dude, lucky you don't live where i live because... they act like that in person where i live. and yeah nobody punches them. they encourage them for being 'brave'. and if you be like 'yeah maybe it's not that bad' they scream in your face.

where i live there really isn't much of a barrier anymore between keyboard tantrums and real life ones... which is precisely why I don't go out less and less. at least once a week I have to watch someone have a tantrum or be really nasty to someone else and it's almost always the same types of comments and reactions as you see on the internet.

it's incredibly cringe. and nobody pushes back because... other people agree with the shitty awful insane entitled crap people pull.

Like i can't even go read a book in a cafe anymore without some insane weirdo being all offended at me. I used to do it like on an almost daily basis and nobody ever bothered me other than to maybe ask me if i liked the book... now they come up to me unprompted and tell me how what I'm reading is racist/sexist/evil because it's... classic lit from the 19th century and I am 'spreading' evil by reading these book sin public... it's strait up 'evil spirits' medieval type shit, except I'm the witch.