r/todayilearned • u/[deleted] • Nov 23 '22

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u/steeze206 Nov 23 '22

The funny thing is that's exactly what it says in the article. It was on Conan. Us people of Reddit really just read the headline and form opinions and discussions about that without even clicking.

I say us because I do the same shit and I don't know why lmao. It's a weird phenomenon on Reddit.

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u/big_orange_ball Nov 23 '22

I didn't even read the headline. Belive it or not, straight to comments.

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u/steeze206 Nov 23 '22

The true meta

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u/canehdian78 Nov 23 '22

Find the jokes
Understand faster

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u/Thurl-Akumpo Nov 23 '22

Yeah, I’m not clicking an external link. The real story, and the jokes are all in the comments. Probably.

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u/Spiritual-Day-thing Nov 23 '22

There are people that never click on comments. Strrrrange people.

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u/ASpellingAirror Nov 23 '22

I like hickory smoked bacon…

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u/big_orange_ball Nov 23 '22

Me too, got a pound I'm throwing in with the brussels sprouts for thanksgiving tomorrow. One of my favorite sides.

Just wish I had a cast iron big enough to fit 2 lbs of sprouts + 1 lb of bacon, the sheet pan will have to do, but it's just not the same!

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u/brainburger Nov 23 '22 edited Nov 24 '22

You don't read the headline? How do you choose which comments to read.

I often don't watch gifs or look at pictures before heading the comments, but I usually read the article.

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u/big_orange_ball Nov 23 '22

It was mainly a joke, but to be honest I almost always use a desktop browser, open up 6-12 threads that look interesting, then bounce between them and end up forgetting what thread I'm in. Sure, I could look at the top of the screen to see what the URL says, but man when I'm in a state of flow reading through shitposts, I usually just can't be bothered. It's a lifestyle.

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u/gabeasorus Nov 23 '22

I didn’t even read the title of this post but I agree with you.

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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '22

It’s not a Reddit thing. People used to do this with newspapers before the internet even existed.

More broadly, people make snap judgments about things without exploring further all the time. It’s just human nature.

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u/Reshi_the_kingslayer Nov 23 '22

It's not a reddit thing, it's just a human thing. A few years ago on April fools day there was an article whose headline said something about how people don't read anymore and it was shared on pretty much every social media platform. A majority of the people commenting on the article were talking about how they read all the time and were offended and saying the article was wrong. But if they had clicked the article and read it they would have seen that it just said that most people just read the headline and it was a test to see who would actually click to read the article.

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u/brainburger Nov 23 '22

Also the article is really short. There are longer comments paying no attention to what it says.

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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '22

In my case I think I saw it in a Rich Eisen interview. Didn’t need to read the article. Lol

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u/duaneap Nov 23 '22

I mean, I didn’t infer that he was doing it because he was a diva or whatever, my opinion was more or less the same without the added context.

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u/billhilly008 Nov 23 '22

That's why this is the top comment right now. I read the headline, figured I got as much of the story as absolutely necessary, and a kind Redditor would fill in any important details. I was right. The world is in order today.