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The I Saw You forum, modelled on the page in The List and Time Out, is a great success. The Barbelith version includes not only all those secret messages like:
"I saw you posting on the Late Shift #372 thread in The Conversation in the wee small hours of Saturday morning, wearing your Janet Reger underwear and stroking your goatee. I was standing on the junction between a household drainage pipe and a soil pipe just outside your bedroom window..."
and
"I saw you at a Barbemeet in Glasgow. You were wearing blue hair and a drug-addled smile. I was handing out copies of the WatchTower as you marched swiftly past. Please save me from myself..."
but also includes messages, inscribed electronically in blood and semen, anonymously venting all the bile and vitriol that's bubbling up inside some posters, such as:
"I f***ing hate you, you Nazi snobtroll with your shiny boots and big whip. You stole my scone. You know who you are and so does the Devil because he's whispering in your ear right now! I hope your dick falls off, bounces upwards off the shiny head of a passing bald person of restricted growth, flies into your opinionated, snarky mouth and chokes you."
Before the "I saw you" forum was established, people on the Barbelith used to argue all the time about whether the board was dying or not. Now they all agree with each other all the time and have lots of time left over for alcoholism, radical politics and a spot of crochet. |
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