History PlayingWith / FlameWar

** Website/FourChan, and some other places where the intent is to be as offensive and assholish as possible.

** The said Flame War kickstarted [[BeyondTheImpossible caused International Warfare]] and '''literal genocides (including Nuclear Holocaust)''' simply because it causes people to insult each other's nationalities and ethnicities.

** Someone [[{{GIFT}} insults]] or [[InternetJerk threatens]] another person's comments or the person themselves in an online dispute. Other people join in and the fight begins.

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** Someone [[{{GIFT}} insults]] or [[InternetToughGuy threatens]] another person's comments or the person themselves in an online dispute. Other people join in and the fight begins.

** People chase down those involved in the Flame War elsewhere online to harass them, becoming [=Trolls=], the GarbagePostKid, or stalkers because some debate on some forum somewhere has become [[ItsPersonal very personal]] to them.

** The Flame War begins to hit serious UnfortunateImplications with racist or sexist or homophobic slurs or threats.

** The Flame War reaches InternetBackdraft levels.

* '''Double Subverted''': A discussion that would never seem to possibly be anything anyone could become sincerely angry over starts the biggest FlameWar in history, ascending to InternetBackdraft status and then to ''offline'' MemeticMutation. One good example of this happened some years back when a Japanese Youtube user posted [[TalkAboutTheWeather video of a thunderstorm]]. By the time the war was over, everything from religion to the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki had been fought over in the comments...

* '''Zig Zagged''':
** A moderator sees someone flaming and bans them. Things quiet down, but then people who are friends of the banned user realize what happened, and begin to flame the moderator in the thread, reigniting the Flame War, but over the ban rather than the original topic.
** InternetBackdraft, Holy Wars in general, and meta-flamewars are always Zig Zagged Flame War, because the actions taken to stop the flamewar become part of it, as do the people demanding it stop, as do the people continuing it or continuing drama related to it.

U think that? [[FanDumb Ur st00pid]] and [[YourMom ur mama]] [[ButYouScrewOneGoat did it with a dog]]. [=Gb2=] FlameWar!

** ''Actual civil wars'' result from the original Flame War.

** The Flame War is [[Website/WarriorsOfficialForum over bread]].

** A certain ImageBoard, and some other places where the intent is to be as offensive and assholish as possible.

** The Flame War is [[Website/WarriorsOfficialForum over bread]]

** Because the flame war is so heated and disruptive, the moderators will not simply stop it, but temporarily, or worse, ''permanently'' block many users from ever continuing the flame war, locking and deleting the topics that have it, and warning the others, leaving the remaining users very hesitant and thinking carefully about which topic they should bring up, and their unawareness will no longer be excusable in the future the next time a flame war starts. Instant or eventual bans will happen.

** Because the flame war occurred was so heated and disruptive, the moderators will not simply stop it, but temporarily, or worse, ''permanently'' block many users from ever continuing the flame war, and warning the others, leaving the remaining users very hesitant and thinking carefully about which topic they should bring up, and their unawareness will no longer be excusable in the future the next time a flame war starts. Instant or eventual bans will happen.

** Because the flame war occurred was so heated and disruptive, the moderators will not simply stop it, but temporarily, or worse, ''permanently'' block many users from ever continuing the flame war, and warning the others, leaving the remaining users very hesitant and thinking carefully about which topic they should bring, and their unawareness will no longer be excusable in the future. Instant or eventual bans will ensue.

** Because the flame war occurred was so heated and disruptive, the moderators will not simply stop it, but temporarily, or worse, ''permanently'' block many users from ever continuing the flame war, and warning the others, leaving the remaining users very hesitant and thinking carefully about whhich topic they should bring, and their unawareness will no longer be excusable in the future, as there will be either an instant or eventual ban, or at least unable to post publicly.

** Because the flame war occurred was so heated and disruptive, the moderators will not simply stop it, but temporarily, or worse, ''permanently'' block several users from ever continuing the flame war, and warning the others, leaving the remaining users very hesitant and thinking carefully about what topic they bring up, and their unawareness will no longer be excusable in the future.

* '''Deconstructed''': There's NO way to "win" a Flame War. Sane people eventually realize how silly they are being and stop... Leaving only a bunch of stubborn jerks to fight over the ashes of a dead horse.

** Because a flame war occured, the moderators will not simply stop it, but block several users from ever continuing the flame war, leaving the remaining users very hesitant and think carefully about what topic they bring up, and their unawareness can no longer be excusable.

U think that? [[FanDumb Ur st00pid]] and [[YourMom ur mama]] [[ButYouScrewOneGoat did it with a dog]]. Gb2 FlameWar!

U think that? Ur st00pid and ur mama did it with a dog. Gb2 FlameWar!
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** In a similar way, the point of the Flame War or the angry response to the [=Troll}=] isn't out of seriously trying to convince that person of their own error, it is to demonstrate to anyone looking on that their conduct is unwelcome. If someone is saying insanely bigoted things or singling out individuals for personal abuse, for example, flaming them may be seen as a way of discouraging such behavior.

** The Flame War is [[WebForum/WarriorsOfficialForum over bread]]