I just checked it for the first time in ages and we've got:
- /r/WinStupidPrizes
- /r/Cringetopia
- /r/JusticeServed
- /r/IdiotsInCars
- /r/facepalm
- /r/PublicFreakout
- /r/TIHI (Thanks I Hate It)
- Some guy celebrating his divorce with a selfie featuring his miserable looking ex wife
- And of course some gaming stuff
At what point did Reddit become so obsessed with finding people to recreationally get mad at? It's like a majority of the front page content. Terrible vibes.
At what point did Reddit become so obsessed with finding people to recreationally get mad at?
Wait until you hear about this website called Hexbear
There are a lot of posts in the dunk tank, that are just reddit or twitter screenshots of people noone (who isn't obsessivly online) ever heard of just so you can get mad by looking at them.
All of them should be replaced by in depth theory posts.
Or twitter. Or facebook. This is what the internet is now. Can't believe this shit used to be fun.
The divorce pic is of a navy guy, whose wife cheated on him while he was away for one month.
So the meme lives on mashallah
The algorithm is starting to fits itself into reddit's target demographic: perpetually angry chuds
After fatpeoplehate came tumblrinaction and all the "inaction" subreddits.
The hate subs grew from there.
/r/againsthatesubreddits doesn't focus on any of them though, because it is an entirely neoliberal project that just seeks to run a large subreddit that they can weaponise for political ends.
I always think it's funny that againsthatesubreddits is literally a hate subreddit. I don't mind hating the right people. The irony is just funny, in a holier than thou kind of way. Fucking libs, just say you hate chuds lmao.
Are those intended to be "inaction" or "in action?" I never really spent enough time on subs like that to understand what they were for.
Reddit was a lot different when it first launched but this has been the norm for the past few years.
At what point did Reddit become so obsessed with finding people to recreationally get mad at?
It was worse about this before, lol. It used to mostly be cringe "SJWs", and other similar right-wing coded ragebait, with the occasional robber getting murdered video or story from /r/justiceserved
I found it extremely disturbing one thread where everyone was fantasizing about what it must've been like for the robber to bleed out. Literally using their empathy muscles to imagine someone's last moments of suffering. Fuck that place.
justice served is a good demonstration of the evil that people that imagine themself right can do , fantasis about..
2016 reddit and its constant front page "rapefugee" threads was worse
laughably relevant
did they accidentally tell the truth or is that a mistranscription
man who autographed Bibles for his supporters
That's really fucking funny :michael-laugh:
All social media trends towards the automation of serving outrage content, as it increases engagement.
It used to be shit in different ways. the bacon narwhal jonathan coulton my gf made me a zelda cake nerds turned into fucking psychos
They've gone full web 2.0 since getting a grip of vc cash in 2016(?). Nothing drives engagement like outrage
It's when we got banned
Like literally 2 weeks later it went from chud undercurrent to chud overcurrent
I mean, that was all after the constant, unending Trump posts being botted to the front page,
Best part is half the posts on r/idiotsincars, the person with the dashcam shares some of the blame as well. Like the one today, the person was speeding in the rain with their headlights off, and had the reaction time of a snail. No attempt to avoid the accident.
It's like the logical conclusion of the ad fueled dream of the automobile in that it's an entire subreddit of various people fucking up in cars in an enviroment with literally anyone else there (sometimes not even that) and thinking this'd all be solved if all those other schmucks either start driving more gooder or alternatively just never go anywhere unlike me, the main character of the road
EDIT: I just checked and I swear to god about half of the videos where it's the driver with the cam hitting someone you can absolutely tell this might go bad and none of them reduce their speed at all. Just pure trust in the right of way and their big metal cages. We have made cars way too safe for the people in them.
The way some people talk about car accidents you'd think the only risk is needing to drive a rental and your premium going up. Like they can kill/disable you so fuckin easily
So many people absolutely think this. I know way too many people who when I was a passenger and told them to slow down because there's often kids playing in this particular street / cyclists coming or whatever their response is "It's not my fault if I hit them, they shouldn't be in the road."
Which isn't even legally correct, but besides that, is absolutely fucking psychotic. I used to wonder about cultures that do human sacrifices when I was younger, now I don't anymore.
A lot of the "human sacrifices" the indigenous Americans were said to do were Spanish propaganda
I was thinking more weird northern german folklore about burying children alife in the dykes so they hold which I also don't know if it's historically accurate
They've got some weird Albanian folklore about that, too. Might even be the origin of the German folklore - the Serbian version of the story was the one that made it to Jacob Grimm. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rozafa_Castle#Legend
As much as I hate having to drive, I hate being a passenger more. So many people drive like they think nothing bad could ever happen to them and/or become complete psychopaths who hate everyone else on the road.
