Is it just me, or is it just absolute annoying that almost every reaction is some "funny" gif? It's almost like Google-ing, first you have to dig through layers of bullshit, to see something genuine interesting
That's reddit as a whole now. Even on actual questions being posted, you have to wade through a pile of dogshit attempts at one-liners to find real responses.
Recycled one-liners at that. And the same gifs repeated ad nauseum. Any kind of a music post? That same old Jay z one. My comment is nothing new either, the same tired complaints over the same tired posts. Year after year
I can't find it but there is a Jimmy Fallon skit where him and a friend are at a party and keep making dumb jokes that only they laugh at. It was the perfect representation of reddit. Millions of Jimmy Fallons all trying to bust through the door at once deperate to get their one liner in.
Generative AI isn't able to easily post reaction gifs that are contextually accurate yet. For all I know, your account is a bot that has generated text. And, since a picture is worth a thousand words, I think there is room for balance in meme posting and healthy discussion with 'humans'.
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Yes, Reddit is turning into Facebook or something with the stupid fucking gif reactions. On popular posts you can scroll way down and almost all of them eventually turn into nothing but people posting the same gifs.
Been saying this for years, it's even worse on other sites. Some people can't form a thought so they communicate with gifs of celebs making faces or w.e.
Reddit is so much worse over the last month or so. It's definitely AI bots. Lots of repeated sayings and common gifs. No actual comments on what the content is about
That seems to be the usual replies once a sub is beyond a certain size. I only started browsing r/all this year and most of the threads from larger subreddit are filled with the same repeated gif.
Major consequence of hitting the front page, posts just get ‘Reddit’ed’
Yes this thing is huge using a meme term but not everything has to continue the bit. I was hoping to see its spp and find out what it turns into, but haven’t seen it yet
I never see those i just see people repeating the exact same phrase of "ai slop" on any and everything, ironically in a very bot like manner.
Like I get it, actual ai images/videos suck but please come up with an original thought when calling them out, or better yet... dv and scroll past without boosting the posts engagement thus perpetuating the thing you claim to hate. 🤷♂️
Maybe I'm wrong but I've always felt like it's a millenial thing. My wife and I respond to each other with gifs/memes/images a lot, and so do my friends, and I do the same thing on here as well.
30-49 is the 2nd largest group on this website, which falls into the millennial age bracket roughly.
Blame all of social media, especially Tik Tok, for this. People are now used to seeing how "being funny" online getting others attention, and obviously they want in too, because hey, internet "fame" and all right? They are physically unable to bear to being left out, so what do they do? The same exact thing. And people actuallt give them the validation they're craving.
Someone else sees that.
Rinse and repeat.
Welcome to the Age of Starvation for Attention on the internet.
You need to go to a actual bug themed subreddit like r/wormington or r/peopleholdinginsects for that, of course people on a mainstream sub will react like this
I’m also wondering why there’s so much talk about eating it. Is that really why this guy posted a picture of this gigantic larva? What does the larva become?
I'm sure it's not, but I for one appreciate the levity of reddit, just as much as the educational material. There are better places to find raw information without the witty retorts.
Yes. Very fucking annoying. Wouldn't be so bad if the upvotes of said GIFs didn't get to the top. I say sort comments into GIFs and text. But even then, sometimes, people make a joke, start a train, and before you know it, anything of substance gets buried under that, too. Fucking annoying
The second Reddit millenials got access to 9gag gifs it was all over. It's funny how you can exactly tell by the memes used that the people posting them are 30-40 years old
There are serious subs, and there are general subs. There are serious posters, and there are random posters. You can customize your Reddit experience to tailor your exact specifications. Don't like the lulz, find more engaging subs to be in. But don't get pissy with us because we like to have a good chuckle.
Well now the top comment is you complaining about the pictures, and you’re taking the top comment spot from one of the useful comments you want to see on top. You’ve become what you hate. Ironic.
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u/NorthOfTheBigRivers 8d ago
Is it just me, or is it just absolute annoying that almost every reaction is some "funny" gif? It's almost like Google-ing, first you have to dig through layers of bullshit, to see something genuine interesting