Anonymity + audience = ? February 3, 2010 7:33 PM Subscribe
Looking for an oft-linked cartoon. Maybe?
I'm looking for a web cartoon panel I want to send to a friend. She's the web editor of a local alt weekly and as such she has to deal with dozens of shitty comments from anonymous readers every day, and it's starting to wear her down.
But I only remember the cartoon vaguely. (I think it's a cartoon.) It is some kind of equation along the lines of anonymity+audience=asshole. It's been linked a lot in the blue. Halp?
I'm looking for a web cartoon panel I want to send to a friend. She's the web editor of a local alt weekly and as such she has to deal with dozens of shitty comments from anonymous readers every day, and it's starting to wear her down.
But I only remember the cartoon vaguely. (I think it's a cartoon.) It is some kind of equation along the lines of anonymity+audience=asshole. It's been linked a lot in the blue. Halp?
Fine, exogenous, be a shitcock about it.
posted by Adam_S at 7:37 PM on February 3, 2010 [1 favorite]
posted by Adam_S at 7:37 PM on February 3, 2010 [1 favorite]
And it's fuckwad. FUCKWAD.
posted by hangashore at 7:38 PM on February 3, 2010
posted by hangashore at 7:38 PM on February 3, 2010
Listed, hangashore, don't you be a shitcock too.
Ha, I knew I'd seen dickwad somewhere
posted by Adam_S at 7:40 PM on February 3, 2010
Ha, I knew I'd seen dickwad somewhere
posted by Adam_S at 7:40 PM on February 3, 2010
Yeah, but I'd be more worried about the gaywads and dorkwads.
posted by hangashore at 7:42 PM on February 3, 2010
posted by hangashore at 7:42 PM on February 3, 2010
On an unrelated note, are you as astounded as I am to discover that this is the first-ever use of the assholes tag in MeTa?
posted by hangashore at 7:47 PM on February 3, 2010 [3 favorites]
posted by hangashore at 7:47 PM on February 3, 2010 [3 favorites]
Asshole (singular) has only been used twice. There's a joke there somewhere.
posted by cjorgensen at 7:52 PM on February 3, 2010
posted by cjorgensen at 7:52 PM on February 3, 2010
Metafilter: first-ever use of assholes
posted by turgid dahlia at 8:12 PM on February 3, 2010 [1 favorite]
posted by turgid dahlia at 8:12 PM on February 3, 2010 [1 favorite]
Given they both refer to the same concept, which came first: the Dickwad or the Fuckwad?
posted by Nabubrush at 8:20 PM on February 3, 2010
posted by Nabubrush at 8:20 PM on February 3, 2010
Given they both refer to the same concept, which came first: the Dickwad or the Fuckwad?
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19/
http://tcritic.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/greaterdickwad.jpg
posted by zamboni at 9:02 PM on February 3, 2010
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19/
http://tcritic.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/greaterdickwad.jpg
posted by zamboni at 9:02 PM on February 3, 2010
Did someone say shitcock ?
posted by Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory at 9:03 PM on February 3, 2010 [1 favorite]
posted by Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory at 9:03 PM on February 3, 2010 [1 favorite]
Given they both refer to the same concept, which came first: the Dickwad or the Fuckwad?
OED cites dickwad to 1989, fuckwad to 1974. That's not conclusive, but it is certainly pretty fucking delightful.
posted by cortex (staff) at 9:07 PM on February 3, 2010 [7 favorites]
OED cites dickwad to 1989, fuckwad to 1974. That's not conclusive, but it is certainly pretty fucking delightful.
posted by cortex (staff) at 9:07 PM on February 3, 2010 [7 favorites]
zamboni, cortex - your assistance is much appreciated.
posted by Nabubrush at 9:09 PM on February 3, 2010
posted by Nabubrush at 9:09 PM on February 3, 2010
I'm going to go ahead and close this up.
posted by Effigy2000 at 9:35 PM on February 3, 2010 [1 favorite]
posted by Effigy2000 at 9:35 PM on February 3, 2010 [1 favorite]
If anyone, for some unknown reason, wants to cite this idea in a polite academic fashion, you can call it the Online Disinhibition Effect (Wikipedia).
posted by dreamyshade at 10:30 PM on February 3, 2010 [2 favorites]
posted by dreamyshade at 10:30 PM on February 3, 2010 [2 favorites]
fuckwad to 1974.
What's particularly interesting about that is that it took three full years after I was born and the phrase was therefore coined for them to put it in OED.
I guess they were waiting to see if I would get better and it wouldn't be needed anymore.
posted by quin at 7:52 AM on February 4, 2010
What's particularly interesting about that is that it took three full years after I was born and the phrase was therefore coined for them to put it in OED.
I guess they were waiting to see if I would get better and it wouldn't be needed anymore.
posted by quin at 7:52 AM on February 4, 2010
Somewhat related and also amusing, this xkcd cartoon.
posted by booksherpa at 5:29 PM on February 4, 2010
posted by booksherpa at 5:29 PM on February 4, 2010
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posted by exogenous at 7:36 PM on February 3, 2010 [2 favorites]