the cringiest shit on reddit often is said in response to what redditors consider "cringe"
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I've been nodding the wrong way for my entire life????????????? No one tells me fucking anything!!
In my neck of the woods, it's nod down for someone you don't know or someone you are being respectful of, and nod up for a friend.
I remember watching some behaviour analyst person saying that it's because nodding upwards exposes the throat displaying vulnerability and comfort with the other person. Nodding down covers the throat. Because humans frequently attack and bite other people's throats.
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The deprogram sub. It’s just children yet to outgrow not questioning the nato narrative while claiming to be comrades
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when does the narwhal bacon?
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Asking Rapists why they did it.
For a long time there was a subreddit that named after a racial slur for black people
The most concerning thing about it to me was how some of the most hateful posts were from non white (but also non black) people who were clearly trying so hard to be to be “one of the good ones”
a subreddit that named after a racial slur for black people
This does not narrow down which subreddit you're talking about nearly as much as it should.
An anime meme subreddit decided to ban the use of a specific word as it was seen as a slur for trans people. This sparked a subreddit-wide civil war, and the sub split off into multiple new subs formed on the basis of being the same as the old sub but with slurs allowed. As a bonus, the sub that banned the slur became better, because it turns out exiling all of the people who want to use a slur from your community gets rid of mostly shitty people, although the positive change ended up being temporary as the spinoff subs burned out and everyone came back to the original.
Similar story: /r/hydrohomies was born because the original "drink water meme subreddit" was named after the N word and got quarantined. Same principle applies here but in reverse - all of the people who wanted to use slurs stayed in the original, and the new subreddit was a lot nicer as a result. Although by the time this split happened the meme was pretty stale so the people in the new sub were cringey for a different reason.
Didn’t some Reddit “detectives” doxx someone incorrectly in a way that got them killed? Maybe “cringe” is too mild a term for that.
If it's the same incident I'm thinking of, it was during the Boston bombing incident. Random Redditors accused and doxed a random student as being the bomber causing him to take his own life
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Me a few minutes ago trying to get r*dditors to buy my books.