[ SECRET POST #2637 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2637 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Not OP, but I would submit that this is indeed the case.

People have finite emotional resources (some are blessed with a more generous supply than others, of course.) Paying attention and extending sympathy requires an expenditure of personal energy, and if folks are under a constant barrage of pings for it--which, on the Internet and particularly on sites like Tumblr, they most definitely are--eventually their capacity to sympathize and empathize will be exhausted.

Choosing to prioritize and withhold sympathy from all but the most extreme cases may be the only way some people can avoid shutting down entirely and refusing to care about anyone at all (which we also do see happen unfortunately often on the internet.)

[(Anonymous)]

+1

If you're constantly surrounded by something you're going to both get used to it [and that'll take away some of the empathy about whatever it is] and it's really going to start draining your resources from the constant demands on your energy that will burn you out if you don't start managing it on some level.

Tumblr is particularly bad about it from what I've seen.