Flounce
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Flouncing is the ancient art of leaving a board, community, blog or Internet forum in the most dramatic way possible.
Whereas normal people who are fed up with a discussion or debate simply leave, flouncers need eternal validation. Instead of simply logging off, they must announce that they are leaving. Flouncing usually occurs when a wanker realizes that other people on the planet hold differing views.
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History
In childhood, flouncing is called "tantrums."
Types
- A Convoluted Flounce is a wordy diatribe in which the wanker must make it clear how everyone else is forcing them to leave, and that the wanker simply has no other choice.
- The Double Flounce is when a flouncer vows never to post again and never to return. They then return to announce again that they will never again return.
- The Triple (or more) Flounce is exceedingly rare, but definitely the most amusing.
- The Internet Suicide Flounce. Did they mention the first time that they're going to delete their journal/fanfic/fanart/blog/website? Really, they mean it. They're not only never going to come around here no mo', but they will commit Internet hara-kiri and erase all trace of themselves to show they *is oppressed*. Extreme flouncers will commit pseuicide.
Effects
The goal of a flounce is always to elicit an outpouring of handwringing and sympathy from other fans ("Please don't go, we love you, you're brilliant!") If there's a corresponding threat of deletion, they will expect an added outcry for the sake of their fic ("It would be like Michelangelo erasing the Sistine Chapel if we live without chapter 217 of your Harmonian opus!"). The wanker must know that they are so vitally important mass suicide will result if they leave the fandom. If there is an insufficient outcry the first time, the wanker will institute the double flounce.
98.7% of flouncers return within a week, usually in the form of a sockpuppet. A percentage of these flouncers will actually return as themselves or not leave at all, most with the explantion that the sympathy garnered have changed their minds.
