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questionoftheday asks: What's the scariest or most disturbing thing you have ever come across on the internet? (question submitted by ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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My answer: In terms of "haunted, it would be definitely something like Silent Hill 4. Why? A game which has ghosts in it that follow you all around, harm you and which you can't kill, then there's a serial killer guy running around trying to complete an occult ritual which supposedly is dead, and selected people get drawn into a strange parallel dimension, before they die, which you can strangely enter through a hole in your bathroom wall - then there's definitely some haunting going on on your harddisk.
Other than that, joking aside: The real scary shit of the internet is humans. You know why?
If they perceive you as some object that opposes their opinion and if they feel you as a threat to them, in combination with that, then they're able to produce an inner cinema that makes you ask "Now, what the heck did just go broken??". Accusing you of all kind of stuff which you never said, did or revealed about you, throwing bullshit phrases at you like a Gatling-type machine gun - if it wouldn't be that disturbing, stress your nerves or possibly have other kinds of consequences for you, it was a good comedy show. Seriously.
(Pretty revealing too about the character you just deal with, by the way, in terms of their own prejudices and narrowmindedness.)
questionoftheday asks: What's the scariest or most disturbing thing you have ever come across on the internet? (question submitted by firewhispers)My answer: In terms of "haunted, it would be definitely something like Silent Hill 4. Why? A game which has ghosts in it that follow you all around, harm you and which you can't kill, then there's a serial killer guy running around trying to complete an occult ritual which supposedly is dead, and selected people get drawn into a strange parallel dimension, before they die, which you can strangely enter through a hole in your bathroom wall - then there's definitely some haunting going on on your harddisk.
Other than that, joking aside: The real scary shit of the internet is humans. You know why?
If they perceive you as some object that opposes their opinion and if they feel you as a threat to them, in combination with that, then they're able to produce an inner cinema that makes you ask "Now, what the heck did just go broken??". Accusing you of all kind of stuff which you never said, did or revealed about you, throwing bullshit phrases at you like a Gatling-type machine gun - if it wouldn't be that disturbing, stress your nerves or possibly have other kinds of consequences for you, it was a good comedy show. Seriously.
(Pretty revealing too about the character you just deal with, by the way, in terms of their own prejudices and narrowmindedness.)