What causes a LOLcow?

[The Dude]

Why do people become LOLcows? Is it mental problems? Emotional problems? Lack of socialization? Too much internets? Detachment from reality?

Lets discuss.

 

[KatsuKitty]

✓ - Excessive/dramatic reaction to incidental/insignificant situations, objects, people, or events. Extremely poor affect regulation.
✓ - Exotic/uncommon interests, habits, and behaviors, often to the point of appearing satirical, parodic, or otherwise acted.
✓ - Obsessive and intensive interest in a singular area. Activities relating to this interest often produced in an extraordinarily poor fashion.
✓ - Overweight and/or obese; exhibits poor hygiene and self-care.
✓ - Questionable sense of fashion.
✓ - Below average to dull intelligence.
✓ - Poor parenting.
✓ - Being literally worse than Hitler, Stalin, and Mao combined.

 

[Watcher]

Just a lack of self awareness and higher cognition really. Though that's not something that makes a lolcow since it's something all of us have overlooked a few times.

In a lolcow's case, naivite and a need for attention is also there. Like I don't think "obesity" is something that is attributed to all lolcows. Rika is a skinny tranny who shits and throws it at the walls. But Rika constantly comes back and demands attention for doing it.

 

[José Mourinho]

Taking the Internet too seriously.

 

[Surtur]

Autism.

 

[The Dude]

Taking the Internet too seriously.

THE FUCK IS THAT SUPPOSED TO MEAN, MAN?

 

[HandBanana]

Autism also helps immensely.

 

[The Dude]

Autism also helps immensely.

I'm going to correct you and say that UNCHECKED Autism helps. We've got several members of this forum who are on the Autistic /Aspergers spectrum who are not lolcows.

 

[Watcher]

Autism also helps immensely.

I'm going to correct you and say that UNCHECKED Autism helps. We've got several members of this forum who are on the Autistic /Aspergers spectrum who are not lolcows.

The Dude knows this first hand

 

[The Dude]

Autism also helps immensely.

I'm going to correct you and say that UNCHECKED Autism helps. We've got several members of this forum who are on the Autistic /Aspergers spectrum who are not lolcows.

The Dude knows this first hand

Oh, you.

 

[Bgheff]

Ego is a big part. Lolcows all seem to have grandiose views of themselves. Oversharing of fucked up personal information is key too.

 

[Zim]

Anyone who can't help but try and win fights on the internet can become a lolcow. Then if/when they're identified as an easy person to provoke the lulz will flow.

 

[bradsternum]

I think the most important ingredient is arrogance and self-delusion. You can't really laugh at someone who is just crazy and naive.

 

[polka-dotted]

There are many people in the world that are potential lolcow material, but they don't put their antics on the internet. Exposure is key.

 

[ChurchOfGodBear]

A LOLcow is created from Unwarranted Self-Importance combined with an inability to accept criticism. How those two factors came to be in a given person are unimportant.

 

[sparklemilhouse]

Obsessing.

 

[Pine Tar]

Common traits I've observed:

-Lack of social awareness
-Inability to handle constructive criticism, much less trolling
-Never lets things die
-Ambitious, but no work ethic
-No sense of priority

 

[Linako 2.0]

>Be raised to be like a special little snow flake
>always use you're mental disabilities or other outside influences as things to blame your problems on
>inability to criticize oneself
>was raised without a proper male authority figure Like a Father, Uncle, older cousin, etc.
>Was very spoiled in childhood
>over exposure to internet
>not raised to apreciate the little things in life and work ethic
That's all I got in the top of my head
since just because autism isn't the sole factor of being a lolcow, it can be also be how you were raised as a kid.

 

[Picklepower]

Lack of self awareness for one thing, also like Katsu said, odd interests, mix that with too much internet, and lack of real socialization and world experience, and lots of EGO, and you have the recipe for a LOLCOW. Ego is important for Lowcows too, because that is the spark that sets off the fire, because of their ego they will go, "Youtube? Deviantart? Yes! time to show the world how awesome I am!!!" If my parents let me make a YouTube account, when I was in late middle school to early high school, I could assure you, I would be a LoLcow myself.

 

[itsautism]

Having any trait that is seen as "different" by an uncaring unempathic society.