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Online validation is the constant pursuit of affirmation through digital feedback. It manifests through dopamine seeking behaviors such as thirst traps, obvious bootlicking or performative content to be noticed and praised. The modern internet, especially platforms like TikTok, Instagram, Reddit, and Discord, has industrialized the process of ego feeding and status chasing. | Online validation is the constant pursuit of affirmation through digital feedback. It manifests through dopamine seeking behaviors such as thirst traps, obvious bootlicking or performative content to be noticed and praised. The modern internet, especially platforms like TikTok, Instagram, Reddit, and Discord, has industrialized the process of ego feeding and status chasing. | ||
==History== | ==History== | ||
The concept of online validation emerged alongside | The concept of online validation emerged alongside social media platforms, where individual users began quantifying their social worth through follower counts and “engagement.” While it affects both genders, its effect on women has been especially insidious, with societal conditioning rewarding them only when they’re deemed attractive, agreeable, or submissive. | ||
Pick me women, especially, depend on online validation to maintain their delusions of superiority. Meanwhile, femcels receive none or negative feedback, reinforcing the reality of the blackpill: that society only values women who appeal to the male gaze. | Pick me women, especially, depend on online validation to maintain their delusions of superiority. Meanwhile, femcels receive none or negative feedback, reinforcing the reality of the blackpill: that society only values women who appeal to the male gaze. | ||
==Female experience== | ==Female experience== | ||
For HTB and above, online validation is a currency, but also a curse. They are constantly rewarded for basic selfies, filtered nonsense, or recycled aphorisms. Platforms encourage these women to monetize themselves through attention, leading to a loop of self-objectification, performance, and emotional instability. | For HTB and above, online validation is a currency, but also a curse. They are constantly rewarded for basic selfies, filtered nonsense, or recycled aphorisms. Platforms encourage these women to monetize themselves through attention, leading to a loop of self-objectification, performance, and emotional instability. | ||