Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful youā€™ll near-instantly regret.

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutā€™nā€™paste it into its own post ā€” thereā€™s no quota for posting and the bar really isnā€™t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many ā€œesotericā€ right wing freaks, but thereā€™s no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iā€™m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged ā€œculture criticsā€ who write about everything but understand nothing. Iā€™m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyā€™re inescapable at this point, yet I donā€™t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnā€™t be surgeons because they didnā€™t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canā€™t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

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      post still seems up here. try old.reddit if attempting to view from mobile (the ā€œnewā€ reddit site is remarkably rabid on mobile)

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        Thereā€™s a link to what appears to have been a picture (reddit.com/gallery) but itā€™s dead. If you go through ā€œnewā€ Reddit it just says ā€œremoved by moderatorsā€.

        I canā€™t really tell what this is about from ā€œwe HAVE to do something about thisā€ when ā€œthisā€ is an empty space :/

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          Oh whoops, I should have archived it.

          There were about 7 images posted of users roleplaying with bots, all ending with a bot response that cut off halfway with an error message that read ā€œThis content may violate our policies; blablabla; please use the report button if you believe this is a false positive and we will investigate.ā€ The last one was some kind of parody image making fun of the warning.

          Most of them were some kind of romantic roleplay with bad spelling. One was like, ā€œi run my hand down your arm and kiss youā€, and the bots response triggered the warning. Another one was like, ā€œ*is slapped in the face* itā€™s okay, I still love youā€ and the rest of the message generated a warning. There wasnā€™t enough context for that one, so the person might have been writing it playfully (?), but that subreddit has a lot of blatant sexual violence regardless.