Troll

Since I've become more open about myself on social media, it was bound to happen sooner or later. Ignorant people just can't help themselves sometimes.

Funny part was that it wasn't even on my own page or DMs. I've been following lots of pride style pages (Pan Pride, Gay Pride, LGBTQ comics, etc.) and one happen to ask for people to post selfies from the last time they felt cute.

I responded with one I took prior to my most recent date with Aerith. I made sure to mention how that night ended with me having a girlfriend (still love pointing out that I have one now lol).

This morning, I got a notification that my post had a comment. It was from a profile called "fcuk the system" (yes, that's really how they spelled it). Ooooh, so tough and rebellious. Misspelling words so as not to trigger Zuckerberg's vulgarity bots. Their profile header says something like "fighting the good fight against the vegan, liberal, and transgender crap" (I say "something like that" because I couldn't be bothered to remember such nonsense).

Mister or Misses fcuk (their profile does have a woman's picture on it but I didn't care enough to check on if it was really them) tagged me in a reply that read "jesus christ 🤮 😂 😂 😂."

Oh no! That's it, everybody. They got me good. They used the barfing emojis and invoked the name of a supposed deity against me. How will I ever be able to move on with my life now?

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I promptly deleted their message, blocked them and enjoyed the over forty likes plus the compliment about how "I luv your undershirt and kilt/skirt."

Honestly, I find it more funny than hurtful. Maybe if I were a teenager, the emojis would cut me deeper. Being that I'm 39, it's just juvenile and asinine.

The funniest part is not only was I far from the only person posting on there but it was also on a pan pride page; not an entirely mainstream section of the LGBTQ community. That means that this person, literally spends so much time on social media looking to troll people in the community that the algorithm had this pop up on their feed. This also means that they, literally, had to go through the hundreds of comments and pictures to get to mine. Obsessed much?

Granted, I know that I got off light. This was incredibly tame by most trolling standards. They didn't really name call me at all, they didn't threaten me, they didn't tell me to commit suicide or anything like that.

I've been expecting and waiting for something like this to happen and for it to happen away from my main page is honestly the biggest surprise for me. I expected several people on my personal page to act like this whenever I came out last week. Instead, it happened on a public page where anyone can see it and is expected more. Still, I was waiting for a nuclear response from ignorant trolls and all I've gotten so far is a pop gun.

I joke but I know this is only the beginning. It's all downhill from here the more I express my true self on the internet.



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