# Buttcrack montage: social commentary or cyberbullying? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 25, 2014, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buttcrack-montage-social-commentary-or-cyberbullying/686989 "2014-04-25T20:54:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2014, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buttcrack-montage-social-commentary-or-cyberbullying/686989/61 "2014-04-27T05:06:54Z")
Despite opinions stated here, mocking and shaming actually has a pretty good historical track record of altering behaviour. No one in this montage/album was identified. They were used as examples of something kinda gross without personally shaming them. ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2014, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buttcrack-montage-social-commentary-or-cyberbullying/686989/62 "2014-04-27T11:40:59Z")
Then I will accede to the opinion it is kinder to inform people directly that they smell offensive. ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2014, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buttcrack-montage-social-commentary-or-cyberbullying/686989/63 "2014-04-27T12:55:45Z")
> [@CarnalK](#): > > Despite opinions stated here, mocking and shaming actually has a pretty good historical track record of altering behaviour. No one in this montage/album was identified. They were used as examples of something kinda gross without personally shaming them. I agree. If he’d superimposed front shots of the photo subjects alongside, thus identifying them, it would have crossed over into being completely mean. Can you imagine seeing your own face plastered on that? Or one of your family or friends seeing it the next week? As it is, the people in the photos know who they are, but most other people don’t - certainly nobody who wasn’t there. Maybe a good wake-up call for the subjects, and a good laugh at a general phenomenon rather than a singling out of individual people. ---
**Author:** ![Incubus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c68b51/32.png) [@Incubus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Incubus)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2014, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buttcrack-montage-social-commentary-or-cyberbullying/686989/64 "2014-04-27T14:43:00Z")
> [@Lightray](#): > > [snip] …his right to be socially clueless does not trump everyone else’s right to not be squicked out. That was my point in this thread. At some point a person’s ignorance is a bigger concern than their dignity. With most people in the US, this often happens with ‘wardrobe malfunctions’ like exposed asscrack, or foul body odor. > [@](#): > > As it is, the people in the photos know who they are, but most other people don’t - certainly nobody who wasn’t there. Maybe a good wake-up call for the subjects, and a good laugh at a general phenomenon rather than a singling out of individual people. That’s how I would have taken it if I recognized my exposed buttcrack in the photos. I’d be embarassed, sure, but I’d also remember to pull up my pants. And I’m willing to bet that at least some of these neckbeards are sentient enough to pull up their pants at future MtG tournaments, since its now been established there may be a smartass lurking among their herd making them a ‘butt’ of a joke on Reddit 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Hello\_Again](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hello\_Again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hello_Again)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2014, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buttcrack-montage-social-commentary-or-cyberbullying/686989/65 "2014-04-27T15:00:06Z")
> [@Incubus](#): > > That was my point in this thread. At some point a person’s ignorance is a bigger concern than their dignity. With most people in the US, this often happens with ‘wardrobe malfunctions’ like exposed asscrack, or foul body odor. I totally agree with you. I don’t think people have a right to not be mocked when they disregard the most basic principles of public hygiene. Yes, there are situation in which actual medical issues can present obstacles to following the world’s social norms. This is not one of those situations. Do people want to see your asshair? No they do not. It’s as comfortably black and white as it is possible for a social norm to be. If you are functional enough to be in public without supervision, you are functional enough to remember and observe this rule. If you simply don’t care about being filthy in public, then no harm done when you are mocked anonymously. If you are embarrassed when your exposed asscrack is shown as an example of disgusting inconsiderate behavior… cover your asscrack in the future. ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2014, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buttcrack-montage-social-commentary-or-cyberbullying/686989/66 "2014-04-27T15:28:54Z")
> [@Leaper](#): > > Was the montage made for any other purpose other than to point and laugh derisively? I don’t see how that could NOT be its main, if not sole, purpose. I would hope there was no attempt made to cast this little project as something that was doing its subjects any kind of favor… It may not have been _intended_ to do its subjects a favor (clearly it was done for amusement), but that doesn’t mean the subjects can’t take it as one. ---
**Author:** ![Critical1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@Critical1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Critical1)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2014, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buttcrack-montage-social-commentary-or-cyberbullying/686989/67 "2014-04-28T20:05:35Z")
That guy taking the pics Kills me, he is so earnest and sincere looking in every one of those pics its like some surreal plea. His soul is burning from all that exposed ass crack energy wafting around the place. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buttcrack-montage-social-commentary-or-cyberbullying/686989.md?page=3)