please tell me about an extremely niche section of twitter that you never knew existed until you made them angry. one time i made Feed Swans Bread Twitter angry after i suggested food alternatives. FOR MONTHS I got angry tweets, until I finally deleted it. YOUR TURN.
— Elizabeth May (@_ElizabethMay) March 6, 2020
There are hundreds of millions of Twitter users, so you know that whatever you say, someone somewhere will have a problem with it. And they will find you and make your life miserable. Elizabeth May asked for stories of obscure Twitter communities that people have discovered by offending them. Her example confused me, because I tried to recall if I was familiar with Swan's brand bread. It turns out there are people who have strong opinions both for and against tossing leftover bread to waterfowl. Metafilter has a sampling of the best responses to May's query.
Elle Maruska: "Outdoor Cat Twitter has been more violently aggressive in my mentions than Literal Nazi Twitter tbh"
Charlotte Grubbs: "The most vitriolic replies I ever got were in response to a tweet about how it's fine for adults to read children's books."
Dr Philip Lee: "Oh there was one time, there is a subset of people who don't believe in the legitimacy of the French Government, because they believe the revolution was illegal, and they still have a pretender to the crown of France and everything."
Gretchen: "I found out Bee Movie Twitter exists by once randomly tweeting that the Bee Movie is nonsensical since all worker bees are female. Furious responses for days"
Kelsey Lewis: "I tweeted some joke once about how the new guy at work was always leaving the office toilet seat up. And wouldn’t ya know there are a handful of people who use Twitter dot com as a platform to tell the world that actually women should be putting the seat UP for men."
Not sure if the original thread is online but I found a screenshot I took pic.twitter.com/l4DW6ACwES
— Byron C Clark 🍠 (@byroncclark) March 8, 2020
While I do not doubt that some people actually have strong feelings about these subjects, you have to wonder about the people who scan Twitter looking for something, anything, to argue about, or are else ready to tell you are doing it wrong. You can read a collection of the best responses at Metafilter, or peruse the entire thread at Twitter.