this strikes me as a likely performance art - or at least could/should have been. it's consequently hard to get a solid grasp on the awfulness of people.

i mean, i could imagine the meme: toaster steve. wants to die using toaster. does not use bathtub.

there's a legitimate level of comedy in watching somebody try to commit suicide and epically failing at it. i mean, in a life full of failure, you'd think he could at least get that right?

toaster steve. can't even commit suicide without failing.

but the comedy only applies either after the failure (and i'm sure he'll look back and laugh - and whether it was real or not, i'm sure it was meant to be funny, in a twisted way), or under the broad understanding that the whole thing is a skit. so, how many of the people commenting thought they were watching a joke?

on the other side, there's the wall of separation between reality and fantasy that video provides. even it is real, it's hard to see it as real given the media.

so, it's easy to be like "people are fucking terrible creatures", but i'm not convinced this wasn't staged - or at least that most people *thought* it was staged. that makes a big difference.

not that there aren't better reasons to be misanthropic.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/dailybrew/university-guelph-student-streams-suicide-attempt-4chan-202303898.html