I just found some Life Pro Tips post about mental health.
Fucking Reddit is the single most miserable ass website EVER. People just keep praising each other for not trying to do anything for themselves and it fucks me up.
I have my issues. I'm not talking out of my ass. I used to have this phase of multiple panic attacks a day, sometimes like every couple hours.
Those fucks are such lazy, miserable cunts who even encourage shitty, unhealthy behaviour. They claim they have no energy to do anything the first moment it feels hard, but then they bitch and moan about not getting free therapy indefinitely and not getting enough pills.
They seem to love pills so much and talking each other into getting hooked on them.
But you encourage people to go out for fucking walks? NO, NOT ON MY WATCH, HITLER. They yell at you if you encourage someone unwell to eat better, to get creative hobbies, to develop good habits. They just say it doesn't work.
Maybe it doesn't work because they don't want it to work. They will their own selves to be fucking unhappy.
This was a rant and probably random as shit, but I am baffled when people actively make each other feel worse like this.
I think you're half right. Reddit is a machine designed to make it's users mentally unwell. That was the real point of "community moderation." To turn the entire place into one giant self-guided struggle session.
Just observe how it makes major decisions, like banning NoNewNormal or TheDonald.
This is why it was purchased. This is why they did Cambridge Analytica, and this is the product of what they've learned. You can't make people do anything, but you can make them so unwell that they don't want to do anything.