i’ll start. i saw a ask reddit post saying something along the lines of “men of reddit whats something women can’t understand” and the comments were just. oh my god. the main one that made me want to puke was “when dudes walk by each other and nod” and the whole fucking thread was just fedoras with arms soypogging like it was some secret language or something. “when you nod upwards, it means respect!!!1!!11 when you nod downwards its aggression!!!1!11!!!” as if women dont do the same shit.
do you guys have something similar to share?
I know everyone here is talking about how they’re all racist turbo reactionaries. That’s true but what does it for me is when they’ll type out song lyrics to one another, line by line, like they’re doing karaoke by mail. Not even obscure songs. There are probably at least five comment threads per day repeating the lyrics of Bohemian Rhapsody. Yes reddit I’ve seen Wayne’s World
That’s probably what I hate most about reddit. It’s how they valorize very well known things but act like they’re part of a special club for enjoying it. They will make posts like “Heh, bet none of you will recognize this ancient, forgotten gem of a game: Sonic Adventure 2!” and then they’ll all pile in to mention they also remember Sonic Adventure 2 and someone will do a comment thread doing the Live and Learn song one sentence at a time. And they do this every single day clapping like seals at seaworld
I fucking hate this shit. If you’re looking for any good information anywhere on
, you have to wade through ten pages of people making the same joke back and forth but worse every time, or quoting Super Troopers, or song lyrics, or “I also choose this guy’s wife” bullshit. It’s on every fucking thread, it’s always the top comment(s), and it’s always the same.And my axe!
Edit: thanks for the gold, kind stranger!
I also wish for this guys axe
Mama just took an axe, put a “this is the way” against his head, pulled my kind stranger and now he’s dead
And it’s been like that for the last ten years.
How do they not get tired of going onto reddit and making the same Office and Ron Swanson references for over a decade?
(Meanwhile I’m still quoting Metal Gear games from 20 years ago but those are actually good)
That’s probably what I hate most about reddit. It’s how they valorize very well known things but act like they’re part of a special club for enjoying it.
Reddit is Facebook for Millennials
this but at the same time they never follow “this is the way” with “step inside” they just keep saying “this is the way.” and if you say “step inside” you get downvoted. Uncultured swine I tell you.
“this is the way” is an instant downvote from me.
I fucking HATE Star wars and what it’s done to our culture. Yes, I’m aware the OG star wars was a Vietnam allegory and is cool and good. Still don’t care.
after four decades as a creatively bankrupt corpse being squeezed for profit the Star Wars universe is anathema to me, I hate it all so much I still haven’t managed to bring myself to watch Andor which by all accounts is excellent
Part of it is they keep bringing back mark Hammel and Harrison Ford to mug into the camera like some marvel movie. I can’t stand nostalgia bait. I’m so tired of the same three franchises shambling back into the theaters like a zombie and everyone seal claps. People can like what they want, but I will silently judge you for living star wars, marvel and all the John wick clones.
The Mandalorian was a good show, but it is a little weird that people valorize the culty and strange part of the show and not the cool or heartwarming parts.
I always thought that was a reference to the Ugandan knuckles meme. Started popping up around that time.
I’m gonna be honest, as an autistic transfem the “bro nod” shit really fucks with me because I’m like “am I demonstrating my ｍａｌｅ ｓｏｃｉａｌｉｚａｔｉｏｎ right now or is this normal”
New type of dysphoria unlocked
I’ve decided to just own it, I don’t even care anymore. I nod at the dudes and wave to the gals.
I did not know before today that directional nods have different meanings; I have been acting hyperaggressive on the sly towards dudes for years. Their masculinity in shambles.
nah reddit just has no idea what they’re talking about. A downward nod is like respect and acknowledgement of the other person, usually towards a stranger. Upward nod is friendlier, usually towards a friend. Downward nod is also friendly, it’s just a bit more aloof, like there’s more separation between the two people. An upward nod conveys a sense of closeness.
MANY CONFLICTING DEFINITIONS OF THE DUDE NOD
I have now concluded from the Brotherhood of Nod that dudes, in fact, do not rock. Not if this is the kind of bs they engage in :)
Upward nod can also be aggressive. There’s no significance in the direction of a nod, there’s no way to do nod-phrenology
This is revisionism
Look if you’ve never gotten the “would you like to engage in fisticuffs”-nod, then you are not allowed to speak on nodologics
Directional nods do not have different meanings, redditors are the kind of people that watch a movie and take it as gospel. The nod-talk is probably from something like “office space” and now they just believe it
What is a bro nod?
Basically it’s the idea that men greet people (particularly other men) with a slight nod. This is often expanded into an idea of a sort of “nod language” particular to men, where an upwards vs downwards vs left vs right nod have different meanings.
Oh yeah I do that all the time 😂 never really thought about it
there’s something about the internet that encourages people to catalog and obsess over tiny social cues
Everybody nods, redditors do this weird thing where they make a universal thing a male thing, because they don’t know any women.
I’ll never forget the time I commented on a thread in /r/BreadTube saying simply that Abraham Lincoln was a liberal, and it quickly became my most downvoted comment of all time. There was a response that had like 300 updoots simply saying “nuclear level take” and shortly after I was banned from /r/BreadTube. To this day I still don’t know what those people think Lincoln’s ideology was.
Abraham Lincoln was a liberal
he still is a lib
Was… because he’s dead
The spirit of Honest Abe is very dissatisfied with you
Breadtube got pushed on me on October 8th. Dear fuck…
One libertarian calling another one a tankie because he wasn’t opposed to a tax on doordash.
This was a couple years ago before tankie was being used by everyone.
Everything on r/chapotraphouse
I’ve never seen so many liberals in one place in my life.
Fellas, is it gay to wave hello?
Yes, the only way for heterosexual men to greet each other is to say “Good evenin” the way Levon Helm does at the start of The Last Waltz.
“Howdy” just hasn’t been the same since Brokeback Mountain
Fraternal kiss is the only non-gay way to say hello
There’s a legendary post of a kid talking shit in a thread using the most egregious “As a black MAN” voice and saying racist shit, until someone looked thru his comment history and found an old post of him at prom
Literally a red-headed, baby faced cracker in a Tuxedo with red chipmunk cheeks and the goofiest freshman hair cut, it blew up and even the racist subs were making fun of him, it was around 2017-2018
Makes me think of the kid that doubled down on not going down on a woman because “squirt is just piss and I ain’t getting piss all over my face”
Then they had to create /r/shittyfemaleanatomy just to pick on losers like him
Was that the r/hiphopheads one? There was apparently a power user on that sub who one day did a face reveal and was just the dorkiest looking white child in existence. Made some people leave the sub as far as I can recall
There was something similar at where a kid was talking Black and then he posted him and his girlfriend in HIPHOPHEADS
Ther was also one where a guy would say stuff like “the streets fuck with Tekashi 69” and then it turned out he was a dancer nerdy looking white guy who was in a Taylor Swift music video.
The uncomfortable TRUTH of Reddit's cringiness, bigotry, and chudiness. This list contains mentions of transphobia, racism, and right-wing politics.
- The excess of sexual content, especially a lot of the same unoriginal, horny shit being posted over and over again.
- Libshits treating Biden and other liberal hack politicans as martyrs constantly and constantly.
- Typical Redditisms like “updoots to the left” (I guess this one became a shit ton more ironic as time went on, but you get what I mean.)
- Racism. Just flat out racism. And also AITAs that needlessly bring in identity on top of that. It’s so fucking common for posts to say shit like “AITA for yelling at my black friend because I thought he stole my wallet?” or “AITA because I’m uncomfortable around my trans sister who is a staunch ethical vegan?”. These are literally just enabling bigotry by aiming to use identity to ignite an association of negative traits.
- The tendency for conservatives on Reddit to make their ideology sound innocent by saying “stop oppressing me for simply wanting small government and low taxes!”. People would enable this victim complex shit A LOT!
- Even seemingly positive and leftist communities letting really awful rhetoric slip by, often times when it’s against the rules. Like how many transmedicalists could sneak into r/asktransgender and get away with it, even though mods are saying “It’s completely against the rules to promote transmedicalism here!”. Yeah right!
- Posting very uninteresting and boring things and trying to pass them off as interesting or noteworthy, like that fucker who posted something like him writing January 1, 2017 when it was actually January 1, 2018. sO RElAtABLe AMiritE 🤣🤣🤣🤣
- Treating mainstream and popular content like it’s some hidden, underground shit.
“Have you guys heard this album called “In the Aeroplane Over the Sea”!? Heh, probably not. You all got shitty, immature taste and like POP and cRAP. As you can see, I only listen to REAL music.”
- Misinformation on top of misinformation on top of misinformation on top of misinformation.
- The smugness. The pretentious aspect of these basement dwelling no-lifes. They’re so unaware of how fucking lame they are that the true cringe will always be in them thinking that all of those aforementioned examples make them "kewl and “edge”. I’m hoping for as many of them as possible to grow out of it one day.
Fuck Reddit. I could list more obviously, but I decided to cap it at 10 points just to not go too crazy in length on how much I despise that toilet of a site.
One that irked me today is Redditors learning something for the first time in one thread, then bringing it up in another thread shortly after like they’ve always been an expert.
The worst is when this happens in real life. It’s a coworkers delight to bring up some bullshit you just know they saw on the front page like it’s hidden history.
I had a friend that did this in real life all the time.
I remember when we lived together, I used to be really into Beavis and Butthead (for example) and he always made fun of me, until one day, he sat and watched a couple with me, and the next day he wasa super fan and an expert on Beavis and Butthead, and all things Mike judge.
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Why the fuck do people like that album so much? It’s the most boring ass music I ever heard, generic acoustic guitar, and a terrible singer. I guess I’m too much of a pleb to understand it.
The warmth and crunchyness of the production is nice to my ears. I like the horns. The weird imagery in the lyrics hits a vibe with me and although I can see why not everyone would like his voice I don’t think you can say he’s a terrible singer , he’s belting that shit out for some long stretches that are pretty impressive to me. I also will always like a theramin. I think their first album on Avery Island is what I go back to more though and more people should check that one out .
I love prog rock, indie, and artsy stuff, and at best, I find it “meh”.
Here’s some low-hanging fruit I can’t believe hasn’t been mentioned yet: /r/unpopularopinion which is just a soapbox for reactionary hot takes. Speaking of, /r/PoliticalCompassMemes being full of open Nazis
Nuh uh! They’re not all Nazis, that redditor with the username /u/KillTheBlacks1488 has a “lib-left” flair! Why do you hate free speech and the marketplace of ideas?They have every stripe of political opinion from nazis, to nazis pretending to be liberals, to nazis pretending to be socialists.
You forgot Nazis that think they’re liberals, liberals that think they’re leftists and liberals that think they’re not fascists
“I’m not a Nazi” - Some Nazi, usually
I was going to make the “My ‘I’m not a Nazi’ T-shirt” joke, but it’d be more accurate if the shirt said “I’m a Nazi” and everyone around them were making up reasons for why calling them a Nazi is bad.
It’s almost come around to the point of being humorous to see what r/PCM thinks are left wing opinions ag this point.
It’s an actual mental exercise to try to figure out why they are saying we’re all so mad about certain things.
An entire subreddit of “I made myself the Chad and you the wojack making me the victor”
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“We don’t have to make America great again because newsflash, America has always been great! Hey why are a bunch of minorities calling me an idiot obviously because their culture promotes violence as a response to rational arguments.”
Thanking an SS grandpa for his service.
Whenever any thread is full of shitty puns and jokes and I need to scroll for 20 min before finding someone to explain the context of a post
It made me hate queen. I already wasn’t a huge fan, but all the walking fedoras commenting nonstop queen lyrics chains really left a bad taste in my mouth, and now I can’t deal with hearing queen, or any arena rock
“Upvote [thing] so [thing] is first result when people search [thing] on google images” was always just the most dog-brained posts to me.
Apart from that? Yeah the dumbass posts about what women don’t understand that are just regurgitating popular culture “Oh sometimes we just don’t think, we’re just so simple and straightforward, we’re really horny” just the least curious introspective shit.
The dumbass chains of stale puns with thousands of upvotes.
The absolute debatelord energy.
The “oh I guess the CCP BOTS ARE OUT TODAY” posts.
The absolute lack of curiosity that oozes from most posts on that site.
Every subreddit for a popular culture thing is just full of people being horny for the characters and any attempt at deeper discourse is actively looked down upon.
Civility fetishism by smug assholes. Same thing lemmylibs do - Show up and say something horrendous or incredibly condescending, but because you didn’t use a mean word, then that means you’re not actually being shitty. Also linked to lack of curiosity.
The “oh I guess the CCP BOTS ARE OUT TODAY” posts.
“-10000000 SOCIAL CREDIT POINTS” posts are totally smart and funny though and you definitely prove something by making them
“Upvote [thing] so [thing] is first result when people search [thing] on google images” was always just the most dog-brained posts to me.
The “oh I guess the CCP BOTS ARE OUT TODAY” posts.
The cringiest thing was the synthesis of these where people would try to upvote pictures of Tank Man to the front page, because Tencent owns something like 10% of
, so the Chinese would be totally owned, I guess.
Every single AITA post ever posted. Beyond absolute shit.
Imagine turning to Reddit for life advice…
I’d rather go to an astrologer, and I hate astrology. Probably get more helpful and well adjusted advice from astrologers too.
Hahaha you’ve made me imagine an astrologer being like “THE WANING OF RETROGRADE MARS SAYS PLAY STUPID GAMES WIN STUPID PRIZES”
“The movement of the Southern Cross states that you fucked around, and are in the process of finding out.”
50% “AITA for eating babies and murdering innocent people for no reason” and 50% “AITA for being the second coming of jesus christ and saving a cat from a tree and being a literally perfect human being (not fake!!!)”
You forget the 1-2% that are people in incredibly abusive relationships asking if they’re the asshole for being abused.
nah those rock. i don’t even care if they’re mostly fake.
The way gaming subreddits talk about devs. /r/pathofexile is full of some of the most entitled g*mers in the platform, which is obviously a bold claim. Minor bug on release day? Mobs dealing too much damage to your character that you rushed through the campaign and early maps with no gear? Worse performance (which is probably just your PC recompiling shaders, and it’s gonna end up running the same or better than before)? The devs are clearly useless, China is ruining the game, they hate the players, etc etc.
It’s obviously not as bad as how racist and chauvinist other subs get, but it’s very cringe to get so worked up over an online PVE game. Get a grip.
Oh man, the Tencent truthers on that subs are so annoying
The trade purists are also another particularly annoying subset on that reddit
Hahah yeah the way they compare SSF players to vegans is so accurate, but in the opposite way than what they meant. In fact, I’m pretty sure I’ll go SSF next league, last league I got 2 mirrors and the game felt so incredibly meaningless at that level of wealth.
I’m following a game that is in alpha, with the latest build just beig release under the name [EXTREMELY EXPERIMENTAL AND UNFINISHED.]
Lo and behold the subreddit is full of nerds complaining about the FREE ALPHA INDIE GAME having minor bugs.
The way they complain about it is so overdramatic and petty too. “The dev are lazy/ don’t give a shit!”
if it helps, remember that most of these people are actually teenagers and children
Happens a lot, sadly. @Frank@hexbear.net has been going at it with the thread explaining reddit gamers’ tendency to endlessly complain about easily solvable problems. If there’s a game breaking bug it’s different, but so many threads ripping on known issues and armchair devs backseating with useless advice is just
