[ WP ] and that 's how Reddit destroyed my hometown .

My laptop will probably die before I finish writing this, but I have to try. Maybe I can get one of those solar chargers when I go for a supply run tomorrow. There is no power anymore; hell there are no power plants anymore. It's all gone. The datacenter I'm in must be powered by solar cells or something so I have internet, for now. But the mob is closing in and this too they shall burn. I would love to say that everyone has gone crazy and that I am the sole sane soul in this city, but that would n't be true. The world should know that it's not their fault. The residents of this tiny town wanted nothing more than to live together in peace and harmony. And they did, until last week. 
 
 Contrary to what you may be thinking, it did not all start with a simple, harmless post or comment. It was actually a very long self post that spanned the entire text area an continued through four comments. Most of you probably did n't see it because it was posted in my town's subreddit and had 11 karma when it fell off the front page. It was a long-winded rant from a woman who was fed up with the unnecessary complexities and tribulations of modern life. She wrote about how she wanted everyone to enjoy life and not spend most of their waking hours chasing unrealistic and extraneous goals that they had been conditioned to pursue. She wanted to spend more time with her husband whose sole goal was to become a VP in his firm even if that meant working 12 hours a day. She wanted to spend time with her daughter who hated her for her poor fashion sense and archaic notions of dating and relationships. She wanted happiness but did n't want to buy it. 
 
 There were some sympathetic comments on that post and the whole thing should've died there. But it did n't. 
 
 An up-and-coming local radio host, who also happened to be a redditor, saw the post and did a feature on overreacting old people. He demolished her arguments and ridiculed them as antiquated and selfish. He accused her of being jealous of the success and popularity of her husband and daughter and suggested that their lives would be better off without her. To his credit, the radio host did n't mention her username. Also, it was not a very popular show and had very few listeners. The entire thing could've ended there as well. No harm done. But it did n't. 
 
 By a statistically impossible coincidence, one of the hundred or so listeners was also a redditor. And a massive asshole. Most of you know his username by now but a week ago he was a nobody. A sad excuse for a human who reposted /r/pics links to /r/funny and vice versa. This guy had a hunch that the post would be in our town's small subreddit and found it almost immediately. It would've probably been okay if he had posted a few hateful comments in Sara's post; yes, her name was Sara, for those who do n't watch BBC or CNN or any news at all. But he wanted to go one step further. He dug through her posting history, and hit paydirt. He found her address. 
 
 Once again, if that pathetic fucker had sat on that information, or had died of an aneurysm right then, things would've been fine. If he had egged her house everything would've been fine. Even if he had publicly shared her address, things might have worked out. Because people on the internet are n't automatically malicious, they need context. And this motherfucker knew that, so he created some. He's dead now so I have no idea what was going on in his mind at that time but for some demented reason he must've wanted Sara to suffer. He wanted to hurt her. Or maybe he had thought that the whole thing would be hilarious. I do n't know. But as most of you know now, it did n't end well. 
 
 It's so easy to take a picture and make a meme, is n't it? Such a harmless little act. People do it every day. But 
 
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