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==Initial Internet Reaction== | ==Initial Internet Reaction== | ||
As news of the story broke, one of the first online reactions was from the mental health community [[Social Anxiety Support]] which spontaneously erupted in multiple threads of sympathy for Elliot Rodger, exclusively from male users. The [[femoid]] users of [[Social Anxiety Support]] then started flaming the threads in disgust at the reaction. | As news of the story broke, one of the first online reactions was from the mental health community [[Social Anxiety Support]] which spontaneously erupted in multiple threads of sympathy for Elliot Rodger, exclusively from male users. The [[femoid]] users of [[Social Anxiety Support]] then started flaming the threads in disgust at the reaction. | ||
==Videos== | |||
Rodger posted several videos about his loneliness, and in his final video promised, "On the day of retribution, I am going to enter the hottest sorority house at UCSB and I will slaughter every single spoiled, stuck-up, blond slut I see inside there" and then "take to the streets of Isla Vista and slay every single person I see there."<ref>[http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-transcript-ucsb-shootings-video-20140524-story.html Transcript of the disturbing video 'Elliot Rodger's Retribution']</ref> The videos were taken down by YouTube as violations of their policy against violent threats; then undeleted; and then deleted again in 2018, after the [[Toronto van attack]]. | |||
==Elliot's Internet Postings== | ==Elliot's Internet Postings== | ||