I don’t blog about it, but I do it and one of my New Year’s Resolutions is to just stop hate reading.Yeah, to be honest, I don’t really *get* hate reading, but I’m not trying to judge anyone who gets something out of it, whatever that may be (amusement? self-righteous anger? lulz? not sure!). Nor am I trying to say that people can’t call out dumb stuff because dumb stuff deserves to be called out. It’s just that Tumblr is my ~*~*~safe space~*~*~ where I can follow blogs/writers/people who I know I actually like and who don’t fill me with rage on a regular basis. What I’m trying to say is that I really like you guys, and I don’t like 90% of the pieces on Thought Catalog, and if I wanted the internet to make me feel angry/shitty/sad/oppressed, I would become a redditor.
Afterall, Thought Catalog is kind of :-/ but much, much worse is Reddit.
I guess it’s different for different people? (I have a whole circuit of stuff I hate read when I get really bored, not just TC.) For me personally it’s some combination of fascination, amusement, and the pleasure of self-righteous anger. I kind of like to tell myself it’s of some kind of anthropological interest, but the fact is it comes along with a sort of comforting sense of my own superiority that brings out a really ugly complacent side of me, like I catch it changing the way I think about stuff, and I feel really gross about it, which is why I’m trying not to do it any more. It’s just so toxic for me to be like “Ooh, that sounds terrible. I must read it!!!”
BTW I feel like I should point out that I only follow people on tumblr who I enjoy and who post good content that I like. I do my hate reading stealthily and guiltily so if I am following you it is because I like you.
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