A few weeks ago I wrote a tongue-in-cheek polemic railing against a guy who broke up with me via text. It was hyperbolic, comical, and, at its core, based on honest emotion and sentiment. The night before I published it I contacted a lawyer because I knew there was a good chance it would be a popular read, spreading quickly around the Internet.
That prediction proved correct within an hour of publishing. Shockingly, my blog, an events and society rag that occasionally and very peripherally touches on conservative politics, was seeded on Reddit—a cesspool of anonymous, implacable, predominantly-male trolls; also—the gatekeeper of all things viral. From what I can tell, it was put on Reddit by a regular reader of my blog, a right-wing conservative who often posts non-tangential comments about the conspiracy theory du jour that I almost never write about anyway.
The reactions my text blog drew were beyond hilarious:
