"Uwu culture" is hiding "smarm" (civility norms) behind its own ironic mask to avoid the association with the previous generation of smarmy conservative Karens or whatever
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Yeah - it's an interesting pairing of a layer of irony, with a very, very intense rejection of any possible criticism. Smarm seeks to smother critics, snark fires back, while uwu escalates dramatically.
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I think of the Community line about "reverse-bullying" a lot in that context.
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Ultimately, it comes back to the old-fashioned sense of moral authority coming from being, if not the victim exactly, but at least not the primary aggressor.
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I mean yeah at its worst and most toxic, the Discourse is ALWAYS Maximum Snark paired with Maximum Smarm, the two go together That's why the GG 4chan fascist trolls tried to brand themselves as viciously nihilistic but were absurdly defensive of their sacred icons
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"D&D SAVED MY LIFE AS A SUICIDAL LONELY TEENAGER AND NOW YOU'RE CALLING ME RACIST AND CALLING ALL MY FRIENDS RACIST HOW DARE YOU" Immediately followed "Oh noes I was doxed and harassed from on top of my big pile of SJW Patreon money cry moar bitch"
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It's the principle of maximum retaliation, with the ultimate aim of deterrence I think. Don't engage, because it will be so unpleasant you'll wish you never showed up.
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Yeah I mean that's kind of the thing I agree that people who have become very successful and powerful saying "I just don't listen to critics anymore" like Dave Eggers are infuriating - putting up the fortifications, the walls of smarm
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At the same time, there's just so many fucking critics now Everyone with the money to put up the big walls has done so because the air is thick with bullets Who the hell actually does listen to all their critics, how would you survive that
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and
Every mildly Twitter famous person has a dozen screaming trolls in their mentions every day "WHY WON'T YOU RESPOND TO CRITICISM"
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We don't say "smarm vs snark" much now but the current evolution of this is the fight over self-care discourse "Just log off for a while and run a blockchain on the trolls for the sake of your mental health"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and
The thing being that advice is equally applicable if you're a queer teenager targeted by homophobes or if you're a Republican senator targeted by your impoverished constituents
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And that equivalence ("You don't want to be like a smarmy Karen do you") is how people who really have very little power that putting up walls at all is privileged and problematic and they owe it to the world to lower the drawbridge and open the gates
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