Welcome to Lemmy! The world’s epicenter of, “Hard work never pays, my life is a capitalistic hellhole, everything’s broken and it’s all fake marketing.”
The reactions to this post have me thinking I should finally punch out of this toxic place. Have none of you ever had this experience?! Have none of you ever worked your ass off and had a near or complete stranger compliment you?
Yes, I realize this is a sales guy making this LinkedIn post, but it’s 100% believable to me. If you were pulling a marketing stunt for your gym, would you be talking about the monstrous, scary dudes that inhabit the place?
And yes, huge guys often don’t often have personal space filters, they do indeed get up in your grill. Much like Lyndon Johnson, they subconsciously know they get positive results from getting into your personal space. (OK, Johnson did it on purpose, but still…) I’m a small guy, been there, seen that. I stay a bit back so I can run or have other… options.
I attribute the skepticism to this being LinkedInLunatics, which begins with the premise it’s probably a clout post. I assume most haven’t been to gyms, though, so if that’s your only frame of reference I can see why they’d default to it being fake.
Hey that said, people praising hard work at the job or in school is rare as fuck in some places. I know I’ve been deprived of praise way too much growing up. Maybe that’s how many people feel here, too?
Yeah I don’t understand why this post is here either. But this is an anomaly, the poster in the image is far from what generally appears on this sub - he’s positively normal by comparison. But there will always be shut-ins that have had very few interactions with real people saying ‘faaake’ ‘/that happened’ on anything positive though. I blocked the r/thathappened subreddit back when I was on there because it had the same problem - too many blackpilled people that just wanted to shit on entirely believable positive stories.
I don’t think Lemmy has the same issue, it’s just a handful of users are toxic - so just block em. I’ve had a much better experience on Lemmy after i began blocking repeatedly unfairly negative or bad-faith argumentative posters/commenters, they add nothing to the community.
Its weird seeing people so negative to the idea that people would acknowledge regulars when regulars on here are widely acknowledged here for how much they keep this place interesting. Regardless of veracity of specific parts of the story, the overall idea seems quite normal.
Welcome to Lemmy! The world’s epicenter of, “Hard work never pays, my life is a capitalistic hellhole, everything’s broken and it’s all fake marketing.”
The reactions to this post have me thinking I should finally punch out of this toxic place. Have none of you ever had this experience?! Have none of you ever worked your ass off and had a near or complete stranger compliment you?
Yes, I realize this is a sales guy making this LinkedIn post, but it’s 100% believable to me. If you were pulling a marketing stunt for your gym, would you be talking about the monstrous, scary dudes that inhabit the place?
And yes, huge guys often don’t often have personal space filters, they do indeed get up in your grill. Much like Lyndon Johnson, they subconsciously know they get positive results from getting into your personal space. (OK, Johnson did it on purpose, but still…) I’m a small guy, been there, seen that. I stay a bit back so I can run or have other… options.
I attribute the skepticism to this being LinkedInLunatics, which begins with the premise it’s probably a clout post. I assume most haven’t been to gyms, though, so if that’s your only frame of reference I can see why they’d default to it being fake.
Hey that said, people praising hard work at the job or in school is rare as fuck in some places. I know I’ve been deprived of praise way too much growing up. Maybe that’s how many people feel here, too?
Looking over the comments, the broad consensus seems to be sane and on your side. Hope you don’t still feel like leaving.
Thank you yakko. I just get frustrated on here quite a bit. Great people, too much cynicism.
Yeah I don’t understand why this post is here either. But this is an anomaly, the poster in the image is far from what generally appears on this sub - he’s positively normal by comparison. But there will always be shut-ins that have had very few interactions with real people saying ‘faaake’ ‘/that happened’ on anything positive though. I blocked the r/thathappened subreddit back when I was on there because it had the same problem - too many blackpilled people that just wanted to shit on entirely believable positive stories.
I don’t think Lemmy has the same issue, it’s just a handful of users are toxic - so just block em. I’ve had a much better experience on Lemmy after i began blocking repeatedly unfairly negative or bad-faith argumentative posters/commenters, they add nothing to the community.
Its weird seeing people so negative to the idea that people would acknowledge regulars when regulars on here are widely acknowledged here for how much they keep this place interesting. Regardless of veracity of specific parts of the story, the overall idea seems quite normal.