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BuzzFeed News / Ryan Broderick
/ Mar 5“The hardest days, though, were when we’d get attacked by another online community. The tactic is called ‘astroturfing,’ and usually a community like Reddit or 4chan, or the neo-Nazi message board Stormfront, would flood our comment sections with gore, pornography, and hate speech. If this sort of thing happened overnight — which it usually did — I’d end up working through lunch to clean things up. After days like that, I’d usually spend my nights silently staring off into space, not because I was particularly traumatized, but because there’s really only so much vitriol and toxicity a person can absorb before it all stops meaning anything.” —
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