Just when you thought it was safe - OK CUPID PART 3: The Return of the WOO!

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First they cast the previously-mutable and -deleteable profiles of the douchey Nice Guys Of OKC in amber, and I said nothing because I wasn't a douchey Nice Guy Of OKC...

I.e. my distaste has absolutely nothing at all to do with defending those dudes' attitudes. Are we seriously at a point where reappropriation like this actually has to happen to people personally before they concede that it's maybe not okay? I mean, in this instance in particular, it isn't as if anyone actually browsing these dude's profiles is going to come away with the impression that they're prime dating material. But it's a slippery slope from this to an Ugly Chicks Of OKC Tumblr or whatever.

In summation, the internet is gross (shock).

Oh ha ha Trayce beat me to it while I was interminably thumb typing away.

public shaming has, and always will, be part of the internet

I feel like most of us here are reasonably well-qualified to judge what is douchey entitled asshole behavior and call it out accordingly, and not falsely equate it with things like "Ugly Chicks of the Internet." Those two things are not the same and they are not equally valid endeavors.

It has nothing at all to do with the intent of the endeavor and everything to do with bad-faith reappropriation of material that is ostensibly semi-private. Whatever the purpose behind it, I'd be furious to discover that someone was reposting images/words from my OKC profile somewhere else and having a laugh over it.

In that case you shd probably try not to be laughable.

hah you really have an expectation of privacy about the stuff you put on okcupid

dogg you are posting on a forum where people routinely c/p fb statuses and images to laugh at with other posters

dont put anything in your okc profile that you wouldnt printed on the front page of the nytimes in 72 font, is my advice

also try to use the times stylebook for phrasing

chicks dig the times

chicks dig the whoppers jr.

People approaching OKC in that spirit probably goes a long way toward explaining why so many profiles come off so blandly.

pasting this to ilx out of context w/zero regard for your privacy
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xp No, I think those people are just boring.

"first they came for the..." arguments are soooooooo tiresome in 2012 btw

first they came for the nice guys who wear fedoras on OKC :|

It's about time someone did something about those. I was thinking of putting out traps.

"Try not to be laughable on the internet" is like some kind of 21st C. paranoid Zen koan.

Sorry I just have a sore spot about people reposting internet stuff (esp private convos etc) for laughs because it has been done to me before.

I do agree w/ u guys that the blog probably could have sufficed with just screen captures of the written parts themselves, including pixx is maybe a bit much

but the pix do reveal that all these 'nice guys' seem to be 'of a type' ; \

xxxp It's not like living in fear is the only option we have here, dude. You could also just not be an asshole, that option is always open.

You have nothing to be sorry about, Trayce. I'm sure it sucks hard.

i have some qualms about this a la Old Lunch but i think in orbit is otm that this is not really akin to a mythical "ugly chicks of okc." what makes these people stick out is not (just) nerdiness or a strong whiff of the pathetic but barely-masked vicious anger

Yeah dont get me wrong. calling peopl eout for shit like "youre all bitches oh but BTW shave yr damn legs WHY WONT ANYONE DATE ME" is incredibly laughable, but yeah. the pics? I dunno.

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Just sayin'...is there anyone who wouldn't likely come off as laughable and worthy of public mockery to some dickhole on the internet?

Cruelty is fine as long as the person is wearing a fedora, I guess.

therefore we should just burn down the internet

first they came for the fedora lovers, but I said nothing because my hair looks weird in hats.

xxxp I don't think that is as big a problem/tragedy as you seem to think it is.

imagine escaping the friendzone only to wind up in the douchezone instead.

great lede

deric/trayce you realize all anyone needs to see your super-secret OKC profile is an email address, right?

its not even close to the same thing as a facebook page or 77

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Yeah, I'm aware that privacy anywhere on the internet is super illusory. It's just that you come to trust so much in the general tendency of most civilized strangers to not randomly stab you in the neck that it's easy to forget that the internet is the wild west.

you come to trust so much in the general tendency of most civilized strangers to not randomly stab you in the neck

well here's your first mistake

TBF, it's only happened to me four or five times in my life.

you come to trust so much in the general tendency of most civilized strangers to not randomly stab you in the neck

most don't.

we need to doxx m@x read in response

http://www.okcupid.com/flat/media/img/emails/endoftheworld.jpg

go out with a bang!

we're screwed. you should be too!

I'll fuckin... I'll fuckin... sew your asshole closed and keep feedin you and keep feedin you

Oh I'm under no misapprehension the page is actually *private*. I dunno I just think its rude. Its my thing.

pretty much pro public shaming in any context

like bring back being pelted with rotten fruit while in the stocks in my opinion

Feel like the slippery slope is a concept that is rapidly fading from collective human consciousness these days. Good thing the world is over tomorrow.

nooo they be takin my slippery slopes

if you've ever done anything on the internet you probably deserve to be shamed

http://i.imgur.com/KU2YH.jpg