Getting mad online is an important part of internet culture, but it can be hard to predict exactly what is going to set the masses off. (This year, it was coleslaw, anything Nick wrote about MoviePass, the flu shot, and many other fun topics.) Here are our most angry-email inducing posts from 2018.
Click Frenzy, one of the biggest online sales days on the Australian calendar, has come and gone for another year. The promise of crazy prices – a $10 55-inch 4K LG TV among them – had customers in a spin ready to thrown their wallets at their screens. The reality has been something a little more sobering. The deals have been hard to come by, Click Frenzy’s emails have been delivered late and customers have been fighting poor internet speeds and a terrible user interface on the Click Frenzy website.
Having a slow internet connection and being in slow traffic aren't that big of a deal in the grand scheme of things. Then how come it infuriates us almost instantly? Here's why we snap, and how we snap out of it, according to a neuroscientist.
You've finally had it. You're angry and you're not gonna take it anymore. Before you tell someone off, quit your job, or finally toss that aggravating project, come up with a plan to "spend" your anger effectively.
