engaged cruelty & disengaged cruelty

little bit of thoughts on a trend.... not intensely dark or particularly squicky, but more of a somber topic.

i've been rotating a theory lately of something i'm calling "engaged cruelty" vs "disengaged cruelty". a lot of this is in the context of pondering about how the online world has changed from the early 2000's to now; particularly in cis(?) male dominated spaces (eg the chans, hacker news, jock-y subreddits, but also some real-world spaces).
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