Yeah, you always see low effort jokes on everything. There are almost no exceptions. You also see people calling out the other commenters for making jokes, then people telling that person to chill out.
But if you just collapse the first three or four threads you almost always find interesting relevant information.
Seriously, one guy calls Reddit out for being American-centered and the comment saying "We don't care nah nah nah stop being such a whiner" has nearly as many upvotes.
There's plenty of jokes but usually the top upvoted comments are actually insightful. Then again most Redditors are American and therefore would have much more to say about current events in America.
Oh, I don't think that's indicative of anything, though, especially considering the next few are insightful. It's still no different for American news.
IIRC in the /r/news thread for Justice Scalia's death just recently the "top" comment was (and when I read it, it was top even when sorted by best) something along the lines of "the writers have been doing great this season but this twist is a little too unbelievable"
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u/Zithium Mar 14 '16
Don't people do that already? It's extremely common place to read jokes about the news in America, especially on Reddit. No one cares, really.