People who wax nostalgic about old Reddit forget that
CW: Racism, pedophilia
its most popular board was r/jailbait, modded by ViolentAcrez, who also modded subs called r/[n-word]jailbait and r/watch[n-words]die. Every time he rightfully drew fire for this, the site rallied to defend him. The Reddit admins gave him a fucking award.
There was also an entirely separate network of subreddits dedicated to hating black people. It was called the Chimpire, because of course it was.
I like to point out how reddit loathed SJWs. That was the prior right wing boogeyman known today as “woke”. They absolutely hated the people who were promoting socially progressive views.
At the peak it was like every single day the site was circle jerking about how much they hated that. People reminisce about really distorted views of reddit like it used to be this cool left leaning platform. Sure if you ignore literally everything about what it was.
ShitRedditSays was extremely hated, everyone on the site was having total meltdowns whenever they would “brigade” by posting a screenshot of some idiot saying something reactionary.
ShitRedditSays was the best subreddit
Yeah, when I was dumb teen I spent time on…ugh… KotakuInAction.
At least it was a step up from hanging out on 4chan’s /b/ in its hey day.
Still wild to me that reddit was too liberal for 4chan.
I distinctly remember despising how fake nice everyone was on reddit when I started using it
Reddit: California
4chan: idk somewhere bad where they also act badIt’s Texas.
4chan: Atomwaffen Meme Battalion
That’s how they’ve shoved the Overton Window so far right the average normie believes reddits brand of conservatism is any where remotely left.
“B-but a gay replied to me one reddit! That means it’s left leaning!” Makes my eyes roll out of my skull.
too liberal for 4chan
*not reactionary enough for 4chan
4chan ruined my mental health and Reddit just helped keep it ruined. Getting banned from Reddit was the best thing that ever happened to me. Then I got rid of Twitter, I was off Facebook the moment they got rid of their original UI after they opened the website to everyone. One day I will permanently log off to become one with the grass, but not today.
Can you tell a bit more about how 4chan fucked you up?
Generally I think it revolves around the normalization of really hateful thinking, both outside and within.
I never got too deep into it, and once /pol/ got overrun with literal Nazis I knew it was over, and it’s when I started distancing myself from it. Reddit was nominally better, and it took me from being this center right a-hole to at least a RadLib.
I always had an interest in Communism, but it was more “Tankie Aesthetic cool!” Than it was about “We must implement communism as it is the only way to save the world.”
Since no one ever was able to convince me that the USSR killed 6942002496 people a second, it and the awesomeness of Chapo Trap House eventually got me to where I am now: The only True Leftist.
Since no one ever was able to convince me that the USSR killed 6942002496 people a second
TBH there is a bit of a gap in the fossil record or crockoduck or Non-sequitur there if you think about it.
There are 2 easily verifiable facts.
A. Lenin and Stalin had some ideological beliefs we can loosely refer to with words like Marxism, Socialism, etc…
B. Some people died in the USSR.
Now a normal person may presume something like correlation does not imply causation. And normal people remember in Math class where if you didn’t show your work, you get a zero.
But Liberals have this neat trick where they present this information as verified proven causation, BUT NEVER FUCKING DRAW A LINE FROM A → B. Everything that pretends to is a bunch of obvious baloney.
I feel like we need a formal term for this general concept.
Yeah, Reddit has always been godawful and it will continue to be godawful
also the main power poster on the site was ghislaine maxwell larping as a malaysian man
Wtf I’ma need a source for that
For years and years the user MaxwellHill was a power poster and powermod on hundreds of subs including most of the default ones. They went quiet the same day Ghislaine Maxwell went to prison
They went quiet the same day Ghislaine Maxwell went to prison
*got arrested
The account was /u/MaxwellHill, which had moderator privileges on several subs, including some defaults (WorldNews).
https://old.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/hnrkp3/ghislaine_maxwells_reddit_account_i_posted_about/Was… Is reddit just a front for pedophiles? I know r/spez modded u/jailbait but this doesn’t seem like a coincidence anymore…
At the very least it has intelligence agency connections, look into Jessica Ashoosh who is the director of policy at reddit. She has the Atlantic Council and US Council on Foreign Relations on her rap sheet.
the account maxwellhill was the top poster on reddit for years, and posted loads of news articles and stuff (but never posted a single article about anything related to epstein which is a bit weird considering that itd fit in completely with what they normally posted), also happened to be active in subs that aligned with ghislaine’s interests like r/environmentalism and had a track record of debating different age of consent laws from state to state. the user mentioned once that their birthday was in December after the 21st, and Ghislaine Maxwell’s birthday just so happens to be the 25th of December. There’s also a few points of inactivity on the usually very active account that happen to line up with deaths of ghislaine’s family members. additionally the account posted an article a few days before ghislaine was arrested and then just stopped entirely and to this day hasn’t had any other activity on the site. another thing is that maxwellhill seems to be a combination of her last name and childhood home Headington Hill Mansion.
It’s all sort of circumstantial evidence and couldnt be proven in court or anything and i doubt there’ll ever be any sort of smoking gun but imo the account was probably hers.
there’s also this article written by maxwellhill from 2011 that i find funny bcs it includes the line “maxwellhill could be anyone” in the introduction
supposedly one of the reddit mods dmed maxwellhill after this was first being discussed and the user said that they’re actually a malaysian man but the only evidence of this is the reddit mods claim that it happened
meanwhile 4klanners pretend reddit is some kind of bastion of woke-ism
The narwhal bacons at hate crime
The Internet was always reactionary like this. I think people who are nostalgic for a more innocent internet must have been children in 2007 or something.
A floppy disk and CD for breasts
So I get that these computers need to be super-female because the singer is a woman but did they have to make them wave around?
Probably best not to dig too deeply into it, otherwise we’d have to ask ourselves why the anthropomorphized floppy case has a collection of these “breasts” it stores in its mouth
Actual Reddit in 2007: Nword subreddit, jailbait, killnwords, etcetc.
Did subreddits even exist in 2007? Or am I thinking about comments?
before the ShitRedditSays boogeyman came into being it really was awful. I mean it was still awful after that (that subreddit was the entire reason anti-brigading rules were added, to protect racists from being confronted directly). but at least once SRS came into being you could feel a bit more sane with like-minded people.
Idk Reddit seems a lot more pro-lgbt than it did in the early years. If anything they use it even more nowadays to justify US imperialism.
If anything they use it even more nowadays to justify US imperialism
The moment this fails to be used as a cudgel for imperialism, they’ll probably revert to homophobic mode much like the west would in such a case
it is reverting big time
It was always like this, even before reddit. I was there Gandalf, 3000 years ago, when Alt.wesley.crusher.die.die.die was made.
alt.sweedish.chef.bork.bork.bork.bork stays winning
Also, the 2024 post is most likely by a bot seeking to farm user interaction and trained on posts that got the most responses. If property destruction bothers you, that’s just another way to get your engagement and profit from your attention.
My reddit account is 14 years old, I used to post about Linux and coffee and now all I use it for is looking at Goro Majima shit posts
i’m not gonna sugarcoat it
now this really negates my damage
bacon-ing no longer on the narwhal’s schedule.
