I got called a 'weeaboo' for the first time this week, and I didn't even know what it was.
Lovely.
So. I got trolled while TPing into a Japanese store, on Saturday. For the record, the persons who griefed me were not Japanese nor affiliated with the store I TP'd in. They were just there at the time, for some reason. My first time being griefed in SL. How wonderful! I've been here since 2006, and I guess I'm lucky, because it's never happened to me.... until now. And yes, it's ironic people accusing me of being a weeaboo were hanging around inside a Japanese store-- one clad in a yukata/kimono, to boot. But hey, greifing happens, right? Chalk it up to chance. Chalk it up to trolls being trolls. Chalk it up to me being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Assholes are just assholes, right? Wrong.
The thing is this, they made it clear that they had been discussing me PRIOR to me TPing into the store. The lovely 'gentleman' made it abundantly clear that he had used my profile contents as a source of frenzied hilarity between themselves already. Oh dear. Your lives must be riveting. "I was just pasting this Dunneh's profile before," he says, surprised to see me in the pixelated flesh-- and proceeds to do it again, for my benefit, (because I of course don't know what my own profile says.) Except with a lot of, 'weeaboo, weeaboo', thrown in the mix, some gesture-tarding for good measure by the woman, and some cracks about my age, implying I was under age, and that my chatspeak in my profile attested to that. Yes. Of course. Because the first thing a 10 year old on Second Life is going to do is write, 'OH HAI DERE' in their profile, and that gesture-tarding and taunting indicates real maturity.
I tried not to let it get to me, because, I mean, it's random, right? Just some random guy being a jerk because of his small pecker. Well, no. Not really. Looks like the main antagonist, (who seems to love doing this to people) is affiliated with certain store owner-- a place I had just purchased goods from earlier. That was the missing piece. I couldn't figure out why he had looked me up, or where. It wasn't through my blog, (they seem surprised I had one) and I didn't see any ties to him on flickr.
Then, ding, it clicked into place when I saw them both in the same group, and one of the picks of the other girl leads to the same place. Looks like he got my profile from her. Oh noes. I think he's her... boyfriend! That's him! Holy crap. He makes a good job of trying to hide his tracks in SL (like I said, looks like trolling people randomly isn't new to him, from his profile), but he got sloppy.
I bought from that place. I bought a LOT from that place. She might have not been there, participating in the trolling of Duns, (as far as I know, I mean she could been there with an alt on) but knowing he got my profile from her felt like a slap in the face. Knowing they know each other is a slap in the face. I wish I had never gone there. I wish I had never bought from her. To take my money and secretly snicker behind my back about how she thinks I'm a lame weeaboo, with a lame fashion blog, without even knowing me. Ouch. I wonder how many customers she does this to? I'm apparently not good enough for her and her friends, but my money is. Not anymore.
Don't be so busy acting superior to everyone. You might miss out on meeting some great people. You display your own insecurities. And you'll never rise above your own mediocrity.
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That is just insane! I can not understand trolling at all! I was bullied by vampires (the bad ones who don't follow rules) in the beginning and they ganged up on me. I have no clue why. I was being friendly to a couple who wanted to bite me, so I see no point to it. I was lucky, I have a mentor and friends who knew how to get shields and radars. But you can't really be protected from manipulation if they set their friends on you after you mute them. So I took some landmarks off my files and spent less time in big public places. It makes your Second life so grueling for a while! But my friends promised they would come to the rescue if they kept following me and I learned to tp away before listening to more than the first insult. Don't stick around guessing what they are about if you have a bad feeling about someone! And about your blog, it's amazing! I would not follow it otherwise! Hugs! (shield and radar: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/MSS/157/143/22)
Hi Alana! Thank you for your kind comments about my blog! And your support on both of them, that's nice of you to say. x3
Well, they left me alone after I muted them and I left, and I haven't run across them since, so I think it's fine. The reason I didn't leave the store straight away is that I was there in the store to shop (they had nothing to do with the store I tp'd into-- it was just chance they were there at the same time), and when they first started talking I didn't realize what they were on about until they were full on harassing me-- it was completely by surprise and I had never met any of them prior.
I couldn't figure out why he would have been discussing me and my profile prior to me even coming in-- but he made it clear to me he HAD been. It was later that I figured out that the guy who instigated it had ties to the store I had shopped at an hour before-- he's her boyfriend, it's easy to connect him to her via their profiles. So, I'm pretty sure that (even though she wasn't there harassing me herself) she was either on an alt, or she was the one who pasted my profile to him and her friends making fun of it-- and thats how they 'knew' about me-- it was pure co-incidence that we happened to meet in a completely different store right after they had been discussing me, and how 'lame' I was, and decided to take it out on me when they actually saw me. They didn't do physical griefing, just spammed gestures at me and followed me around. One of the girls I recognized later as a (different) store owner actually. She was the nicest of them (not saying anything that bad) but she still participated.
Anyway it's over now, and from his profile he trolls a lot-- he has 'quotes' of people he has gotten a rise out of in it! So it's not just me. It just took me by surprise why anyone would make fun of me because I had a cute pic and used chatspeak in my profile. I thought people in SL were more accepting than that and it was a bit of a blow how they judged me without even knowing me. I'm sorry those bad things happened to you, too. Urgh. It sounds worse-- mine didn't follow me around or say anything else after. Some people just can't have any fun unless they are ruining something for others. :(
Thank you very much for the links, I will use them if I need them! Hugs :)
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