Head Trip - Twilight Sucks by shinga

And you don't think the problem there is the people hiding behind a computer screen, bullying kids on the internet, during the most vulnerable time of their lives?  

No, instead, let's blame the people whose f***ing brains are still developing, who are trying to figure out who they are and how they fit into the world, while under constant pressure to get good grades, do well in sports and extra-curriculars, as well as hold down a part-time job, because unless you come from money, that's the only way you're going to get enough scholarships to even start thinking about college.  But you also have to be social, outside of those things, or the adults think something is wrong with you.  Then you get the fun of peer pressure and bullying, both in person and online.  

And, yeah, some people snap under that pressure, especially extra-vulnerable people like the girls and LGBTQ kids.  Especially when those comments are of the slut-shaming variety, and that girl knows they'll follow her the rest of her life.  She knows that future employers will find pages of hate on the internet, when they search her (because that is part of the current reality, employers search you on the internet, both your social media and what is said about you, elsewhere, so those "comments on the internet" do actually mean something) and decide that she doesn't have the kind of image they want associated with their company.  When she knows that guys she is interested in will search her on the internet (a reality of modern dating) and either reject her or get the massively wrong impression.  

And the future begins looking hopeless, while the hate is still pouring in.  And the adults aren't exactly helping, because they don't understand what the real impact is, here, because they grew up in a world where you could only be hated locally, and then you could just move and not have it follow you.  They grew up in a world where people saying sh*t about you, sh*t that might not even be true, couldn't stop you from getting into college or from getting a decent job, quite that easily.  They forget that that internet hate won't disappear with time.  It's not like being a bullied teen, in their time, when you just survived high school, then it was over.  Those people who do their best to make your life hell, now, get to follow you around, wherever you go, whatever you do, for the rest of your life.  

Because that's what the internet has brought to the world, connectivity and accessibility, even when we seriously don't want it.  And, now, more and more jobs are requiring that employees have social media, and that they use that social media to represent their company, so it's not like you can just choose to not make yourself vulnerable on the internet, anymore.  That's not how our world works.

I have seen things that would turn a sane man crazy, and a crazy man sane. I have seen things, that would turn you white with sheer terror! I have seen things, horrible, unspeakable things, that just the mere passing memory of it causes a piece of my soul and a shard of my fractured mind, too slide further and further into a realm of madness; unknown! A realm filled with screaming, fawning, lovestruck teenage girls; and hot, and bothered, horny cougar moms, that don't know the difference between real romance/love, and creepy undead, pedo stalking. A realm where the title of Vampire; a title filled with history and honor. Has been dragged through the dirty, bottom dregs of romanticism, and has turned this suave, blood-drinkers; into tinkerbells gay, sparkling, emo, bipolar, freshly used tampon suckers! The fact that I was able to survive this, is proof that miracles truly do exist. FrostKnight1, my dear dear friend, may you and your descendants never have to suffer like I have. If by some unfortunate means that you have taken a glimpse in this realm of perverted madness, I pray to whatever deity exists, that you will be able to summon the strength and willpower, to carry on.