Don't post this shit.
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i know I'll get downvoted to oblivion for saying this but I don't care; I think this is disgusting. i don't like shaming people for who they are or what they do, or bullying of any kind, BUT i also think it's absolutely apprehensible behavior to engage in a romantic relationship with someone who uses discord.
...apprehensible?..well, like, yeah: folks've had internet-girlfriends since way back when paper-mail pen pals were a thing...
and here i thought the joke was too obvious
I'm a girl with plump hairy legs and I'm hot.
Hahaha, she's fat. The horror. The betrayal. He thought he had a girl who loved him, but little did he know she was fat. And nothing is more horrific than that. Thank God he found out, he might have started caring about her, like an idiot.
It's a he
I assumed the joke was his "girlfriend" was a man who's been lying to him, at least that was my initial thought from the exceptionally hairy legs.
Lots of people have hairy legs??
Seems like the obvious joke to me too...
It's okay to be disappointed if you exchange pics with an online flirt and it turns out they're fat.
It is. It's not okay to post them on the internet so people can mock them because you them unattractive. If she was missing a leg, or had scars from self harm, or burn marks, he probably wouldn't have posted her on the internet so people could join in on his disappointment.
Why is everyone assuming this is about weight? What's the reverse image search part mean? I feel like there's something else to this.
When he attempted to reverse search the image, he didn't find any matches which lead him to believe this is a real photo from the person he's chatting with and not a joke or something like that. There are two assumptions (based on this thread anyway, order has no bearings on which one is more "true" or not).
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(My assumption) He is disappointed because the girl is fat/hairy and therefore unattractive and unworthy of his affection.
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He is disappointed because the hairy leg makes him think his "girlfriend" is his "boyfriend," otherwise known as a catfish, and he is feeling tricked/embarrassed/hurt/etc.
My knee jerk assumption was weight. When I encounter posts with fat people, I'm used to people responding in revulsion so I took that train of thought.
I think (2) is the far more likely scenario.
This place has become worse than Reddit.
You guys are getting discord girlfriends?
Have you seen the movie "Her"?
Without context this isn't funny and the most i can get out of it is that it is fat shaming and/or shaming unshaved legs
The context is that OOP got catfished by a dude. The joke is that they were naive enough to fall for it in this day and age.
I think the implication is OP got catfished
I don't like the idea of the word fat-shaming. Of course I don't condone bullying but being so hyper protective about someone being fat just is peculiar to me. When I was fat myself, due to the teasing of my friends (again not bullying) I put in the work and got fit therefore now I'm more healthy. That wouldn't happen if my friends were afraid of not "fat-shaming" me
I mean, that's nice for you, but the difference is that that teasing was coming from the friends, and not internet randos who neither know nor care about you.
Next to nobody who sees that screenshot knows the person in the photo, or whether they're even able to lose weight by "putting in the work".
Also, there's a preponderance of evidence that your case is an outlier, and "teasing" does not improve the lives of its targets.
You never know what somebody is going through, and it costs nothing to be kind.
You're right, I should try and be more kind. Sorry
Putting in the work is mostly eating normal portions, and not only grease USA™.
That person is fat, it's not normal and it has nothing to do with being kind.
"Fat", I think, is a colloquial term.
This seems like "morbidly obese". And you are absolutely correct using a term (not) "normal" here.
I'm not gonna engage with you beyond this since you're obviously uninterested in opinions other than your own, otherwise you might have looked at any of the studies I linked investigating weight-related stigma, which is related to others' kindness or lack thereof.
You're not fighting societal acceptance of obesity, you're just lazily perpetuating harmful social stigmas to justify your own discomfort with fat people.
You say it's not "normal" to be fat, but if a condition is considered epidemic, it's not really abnormal anymore, is it.
You don't know what that person eats. You don't know if that person has a medical disorder. You don't know if that person is disabled and unable to prepare healthy food for themselves. You don't know if that person has an eating disorder that they can't afford treatment for. You don't know if that person is on medications that affect their weight. You don't know if that's even a real person or an AI-generated image.
But you're real quick to diagnose the cause of their obesity as exclusively their personal failure for not eating the correct amount of the correct food.
It takes minutes to see what researchers are saying about this stuff.
Honestly there have been a few times recently where I've seen fat people doing or saying interesting things online, and half the fucking comments are vitriol about their weight and how it reflects on their character, as though that overshadows and invalidates anything they're doing. And sometimes I see other commenters challenging these views, and sometimes the hate commenters will backpedal of they realize that the person they're discussing has what the consider to be a valid medical excuse.
I'm autistic and ADHD, and to me, that kind of behaviour is a reflection of what goes on in places like fakedisordercringe, where they claim to respect people with official diagnoses but never bother to actually see which of their targets has an official diagnosis, or consider that the absence of a formal diagnosis doesn't mean the absence of the condition. And that's because it's not actually about the underlying reasons for the behavior they're mocking, because they don't care about those reasons. They'd rather not know if there's a diagnosis that would exclude their target from mockery because how their target is acting makes them uncomfortable.
It's a way of enforcing conformity through cruelty, just like bullying fat people.
And I've read stuff like this piece, with the line "I wish I didn’t have to justify myself, or base my worth on proving that I’m trying.", and I see myself in that. I've burned myself out multiple times and seriously damaged my physical and mental health as a result of trying to act like I'm neurotypical.
I'm fucking tired of seeing anybody get judged as moral deficients online by people who know nothing about them or their histories.
HE GOT CATFISHED!! It's not about fat.
Yeah but, despite all of that, (none of which I read, I'm sure it's all true though), it is a natural law of the universe that you cannot get more energy out of a system than you put in. Regardless of all other factors, if you consume upto your daily maintenance calorific intake, you cannot gain weight. If you consume less, you WILL lose weight. Whether external factors or pressures prevent you from managing your calorific intake correctly in another discussion, but the laws of thermodynamics don't take a break when it comes to health and nutrition.
my father beat me and I turned out fine-
-ass comment
Delusional comparison lol
it's okay to hate bodies that dont conform to the fantasy standard, didn't you get that memo?
it's also fine to hate addicts and neurodivergents and anyone that suffers consequences from behavioral patterns, because anything short of perfection is shit, dontchaknow. god i hate myself
Average weight 20 years ago isn't a fantasy standard.
keyword is average. (and we must also ask, avg of who) i wonder how those above that average were treated 20 yrs ago... hmmm
"I'm serious. She could actually be a 300 pound dude who lives in his momma's basement in suburban Detroit. And her name is Chuck." - Ready Player One
No, no, no! Come on! Cooper was right... This guy wants to have sex with me!
"Listen, Mieke... I don't want to arrange any meetings with you, you sick, German freak. So please keep your hands off my genitals, and never write to me again, and don't come to America. Goodbye."
- EuroTrip
Real talk here, Eurotrip was a leagues better internet relationship story than Ready Player One could ever hope to be.