History Quotes / InternetJerk

->''"The [[UsefulNotes/Xbox360 360]] also has the best online support with the Xbox LIVE malarkey, although the player base can charitably be described as [[LargeHam lively]], and uncharitably described as a bunch of [[NoIndoorVoice hooting]] [[{{Jerkass}} dick holes]]."''

->''Social media made you all way too comfortable with disrespecting people and not getting punched in the face for it.

->’’ Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.’’

->'''The Boss:''' ''This is why my kids are never playing video games.''
-->-- ''VideoGame/SaintsRowTheThird''

-->-- ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline''

->''"At the most extreme, anonymous ‘trolls’ bully, [[InternetJerk threaten and otherwise persecute their victims, spreading fear and despair]]. I’m sure such unpleasant people have always existed, but the internet has given them a voice and a sense of their own destructive power."''

->''Social media made you all way too comfortable with disrespecting people and not getting punched in the face for it.''

-->-- '''Cliff Bleszinski''' of Creator/EpicGames.

->''"The biggest problem with the internet is that deranged fuckers out there can hide behind their screens, write a comment to an actor telling an actor to kill themselves, and then just close down their computers, return to their lives [[KarmaHoudini and face no fucking consequences]]. It's not even these few psychopaths who do this, [[InherentInTheSystem it's the culture of the internet]]. So many of the people you see on the street have likely written a nasty comment to somebody before. [[ButForMeItWasTuesday It means absolutely nothing to them and doesn't impact them or their loved ones at all]]. But it can truly break the person reading it. It doesn't matter if you think Creator/HaydenChristensen did a poor job portraying Anakin Skywalker, it doesn't matter if you think Creator/GeorgeLucas made some bad movies, it doesn't matter even if you're correct in these opinions, which, knock-knock, [[{{YMMV}} is fucking subjective]]. But, let's say even if you were right these were bad movies objectively, '''it gives you absolutely no right to attack them for it''', to bully them online or to write hurtful shit you'd never say to them in person. I honestly don't understand how people can get so angry over some fucking movies that they do shit like this. [[DontLikeDontRead If I don't like a movie, then I won't watch it again]]. It's that simple. And if I'm very invested in that franchise the movie's a part of, then I'll still love the franchise. And if you can't do that, respectfully step away, then that's on you. Don't be a bitch just because you can't handle a little bit of adversity in your life. I swear to God, people like this wouldn't last a day in the shoes of the people who are targets of this hate. No fucking chance."''

->''"Everybody, it isn't you! It's the Internet! It's consuming your lives making you paranoid and stupid! And this [[Film/Ghostbusters2016 movie]] is at the heart of it!"''
-->-- '''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic''', ''Film/Ghostbusters2016'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORS3CqPTgDg review]]

->''Put the right [[{{Troll}} troll]] in the right message board or comment section and he can completely destroy any chance of discussion — he has effectively broken the system for no other reason than personal amusement. It's ego masturbation. It happened so much at ''Popular Science'' that they shut down their comment section. It was as if [[Film/ANewHope a thousand voices cried out the word "fag" and were suddenly silenced.]]''
-->-- '''[[Website/{{Cracked}} John Cheese]]''', ''[[http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-changing-perspectives-that-show-youve-become-adult/ "5 changing perspectives that show you've become an adult."]]''

->''"Can the internet make us better human beings? Judging from Website/YouTube comments, no. And you're gay!"''
-->-- '''[[Series/TheColbertReport Stephen Colbert]]'''

->''"At the most extreme, anonymous ‘trolls’ bully, [[InternetJerk threaten and otherwise persecute their victims, spreading fear and despair]]. I’m sure such unpleasant people have always existed, but the internet has given them a voice and a sense of their own destructive power."''
-->-- '''[[UsefulNotes/BritishNewspapers The Daily Mail]]''', ''[[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2307104/Margaret-Thatcher-death-party-This-lack-respect-dead-disturbing-new-low.html "Margaret Thatcher death party: This lack of respect for the dead is a disturbing new low in British life"]]''

->''"...But on the Internet where you can remain anonymous, support for [[SerialKiller Kira]] is growing... Human beings are like that... Though this would probably never come up, suppose we discussed in class whether [[SerialKillerKiller bad people deserve to die.]] 'It's just wrong to kill people,' that's what they're bound to say. Of course, that's the appropriate response to give, right? Human beings must always maintain appearances in public, that's just how we are. But '''this''' is how they really feel."''
-->-- '''Light Yagami''', ''Manga/DeathNote''

->''"I just wish people weren't such snobs. Just play what is fun to you. The Internet is an embarrassment to mankind most days.. But asking the Internet to grow up is like asking water to not be wet."''
-->-- A comment on the ''Destructoid'' preview of ''[=DotA 2=]''

->''"The Internet sometimes facilitates dickishness; I don't know why that is, but it is."''
-->-- '''Cliff Bleszinski''' of Creator/EpicGames.

->'''ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}:''' You know why I love the Internet? Because it's just like me!\\
'''White Box:''' Vulgar, combative and contradictory?\\
'''Yellow Box:''' Overflowing with perversion and stupidity?\\
'''Deadpool:''' Yes, and yes.
-->-- ''VideoGame/{{Deadpool}}''

->'''Rule 71:''' ''The internet is'' '''''SERIOUS FUCKING BUSINESS.'''''
-->--''RulesOfTheInternet''

->'''The Boss:''' ''This is why my kids are never playing video games.''
-->-- ''VideoGame/SaintsRowTheThird''

->''"People like you [[{{Troll}} badmouth me on the Internet]]! But then they behave properly in person... so I can't get mad at them! You no longer get preferential treatment! [[CatchPhrase I'M IN DESPAIR!]] [[NewMediaAreEvil THE INTERNET HAS LEFT ME IN DESPAIR!]]"''
-->-- '''Nozomu Itoshiki''', ''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei''

->''"On internet messageboards, there is no subject so vile or indefensible that someone won't post positively/in defense of it."''
--> -- '''Skarka's Law''', ''RPG.net''

->''"...I absolutely hate this idea of exploiting the Internet to express the shit side of yourself. It eats you up, on one hand, and it may be infectious and dangerous to those who are near, on the other. I'd rather be modestly boring, naively pompous, and politely narcissistic than a thrilling, exciting, over-the-top asshole with an exaggerated disrespect for anybody who does not want to conform to a set paradigm."''
-->-- '''[[http://www.network54.com/Forum/152758/message/1305139249/Some+post-op+thoughts+on+Music+Babble George Starostin]]'''

->''"Why is it all the [=MRAs=] and Feminists I know in [[RealLife meatspace]] are reasonable people, but the ones I meet through the internet are all psychopaths?"''
-->-- '''thehorror2''', [[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/6.852865-Married-with-Children-as-a-Parody-of-Mens-Rights-Activists?page=1 Married with Children as a Parody of Men's Rights Activists"]], Website/TheEscapist Forums

->''"I'd turn the voice chat on, immediately hear the word "nigger," and turn it off again."''
-->-- '''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation''', ''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV GTA Online]]''

->''"I joined a bike race and the host, a much higher level player, immediately closed the invites when I did so, and I quickly realized why. Your prior race performance is summarized to other players as "Won X, Lost Y," but annoyingly, coming first is the only thing that counts as a win, regardless of how many players took part.'' [...] ''And Professor Dipshit here must have deduced that he could pad his stats with an easy win against this less experienced player. Well, I hope he felt cunning in the brief moment before I quit the race in disgust. See, this is what happens when you have score tables in online games! It is a lightning rod for all the twat-sanders who couldn't give a flake of fried jizz about gameplay and just want to cheat their way to the high score because it makes their erection throb as it lays across their motorbike engine like a saveloy on a mailbox."''
-->-- '''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation''', ''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV GTA Online]]'' again

->''"The [[UsefulNotes/Xbox360 360]] also has the best online support with the Xbox LIVE malarkey, although the player base can charitably be described as [[LargeHam lively]], and uncharitably described as a bunch of [[NoIndoorVoice hooting]] [[{{Jerkass}} dick holes]]."''
-->-- '''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation''', ''Console Rundown''

->''"If you’re thinking ‘come on, that doesn’t seem like that big a problem’, congratulations on your white penis."''
-->-- '''Creator/JohnOliver''', ''Series/LastWeekTonightWithJohnOliver'', on online harassment.

->''Next you post your program to the Internet. Thirty seconds later, you receive another crash report. That user entered: fart.\\
You can patch this, too, but you’d really like to understand it first. Was this just, somehow, another honest mishap? You send the user an e-mail: “Why? Why would you enter ‘fart’?”\\
He writes back: “blue.” This is the moment you realize that [[Film/TheDarkKnight some people just want to watch the world burn.]] And nothing is ever the same again.''
-->-- '''Blake Ross''', "[[https://medium.com/@blakeross/mr-fart-s-favorite-colors-3177a406c775#.k1vy64h08 Mr. Fart's Favorite Colors]]"

->''"[=YouTube=] comments: the most cogent written argument for never learning how to read."''
-->-- '''John Oliver''', ''Series/LastWeekTonightWithJohnOliver''

->''me: nobody has to get owned today. please, please put down the keyboard and step back \\
[[KidsAreCruel 9 year old child]]: Fuck oyu''
-->-- '''[[https://twitter.com/dril/status/553268372331573248 @dril]]'''

->''"New Rule: Debates held in the Internet 'Comments' section have to make me hate all of humanity less. Here's a recap of every debate ever held in an Internet "Comment" section. Ready? 'Obama's a socialist.' 'Oh, yeah? Bush is a war criminal, fag.' 'Who are you calling a ‘fag,' faggot?' The end. And then, of course, someone chimes in with, 'Ron Paul 2012!' and they call that guy a fag. And then I can't help myself, so I type, 'Gentlemen, gentlemen, please! [[TheInternetIsForPorn This is a porn site]]!'"''
-->-- '''Bill Maher''', ''Series/RealTimeWithBillMaher''

->''"Roseanne has always been a racist weirdo, and Creator/JamesGunn [[BlackComedy has always pushed the bounds of good taste with his humor]]. What changed was the involvement of internet mobs. By capitulating to the Twitter rage of a few thousand assholes, Disney is subtly teaching us that online mobs, no matter how stupid their platform, can make a difference. It doesn't matter if they're right, [[VocalMinority as long as they're]] ''[[VocalMinority loud]]''. And that's great when it means [[Series/HouseOfCardsUS firing a sex offender]], but it's a hell of a lot less great when it means [[Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2 ousting somebody for a joke they already apologized for years ago]]. [...] In none of these cases are there any kind of core values that the company is adhering to. They'll support or censor whatever appeases the most zealous crowd. Which means they're incentivizing trolls to become bigger and bigger assholes, because it's the only thing that works."''
-->-- '''[[Website/{{Cracked}} Jordan Breeding]]''', "[[http://www.cracked.com/blog/4-ways-corporations-are-turning-us-into-jerks/ 4 Ways Corporations Are Turning Us Into Jerks]]

->'''Silica:''' Why does [Rosalia] have to be so mean?\\
'''Kirito:''' Well, is Sword Art Online your first MMO?\\
'''Silica:''' Uh-huh.\\
'''Kirito:''' A lot of people's personalities change when they play games online, and some actually like playing the game as the bad guy. [[ColorCodedForYourConvenience You see how our cursors are green]]? Well, if you commit a crime against another player, [[KarmaMeter your cursor's gonna turn orange]]. Then they become what's called a red player, the worst, also known as [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast player-killers]]. They're all about murder.\\
'''Silica:''' They kill other players!?\\
'''Kirito:''' In a normal game, they roleplay as the bad guy, have some laughs, and it's cool. But Sword Art Online [[TheMostDangerousVideoGame isn't normal]]. It's definitely not a game.
-->-- ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline''

->'''Kirito:''' In a normal game, they roleplay as the bad guy, have some laughs, and it's cool. But Sword Art Online [[TheMostDangerousVideoGame isn't normal]]. It's definitely not a game.
-->--''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline''

--> — Stephan Pastis, ''[[ComicStrip/PearlsBeforeSwine Pearls Falls Fast]]''

->'''Silica:''' Why would [Rosalia] say such mean things?
->'''Kirito:''' Is Sword Art Online your first MMO?
->'''Silica:''' Yes.
->'''Kirito:''' In any online game, players often go through personality changes. Some enjoy playing as outright villains. [[ColorCodedForYourConvenience Our player cursors are green, right]]? But if you commit a crime, [[KarmaMeter your cursor will turn orange]]. Among them, player killers, those who've committed so-called murders, [[NonIndicativeName are known]] as [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast red players]].
->'''Silica:''' Murderers... no way!
->'''Kirito:''' In a conventional game, they could've had fun while role-playing as the bad guy. [[TheMostDangerousVideoGame But Sword Art Online is different.]] [[MoralEventHorizon This game isn't about having fun.]]
-->--''Anime/SwordArtOnline''

->'''''[On Instagram]'' Ross:''' ''Today, I met the love of my life in the comments section on Youtube.''

->'''''[On Website/{{Instagram}}]'' Ross:''' ''Today, I met the love of my life in the comments section on Youtube.''