Writer and comic Steve Hyden, like many of us, has had enough of the basket of deplorables on the internet.
Yes, that's the official collective noun.
For Hyden, exchanges with hostile, unprovoked strangers sum up the internet.
The Internet: A One-Act Play. pic.twitter.com/DWbj5XRUG7
— Steven Hyden (@Steven_Hyden) December 1, 2016
Here are the original exchanges between Amos Posner and his would be detractor.
I actively avoided movies about loss and grieving for two years, and I feel like Manchester By the Sea caught me up in two hours.
— Amos Posner (@AmosPosner) December 1, 2016
@AmosPosner You sound like a real emotional candy-ass. A little pussy who regards sadness & downerism as the same kind of must-to-avoid.
— Hollywood Elsewhere (@wellshwood) December 1, 2016
@wellshwood I've avoided movies specifically about death and grieving ever since my girlfriend died of cancer. What a snowflake I am!
— Amos Posner (@AmosPosner) December 1, 2016
@AmosPosner Uhm, that's new information. Very sorry that happened.
— Hollywood Elsewhere (@wellshwood) December 1, 2016
Oh well then, your a-holery is absolved.
Their exchange continued, and, if anything, escalated.
@wellshwood Maybe, just maybe, you shouldn't need that information to not go out of your way to be a huge asshole to strangers.
— Amos Posner (@AmosPosner) December 1, 2016
@AmosPosner There's a whole
— Hollywood Elsewhere (@wellshwood) December 1, 2016
moviegoing culture out there that only wants fantasy & fun, and recoils from any artful depiction of reality.
Your point being?
@wellshwood 1) I sought out Jeanne Dielman on the big screen recently, so I'm clearly not that. 2) That's not how you fucking talk to people
— Amos Posner (@AmosPosner) December 1, 2016
@AmosPosner You sought out "Jeanne Dielman" but you felt over-walloped by "Manchester." Yeah, that's consistent, makes sense.
— Hollywood Elsewhere (@wellshwood) December 1, 2016
Dude seriously.
@wellshwood I truly can't tell whether you're trolling or just that dumb, but I'm positive I'm uninterested in ever hearing from you again.
— Amos Posner (@AmosPosner) December 1, 2016
@AmosPosner Okay!
— Hollywood Elsewhere (@wellshwood) December 1, 2016
That appears to have been the end of their exchange.
Posner continued to Tweet about it in response to contact from other strangers, some sympathetic, others less so.
In addition is Posner's reaction to the online responses he's received since Hyden and others brought him to public attention.
Trolls make fun of people who are "triggered," but triggers happen after TRAUMA. Even to straight working class men, like in Manchester.
— Amos Posner (@AmosPosner) December 1, 2016
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