TotalBiscuit has full-blown cancer :(

https://twitter.com/Totalbiscuit/status/469911657792421889

Awww that's terrible.

But, it's one of the more treatable cancers. Chemo is starting soon in a pill form, and surgery should get rid of it.

All things considered. Not too bad.

He made a video about it a few weeks ago and said he got it in time and it is treatable.

Well sh*t. However if the doctors are optimistic, then I have complete faith in medical science to sort this out.

Cue the internet

That video was when he thought they'd stopped it pre-emptively, and the latest tweet was an acknowledgement that they didn't, and it's full-on cancer. Still early enough to be treatable, but I feel for him and his family - two of my grandparents had cancer throughout their lives, and even if you catch it once it keep coming back throughout your life.

oh right, should have actually read the tweet.

Yes, that is terrible to hear, and the best news is that it is treatable. Thank goodness.

treatable is different then curable, cancer will stay with him for a long time if not for ever.

Better than untreatable. I seen both.

It's funny how this sort of news brings out the best in some people and the worst in others.

Welcome to the internet, where people will openly support murderers.

Well technically, everyone supports murderers.
Hell, if you listen to music on a regular basis, you've probably supported a few murderers without even knowing.

There is a difference between openly stating support for a criminal and not knowingly supporting a criminal financially by buying their products in some way. We're probably all guilty of the 2nd one.

True, but even then I can point to the media for antihero-izing school shooters and the like.
My main point was that open murder support wasn't an internet-specific thing, my example wasn't a good one though so...
Yeah.
*walks away awkwardly*

And my point was that in a very explicit way, people on the internet have been congratulating the recent Isla Vista shooter, saying his victims deserved it and praising him for standing up for virgin men everywhere. I'll not go into any more detail because I've already had enough of that particular topic and how much it makes me hate humanity.

The internet is a cess-pit with a couple of little islands of decency on it

Wha?

Antihero-izing school shooters.
The act of making school-shooters (any kind of killers, really) into antiheroes.

Never seen that. The worst I've seen is blaming the lethality of a trained navy officer on CoD.

They do it subtly.
(Unless they don't do it at all in Australia, in which case I envy you.)

A very good example is the Sandy Hook thing that happened in the U.S., what the media SHOULD HAVE done was cover the story once, and explain what happened and who did it. That's it.
Instead what do they do?

They covered every aspect of his life, interviewing family members of the deceased, covering the court case, blaming it on video games obviously, by the end of these weeks of coverage you knew everything about a ******* CHILD KILLER.

Maybe it's just me, MAYBE I'm just crazy, but if there are people who I don't want to know ANYTHING about, it's child killers.
Not quite a celebrity but damn close to it, hence antihero.


On an off-topic tangent can I just say that the people who interview family of the deceased (or even victims of a sex crime) need to die? Like my god. Soulless.