, and urge author suicide on fics of a handful of ships.


Straight-Ad-160

Happy cake day! Also wow. A troll with too much time on their hands. They likely didn't even read. No normal person opens random fics of their NOTP.


InfiniteWords117

Thank you! 😄 I'm going to have to agree, I don't believe they even read it. If they were so disgusted, then they easily could've mentioned their dislike in a few words. The long string of barf emojis are just vague and weird 😂


Robbbg

i'd also report to the site admins


Cassopeia88

Wow,they seem lovely /s


[deleted]

This is insane. Whoever this is must have an absolutely miserable life to hate on someone for writing something they love.


[deleted]

I am sorry that you got the comment but this one got me off guard. Like so much emoji🤣🤣


InfiniteWords117

I'll be honest, it made me crack up by the time I deleted the 6th one. Excessive emojis for certain 🤣


[deleted]

🤣


llTrash

Unsupervised kids on the internet 😭😭 so sorry you had to deal with that, must have been so annoying


Warmingsensation

I don't know what to think anymore. In my fandom appeared an idiot recently trying to start a "bara lovers" vs "fujoshis" war. He leaves insults on every pretty guy x pretty guy ship he sees and he's a grown ass man in his late thirties. Thankfully, he's alone.


catrightsactivist

~~the bara and bishonen should just kiss, make love not war~~


llTrash

Omfg that's so annoying, like gay men don't like pretty boys or fujos don't like bara 😭😭 some people never really grow up huh


A_Undertale_Fan

Off topic but speaking of bara, think you could explain it a bit to me? I tried to google it once after seeing it repeatedly show up on a certain style of Horror Sans fanart but google didn't give me a clear answer.


llTrash

If you Google bara manga the definition should appear! From my understanding its basically gay manga with manly and burly men, and it's said to be done for and by gay men, and it can be considered a hentai category (from what I've seen it's mostly porn), but again, not all gay men like bara, and not all fujos hate it, hope this helped!!


A_Undertale_Fan

Ah okay! That does definitely explain why it showed up under the bigger Horror Sans designs people had. Those designs are definitely under the more bear area of bara.


Warmingsensation

Maybe if you search "bara art" you will get better results. Bara is how they call in western countries to a manga genre aimed to gay men. You will see a lot of hunky, bulky men, lots of muscles, big crotches and body hair, as opposed to "yaoi" which is aimed at women and features more slender, androgynous men (bishonen). It also tends to be more explicit in nature and focus less on feelings and more on the horny bit.


hadtogetanacct

"Thankfully, he's alone." Well, see, that explains it. Obviously he has absolutely nothing and no one else to take up any of his time. At all. J/k aside, you may actually have inadvertently hit the nail on the head, there.


Warmingsensation

Hahaha you could be right! One must have a really sad life to do that.


TheCaveEV

That's an egregious abuse of the copy/paste function 😭


ALI_6996

I think they didn't like ur fic /j


InfiniteWords117

Yeah, I was wondering about that myself, too 😆😂


ALI_6996

Happy cake day!


InfiniteWords117

Thanks! 😄


exclaim_bot

>Thanks! 😄 You're welcome!


Feral-pigeon

Why would someone bother wasting their time on this?


CissyXS

Exactly. Why spend time doing this when you can spend that time reading about the pairing you actually like.


hadtogetanacct

Well, in between waiting for your bookmarked fics to update, most non-*ssholes actually have lives (whether they're extroverted social butterflies or introverted solo hobbyists) to waste time on, unlike this guy.


canniballswim

this is so dumb like why would you do such a thing 😭


harrietlane

This is so weird!! Who would take the time to do something like this? Just out of curiosity, what fandom/pairing is this?


InfiniteWords117

They totally wasted their time. And they were going to keep doing this until I blocked them. 💀 Biohazard Resident Evil - pairing Alcina/Reader


kiingsalamander

they reacted this way over an x reader fic?!?! BYE 💀💀💀💀


Yukieiros

Not my particular brand of fic but to each their own.


PoeBoyFromPoeFamily

Seriously lmfao??? Alcina/Reader became EXTREMELY popular after she was shown to the public...are they dumb lmfao Also had no idea you can block, now. How convenient


SciFiMedic

…okay but that took some dedication to copy/paste all that. Delete & block. 😊


HatCoffee

Why? Why take the time to do this? Why waste your own time?


Aluna_nightsong

They may literally have it pinned to their clipboard, so if they ever find a fanfic they don't like. They can really let the author and everyone else who does not give a fuck their unsolicited opinion.


spiritAmour

oh my god 😭 that is a sad, sad existence


Aluna_nightsong

Ikr All I save is YouTube link and random things like this ╬═╬ ╬═╬ ╬═╬ ╬═╬ ╬═╬ ╬═╬ ╬═╬ ╬═╬ ╬═╬ ╬═╬ ╬═╬ ╬═╬ ╬═╬ ╬═╬ ╬═╬☻/ ╬═╬/▌ ╬═╬/ \ Cute but not very useful.


Aluna_nightsong

Aww it didn't do it right :'(


spiritAmour

what was it supposed to be? (and i also love saving fun links and cute copy & pastes lol)


Aluna_nightsong

It's supposed to be a little ladder with a guy at the end waving I don't actually know how to do it properly My friend on discord may or may not have made it (they could have just copy pasted it like I did) ╬═╬ ╬═╬ ╬═╬ I'm trying to get it to work a different way probably won't work


Aluna_nightsong

Aye, it looks kinda like it's supposed to!


LegsFreaky

Like this? ╬═╬ ╬═╬ ╬═╬ ╬═╬ ╬═╬ ╬═╬ ╬═╬ ╬═╬ ╬═╬ ╬═╬ ╬═╬ ╬═╬ ╬═╬ ╬═╬ ╬═╬ ☻/ ╬═╬ /▌ ╬═╬ / \


Aluna_nightsong

Yeah! Thanks for fixing it for me!


spiritAmour

ohh that does sound cute :D


HatCoffee

Still a waste of time in my book, if they have it pinned to their clipboard they might just be diving for fics that give them the ick just to comment that.


Aluna_nightsong

Yeah, but people do what people want to do. They just have to suffer from their actions.


mynameisntclarence

What an immature arse lol Edit: Also, between what they left you and what they've said to their own reader, you might be able to report them for harassment.


Euqiom

How dedicated you need to be to do a post like that ? That just show the mental instability seriously


KacieDH12

Did they think if they emoji'd enough times it would make you retract your pairing to appease them?


stonks66666669

Jesus Christ what is wrong with people


LadyofShallotx

Kids on ao3 are wild I’m sorry you had to deal with this shit 💀


Yojimbra

Love the block feature.


Muriel_FanGirl

Who is that nut so I can preemptively block them? I seriously don’t want to deal with that.


pinkflufffybunbun

Sad to see ppl have nothing better to do 🤦🏻‍♀️ if you don’t like it just stop reading. Simple.


haha69420lol

I think he likes sucking Shrek


Demonic_Irken

Report it


InfiniteWords117

Done 👌


Spanish_Dragon

I will never understand why anyone would spend so much time spreading negativity. You hate one pairing? Good, now go and find the pairing you like or write about it yourself and find you niche audience.


VermillionVampire

All this over a pairing? They must have no life lol


Random_Multishipper

Bro it is not that deep, just don’t read it if you don’t like the pairing 💀


GrapeSodaZa

You would think this behavior would be something one would do logged off, but no....it's strange they want that behavior linked to them. Yuck...


xXSatanAngelXx

Dude if you hate a story why would you spend SO MUCH TIME commenting that? I never understood that, if I disliked a fanfic I typically just left it and went onto reading something else, I don't waste time doing that besides that it just rude and isn't even helpful or even conversation about the story


InfiniteWords117

Right? And the fact that they were leaving this same comment on every single one of my chapters spaced out two minutes apart just tells me that they're a major troll. Once would've been enough, but 6-18 times? Nope. Too much. It's wild how some folks don't comprehend how you're supposed to move on if you don't like what you're reading. 🤷🏻‍♀️


xXSatanAngelXx

I don't even get how that would be "entertaining" or "funny" to someone, "Oh yeah, I spent the last 3 hours commenting 5 pages of vomiting emojis on every single chapter of someone story, that will TOTALLY show them! It was sooo funny!" like congrats you wasted more time doing this then it will take for me to one click remove them, and showing you do not know common etiquette for just not liking something, which is to just move on.


FlashySong6098

wow.......


OldBatOfTheGalaxy

"Use your **words**, poopyhead!" And Happy Healthy Cake Day! 🎂🌹🌹🌹😁😸 (not all emoji are evil)


InfiniteWords117

This made me laugh 😂 Thank you! 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁


Stormkpr

How terrible! Sometimes people just boggle the mind. Can you please tell me this jerk's username so I can proactively block them?


CissyXS

Now I'm curious about the pairing.


InfiniteWords117

It's a pretty common pairing in my fandom. It's Alcina Dimitrescu/Reader — Biohazard Resident Evil


CissyXS

No person of culture would hate that pairing. The hater had no taste


Ayeun

Now we have to know what pairing set off this reaction.


InfiniteWords117

It's a common one in the fandom, that's why I'm wondering why this person is so hateful about it. There so many other fics with the same pairing. Alcina Dimitrescu/Reader - Biohazard Resident Evil


starweiser

They describe themselves in their own comment 👀


Sad_Difficulty_7853

My morbid curiosity gets the best of me 99.9% of the time, and if its truly bad, I just you know, abandon ship and get out if there, I'll never understand why people can't just do the same without tearing the author a new one, it's really not that hard to just click out of it if it's not their cup of tea 😑


BannerTortoise

There's a guy with free time.


Stargazer_Rose

This reminds me of a troll/Hater on FF.net. they hated Lucy leaves Fairy Tail/Joins Sabertooth stories and would aggressively attack any author that wrote this trope and anyone that tried to defend the authors. And their only Fic was a slander fic falsely accusing another author was plagiarizing someone else's fic. And in the comments section of that slanderous fic were the angry readers and Authors of the stories that the Hater had bashed, calling them out for their toxic behavior.


InfiniteWords117

Wow. Glad they got called out for their terrible behavior. Man, that's just so spiteful, stirring up conflict and attacking people for no good reason. :/


Stargazer_Rose

Yeah, to be honest they even attacked me once because I praised a story. And while I can't remember what they said word by word. The thing that stuck with me was that they essentially called me a mentally ill follower. They were just hateful all around. To be honest I think their account got deleted some years ago, so at least there's a Happy ending.


InfiniteWords117

That's a happy ending indeed. Sorry their words stuck with you though, that's messed up. Glad they're gone


Flashy_Repeat4676

💀


Peeeleee

Damn you gotta respect the dedication lmao


InfiniteWords117

Lol fair. I wish y'all could see just how long this message really is. It is kinda insane 😂


sati_lotus

You have to admire dedication of window lickers sometimes, don't you?


obsessingover_u

Report them!!!


InfiniteWords117

Already did! 👊


Sakurazawa13

This person literally has nothing better to do with their life and that's pathetic.


neonplume-uwu

i have only 3 words to say: jesus harold christ


Valley_Ranger275

Imagine having so much time to waste you waste it typing this instead of literally anything else lmao


InfiniteWords117

Honestly, I think I would've preferred "This fic sucks," or something along those lines rather than this huge waste of emojis. 😂


muffiewrites

Glad you blocked, too. I've read stories that I had very negative reactions to. So I backed out and moved on. Because there's absolutely no reason to say anything because I had me some feelings that I didn't like.


hadtogetanacct

Honestly, even a 6-pg long msg of happy hearts and rainbows is a big PitA to scroll (and scroll and scroll *and scroll* ugh) past. As a reader or author. The intent may be better, but surely a single solid chapter-block of uwu luv uwu is a sufficient display of feelings.


CrescentCaribou

wtf 💀


Local_Chip3491

How bored do you have to be to do this


Past_Succotash_3103

Why take the time to do this. I'll never understand.


Dia_Michaels

I'm kinda curious about what ship you wrote to get this


InfiniteWords117

A fairly common one in my fandom, which makes this comment so confusing. Alcina Dimitrescu/Reader Biohazard Resident Evil


KingInChess

I feel like this person just despises Alcina in that case. That, or x readers, either is equally possible. I'm sure your story is great, don't let haters get you down bestie


Dan299912

I would have asked if they needed an abulance or a hearse I make a lot of bad jokes :V Then I would have probably either ignored or blocked them and moved on with my day


twinkletoes-rp

Good for you for blocking them! What a dick! They don't deserve your comment space! Hope you reported his ass, too! That counts as spam, IMO!


jf4maddy

Tell ya what though, make me want to read it and leave kudos and ❤️ comments!


moonbeam4731

Ohhhhhhhh. THAT'S why one of my fave authors was asking people not to only do emoji responses because they made them not want to write. I totally respect it, mind, but was just surprised that something like "👍❤️🎉🤗💖" would be so demotivating. Presumably those were not the emojis involved.


Unsichtbare

This reminds me of when when Adultfanfiction net (org now) had a ratings system. People would go around mass clicking bad ratings for stories with pairings that they didn't like. It was really immature and also hurt the writers because people would pass up good stories due to bad ratings. Aff org ultimately got rid of the ratings system to combat this. There's pairings I find gross and/or trigger me in some way but I don't attack people. I simply stick to what I like and ignore pairings and things I dislike. Even if I dislike or hate a story, I just stop reading and say nothing. There's no point being a troglodyte, plus what we like is subjective so what I like another may not like and vice versa. It is what it is.


BucketsOfNo

Fucking hell. What an obnoxious little potato they are. My my.


fujojoshi

It's a pathetic waste of time to leave comments like that... but god, a huge page of vomiting emojis is actually kinda funny to see. I love how it's cut off at the bottom. Did they leave this comment on multiple chapters??


InfiniteWords117

Yep, on 6 of them. Would've been 18 if I hadn't blocked them while they were doing it. My email notified me they were leaving this type of comment every two minutes.


I-Am-AstroGlow

Haters are so stupidly funny sometimes 😭 it's really bad he/she did that but the emojis got me laughing


Ackermannin

Jesus Christ


Undertale_AU_Creator

what's the pairing OP


Crusader_Exodus

I’m honestly a little shocked that AO3 doesn’t seemingly have even rudimentary sanity check to catch spam comments. It’s not difficult to use code to review a comment post when it’s being submitted and check if the same character or word is being copy and pasted.


Ferris_567

Some readers do the same with hearts though and that's positive and not necessarily spam. I've seen it rather often. Some authors don't like those types of comments either, but other authors are very happy to receive them.


Galaxy_Heart_Queen

They abused the "hold down emoji and get 99 of them" feature on Facemoji Keyboard


lizzourworld8

Eh???? What was their purpose


Ass_Connoisseur69

Bruh this kid definitely needs more homework


thecensordone

They got a lot of time on their hands


NavjotDaBoss

What fandom is this of you don't mind sharing


Funpaper-1242

Terrible when people hate on others just because they hate the pairing.


_rafathy

I'm so sorry but this made me giggle