There's this fascinating phenomenon I've seen on tumblr, when someone makes a post like "hey if you do this specific thing in public shared spaces in these specific circumstances, fuck you. Not only is it annoying, it actively endangers people, and it pisses me off that you're so casual about putting other people at risk of injury or death for the sake of your own conveniece."
I tend to read through them and think through them and see if it applies to me in any way. If it doesn't, I just scroll past and let it be. But if it does, and I notice that I do, in fact, tend to do that, I'll silently cringe and go "yikes, I had never thought that doing something like that would logically naturally have that kind of consequences. I sure am glad I learned this way and not the hard way", and then discreetly never do that again and hope that nobody noticed or remembers that I used to do that.
And then there's always people in the notes of these posts, jumping up and down while raising their hand going "Ooh! Me! Me! I'm the one who does that! :D" because the sheer euphoria of having other peoples' attention completely outshines the fact that it's negative attention.
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