Not one of my usual rants, this time. I just…
It still amazes me how toxic Reddit is. Sure, it’s anonymous, but so is this place, and yet we manage to largely keep it civil, most of the time…
Even in small subs (geographical in particular, but also sports), though, Reddit is just… Fucking vile. Utter hostility on all sides.
And yet, it is still one of the most popular sites on the internet, especially amongst the demographic I “belong to” (white, male, under 30)…
How very fucking sad that is.
Yeah, that’s all I wanted to say.
Glad we got “off” that shithole, even if I stupidly still keep going back to that awful, awful site/place.
Maybe I won’t, after the last couple of weeks.
It’s honestly just extra-shit, anonymous Facebook, now, with the demographics and woke virtue signalling of Twitter and all the simping of Tumblr (and Twitter, of course)…
Not as vitriolic of a topic, but I really noticed it with Net Neutrality. Because I actually knew what it was, I knew it was a stupid law to let law enforcement (further) through the door. But it didn't matter, because NN was the latest Thing™. Where once people were against shit like SOPA and PIPA, now they were shilling for government oversight.
It's only made me feel more vindicated since it got repealed and then literally none of the fearmongering the left went on about came to pass. It really does show how manufactured so much of this has become, and it makes me wary of any common internet belief, from "Epstein Didn't Kill Himself" (which I do think was organic even with the doubt), to the sudden and rather overnight flip into hating cryptocurrency (I believe this is manufactured).
The worst part about it is how demoralising it is, and knowing that it's meant to be demoralising only makes it hit harder too.