There seems to be many iconic people getting bashed online these days. In fact it has probably been happening for much longer but I have been refusing to partake in following social trends too closely.
Now for some reason when someone is online and does something different, it seems to be free for anyone to criticise openly. The type of criticism you won’t hear of face to face. You know for some reason it’s as if typing gives you immunity. It’s even worse when there is anonymity but it happens to people with faces as well.
I have been guilty of this in the past, but I have always come on as a contrarian. This means I focus on mainstream thinking and highlight what I think does not make sense. Now I don’t even do this anymore. I feel silenced and actually a little scared.
It is no wonder young people are suicidal these days. The premise is free speech but the reality is just free judgement. There is a proven method to fast popularity, don’t be too original. Follow the trends of the time.
Yet the trends are not the truth. Do we not care about the truth any more? Or are we all too scared to speak up our own thoughts?