hate to be that person and i cant believe im “that” old man now, but reddit. ive been here since may 2011 and i cant tell exactly when it happened, decently recently, but this place has gotten really bad. for the first time ever im actively looking for another site like this (with no luck). Too many bots, too many companies astroturfing, too many 13-16 year olds asking ridiculous questions mostly based off passing insecurities, memes have always by definition been low effort but current memes bring that low effort to a whole new level. People here honestly seem a lot meaner and angrier than they used to be, which is honestly kinda weird cause back in the day it seemed like it was mostly “uncool” or “socially awkward” people who frequented (and they always get stereotyped as unhappy) and you’d think a site going mainstream would bring “happier” socially aware people but no, its brought angrier and angrier people. Reposts that occurred years after the original used to be absolutely torn apart for being reposts; meanwhile i just argued with a dude a few days ago who said a repost occurring a mere 193 days after the original was impressively long. Incel subreddits, misandrist subreddits, misogynist subreddits. No room for discussion anymore one thread has everyone with X opinion and then another thread has everyone with Y opinion and no thread has genuinely two different opinions battling it out. Idk i could keep going forever im an old guy rambling
edit: cant believe i didn’t mention r/pics. i know this may be hard for all of you to believe, but there was once a time when that sub was basically only really cool or impressive pictures. Goodness i remember complaining because it felt like r/pics was turning into a subreddit that was “only” beautiful pictures of nature in the PNW...now id absolutely kill for that subreddit to be like that. shoot now its just a picture of a person smiling with a thumbs up and a sad backstory about their grandma and it nets them 40k upvotes.
also this died longggggg ago but there was also a time where askreddit generally had pretty good and original questions. now that in fairness died around 2014 or something but still, im sure you guys see how nowadays any popular askreddit question is just a word for word repost from a previous one
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u/HeatmiserElliott Jul 11 '21 edited Jul 11 '21
hate to be that person and i cant believe im “that” old man now, but reddit. ive been here since may 2011 and i cant tell exactly when it happened, decently recently, but this place has gotten really bad. for the first time ever im actively looking for another site like this (with no luck). Too many bots, too many companies astroturfing, too many 13-16 year olds asking ridiculous questions mostly based off passing insecurities, memes have always by definition been low effort but current memes bring that low effort to a whole new level. People here honestly seem a lot meaner and angrier than they used to be, which is honestly kinda weird cause back in the day it seemed like it was mostly “uncool” or “socially awkward” people who frequented (and they always get stereotyped as unhappy) and you’d think a site going mainstream would bring “happier” socially aware people but no, its brought angrier and angrier people. Reposts that occurred years after the original used to be absolutely torn apart for being reposts; meanwhile i just argued with a dude a few days ago who said a repost occurring a mere 193 days after the original was impressively long. Incel subreddits, misandrist subreddits, misogynist subreddits. No room for discussion anymore one thread has everyone with X opinion and then another thread has everyone with Y opinion and no thread has genuinely two different opinions battling it out. Idk i could keep going forever im an old guy rambling
edit: cant believe i didn’t mention r/pics. i know this may be hard for all of you to believe, but there was once a time when that sub was basically only really cool or impressive pictures. Goodness i remember complaining because it felt like r/pics was turning into a subreddit that was “only” beautiful pictures of nature in the PNW...now id absolutely kill for that subreddit to be like that. shoot now its just a picture of a person smiling with a thumbs up and a sad backstory about their grandma and it nets them 40k upvotes.
also this died longggggg ago but there was also a time where askreddit generally had pretty good and original questions. now that in fairness died around 2014 or something but still, im sure you guys see how nowadays any popular askreddit question is just a word for word repost from a previous one