Earlier today on Twitter, Fall Out Boy singer Patrick Stump went on an 18-tweet rant directed at a heckler that he later revealed to be professional troll Shane Morris. (In March, the frontman wrote a lengthy blog post lambasting internet culture’s tendency toward ignorant, insecure hatred, using Nickelback as an example.) Stump didn’t reveal the exact genesis of his beef with Morris, but it’s not too hard to paint a picture. Here are some illuminating tweets, but you should really go and read the entire thing.
You suck at heckling. We could start with how none of your insults have contextual substance.
— Patrick Stump (@PatrickStump) May 8, 2013
You’re all shock. “AIDS.” “Dead Babies.” “Emo.” “Eyeliner.” “Kill Yourself.” It’s fluff. It’s lazy.
— Patrick Stump (@PatrickStump) May 8, 2013
While we’re on the subject of voluntary irrelevance; Trolling itself is kind of over. It’s too transparently sad.
— Patrick Stump (@PatrickStump) May 8, 2013
You’re just a reality star nobody’s wasting the memory stick on. You went straight to washed up.
— Patrick Stump (@PatrickStump) May 8, 2013
It’s like you were born a desperate heroin-addled Reno dinner theatre has-been.
— Patrick Stump (@PatrickStump) May 8, 2013
See, those are all better insults because even my insults are more dignified than you are.
— Patrick Stump (@PatrickStump) May 8, 2013
Morris, for his part, has responded in customary fashion. Stump’s final tweet on the matter encouraged his followers to block Morris, and though this will all soon get lost in the sands of the web, Stump sincerely taking on an open troll is certainly admirable in its self-defeatism.