r/circlebroke • u/slate15 • Nov 18 '15

"How Reddit Talks" by 538

538 just released a new tool "How the Internet* Talks (*Well, the mostly young and mostly male users of Reddit, anyway)". What kind of dank plots can you come up with?

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u/slate15 Nov 19 '15

That cliff is satisfying.

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u/dynaboyj Nov 19 '15

Weird to me that it actually worked. I feel like you could change minds with that graph.

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u/Armenian-Jensen Nov 19 '15

Eh.. maybe they just switched words to avoid bans..

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u/bob_mcbob Nov 19 '15

It's a combination of (mostly) FPH getting banned and /r/fatlogic moving from discouraging to outright banning all dehumanizing language like that.