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.

  • charly4994 [she/her, comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    I went to a college in the early 2010s that heavily marketed itself towards techbro types and these types of people were there acting like this in real life. Watch the Nostalgia Critic's latest video? Let's just constantly shout out lines from the video 10 times a conversation. Strike up a conversation with someone at an event? They'll be nasty pedants to your face and demand pics or it didn't happen to anything you say. The Reddit personality was on full display back then, though most of them used 4chan and Reddit had yet to really take off like it has today so the person that got me to check it out was probably one of the most well adjusted people at the place and he liked places like /r/gaymers. In general the gay-straight alliance probably had some of the nicest people at the place with the least reddit-brained members, though I"m pretty sure we were all still very :LIB: