Something I’ve been thinking lately about how wild it is that a lot of people seem to think that telling someone to kill themselves is a pretty normal thing to do on the internet. Maybe it’s just that I wasn’t really on the very early Wild West internet where there was zero regulation for what you could put online and people were also just discovering the joy of being an anonymous voice that could say anything without consequence, but it actually kinda shocks me when I see it. Like I’ll see an example of suicide bait someone sent a person and it make me think about the mental state I’d have to be in to do that. I literally cannot imagine wanting to tell someone to kill themselves, definitely I can imagine being angry at someone and maybe even wanting them to die in the moment. But deciding that you hate someone so much, likely over just one thing they said, that you take time to type out a sometimes lengthy message telling them to kill themselves, and after the time it takes to do that sending it to someone is just not something I think I could do.

It also sometimes makes me think about the kind of person that would send suicide bait, someone who’s distanced themselves from other people so much that they either forget that they really are just talking to other people or that they can’t even consider what a normal response/reasonable to someone saying some they don’t like is. It feels sad to me.

This is kinda just stream of consciousness so I don’t really have a point to all of this, maybe it’s just that the inherent depersonalization of the internet hit some people harder than me, which does suck pretty bad if it’s the case.