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25 People Confess The Most Toxic Communities They’ve Been A Part Of

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In every online community, there are what I call “pit people.” You’re enjoying content, having a good time, talking with others, and then at some point you’ll stumble across a metaphorical pit. Maybe it will be a shallow pit with only superficial differences between fans, maybe it will be a deep, dark pit of mind-bending dysfunction. But either way, the thing you notice immediately is the people who enter and won’t leave. They are the ones who live in the pit; they wallow in ego or hatred, enjoy making other people miserable so they won’t feel so alone, and relish the idea of turning an entire online community into a pit, so they won’t have to think about anything else other than having their entire tiny universe aligned with them. In good communities, the pits are shallow and few. In bad communities, they are many and very deep and very, very dark.

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Any community that revolves around hating certain groups of people. These people spend their free time just looking for things to post and go “haha look at this dumb person that’s doing a dumb thing that doesn’t affect me in the slightest.”

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I’d say my quest for experiencing different drugs has led me into some pretty heavy places, where lying and stealing and probably even more major crime were just a normal part of life. I’ve seen friends steal from other friends, family, parents because of drugs. One robbed a house while I was sleeping in the back of my car after a long night and I spent a weekend in jail before my innocence was determined. (He was driving the car, which normally was never a problem except he wasn’t my friend anymore, he was someone completely overtaken with addiction). Needless to say we aren’t friends anymore.

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The show dance mom’s. It’s basically a 40-50 year old woman running around making little girls cry because all she cares about is winning trophies and not being an actual human being. My mom watches that show and it just infuriates me.

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Medical school. Had my group of friends so that was nice, but a lot of folks loved being martyrs cause ‘they worked SO hard’ and ‘are under SO much debt.’ Yes there are legit concerns about mental health and debt in medical school, but the loudest folks were not the ones who were experiencing this. Then there was the passive aggressive studying competition: ‘Oh you studied till midnight? Wow yeah I only slept 3 hours cause I was up later.’ ‘Oh, I haven’t slept in seven weeks cause of studying’ ‘I know right guys? I’ve never slept in my life cause studying.’ Shut up. All of you shut up.

Written by Laura McNairy

Laura is a freelance writer for TFLN. She likes to write about what she knows best — dating, sex, and being awkward, but usually in the opposite order. She is the Assistant Editor and videographer for Peach Fuzz, a sex-positive nudie magazine in ATX.