The Balloon Guy Explains Himself | 合法醫療器材資訊網

2021年2月19日—Thisweek,thoseofusmasochisticenoughtospendvastchunksofourlivesLoggedOnfocusedourcollectivefuryonPortland-basedartistMike ...

Twitter has many uses: distracting you from work you desperately need to get done, making you feel bad about yourself, and annihilating your attention span, to name a few. But perhaps its most reliable function is giving you something relatively insignificant to get really, really angry about. This week, those of us masochistic enough to spend vast chunks of our lives Logged On focused our collective fury on Portland-based artist Mike Schneider[1], A.K.A. “The Balloon Guy,” and this post he did:

It made its way onto Twitter through @EvelKneidel[2], who paired a screenshot of the photo with a simple caption: "I hate this guy so much[3]." The tweet racked up more than 10,000 retweets and more than 150,000 likes from people who, apparently, hate this guy so much too.

The Haters, as I will refer to them here, seem to be pissed off mostly because they find the sentiment Balloon Guy i...