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.
Social media has a tendency to become toxic after a while. The concept of a news aggregator forum is not new - just ask Digg, or even Slashdot. Reddit just took the concept and, largely thanks to Digg's failure and subsequent remake, amassed the largest userbase among all news aggregators of all time.
Now this is where I'd stop and call it a day. Lot of users = lot of toxicity. Right?
Not even close...
Websites like Reddit specifically fall prey to what I like to call a toxic spiral. Toxic users post toxic content. toxic users react to it. It gets upvoted, starts trending and gets frontpaged. Some "normal" users see this and engage with it as well. As they do, these "normal" users start acquiring what I like to refer to as a toxic bias. This influences their behavior on the site, what content they engage with, what they post and share, and so on - except it becomes gradually more and more toxic as the user's exposure to toxic content is extended, and exacerbated due to their behavior, giving rise to the toxic spiral. A normal user:
Then along comes another user, who stumbles upon toxic content, and if he/she is susceptible, the cycle repeats itself. Give it a few million iterations (Reddit is over a decade old) and you've got yourself a dedicated group of people who spread toxicity like wildfire. And to add fuel to that fire is the fact that most people who bring toxic behavior to the platform - SJW's, feminists, hard leftists/communists, woke types, etc - tend to be losers in real life, and probably have tons of free time to spend online. More time investment = more content = more toxicity. More toxicity -> more users become toxic -> toxicity further spreads.
TL;DR Toxicity is literally the cancer of the Internet, and in that analogy, websites like Reddit are akin to radiation chambers.