• LeninsRage [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Remember when /r/atheism as a default was the most insufferable part of reddit?

    That was around when SRS was everyone's bogeyman too

    a simpler time

        • Phish [he/him, any]
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          4 years ago

          There was a while when people had these copy/paste lists of the most common reddit sayings (shit like 'you have win the internet today'). When somebody said one of those sayings, they'd reply with the list as if to say 'you're being boring and uncreative and I'm calling you out'. Then eventually people started calling those people out for being repetitive and uncreative by posting the list.

          Self aware reddit is the fucking worst. It's almost never about anything but users feeling ownership over their experience on the website despite interacting with thousands of other people at once. I honestly think it has nurtured a hatred in the minds of extremely online people and contributed to things like gamergate.

        • disco [any]
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          4 years ago

          This is a good take, and I think it’s proven correct by the fact that SRS is a completely dead subreddit now, despite fighting racism /sexism online being every bit as important now as it was back when it was popular.

          Their daily chat threads get at most 1 post that isn’t from the auto mod these days.

          I wonder what happened / where their users migrated to. Are they all posting in /r/neoliberal/ now?