Remember Topix? Or that time the New York Times called out the 5,000 people of Mountain Grove, MO for being mean to each other online?

65  2019-09-22 by Phantom_Engineer

For the uninitiated, Topix was for a brief moment the king of online drama content. It's schtick was having an anonymous forum for every little town in the entire country, which, naturally, attracted lots and lots of drama. Of course, all things must end and after this the site eventually fell into irrevelency and the forum section was closed in 2018.

The article

And the forum shortly after the article

You can actually read the thread they have on the article. Some other interesting threads include:

Poll: What should we do with Jerry West the dude who harasses ppl and molests kids? (readable)

drug bust at Peterson farm (also readable)

Brainwashing 101 (not readable, 33 comments)

Mountain Grove is Full of Idiots (readable)

Debate: Gay Marriage - Mountain Grove, Mo (sadly not readable, 91 comments)

Further reading: From here you can navigate to all the archives of the old forums for each and every little town in the country. Unfortunately most (though not all) of the actual threads are lost, but you can still see the titles. Click the state, then the town, then "Forums" in the upper left.

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I spend more time with women on any given Tuesday than any unloved, lonely shut-in Chapo poster has in his whole fucking life. I might make jokes about women on /r/drama, but IRL I'm one of the fucking girls and fine with it.

When any of them open up to me about their experiences with harassment or assault, it is never - NEVER. FUCKING. EVER. - about a MAGA bro or a frat boy. It is always at the hands of some sensitive feminist "woke" boy.

The "frat boy rapist" thing is a myth that dangerous dudes like this are happy to perpetuate, because it takes the heat off of them, i.e. the real threats to the goddamn wimminz.

Snapshots:

  1. Remember Topix? Or that time the Ne... - archive.org, archive.today, removeddit.com

  2. The article - archive.org, archive.today

  3. And the forum shortly after the art... - archive.org, archive.today

  4. From here - archive.org, archive.today

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Brb looking at all of the shitty little towns I've been to

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cookie monster, you are evidently one of the "deceived" by Yisraly Hawkins

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