It may not seem like much

Lol when did I ever insult gay people. I've even defended gays in the past. You're so damn stupid you need to kill yourself.

Suggesting someone kill themself on a post about self harm? You're trash.

Ha-ha fuck off pussy

You have issues,man.

Sorry for not becoming a weakling like every one of you new-generation kids. Since the advent of the internet, a far larger amount of people have become weaklings that have ever existed before. I think that this is caused by the fact that people have more ways to complain about their problems and have more people telling them that their problems are legitimate. Before, people would just suck it up, but now everyone is as frail as a particularly brittle eggshell. Before kids who were bullied at school would become tougher in the future, now kids who experience even the slightest bit of teasing fly off the handle and shoot up a school. Let's go back to the old days where people didn't kill themselves over any small problem. Humans are designed to overcome problems, not immediately succumb to the most minor hinderances. Sorry for not enabling the further weakening of the human race by saying, 'oh its definitely OK to self harm, your first world, gated community problems are legitimate!'

Its so hilarious seeing you reflecting about the beginning of the internet and how people were so tough in the olden days when its so blatantly obvious you're like 15 or so. Not that there's anything wrong about being 15 and solving the seven riddles of life in between two chicken chokings, but its hella cute and pathetic at the same time. This is assuming you are really 15, cause when you're older than lets say 17, the cute is just gone...

Oh OK so you just ignore the truth of my statements, and instead make unfounded claims about my age and other behaviors, meaning that you have no good rebuttal to my claims. This means that you are admitting that you are incorrect. Anyway, I'm currently 18, and while I obviously have not firsthand experienced the pre-internet era, it is easy to cite previously existing yet well documented eras. You're essentially a mindless idiot who cannot respond properly to differing worldviews, who will instead try to change the focus of a discussion in order to mask the frailty of your arguments.

The problem, as I see it, with your statements is that you act as though self harm and suicide are brand new things brought on by the Internet which isn't true at all. With the invention and mass use of the Internet normally private topics that were never spoken about before have gained new light. This issue was actually at its peak in the 1990's, before the mass of people began using the Internet, when princess Diana came out as someone who had self-harmed. Awareness of the issue skyrocketed and doctors and psychiatrists began treating self harm in a more progressive way. Since the 90's self-harm and suicide have actually been on the decline.

Also, in the mental health spectrum self-harm and suicide are still under scrutiny by the much older doctors and psychiatrists in the same manner as eating disorders were treated pre-1970. People originally thought that people with eating disorders were attention seeking, sounds familiar, but it came to be that medical professionals began realizing it was a mental illness rather than something that can be controlled at will. This lead way to funded study and treatments into solving the issue and what is being seen with self-harm and suicide are very similar.

You're an 18 year old child with a superiority complex. "New generation kids" -- I'm 25. Also, you have no way of knowing that a far larger amount of people have been weaklings than before because it's unquantifiable. You can parade around like a hardass from a bygone era, or you can quit complaining yourself, get off your high horse and kindly shut your mouth.

The "truth of your statements" - kiddo, you just crack me up. You just pull your "claims" out of your ass and seriously expect anyone to debate you? You're like the doofus kid on a badly written sitcom. Its not even fun to see you fuck up.

Guys, just ignore the troll.

Funsubstanceuser, you can't tell me that I pull claims out of my ass when you've already made multiple false and unfounded statements about me. These statements were that I: "prey on people who I think are gay," am 15, and have discovered the meaning of life while jacking off. To the more level headed and intelligent metalman, I say this: the internet has led to a significantly higher amount of 12-13 year olds who are suicidal, cut, etc. because they are given attention on the internet, whereas before, little kids didn't do that stupid shit because everyone would just tell them to fuck off. To theodorerex, you being 25 actually doesn't give your words too much more merit than mine. Many people could easily argue that you are a child as well. Anyway regardless, you all have to admit that the internet has made it more easy for people to get attention, and has thus led to a lot more people who act this way, not because they have mental illness, but because they want attention.

Suicidal and depressed people have always existed, but those who fake it have started growing in number since the advent of social media.

Of course it gives my words more merit. And the difference between the two of us is I'm acting like an adult. Empathy comes with age... You're just coming across as an angry child throwing a tantrum.

You know what fuck this guy. You have absolutely no right to tell anyone they're being 'weak' or that their problems aren't valid.
Yes, maybe suicude rates have increased with the invention of the Internet and social media, but that doesn't mean it wasn't still a huge issue before this. It just wasn't as in your face as it is now that we are so connected to eachother through these social platforms. fuck you for saying our problems are 'fake' or that we're 'attention seekers'. True, there might be a few out there but it is not okay to tell someone else that they're just seeking attention, that is one of the main reasons mental illness isn't being treated or talked about the way it should be, idiots like you are the reason suicide rates have increased drastically l. Because no one feels protected or comfortable enough to talk about their problems in case they come across dickheads like you who will tell them that they need to suck it up. This is not okay and once again, fuck you

If people like me are enough to cause someone to commit suicide, well... Natural Selection.

stop being a huge fucking asshole already

And if people like me ever have the chance to punch you square in the mouth, well... You got off easy.

Neither am I

Then the comment doesn't apply to you

Being emo doesn't mean selfharm, mannie doo. Depression or traumatic experiences does.

Lots of depressed/traumatized people don't slice themselves up out of retardation though.

Pain drowns lot of unpleasant feelings. That's the best way at least I can express it.

It's very hard to explain how self harm works to people who have either never experienced it themselves or don't understand/care to try and understand it.