Anon browses r/AmITheAsshole
Anon browses r/AmITheAsshole
Anon browses r/AmITheAsshole
This is remarkably accurate actually, AITA is a dumpster fire. And most of the posts are a work of fiction, I suspect.
But could it also be merry ? Perhaps even jolly? The jury is still out.
Genderswap reposts were common and generally got a little traction before being reported and deleted, so it's plausible that it's a real story
Not that I rank AITA as a font of true drama
Yeah that subreddit in particular went to shit when the news sites started using the posts to generate content.
AITA and RelationshipAdvice.
All the advice subs had a lot of fiction
I used to love that sub. Then it started to be about legal responsibilities instead of morality... From there it really turned into a dumpster fire
The only time I've ever been banned on a forum because although I said the woman had the right to do what she did and the guy was clearly in the wrong, she needlessly escalated when empathy would've led to a better result for everyone
No explanation, just a temp ban. For advocating empathy and third path conflict resolution
The funniest posts are when commenters get angry OP disagrees with them or makes their own decisions. It's like they think seeking advice creates a binding contract to follow that advice if it gets agreed with enough.
If you follow advice that you don't agree with, you are an idiot, even if the advice is actually good. And disagreeing or arguing when you don't agree is a good way to resolve it if you don't see why someone would suggest that.
People should only go to that sub for entertainment. Or if you bring a real problem there, use it as a way to get a variety of different perspectives while keeping in mind some commenters might be literal teenagers (or even younger) with no life experience and half of the replies will be either projecting their own shit onto your situation, won't understand what you wrote, or want to play Sherlock Holmes but their version relies on assumptions they pull out of their ass instead of genius level observational skills, logic, and most of all, the favour of sir Arthur Conan Doyle who can write him as smart or as dumb as his plot about a genius detective needs him to be. Oh, and assholes, the real assholes are in the comments.
And if you scroll down to the bottom of the thread, you get to see some really interesting world views. Or sometimes the rational ones when one of the more popular biases gets triggered.
Sometimes you got people picking up and saying "there needs to be something else to this story".
Fake, but even if it was true, the problem would have probably been the age change and not the gender change. Teenage relationships and adult relationships have different rules…
Tell me about those rules. I want to learn!
It depends entirely on the maturity of the parties involved, it's not really an "older/younger" thing.
But generally, the less mature you are, the more a relationship is selfish, i.e. you want to be in a relationship for your personal advantage, i.e. "i get sex when I have a girlfriend". The more mature you get, the more relationships go into the direction of "I want to make the other person happy". You still get your sex or whatever other advantage of course, but it's much more fulfilling if you can actually give the other person what they need, and temporarily losing your personal benefit of the relationship doesn't cause immediate breakups.
And also gay.
Lemmy dumping on Reddit via a 4chan greentext
I’m so proud of this community.
AmITheAsshole is 99% rage bait and fan fiction. "Am I the Asshole for letting my wife only sleep with 8 different guys, while cucking myself and paying everything for her? I'm totally unsure if I'm, in this Ludacris Situation in which I'm clearly being abused, being unreasonable.... PLS BE NICE, GIVE ME ATTENTION! PLS PLS PLS PLS PLS PLS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Hot take: AITA (and even moreso those "Reddit Stories" channels on TikTok and YouTube) is just The Jerry Springer Show for Gen Z.
Yes, he'd be an asshole for giving her them as a birthday present, regardless of the fact that he got her other presents as well. Just ask her if she wants them after he gets his new ones.
This is actually what the consensus was in that post, but the 4channer was blinded by his own assumption of “men bAD, gIRls gOoD” rhetoric
Jeez. The valid answer to this "problem" took a while to find. Even here.
I guess it would be nice to have people think equally of men and women, but I don’t think the better way to do it is to create fake stories on 4chan
The story is absolutely fake, however...
It's satirical. It's basically making fun of something that does occur on the subreddit. There is very much a double standard going on over there, and this story is a satire of that.
This is actually a real post but I cannot find the genderswapped version. Presumably because the duplicate nature was identified and OOP was banned.
Maybe because it sa fake story? Lol
I does have a certain "and then the whole bus clapped" energy to it.
Good thing they left reddit and went to 4chan where they could get away from ultra thirsty guys acting all kinds of crazy over women.
Lmao I've actually done just that before, swapping the genders of a previous post, and people do say the complete opposite even though it's the same situations.
It's also not even just the genders. Copy/paste the text, wait a few days, and then when you make the post you can also 'prime' the situation by having a few immediate posts leaning one way or the other.
That sub is a circlejerk for white knights and femenists Women are never wrong there.
Also a great place for training bots and gauging responses.
Wasn't there some trend of people wanting to make self-driving cars take into account ethics in their decision making in emergencies, by having some website where people could pretty much solve trolley problems, with just a conductor in the trolley to also take into account some years ago? I'm imagining them scraping that subbredit for answers to questions like "AITA for having run over 2 orphan children in order to save 6 old ladies?"
I’m pretty sure most stories are made up too. They just seem so well written with no grammatical errors or anything.
This guy is full of shit, communities on plebbit start with p/
He's talking about reddit
Yeah they just don't act like thus stereotypical over there.
Also, "femoid"?
i think femoid might mean a feminist who goes overboard and instead of equality, believes that women should have more rights than men
This green text, like every post on AitA is a work of fiction.
Fake AF, there isn't any post with reverse genders on the subreddit.
The AITAH people are nothing if not weirdly observant of what happens on that sub. This would be caught immediately
The text is probably made up, but people have done such swap posts several times before and got similarly opposite results. Usually the posts get removed from the sub when someone eventually notices the deception, but you can still read them if you have a link. It's a very toxic sub.
This post is just a 4chan user doing the only thing they know. Eat hot chip and lie.
Could have been deleted
I do think the age changes it. If it's an 18 year old guy asking about his girlfriend, I also would be like, "hey, that may be a bit much. Old ones are fine." cause they're young. The expectations are lower. If it's an adult woman asking this for her husband, I would say to not give it on their birthday. "Hey, here's my old pair. Happy birthday" may be a bit flippant, but saying, "Hey, I got a new pair, want my old one?" doesn't seem like a bad deal.
Also, we didn't see the post. Maybe the other gifts were also bad. Not saying that AITA isn't a dumpster fire. But he changed the factors and didn't give us all the information.
Edit: I just saw the post. He bought her airpods a few years ago and, with how he's talking, it sounds like he got his around the same time. His wife's are glitching and just generally failing, but his used ones are fine. He says she takes care of them as with the rest of her things. He has the option to get free, new pair. Yeah, that is kind of dickish. "Here's my old headphones that could very well be on their way out as well and have been worn for x years. Please enjoy while I get my brand new set that I've openly told you I don't need. Happy birthday."
If this wasn't her birthday, fine. But on the day? That kind of fucked imo
Thought this would be a joke about how the titles of AITA posts that sound innocent are typically the ones where OP is the asshole. Like "Can I give someone my old headphones?" Yes, obviously. "Wrapped as a gift," um, that feels a little insensitive. Probably just give them unwrapped and don't say it's part of the gift.
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Shouldn't have changed the ages, it chanhges the whole thing too much to compare
It's funny because when I was in my 20s the girlfriends I had always were way richer than I was...
This is not a Reddit thing this is just double standards…
Yeah, people act like a site with half a billion users somehow is only representative of a very niche population contained within reddit. I also love the "well I saw x posted here yesterday and people loved it! Here it is today, and people hate it! reddit can't make up its mind!", as if reddit is a monolith, they took the hive-mind shit-talk literally. Then that same person will complain when that reddit is a hive mind...
My guy, this is just how people are. You are in a place where the group is large enough that you, in the population statistics sense, are getting a snapshot of humanity.
I recently read one where the wife was on her laptop and ignoring her husband when he asked her to look at something. So he flicked a lighter in her face, and then she slapped him in his face.
90% of the comments said that she was completely justified in hitting this guy in the face and that she should divorce him.
Anyone saying that you can't just hit people in the face was down voted to hell.
Used earbuds are kinda gross, it's his wife but still...
Are you, like, buying a new spoon every time you want to eat? Are you unfamiliar with the concept of cleaning?
I consider myself a misanthrope, but, Reddit showed me my opinion of humanity was STILL too high
Wtf why would anyone (I know, I know, fake story, but hear me out) gift their USED in-ear headphones. I wouldn't touch that thing with a ten-foot pole, regardless if it was "cleaned".
If you change out the rubber front part, then I would have no problem with it.
I would gladly accept used but good condition ear buds. If they're of good quality.
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