33. Unionize the Trolls to Fight Elon Musk

Pick Me Up, I'm Scared.

Madeline Pendleton and David Roberts

Society & Culture

4.8 • 783 Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2022

⏱️ 84 minutes

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This week, Madeline and Kenna talk about internet trolls, fighting with strangers in public, and astroturf! PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/pickmeupimscared SOURCES: https://firstsiteguide.com/cyberbullying-stats/#:~:text=According%20to%20Statista%20research%2C%2038,%2C%20chat%20rooms%2C%20and%20blogs. https://www.ditchthelabel.org/cyber-bullying-statistics-what-they-tell-us/ https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/oct/25/tea-party-koch-brothers https://theinternationalpsychologyclinic.com/psychology-of-trolling-why-people-troll-online/ https://www.verywellmind.com/who-are-internet-trolls-and-should-you-confront-them-5210035 https://www.verywellmind.com/mental-health-effects-of-reading-negative-comments-online-5090287 http://www.bestpsychologyschoolsonline.com/internet-trolls/ https://www.newsweek.com/internet-trolls-psychology-behavior-anonymity-invisibility-cloak-562150 https://www.warrington-worldwide.co.uk/2020/04/10/the-effects-of-internet-trolling/

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0:00.0	Welcome to Pick Me Up, I'm scared. The podcast.
0:28.0	I'm your host, Madeline. And I'm your co-host, Kenna.
0:31.5	Okay, Kenna, today I have a question for you.
0:36.1	Tell me about a time you trolled someone online.
0:40.0	Trolled someone online?
0:40.8	Yeah.
0:41.7	Never.
0:43.4	You've never trolled anyone.
0:44.6	No, I'm too stupid.
0:45.3	No.
0:47.2	No, I think I'm just too sincere. I'm just like, I have like definitely sent messages to people, but I'm just like,
0:51.9	hey, like as a friend, like out in the world, like this is like a fucked up thing to think. And like, I completely regretted it later, even just
0:58.7	thinking about it makes me want to vomit. Because like, you know, being sincere and opening
1:03.2	yourself up to someone on the internet, trying to give someone advice just doesn't work.
1:07.7	Yeah, it's hard. But I have literally never told anybody. Okay, so I was trying to
1:11.9	think about this if I've trolled someone. And the closest thing I came up with is that one time I saw
1:19.2	a really huge, like one of those Instagram call out accounts in fashion, like Diet Prada or something
1:24.8	maybe, posted a photo of these two women in Halloween costumes
1:29.8	and they were racist Halloween costumes they were really racist like they were like it was really
1:37.2	bad okay so they were like micro mini burkas that they were wearing uh with fishnet stockings and they were carrying like machine guns
1:47.6	I think.
1:48.2	Oh no.
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