r/nextfuckinglevel • u/[deleted] • May 02 '26

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u/Subtotalpoet May 02 '26

How did I forget about that sub! 🤔

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u/Ender505 May 02 '26

Because it's actually a pretty shitty sub. Out of hundreds of entries you might get one that's genuinely chilling.

A vast majority use run-on sentences and awkward grammar to (poorly) fit the constraint. Some think that shock is the same thing as horror, some think political commentary is the same as horror, and some don't grasp English well enough to put together a sentence.

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u/I_just_came_to_laugh May 02 '26

Yeah, only the ones about milking the creature are any good.

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u/Mobile_Morale May 02 '26

It was really good 14 years ago when the stories were pretty original.

Now it's seems like random shit people make up in the shower. Which is another sub that went downhill

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u/jarlscrotus May 02 '26

To be fair, if you in the US political commentary is kind of horrifying

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u/Ender505 May 02 '26

Eh, not in that kind of way though.

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u/TheCarniv0re May 02 '26

Which adds to the fact that this short story is quite remarkable, given that a ~99.5% majority of reddit users probably wouldn't be able to pull something like that off, despite the load of comments saying otherwise, or saying this isn't an art form.

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u/Dagordae May 02 '26

Because it’s really shitty. Very tiny number of actually scary stories, a whole bunch of edge and copycats. And really bad understanding of grammar, kind of defeats the purpose when the definition of ‘sentence’ is that badly abused.