Driving off someone from being online, as a troll, because it gives you a thrill.
This is an awfully specific flex, but it is a flex nonetheless, that people do feel to boast about. Because it’s just another form of a power-trip. Congratulations, you’ve driven away someone who could’ve been a contributory member of a community to make yourself feel better by orchestrating lies, performing witch hunts and huddling with your troll buddies in ways to figure out how to process this.
There’s nothing prideful about this to flex over.
The people who are proud about being self reliant and not needing anybody, when it’s just masking for their loneliness
A lot of people who are super self-reliant grew up in households where their needs weren’t met, so they learned from a very young age that anything that they wanted they had to do themselves. It’s usually a trauma response.
I came here to say “Flexing their trauma response” as being something to be weirdly proud of. Learning healthier responses is more the actual flex… I think, I hope.