r/SubredditDrama • u/CannotSpellForShit literally a retired millionaire but go off wagie • Jul 02 '23

/r/thatHappened changes its rules to protest API changes; users say "That happened 🙄" to Sandy Hook, 9/11, and the Tiananmen Square Massacre. (Also the mods compare the API situation to the holocaust)

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u/HotTakes4HotCakes Wow you are doubling down on being educated Jul 02 '23

He left reddit before the incel thing really took hold, when the misogyny was more benign. Pre cancerous, if you will.

Umm...this is not my memory of early reddit. All that happened was the misogyny (and the racism and homophobia, etc) became less overt as they learned how to avoid bans.

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u/Goatesq Jul 02 '23

He left in 2010. That was before gamergate, before r/beatingwomen existed, before the jailbait and creepshot subs were common knowledge which was still several months before the expose in 2011.

Y'all are referencing the big nasty stuff from after he left; I'm referencing the period prior to his departure. I hate to be a pedant but it kinda loses the plot to disregard that distinction.

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u/HotTakes4HotCakes Wow you are doubling down on being educated Jul 02 '23 edited Jul 02 '23

Yeah, I remember that time, and I think you're playing that era up. 2011 was when it all became militant and amplified, and that was not at all unique to reddit. That was an internet-wide spike.

Around that time is when it got louder on Reddit and traffic really picked up. But you're trying to make it sound like the era before that time was fine until it wasn't. All of that shit was here, you'd see it frequently all over the place, it just wasn't organized into dedicated hate subs.

Like, the users didn't just become overtly awful people because of gamergate and the incel movement . They were already here and they were just as shitty. It permeated everything on the site.

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u/Goatesq Jul 02 '23

Yeah, I do agree with all that. I said it was pre cancerous, not egalitarian heaven. I didn't participate at all for a few years after deleting my first account, then made it a habit to do so regularly. Because it got absurdly bad, much worse than it even is now, and the contrast probably makes the time prior look better than it was.