Yes I can.
Lol "higher ground", huauaauhauaauhauahuaha.
I don't care one iota for having the moral high ground.
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Well, Ricky Gervais tweeted me and now his fanbase is attacking me.
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Lol "higher ground", huauaauhauaauhauahuaha.
I don't care one iota for having the moral high ground.
All day eh?
Makes you wonder where he found the time to make $100 million as an BAFTA/Emmy/Golden Globe winning actor, writer, producer, stand up comedian and podcaster (and animal rights advocate I might add).
He has some significant rough edges personality wise but deadset the extreme level of Boolean appreciation or condemnation of people around here sometimes is insane. People are either gods or demons with no grey areas in between.
Just out of curiosity if after the Op posted this on a public forum and a bunch of other people read it and go "grrrr we hate him too!" Then proceed to harass, threaten, insult, dox, whatever to Rick. Does that make the OP responsible for the other forum posters behavior?
I guess the difference here is that Ricky doesn't read resetera.
Anyways you're right, this thread has been churned to death and has served its purpose.
Can't you turn off notifications that retweet you? On Facebook you can turn off notifications on a certain post if you don't want any part of it anymore. I just ignore that shit and turn off notifications. If I can't for some reason I'd just delete the app for a couple days and come back when people have someone else to troll and threaten.
The people who say that kind of stuff usually are the actual "snowflakes" you know projecting and all that...
lol.
Also, I don't know why people are reading that Gervais tweet as vindictive. He's a comedian. They jabbing back at insults is their thing.
Yes. I mean, this is how voat/kiwifarms functions.
However OP had reasonable expectations to believe Resetera users wouldn't do that because, uh, the kind of people who do this get banned? Which is not true for twitter since they'll ban you for saying "thank you" but not for harassing other users.
Yay, the chain of cause and effect!
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Screenshot the Tweet and a bunch of the replies. Delete the tweet to stop the notifications. Then post all the images in a new Tweet (But don't use his name so his alarms don't sound again because obviously he has a saved search for his own name for some reason) and wait for some positive replies from the Twittersphere. It's a story you can tell your children.
I guess you can also try reporting all the abusive replies and try and report Ricky to Twitter for being a jerk? Haha, nah that one wouldn't do shit.
Once I tweeted about Larry the Cable Guy, but absentmindedly tweeted @ him when I said it (It was about his commercial for Prilosec and I was making fun that he had to advertise for that kind of stuff to make money but not in so many words) and he replied saying he never does ads for things he doesn't personally use. We had a nice conversation and I followed him in the end. Didn't get any fans attacking me though.
I guess you can also try reporting all the abusive replies and try and report Ricky to Twitter for being a jerk? Haha, nah that one wouldn't do shit.
Once I tweeted about Larry the Cable Guy, but absentmindedly tweeted @ him when I said it (It was about his commercial for Prilosec and I was making fun that he had to advertise for that kind of stuff to make money but not in so many words) and he replied saying he never does ads for things he doesn't personally use. We had a nice conversation and I followed him in the end. Didn't get any fans attacking me though.
Insecurity is not a mental illness. I'm not calling him a narcissist or something, so I'm not sure what you're getting at. I'm saying he's too insecure to let something a random person said go without commenting on it, even though nothing they said about him could ever possibly affect him.
And yes, searching your name to see how people are talking about you/your personal brand makes some amount of sense, sure. (Though I'd argue he should probably pay someone to do that for him if he actually wants to obtain any valuable insight from it instead of just seeing what a ton of random individual people think, and that he probably already is separate from this.) But it's the part where you engage with what that person said, especially when that person has about a millionth of the following you have, that makes this bad and more than a little pathetic.
I mean, I know it'd hurt your point when we seem to be in agreement, but I could name you one or two more people like this off the top of my head. They're just, you know, also shitty.
(Dan Slott sucks)
Samoyed covered it better than I could; it's ridiculous to act like anything posted here would the equivalent given the tone and moderation of the community, and especially given the power dynamics involved.
Ricky loves fucking with people on twitter, it's what he does. He very well may have looked up his name. It's also possible one of his millions of followers searched his name and notify him when people speak bad about him who don't follow you, and to fllow you they'd need your approval as well. It's just the nature of the platform. Keep your tweets protected and no one will be able to see them. Otherwise, anything put out there publicly is fair game. I talk a lot of trash being a sports fan, and I get people who are fans of said teams or players firing me up all the time, it's just the nature of the beast when your tweets are public.
It'll die down after a day or so. Just mute the conversations and turn off notifications until then I guess.
It'll die down after a day or so. Just mute the conversations and turn off notifications until then I guess.
If you're lucky OP, he might mention you the next time he is invited onto one of the many talk shows in the US.
It's because he did this same thing before and it resulted in the same thing: a legion of his fans attacking some relative nobody for daring to have an opinion about him.
If he had done it like 45 times and knew that would be the end result, maybe?
People like Gervais are social media literate. They know what they are doing at this point when they pick some random asshole to fuck with.
I know how Twitter/social media works and am careful about what I post. So yes, as someone who knows the platform, I understand people can see public posts if they search key words. I mean if you want to be so judging of others, then why is it ok in general to say negative things about another person, even amongst friends??? What because this famous person or random person won't hear it, it's ok to be an asshole and talk negatively about them?
Anyways, being a celebrity doesn't give people the right to be assholes to them and being a celebrity doesn't mean one won't still be insecure about themselves. So what if someone is insecure, different reasons lead to insecurity?
Your logic makes no sense. It's ok for the OP to say something negative because it was publicly written to a friend and he has a small user base, but it's not ok for a famous person to do the same or defend themselves (even if they go out of their way to find the post).
When you have a large social media following, that should come with some level of knowing what that means. The biggest thing being that they can and will "jump to your defense" if you post something you (or they) paint as some one attacking you. Your knowledge of this fact should mean you pick your targets wisely and don't point your fans on random people on Twitter that made a harmless joke where they didn't even tag you. Gervais knows this because he's been on social media long enough and he isn't an idiot. In other words, yes, there are different rules if you have a large social media following versus if you don't.
There's a difference between replying in the tweet chain and quote tweeting explicitly so your audience can pile on. This is the latter.
I had a lecturer who googled herself and chanced about a blog post written by one of my classmates about her. Basically a rant. Then the lecturer chose to talk about the blog post during class. And this was during the days where twitter didn't exist and Facebook was still practically unknown...
She's not even famous so I have no idea why she actually googled her own name...
Yes, you're correct. It's ok for OP to tell their friend that they think a celebrity is unfunny. It's not ok for that celebrity to aim their 13 million followers at OP. I don't see how that logic doesn't make sense.
Just... come on, dude. Are you really equating saying something negative about a celebrity with being an asshole? Can you promise me you've never said a negative thing about a celebrity or their work in your life? Saying something negative isn't a crime. And, honestly, "his entire career is about him being atheist and it's not very creative" isn't exactly a horrible insult to begin with; it's certainly not even the harshest criticism he deserves.
And you're misunderstanding what I'm saying. I'm not judging him purely for being insecure to begin with (because of course it's fine to be insecure and celebrities will have those feelings as well), I'm judging him for acting on that insecurity and presenting OP's tweet up to his rabid fans rather than just seeing the tweet and moving on like he should have done. OP was also, y'know, not being an asshole to him because their comment wasn't directed at him. But he sure was an asshole to OP instead.
Do the guidelines against unhelpful mass generalisations on Resetera protect atheists or do they occupy one of those blind spots?
Just to let you know, I didn't @ him on Twitter, neither did I want to. I was just talking with a friend on Twitter and out of no where he tweets back.
The second he replied I was bombarded with notifications on my phone about all the replies I'm getting. Some abusive, some not and some just outright stupid.
Also, for some reason everyone thinks I'm a Christian? I'm an Atheist myself. I don't hate Atheists nor do I hate Christians, but now all of a sudden they're all on me.
Any idea what I should do about this? I don't want to delete my Twitter or anything, but this happening is really surprising.
Also, as I'm typing this, it turns out Ricky is liking some of the replies that people have said to me, which of course is just going to make it worse.
If you can't take a storm, don't throw shit at other people. And your reply on Twitter is really stupid, I don't know what you expected. You even directly addressed Gervais, doesn't matter if you @.
The only thing you can do is sit it out. Don't react, that only fuels it. And depending on what you do for a living you might want to shut down your account and create a new one.
What would be a good tweet to get his minions on me.
Oooh, I need to search how he responds when that Garry Shandling interview is brought up.
Edit: I finally read your tweet OP. It sucks. I think he was justified to call you out. Like, how was The Office about atheism, or most of his material.
Oooh, I need to search how he responds when that Garry Shandling interview is brought up.
Edit: I finally read your tweet OP. It sucks. I think he was justified to call you out. Like, how was The Office about atheism, or most of his material.
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I love that you might have to delete your account over a mild comment about Gervais is a logical outcome to you... that you blame the OP for.
seems absolutely petty of him; literally picks on a nobody(no offense OP), of all the "offensive" stuff he's said in his standup this man can't handle the mildest of tweets.
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OP, I also cannot stand Gervais, But you can't just shit on people's work and be surprised of when they and their followers reply.
That poster didn't say that . . . at all. But it's actually impossible to know what your statement means because you say "might have to," is a "logical outcome." Either delete "might," or use "possible" instead of "logical."
Well OP has taken his account off private so his just going to walk it out it seems.. no harm done. Maybe a bruised ego. The twitter thread has died down and people have moved on
As an English prince once said, "Chat shit get banged."
Also, as someone who finds Ricky's recent schtick irritating, your tweet is way off base. Most of his career has nothing to do with atheism or reveling in being "offensive".
Also, as someone who finds Ricky's recent schtick irritating, your tweet is way off base. Most of his career has nothing to do with atheism or reveling in being "offensive".
I mean there was still unnecessary harassment from a bunch of Gervais sycophants because Gervais felt the need to tweet quote the OP instead of ignore an incredibly mild comment or if he really needed to own the OP a simple reply that doesn't broadcast the OP out to 13 million people
for real, imagine being that rich & that insecure, he's gotta be notch's hero
this reply is pretty pathetic, even for gervais defense force standards
As someone who does not care for Gervais at all:
You talked shit about a powerful figure on a public platform, they gave you a lighthearted handslap, and their dumbass fans pursued you. How do you not know how this works? Twitter is garbage, comedians hate it because people attack them constantly, and you posted something there about one of the grumpiest mother fuckers in the game. So it boomerang'd on your sense of anonymity. The internet is not truly anonymous and you may face consequences if you treat it as such. Grow up and get used to it. It's simply reality, and no one will act as they should.
Edit: it should be better, people should act better, but Twitter is one of the stinkier orifices of the internet
You talked shit about a powerful figure on a public platform, they gave you a lighthearted handslap, and their dumbass fans pursued you. How do you not know how this works? Twitter is garbage, comedians hate it because people attack them constantly, and you posted something there about one of the grumpiest mother fuckers in the game. So it boomerang'd on your sense of anonymity. The internet is not truly anonymous and you may face consequences if you treat it as such. Grow up and get used to it. It's simply reality, and no one will act as they should.
Edit: it should be better, people should act better, but Twitter is one of the stinkier orifices of the internet
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