On internet fatigue

On this page, let's list the most hysterical habits on the internet which cause internet fatigue to many:

General misuse of everything

Yes indeed:

• using uppercase letters excessively
  • Like A New York Times Headline
• low-resolution memes
  • not everyone went to school for graphic design but some memes look like pixelated faces in a crime scene
• asking straightforward questions on social media
  • they can easily go to a search engine where they could get the answer
    • in a shorter amount of time
    • with a higher degree of reliability
  • instead, they typically pose the question in a comments section and want to get the answer
    • hours later
    • from "some guy"

Instagram snobbery

• those who like a bunch of posts but will not follow
  • when someone likes a post or two but does not follow - that's OK
    • they probably found that post from someone sharing it
  • but when someone likes 10+ posts and does not follow - that's not OK
    • they purposefully went into the profile and liked it all but did not want to commit
• those who follow but never like a post or story
  • "bonus negative points" if they asked "in real life" to follow you
  • if they don't lurk in the stories, then they might get a pass
  • if they do lurk in the stories, then they have certainly hate followed you

Microbloggers

Whether Bluesky, Threads, X, Gab, Truth Social or some similar app where people share one-line text posts:

• those who "quote post" another person's post with nothing to add
  • their quote post gets all the views with which they can monetize themselves
  • usually they might add a single emoji or "hahahahaha" or some similar lazy feedback

YouTube channels

We've all seen or heard the:

• "please like and subscribe"
  • like it isn't already obvious
  • imagine asking "please like and follow" on every post on (any other social network)
  • this actually makes me not want to like the video, let alone subscribe
• "selfie cam travel vloggers"
  • who "show face more than place"
• "government channels with comments disabled"
  • so much for "democracy"

YouTube (and most internet) comments

We've all seen the:

• "first post"er who will quickly get buried
• "contrarian" who wants to rip the video (or post) apart
  • (usually based on some insignificant trivial detail)
• "nationalists" who think their country beats everyone else's and/or does better at (thing) than all the others
• "personal anecdote" person who will reminisce about their past
  • (get a blog, pal!)
• "off-topic" dude who will talk about something vaguely related to the video
• "self-promoter" who will name-drop themselves as someone else
• "who's still watching this in (current year)" as though things aren't meant to be timeless and forever
• "question asker" who would get their answers quicker if they just ran it through a search engine
• "bland single word" (e.g. "cool") or "single basic emoji" (e.g. 😍) replier who adds zero spice to the conversation
• "non-sequitur 'get rich quick' spam" post
• the "i'm bored, talk to me" (usually a "youth")