I’ve really been into taking screenshots lately.

Mostly they’re just bizarre comments found on Facebook or Twitter or YouTube, but sometimes they’re sad or surprisingly profound statements on the human condition. A lot are homophobic or misogynist comments you’d likely only find in an anonymous and relatively consequence-free forum. 

I want to print these out huge. I think they’d be pretty powerful if seen not on the internet. Maybe I’m reading too far into this, but I think this line shows the disconnect between the internet, which callously documents so much of our lives, and human emotion. 

Here is a previous post with a screenshot from Reddit. 

Screenshot from Reddit.

Suggested read: EPIC WIN FOR ANONYMOUS. The book is mostly about 4chan and internet culture over the years, but it also touches on sexism, racism, and homophobia in internet forums.