What to do when someone you love has terrible internet taste

People who live on the internet love nothing more than confessing our love for those who spend their lives largely offline. 

We see them as higher beings — practical demi-gods who are blessed to have never even heard of Eric Garland, people who’ve successfully transitioned beyond the 2016 Democratic primary, saints who would never, ever watch Tide pod porn.

Few online people will publicly acknowledge, however, the consequences of that idealization. But there comes a point in any relationship between online people and their largely offline partners when the latter finally reveals their devastatingly poor taste in their internet — and oh, how it burns.  Read more…

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