A year-long study conducted by the Pew Research Center has confirmed what we’ve known all along: Twitter is a rotten cesspool of smug, cynical douchebags consistently trying to out-mean and one-up each other. Oh, had you not noticed?

Except readers of The Loop. You are all awesome.

Hey, Pew Research: If you want to pay me to spend a year figuring out where the rest of the assholes are on the Internet, drop me a line.