Isn't there a term for them already? "terminally online"
this post was submitted on 26 Aug 2025
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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
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- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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Yeah, I came in here assuming it to be sarcastic since it's like they used a thesaurus on terminally online to come up with two more words that mean the same thing, as an entirely new term. Hehe.
The internet doesn't break people's minds.
What does is lack of proper mental health care. A system that doesn't care about people. A system of perpetual slavery, hate, and violence. Religions lying to people about everything, all the time.
That's what hurts people.
Is nyan cat hurting people? No.
Is religious hate spread on the internet hurting people? Yes. Is it the internet's fault? No.
Is Wiki huritng people? No.
Are billionaires buying up all media platforms on the internet hurting people? Yes. Is that the internet's fault? No.
Don't demonize techonology, look into who and how it's being used - and address that problem. Because that problem doesn't go away if you take away the internet, it just moves to another platform.
That... was well said.
hey man don't come at me like this
People were "following the current narratives" way before the internet, now they just have platforms to display their unoriginal ignorance, which admittedly makes it more commonplace and annoying (but if we could just snap our fingers and make people think, the world would be a fundamentally different place, lol). Maybe they wouldn't be able to hold these ridiculous opinions for long if they had more "shameful" interactions that others could spectate (IRL or on public videocalls, for instance), but on pseudonymous discussion forums like this one conversations and dissent can be more... challenging.
I've seen so many that it could be referred to as a digital genocide or holocaust at this point.
It's a mental war zone out there and we're all losing
I believe the term is idiot.