FB and Twitter are toxic cesspools. You expected anything different?
LeavingCertCheat on
Bots trying to sow discontent in the population
brentspar on
Unless they are giving out about the lads wearing white socks to a Debs, they are just being racist gobshites.
Nyoka_ya_Mpembe on
FB is toxicity itself, just delete it and see how life improves without it.
lIlIllIlIlIII on
I don’t even have to check to know it’s racism. Yet the echo chambers will say it’s not that common.
tpbtix on
People from Derry City moving 10 miles to Donegal are considered outsiders….Don’t see why anyone would be surprised at those being from further afield being treated the same.
SubstantialGoat912 on
>facebook
>twitter
There’s your problem. It was obvious from the start.
Plastic_Detective687 on
It’s honestly disgusting that we allow this kind of cultural import in our country…
when the fuck did anyone start calling it prom? Is that a regional difference?
Too-many-Bees on
And they are right to give abuse. It’s a debs, not a prom.
Watch_Job on
Some of the comments under that Reddit post are also atrocious
jessikaway on
Whatever they’re saying I just wanna point out, that guy looking slick with the bowler hat down front
RomfordWellington on
I think this is a great picture. A bunch of young people taking part in what is now a proud Irish tradition of the debs/formal/whatever you want to call it. One last blowout with a group they’ve spent the past 6 if not the past 14/15 years together, before they go off to different counties to study.
The paytriotz always go on about immigrants not integrating, but they integrate constantly and quietly and this shows it.
While they racists were terminally online, kicking dogs or lurking around creches – this group of young people grew up together, came through two sets of exams in the midst of a global pandemic and they’ll always remember this night and have this picture to remind them of all their friends.
ProfScratchnsniff on
There’ll be just as much abuse about it in this Reddit thread as there is on Facebook and Twitter.
Different people with different ideologies, but the same blind hate.
mrbuddymcbuddyface on
Dey durk ar Debs
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Sufficient_Food1878 on
The comments are acc so sad. I feel upset even reading them. My younger sister just had her debs and ik she would be heartbroken if she had gotten comments like these. Can’t imagine what these students feel
coffee_and-cats on
Why is it getting abuse? Its a prom and everyone looks lovely. Is the hotel crap or something?
Pvsqvle- on
I live in Letterkenny, I did fitting and alterations for one of the girls in that photo. She herself called it Prom, her sister called it Prom, her mother called it Prom. I’m old enough to remember when it was called Debs here but that doesn’t seem to be the case anymore
Throw1awayd on
Kids don’t deserve that kind of abuse when all they want to do is socialise and have the craic on their debs.
WobbldySausage on
Theres looks to be less than a schools worth of students there.
daftdave41 on
Can you blame them in fairness? White socks in a black tuxedo, come now.
PoppedCork on
Donegal Daily knew exactly what would happen, they were more interested in getting engagement, with no thought for how the kids could be affected by some of the shitty people out there.
PrincessCG on
The comments on the Reddit post are getting to be exactly like twitter as well. Jesus.
Gazzzzzaa on
Without reading the comments, is the hate directed at the white socks?
Disastrous-Account10 on
The biggest crime is that the chandelier is off center for this picture, this dude needs to get their bits together if they want to take pro pictures
Also what’s up with Mr white socks lol
Embarrassed-Fault973 on
The biggest problem is brigading, both deliberate and algorithmic.
Someone posts, a few followers jump on, then more pile in. Soon it’s not just locals anymore but random Americans with plastic-paddy energy, racists in the and elsewhere and bots sniffing out rage bait … add it spreads. Every like generates notifications and it keeps landing in more feeds. Then some local tabloid site runs a clickbait piece on it, which gets picked up in forums, and before you know it the whole pile-on has been amplified into a “legitimate” news story and then that starts driving further rage and triggering bigots – it ratchets up and up.
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FB and Twitter are toxic cesspools. You expected anything different?
Bots trying to sow discontent in the population
Unless they are giving out about the lads wearing white socks to a Debs, they are just being racist gobshites.
FB is toxicity itself, just delete it and see how life improves without it.
I don’t even have to check to know it’s racism. Yet the echo chambers will say it’s not that common.
People from Derry City moving 10 miles to Donegal are considered outsiders….Don’t see why anyone would be surprised at those being from further afield being treated the same.
>facebook
>twitter
There’s your problem. It was obvious from the start.
It’s honestly disgusting that we allow this kind of cultural import in our country…
when the fuck did anyone start calling it prom? Is that a regional difference?
And they are right to give abuse. It’s a debs, not a prom.
Some of the comments under that Reddit post are also atrocious
Whatever they’re saying I just wanna point out, that guy looking slick with the bowler hat down front
I think this is a great picture. A bunch of young people taking part in what is now a proud Irish tradition of the debs/formal/whatever you want to call it. One last blowout with a group they’ve spent the past 6 if not the past 14/15 years together, before they go off to different counties to study.
The paytriotz always go on about immigrants not integrating, but they integrate constantly and quietly and this shows it.
While they racists were terminally online, kicking dogs or lurking around creches – this group of young people grew up together, came through two sets of exams in the midst of a global pandemic and they’ll always remember this night and have this picture to remind them of all their friends.
There’ll be just as much abuse about it in this Reddit thread as there is on Facebook and Twitter.
Different people with different ideologies, but the same blind hate.
Dey durk ar Debs
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The comments are acc so sad. I feel upset even reading them. My younger sister just had her debs and ik she would be heartbroken if she had gotten comments like these. Can’t imagine what these students feel
Why is it getting abuse? Its a prom and everyone looks lovely. Is the hotel crap or something?
I live in Letterkenny, I did fitting and alterations for one of the girls in that photo. She herself called it Prom, her sister called it Prom, her mother called it Prom. I’m old enough to remember when it was called Debs here but that doesn’t seem to be the case anymore
Kids don’t deserve that kind of abuse when all they want to do is socialise and have the craic on their debs.
Theres looks to be less than a schools worth of students there.
Can you blame them in fairness? White socks in a black tuxedo, come now.
Donegal Daily knew exactly what would happen, they were more interested in getting engagement, with no thought for how the kids could be affected by some of the shitty people out there.
The comments on the Reddit post are getting to be exactly like twitter as well. Jesus.
Without reading the comments, is the hate directed at the white socks?
The biggest crime is that the chandelier is off center for this picture, this dude needs to get their bits together if they want to take pro pictures
Also what’s up with Mr white socks lol
The biggest problem is brigading, both deliberate and algorithmic.
Someone posts, a few followers jump on, then more pile in. Soon it’s not just locals anymore but random Americans with plastic-paddy energy, racists in the and elsewhere and bots sniffing out rage bait … add it spreads. Every like generates notifications and it keeps landing in more feeds. Then some local tabloid site runs a clickbait piece on it, which gets picked up in forums, and before you know it the whole pile-on has been amplified into a “legitimate” news story and then that starts driving further rage and triggering bigots – it ratchets up and up.
Social media will eventually destroy us!