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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'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"

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.

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.

Fellas, is it gay to wave hello?

Everything on r/chapotraphouse

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

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

For me it's when the libs on there talk about "taking back patriotism" from the right.

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

Thanking an SS grandpa for his service.

"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.

Every single AITA post ever posted. Beyond absolute shit.

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.

I had a fascist in my local subreddit try to convince me that capitalism wasn't real and is a fiction invented by Marxists

Any country subreddit that isn't white and English speaking is just racist white sexpests looking down on the locals and whining about how racist everyone is to white people.

Really, going to Reddit outside of very niche subreddit means you're going to be feeling like you're eternally in 2016. Cringy, obsolete memes and references, the same propaganda being posted every day and getting thousands of upvotes, nothing changing at all.

The site's logo is the height of cringe.

But probably whenever US army chuds talk about sex tourism, or frankly anything military related. Eeeesh.

when you nod upwards, it means respect, when you nod downwards its aggression

uh and they clearly don't understand the nods. A nod downward is respect and acknowledgement, usually towards a stranger, conveying an aloof friendliness, while a nod upward is like "what's up," often towards a friend, warmer, like the head nod equivalent of dapping someone up

The passport bros subreddit.

A hive of racist sexpests. No idea how it's allowed to stay up.

Wredditors when woman is on screen:

Other than that, the endless reference threads, "omg ccp shill", "-1000000 social credit", and just the general arrogance.

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There were subreddits that were creeps taking pictures of women on the street. It was a main subreðit.

anything within a light year of "I'm a manly man and this is how a proper man should do sex" type pseudo-ironic-bravado posts

The shermanposting subreddit. Their hearts are mostly in the right place, but god damn are they severely hampered by nationalist and American exceptionalist brainworms. Actually that dovetails with another cringe redditism: libs calling people traitors and insurrectionists and shit. It's such larping and it only serves to make the target of your ire sound way cooler than you. You can just tell when you read those comments that the people making them are thrilled to have some kind of relief from ppst-end of history alienation, to have some kind of historical conflict to participate in and people to participate in it with through the medium of heroic speeches and shallow redditisms.

man i been nursing this gripe for a while, but once on the bass sub, someone made a post about how their parents kept discouraging them in pursuing their hobby, and this absolute freak showed up and ranted about how they're a lazy piece of shit who needs to grow up, and anyone who was supporting them just had daddy or mommy issues they need to get over. he was very vehement and angry and would reply to anyone telling him to chill with needlessly personal barbs about how their parents probably hate them for a reason. Of course, as a responsible Chapoposter I checked the comment history, and he had a long history of getting insanely angry and rude over the tiniest disagreement, often accusing other people of being aggro and sensitive.

anyway i found his posts on an incest roleplay sub and linked it to him and that pretty much ended the discussion.

Literally anything that even hints at being related to china on reddit.

Last week after state of the union speech, redditors were all like, "well this is all the proof we need that Biden has still fucking got it! He could talk coherently, mostly, for over an hour? I can't do that so clearly he'll be a good president and mop the floor with trump." And like 10 variations on that theme. No mention of the policies he's pushing or anything, just redditors thinking back to their ice cream Joe memes and not caring about how everything is falling apart for the bottom 60% of people (probably more and rising). I fucking hope he loses, and dies. I hope America suffers and implodes so the rest of the world won't face the blowback, even though I know it will devastate everything because American tendrils are hooked into everything.

redditors who believe white people are the aryan master race because they're so much more progressive and enlightened under superior western culture, not like backwards inferior nonwestern savages

there was a subreddit called like emojipolice or sth

they would literally just go around rping as cops whenever ppl used emojis and yelling about Instagram normies n shit

extremely odd behaviour

All the dumb redditisms that get repeated over and over and over ad nauseum but still get upvoted every single time some chucklefuck chokes one out.

unironicly think people who just post horny memes objectifying and degrading women on like r/animemes or whatever all the time should be taken out and shot

::: spoiler this accidentally turned into a rant about me being creeped on in reddit dms when i was still a minor even worse for people who do that but for femboys / trans people and then expect applause for sexually objectifying queer people instead with this fucking ~~under~~overcurrent of "you should be grateful that i want to fuck you and then toss you aside, the other guys want to kill you". especially bad if the cropped hentai posted is shota or some shit (people used to do this on r/196 in the fucking early days of its creation long before the tankie purge but also before the purge of explicit pedophiles (who iirc claimed that telling them to stop posting lewd drawn images of children was "suppressing their queer identity" which is just such a fucking disgusting thing to say even leaving aside the ammunition it gives to pedojacketer conservatives (the purge did basically nothing though except make them stop openly declaring as i can personally attest given that because i mentioned a few times that i was a femboy and shit i had some late guy in his late 20s start to DM me sexually on there despite it literally saying that i was only 16 or 17 at the time and despite me blocking him multiple times he literally just fucking kept dming me from alts for like two or three weeks or so (no prizes for guessing that he was a fan)))). anyway that experience basically started me down the path of becoming an unironic misandrist