I would post this in the sex and relationships general thread but I think it's too general for it; is there a trend of "golden children" in the online spaces you inhabit?
Mostly in TF2 and related communities I've found that there's a few "golden children" of each space. Like, these people are around 18 years old, can do utterly no wrong, criticism of them - be it earnest and well-meaning suggestions, to mean-spirited trash talk - is not tolerated at fucking all towards them? And like these aren't the funniest, most well-meaning, intelligent, and important members of the community. They aren't bearing any particularly large weight for the space, they aren't hosting servers, making important technical contributions, etc. etc. etc. They aren't funny, they aren't particularly kind, they're milquetoast and fit in well. Does this happen to you? Do you see this happening? Were you ever a golden child of these spaces? Am I just tweaking?
And furthermore, I was probably the opposite of this golden child. I was a, as wikipedia puts it, whipping boy. I was considered basically always evil for everything I done, all my conflicts were shunworthy, all my nice contributions ignored. So like, what the fuck?
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should i hide this post then i thought the op was serious
>>745667Im afraid he probably is.
I remember finding it odd to see an absense of this phenomenon when I first joined fedi. Like once you see it's absense in one space you notice it in another.
>>745720Does it not happen there?
>>745723Not that I've noticed. I hear stories about it but it's always from instances that block everyone else so that barely counts.