Okay, so, I want to see if this does something for any of you.

I've talked a fair bit recently about the issues with copying behaviours from others, and getting it slightly wrong. Well there's one specific area I've noticed which seems to be drawing a lot of people in, as I experienced myself by throwing myself into it. This issue is with the "cultural image" of the world which exists in the younger generations of their own identities. Growing up online as I did my own interpretation of things like "men" and "women" in a cultural perspective was actually a bastardized amalgamation of whatever traits were exhibited most loudly online, and learning to behave within such an environment where everyone shared those views essentially replaced the socialization I would have otherwise received had I spent more time with my peers in real life. Quite a lot of these traits that I had internalized upon myself were actually not even slightly related to my own cultural identity, and so my (unconscious) attempts to copy those traits produced a truly pathetic imitation.

I hope this perspective can help others escape from this hydra and start to regain their own lives.

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Yea, unfortunately I did see a lot of bad actors pushing that trash, and even lost a few friends to it, but actually seeing for myself what was going on early in the Internet's life was the reason I threw myself into it the way I did. I figured it might be important for someone, focused on assessing the situation, to actually experience what these new technologies would do to people first hand.