Attention Whoring
Dec. 5th, 2002 05:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annuinWe've been getting a large influx of attention whoring kids on goth.net recently. Post after useless post with that 'woe is me' *hand*staple*forhead* shite. I wonder if it's related to the holiday season, seasonal lunacy or something. I wish it would fuck off and go away already.
The most fun one happened on the weekend, a girl who came into one of the IRC channels. One moment she was stuffing her face with poptarts, the next she was so poor she supposedly only ate twice a week. It got better. She was supposedly severely depressed had a clinically insane mother and couldn't manage to hold a job more than a week. The statistical odds of the job thing alone are staggering.
And then came the "ow" "looks down at arm" and "picks at scabs" comments... DingDingDing... Ladies and Gentlemen, we have a winner! A cutter, oh joy.
Not being a stranger to depression I know that the one thing I never did was to go around telling complete strangers within a few minutes of meeting them that I'm depressed, have an insane mother, am a lazy fuck (yes, she admitted to this one) and am into self injury *shakes head*. If I wouldn't tell those closest to me, I don't see why I'd divulge this information to those unknown to me.
After the whoring got really bad (she went on for quite some time) eventually the channel regulars got fed up with it. You can only hear so many times that life sucks before you turn around and tell people to fuck off and go fix their problems rather than sit on their ass and whine about it. Subsequently she was told just that. Eventually she decided to leave, but not before posting a "suicide note" to the GN forums. I initially flamed it, then just removed the thing altogether as I had no desire to further feed her attention whoring.
Meanwhile our little poltergeist has been logging on several times since her supposed demise... blessed be the boards that log access ;) So an attention whore and a liar. If I'm not mistaken she was 20... you'd have thought people would have grown up somewhat at that age and matured beyond the behaviour of a 7 year old.
The most fun one happened on the weekend, a girl who came into one of the IRC channels. One moment she was stuffing her face with poptarts, the next she was so poor she supposedly only ate twice a week. It got better. She was supposedly severely depressed had a clinically insane mother and couldn't manage to hold a job more than a week. The statistical odds of the job thing alone are staggering.
And then came the "ow" "looks down at arm" and "picks at scabs" comments... DingDingDing... Ladies and Gentlemen, we have a winner! A cutter, oh joy.
Not being a stranger to depression I know that the one thing I never did was to go around telling complete strangers within a few minutes of meeting them that I'm depressed, have an insane mother, am a lazy fuck (yes, she admitted to this one) and am into self injury *shakes head*. If I wouldn't tell those closest to me, I don't see why I'd divulge this information to those unknown to me.
After the whoring got really bad (she went on for quite some time) eventually the channel regulars got fed up with it. You can only hear so many times that life sucks before you turn around and tell people to fuck off and go fix their problems rather than sit on their ass and whine about it. Subsequently she was told just that. Eventually she decided to leave, but not before posting a "suicide note" to the GN forums. I initially flamed it, then just removed the thing altogether as I had no desire to further feed her attention whoring.
Meanwhile our little poltergeist has been logging on several times since her supposed demise... blessed be the boards that log access ;) So an attention whore and a liar. If I'm not mistaken she was 20... you'd have thought people would have grown up somewhat at that age and matured beyond the behaviour of a 7 year old.
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
(no subject)
Date: 2002-12-05 03:19 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2002-12-05 03:23 am (UTC)*pouts*
(no subject)
Date: 2002-12-05 03:26 am (UTC)Re:
Date: 2002-12-05 03:24 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2002-12-05 03:28 am (UTC)