You know that feeling when you just want to delete your social media, quit the internet, quit modern living, quit society, and move your entire family to a peaceful agrarian commune because there is ACTUALLY NO GOOD LEFT IN THIS BITTER WORLD?
... just us? Well, let us drag you down to our level with this story of a vegan who bought a crying child some ice cream, and got harassed online for it because the ice cream wasn't vegan.
Goodbye.
You might think that buying a crying child some ice cream is, oh, a nice thing to do. At the very least, it's not a terrible thing to do (unless that child has a dairy allergy, but let's not even venture down that path as the one we're on is dark enough).
But, when social media is involved, apparently there are no nice things, as we discovered when Zara-Anne Borrelli, a 22-year-old vegan blogger in the U.K., found a little girl crying in her driveway because she didn't have money for the ice cream van.
So, Borrelli bought the girl "a nice big ice cream with sauce, sprinkles and a flake," and, as one seems to do in this day and age, tweeted about it.
Seems sweet, right? Borrelli wrote that the girl was "so happy (and soon had ice cream round her mouth)," so all's well that ends well and ... wait.
Who's this guy?
Enter fellow vegan Anthony Dagher, who took it upon himself to message Borrelli privately to ask if the ice cream was vegan, and post their messages after she said nope and eventually blocked him, while urging other vegans to spam her so she'd "see she was wrong."
"Wanting to help others is of course great, but we should of course be helping them without basically harming and killing non-human babies, which buying non-vegan ice cream basically does," Dagher wrote in his private message to Borrelli, according to the screen grabs he posted.
"I bought a kid an ice cream it isn't that deep fam," Borrelli wrote back.
The conversation then degraded to Dagher telling Borrelli she'd made a "severe mistake," and Borrelli telling Dagher to "lighten the f*ck up."
So, then Dagher went on a social media tear where he urged other vegans to message Borrelli on Twitter and Instagram to shame her for helping a crying child. And when that request went sideways, he then attempted to respond to each of the thousands of people who tweeted at him to stand down.
"I usually do not do this, but I feel like this is appropriate to post since this person is claiming to be a vegan even though she admitted to buying non-vegan ice cream for someone else," Dagher wrote in his original tweet.