An affliction that causes people to say things to people over the distance of an Internet connection that, if they ever DARED to say to a person in a face-to-face conversation, would likely result in them getting knocked on their ass and maybe a trip to the hospital, but behind the safety of their monitor where nobody can physically touch them, they can behave like complete and utter shitbirds with no consequences, because as we all know, the Internet isn't real, of course, and the person you're mouthing off to isn't a real human being, with emotions of their own.
It is closely related to the similar affliction that causes people to become total sociopaths when behind the wheel of a car, where they are similarly safe from physical retribution.
It is closely related to the similar affliction that causes people to become total sociopaths when behind the wheel of a car, where they are similarly safe from physical retribution.
If the technology were invented tomorrow to make it possible to punch a person in the face over TCP/IP, Internet Badass Syndrome would vanish almost overnight, and the Internet would be the most civil, polite place ever.
by q359 July 25, 2023
Get the Internet Badass Syndromemug. by Horrua September 8, 2017
Get the badassmug. 
by SudoFox January 28, 2021
Get the Badassermug. by Jen4567 April 7, 2022
Get the Badass-istmug. A new badass. Someone who thinks people change from the time when they were kids. Someone who thinks the other guy didn't have to put any effort toward anything they did as a kid, that it came easily and smoothly, and that the effort they started putting into something they're doing is beyond what anyone else puts into what they're doing, or what they did in the past.
The neo badass really thinks it's the other guy who's trying to impress everyone, it's how a guy/girl like that will always think, they never see things any way but their own (and the other guy is still the closed minded one).
by Solid Mantis April 21, 2020
Get the Neo badassmug.