On March 18th, 2022, a >reddit
user named "slava_ukraini_live" posted a video to r/volunteersForUkraine. The video showed a Ukrainian soldier playing a song to several dozen other soldiers
Initially, the comments were very supportive
One redditor said it was "like a Quinten Tarantino film playing out right in front of us"
Amongst the circlejerking, one redditor expressed concern that posting the video publicly would leak their location. u/Nordansikt basically said that was bullshit
After all, there's no way posting this video publicly would lead to Russia discovering their location, right?
A couple days later, a user on 4chan posted the metadata of the video that u/slava_ukraini_live had posted, which pretty much gave away their exact location
They were bombed, and the dozens of Ukrainian soldiers there died
Let me repeat that. Lives were lost because of a dumbass redditor who wanted some heckin' updooterinos
4chan reacted pretty much how you'd expect
People then went back to the original >reddit
post and mocked OP
Sometime later, this information was shared on Twitter, and they reacted similarly
Now then, let's check up on the original redditors who praised OP before the bombing. Many of them deleted their comments out of shame
The "Quinten Tarantino film" guy deleted his comment, but not before another redditor quoted him
Remember u/Nordansikt, the guy who called people crazy? This is how he responded
So then, what happened to OP? Did he die in the bombing too? Well, his account was shortly suspended around the time the bombing happened, so I can't check his account history for an answer
Imagine this though: If he did survive the bombing, he has to live with the knowledge of what he did for the rest of his life
Hope the internet points were worth it
