We spend a lot of time shitting on it for being a reactionary shithole, and rightfully so. But even the "good" parts of the site are almost unusable.

The constant streams of identical comments are so god damn stupid. They're not just horny, they only need "sauce" "for science". Remember when GLADOS said that in Portal 2? Good, because you will never ever fucking forget!

How many kind strangers can be thanked for gold? How many happy cake days can be experienced? How horny can /r/askreddit users be? How many songs can be typed out one word per comment, ending in a stupid pun or piece of wordplay? How many interesting topics of discussion can be immediately derailed by some turbo-🤓 being a pedantic piece of shit?

Did you know that correlation never means causation, ever? Did you know that homeless people are vermin? Did you know that China is bad?

Most mystifying to me are the useless subreddits. /r/chargeyourphone, unexpectedoffice, unexpectedthanos, uselessredcircle, and on and on and on. Like chargeyourphone. The entire goal of that subreddit is to archive screenshots that other people have posted- and in the screenshot you can see low battery percentages. Sixty seven thousand human beings (many of whom have attained at least a modern, partial education) made the active decision to regularly see examples. And actively proselytize by simply commenting "/r/chargeyourphone" when users post such screenshots elsewhere. Fucking why? Why do 163,000 people actively subscribe to a subreddit dedicated to pointing out that a reference to The Office (one of the most popular shows in American history) is made somewhere on Reddit? Is it that surprising? Commenting "/r/unexpectedoffice" under a banal comment referencing the show is the exact equivalent of someone butting in to scream "that's an Office reference" during a bland conversation.

Reddit is fucking stupid.

  • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    lots of people go to college and come out dumber than a bag of rocks especially people who studied political science as they seem to be studying to get jobs as HR people and other assorted PMC ghouls

    • AFineWayToDie [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Also anyone who goes to business school only sees college as a means of earning money, and only got good grades in high school by kissing up to teachers. They are not particularly good at anything or interested in anything.

      • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        it's the I'm going to college because it's the done thing but have no interest in learning about anything option