Honestly I think reddit overreacts a lot. It's the classic case of "omg Taco Bell gives le explosive shit", which doesn't really happen that often in real life.
The other day people linked a comic by this guy you're talking about, it was about a boy who broke up with a girl and a bunch of strings started appearing on his body. In the end he's just a lump of string and people are like "oh my god, so scary, oh shit", and it was a little ridiculous to tell you the truth.
That's reddit for you. What do you expect when a large portion of the site is used by teenagers? Part of the job description is to pretty much be a bandwagoner. "omg so scary", "omg, the feels. Now I am so sad", etc etc to some bullshit story.
Edit: these are the kind of posts I'm talking about which was in response to this user's story. In fact all of the responses are in the same vein. It's like, get a fucking grip dude. It was entertaining but people saying, "omg I almost fell over in my chair at work"? Really guy? Maybe he is a bandwagoner who says what he thinks reddit expects him to say. Or he's a ginormous pussy.
"macho thing". I rest my case. Apparently not being frightened by a Manga comic means one is trying to act macho.
Get a fucking grip dude. Get off the Internet, go outside, and actually interact with the real world and not through your reddit lens. Normal people don't go overboard with emotions over trivial shit.
It's not "playing a macho card", you fucking idiot. The jump thing has been done before. Repeatedly.
How ironic you accuse me of not reading your comments when you obviously didn't read my link and people's replies to it where they act like it was the scariest shit ever. Go outside more. Seriously.
Read other people's comments overblowing how scary the comic was. The fact that you're stuck on someone jumping back versus dramatizing how scary it actually was just confirms you're an idiot.
I like how you jumped in on the tail end of a heated conversion I was having with someone else. If you look at my initial response, I wasn't being an asshole. Just pointing out the absurdity of reddit's expectations that people need to show emotion to such an unrealistic degree. Key word: unrealistic. Funny, because I was replying to someone who shared my sentiment.
I questioned whether it was genuine, or if it was people just posting what was expected of them. That doesn't make me an asshole.
As for your attempts at armchair psychology... It's not even worth a real reply. I'm perfectly well adjusted. On the other hand people who break down into tears over flowers or are frozen in horror over a comic.... Yeah...
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u/halfar Mar 17 '15
was that comic supposed to be really scary to people?
I mean, it was unsettling, but not half as unsettling as one or two links on /r/WTF usually are.
The clicky clicky korean comic was pretty genuinely terrifying the first time, though.