In the not so distant past, there was a schism among the left-wing blogs I read and some became Hillary supporter hangouts and others were dominated by Obama.
Since one of the biggest lefty blogs is Daily Kos, the fights there were bitter until more and more supporters of Sen. Clinton began to post that they were leaving and weren’t coming back.
The remaining “Kossaks” mocked these letters as “GBCW” posts and began to archive them (Good Bye Cruel World).
In fact, for as long as I’ve been reading blogs — at least 10 years — people have been upset by the sharp back and forth and have written posts detailing their grievances and reasons for leaving never to return. They tend to become so overwrought and hyperbolic as to become objects of ridicule to those with a certain tendency to black humor and a soupcon of snark.
Such posts are not a big deal to me and I don’t often read them any more.
However, this Au Revoir, New York, is a doozy.
In online parlance, the act of leaving a forum in a huff vowing to never return is called “flouncing” and those who do it are “flouncers.” For some reason that makes me giggle. Computer geeks have the best lingo.
You know flouncers return to see how people have taken their departure. “What are they saying about me?” I think it’s the closest we can get to seeing if they really will “be sad when I’m dead!”