File this one under “comedy??”

First off, none of this is safe for work in any way—if you scroll down, you will be reading some language. Second off, if you worship Dan Harmon, creator of Community and Rick and Morty, you might want to stop here, because even your fellow Harmon-worshippersthink it makes him look really small.

The story here is that Harmon was on a plane yesterday, possibly drunk, and someone insulted him on Twitter. This happens to famous people all the time. It even happens to non-famous people all the time. Twitter is essentially a cauldron of self-promotion, links, and insults, and there is no escape. Dan Harmon has surely been insulted on Twitter before—it’s part of the shitty bargain. This time, though, something snapped, and he caved to a dark desire to “inflict genuine pain.”

Unfortunately, his nemesis has protected all his/her tweets, so we can’t see the original spark, but Harmon’s responses tell us plenty all by themselves.

(UPDATE: From the comments, here’s the unforgivable, incendiary tweet that set Harmon off: “Uhhh ok? I guess you’re drunker than expected. That’s ok. But this isn’t that great of an idea?”)

Here’s a sampling:

So, I've grown a lot from therapy but this person has caught me during a craving to inflict genuine pain. https://t.co/oyQFon9Cvl — Dan Harmon (@danharmon) October 20, 2015

This is a person so limited that they think that any attention, even negative, is, somehow, "better than nothing." https://t.co/oyQFon9Cvl — Dan Harmon (@danharmon) October 20, 2015

The only reason I can't literally bet my life on this person's inferiority is because no house would cover it. https://t.co/oyQFon9Cvl — Dan Harmon (@danharmon) October 20, 2015

this person will never do anything that will make anyone happy. This person is stealing time from us, and from God. https://t.co/oyQFon9Cvl — Dan Harmon (@danharmon) October 20, 2015

It's not unreasonable to speculate that me tweeting about this person is the peak of their life, and I'M GARBAGE https://t.co/oyQFon9Cvl — Dan Harmon (@danharmon) October 20, 2015

The only reason this person's mother isn't existentially ashamed of herself is because she's at least half as stupid https://t.co/oyQFon9Cvl — Dan Harmon (@danharmon) October 20, 2015

This person is an agent of decay. I'm not being hyperbolic. I don't have to be. This is a genuinely bad person. https://t.co/oyQFon9Cvl — Dan Harmon (@danharmon) October 20, 2015

This is a person so fucking… hold on my appetizer is here. one second. https://t.co/oyQFon9Cvl — Dan Harmon (@danharmon) October 20, 2015

This is a fear that only a piece of shit would have https://t.co/BWZsfA6YyL — Dan Harmon (@danharmon) October 20, 2015

Where's the other guy? Where's the unremarkable shit face I cared about before my bread came. His blocking will be legendary. — Dan Harmon (@danharmon) October 20, 2015

I can't even remember his username or picture. He can't even accomplish minimal memorability with the open ended license anonymity affords — Dan Harmon (@danharmon) October 20, 2015

Imagine being so fundamentally indistinct that a bored stranger's drunken abuse of you has more "branding" than your whole effort at a life. — Dan Harmon (@danharmon) October 20, 2015

It goes on from there, and you can revisit the whole debacle at Harmon's Twitter feed. The interesting thing here is that his victim's Twitter handle was “Bird Person,” which is a Rick and Morty character, so he's at least nominally a Harmon fan.

The gist of Harmon's insults, as you see above (and which went on interminably), is that because he's famous, the hatred he piles on this Twitter user will be the most attention said Twitter user ever gets—i.e. the highlight of his life. This, of course, is based on the fundamentally Hollywood-American belief that a human being's value derives chiefly from whatever fame he's able to muster in this life. That seems to the milieu Harmon is most comfortable inhabiting…for better or worse. (Hint: Worse.)

There are also a few self-aggrandizing threats, such as:

But you have no idea what I could do to you the day I took forty seconds to create one anonymous account. https://t.co/4FvboI7EqS — Dan Harmon (@danharmon) October 20, 2015

Followed by a re-iteration of the idea that the worst thing a human being can be is “not famous”:

You have done nothing. And you have done it for nothing. You've done it invisibly. In SPITE of your every effort. https://t.co/4FvboI7EqS — Dan Harmon (@danharmon) October 20, 2015

I won't see your responses, and will forget you. You'll merge with the plaster and will never have been born https://t.co/4FvboI7EqS — Dan Harmon (@danharmon) October 20, 2015

Followed by a return to generic insults:

You embody human failure. WAY TOO MUCH societal energy is focused on compensating for the phenomenon you represent. https://t.co/4FvboI7EqS — Dan Harmon (@danharmon) October 20, 2015

Followed by insulting other Twitter users who took him to task:

Worth looking into! Counter-pitch: your parents might have stayed together if they hadn't had you. #Harmonblock2015https://t.co/bV4hK0ZZSB — Dan Harmon (@danharmon) October 20, 2015

And so on. Late last night, now sober, he took stock:

Slightly sober now, re-reading my "meltdown." Not feeling remorse, which is..scary. I do think it's important I make an effort to be nice. — Dan Harmon (@danharmon) October 21, 2015

So…what the hell just happened? Obviously we witnessed an incredible explosion of insecurity, narcissism, and anger from a man who is both creatively talented and insanely thin-skinned. More than anything, my takeaway is that Dan Harmon is deeply unhappy. I love a good trolling, but this flew beyond that category within like, three tweets. Hopefully this is a passing moment of counterproductive chest-thumping for Harmon, and not the start of an emotional breakdown that ends with him smashing into walls in an asylum.