I don't understand bullies

I used to say purposefully rude thing's hoping that someone would talk me. I did so because I felt so alone that even someone telling me I was an idiot made me feel better.

When they're on the internet, they feel like they have some sort of anonymity, so they say whatever they want. It's pretty cowardly and I usually choose to ignore them since I know their assumptions aren't true and I'll never meet these people on real life.

Hmm i think theres more than one cause. Some like attention, some are just mean and some have emotional issues. Hopefully most people grow out of it!
Im overly empathetic i am too nice and some people find that suspicious.

You should have included an all of the above option. I was bullied in school because I wasn't great at sports, or at least the sports that mattered, I liked different music to that which was popular and still do, I was a bit overweight.

Once I left school I had the pleasure of seeing those who had made my life a misery wrecking theirs, ah schadenfreude what would we do without it.

Being bullied on IIN means you stupidly gave out too much personal information that people can use to hurt you.

They just wanna wreck your china shop

I think a mix of feeling worse and enjoying it, and being sociopaths.

I tend to be more of an asshole to random strangers because I take my depression out on them so that people in my real life don't have to hear it.

i think they just do it to get a reaction out of people because they find it entertaining. Kind of like when someone slips on a banana or something like that. it's pretty pathetic though

Internet trolls are the worst kind of bullies/cowards. They feel superior than someone else because they're behind a computer screen and they have no fear because they think others don't know who they are. Bunch of pussies

it's a symptom of mental issues.. they just have dysfunctional brains and cant help it:c

Unfortunately, some people act like dicks all the time without a reason, it's like.. they were made this way.

My bullies picked on me because I looked different. In highschool someone i thought was a friend came up to me and told me I'm going to hell because of my skin color.
I think a lot of it comes from low self-esteem. The person who told me I was damned to hell was walking with a cane at the time.

I was bullied for about 3 years for absolutely no reason at all. Then years later i realized that the bully was gonna be in my new swimming class... i quickly switched classes but now i no longer go there.

None of the above. It's because we live in a generation of shallow, social media-obsessed idiots who want nothing more than to get invisible validation points. And being pointlessly edgy tends to give you these coolness points.

I would go with a form of "they are too stupid to realize what they are doing", most likely they were bullied too either in school or by their family or by other internet trolls, and so it's become normal to them. a lot of them also think it makes them sound hardcore and tough to be as rude and "edgy" as possible, because deepdown they are very insecure.

It;s hard for many emotionally stunted people to care about what is essentially just text on their screen. Most likely due to being abused in their past they don't quite have the emotional maturity for that deep of empathy.