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No, he definitely did NOT take that too far.
@jaykuo
“AITAH”?
Only if “AH” means “Absolute Hero.”
@jaykuo When you are literally an NPC that can be reprogrammed to repeat the same nonsensical mantra over and over again. No thinking required.
@jaykuo thats so sad, watching a friend go insane
@jaykuo Honestly, I think this is just sad.
From the story it seems like the cousin was a mostly normal person, but fell into the hands of a cult.
Don't get me wrong, the prank was great, and that he actually fell for it in the first place is hilarious.
But when it was revealed as a prank and his obsession pointed out, he never even considered that his obsession might be an issue. Because the beliefs of the cult cannot be wrong. And that is the sad part...
He didn’t consider his obsession to be an issue because it’s an identity defining belief. His identity is under attack and he wasn’t provided with a substitute. If not for this he has no guiding principle to evaluate everything around and he has no group to which to outsource most of this evaluation.
So yeah, on the surface level it’s just a silly prank (like that guy that pretended he never saw a potato) but it absolutely ignores particulars of this person. E.g. most of us know not to push alcohol onto people with a history of dependence/abuse. We mostly haven’t learned to not destroy each other’s identities.
@pointlessone @jaykuo I get your argument, and I agree that this obsession is potentially "identity defining" and without an alternative, he probably couldn't deal with it.
However, if "hating everything woke", without even being able to consistently define "woke" in the first place (otherwise the prank would not have worked), is "identity defining", then I stick to my arguments:
- he is in a (kind of) cult
- it is a sad story
I have no issue with any of these arguments. It’s more about “the prank was great” part. I can see the humour—in abstract, woke beans is kinda funny— but the “pranker” failed to be kind to their cousin and also failed to see this failure in themselves.
@leto_fregar @jaykuo I just hate all pranks, and this is a good example of why. Making other people look or feel dumb is never funny to me, even if it’s just for a few minutes. And as in this case, you never quite know how it could backfire.
@jaykuo “I’m very sorry that you are so gullible and inclined to overreact…”
@jaykuo when being an asshole is a kind of intervention.
Not THE asshole. Just AN
@jaykuo
Being antiwoke is so woke.