If you’ve ever heard the expression “don’t sell the skin before you’ve caught the bear”, you know that we, humans, like to celebrate a little too early before the deed is done. What we also like to do is tell things or ‘facts’ that sometimes turn out to be so far from reality that you can’t but laugh about it. “The internet being just a ‘passing fad'”? “‘Global cooling’ is here“? Oh, dear…
Keeping track of all the notable things that aged like fine milk is a difficult task. And that’s why we’re thankful that Twitter pages such as Poorly Aged Things exist and unearth some of the most cringey publicly available memorabilia that remind us to think twice before saying stupid things online.
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Whether it’s the infamous Will Smith slap during the Oscars, which aged so fast you could smell the moldy cheese-like aroma from your TV, or someone blurting out something poetically stupid, the Poorly Aged Things page is the place to go.
With more than 1 million dedicated followers, it’s been great at demonstrating just how seemingly harmless statements from the past can one day become backfiring ‘missiles’, feeding the always-hungry, always-ironic presence of the internet.
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Many of you may already know this, but part of the reason why we, humans, occasionally take great pleasure from others’ failures is due to a little thing called schadenfreude. Described as the emotional experience of pleasure in response to another’s bad luck, this psychological phenomenon is actually a very common emotion. A billionaire lost $140 million in shares due to his tragicomical silly 140-character tweet? There it is, schadenfreude! And there isn’t a week that goes by without us indulging in it.
It turns out, one of the factors that invite us to collectively glee at these sorts of misguided moral judgments lies in the fact that it’s mostly digital. As Russel Spears, a professor of Social Psychology at Amsterdam University, explained to Bored Panda: “Because the anonymity is in line with the point that schadenfreude is a passive emotion often observed at a distance where the beneficiary is not a perpetrator, [the internet] helps.”
Spears also added that schadenfreude, just like Kanye West’s insane rambling or Game of Thrones‘ Ramsay’s long-awaited defeat during the record-breaking finale, “is easiest experienced privately and at a distance.”
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Interestingly enough, according to research by Conscious Youth, 71% of young people between 11 and 25 are feeling more confident than ever when it comes to sharing opinions online. But here’s the kicker: 1-in-3 aren’t sure about the best way to get their message out there, with 30% of those surveyed worrying about their posts coming back to haunt them in the future. With livelihoods being more connected to our digital presence than ever before, it‘s only understandable. Although, a bit scary, as well.
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Source: boredpanda.com