I was an e-observer - though not a direct participant - in this saga as it unfolded in real time. It prompted me to check out both Reddit and 4chan for the first time.   As a result, I came to understand Reddit's hatred of 4chan as well as 4chan's hatred of Reddit. And I agree with both.   

I will say that 4chan easily outdoes Reddit as far as posting jpgs of dismembered prostitutes. I never did figure out what Reddit was good at.

Damn. I feel so fucking bad for you, man. That said, great essay, and a well-performed audiobook. You should do this kinda thing more often.

Wow, thanks guys. 

My goodness Teague, I'm sorry this happened to you. I wanna give you a hug now.
(Not that I didn't want to before, just more so now)

I also thought you had a nice reading voice. (Showed this to a couple friends, and they all said that you were funny and that they enjoyed listening to it. So... yay ^_^)

I still have absolutely no idea how anyone does this. I mainly get confused and have mean things said to me when I go on there.

Teague, that narrative was downright fascinating.

Mostly died down, now.

You could read /pol/. Or you could just smash your head through a couple windows. Same basic effect.

I only trolled the fetid waters of /b/ during the Trials of Teague, just helping keep watch for any new attacks they might have come up with. 

It was quite something -  it was pure, uncut Internet. It was the internet politicians think is everywhere but is actually pretty rare unless you really really look for it.   Or trip and fall into it, like I did.   It was an internet I'd never seen before, in thirty-some years of using the internet.   It was like Hannibal Lecter's Tumblr.  It was John Doe's TED talk.  It was a wormhole journey to Vega and I was a tiny Jodie Foster, trembling at its enormity.   

In the space of one evening trolling /b/  I saw maybe a dozen of the most horrifying images I've EVER seen (and I've been to Hong Kong).   One of them was also THE FUNNIEST lolcat-style meme I have ever seen - because the image was so horrific.  I would never ever post that image anywhere - I might try describing it to somebody, maybe - and yet it was for me, the ultimate use of the lolcat meme format, so breathtakingly awful and thus hideously funny,  that the entire lolcat thing should probably just be retired entirely.  It has been won.

I don't know if I will ever look at 4chan again.  But I have seen it.  And for me, the world is forever changed.

Reddit meanwhile was a lot of tiny text.  I didn't stick around.

Not only was this amongst the best 40 minutes of audiobookery there is, my playlist started "Holy Diver" by Killswitch Engange(cover version, I know) right after it. Worked well.

man that was good.  i had a bunch of stuff i should have been doing just now, but no...Teague and his story of the little post that did totally sucked me in.

great story, glad everything turned out alright.

(and damn i wish he'd recorded that alarm soundbite)

Then I would correct your grammar.