What's the most cringy shit you've seen on reddit?
What's the most cringy shit you've seen on reddit?
i'll start. i saw a ask reddit post saying something along the lines of "men of reddit whats something women can't understand" and the comments were just. oh my god. the main one that made me want to puke was "when dudes walk by each other and nod" and the whole fucking thread was just fedoras with arms soypogging like it was some secret language or something. "when you nod upwards, it means respect!!!!!1!!11 when you nod downwards its aggression!!!1!11!!!!!" as if women dont do the same shit.
do you guys have something similar to share?
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'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.
The uncomfortable TRUTH of Reddit's cringiness, bigotry, and chudiness. This list contains mentions of transphobia, racism, and right-wing politics.
- The excess of sexual content, especially a lot of the same unoriginal, horny shit being posted over and over again.
- Libshits treating Biden and other liberal hack politicans as martyrs constantly and constantly.
- Typical Redditisms like "updoots to the left" (I guess this one became a shit ton more ironic as time went on, but you get what I mean.)
- Racism. Just flat out racism. And also AITAs that needlessly bring in identity on top of that. It's so fucking common for posts to say shit like "AITA for yelling at my black friend because I thought he stole my wallet?" or "AITA because I'm uncomfortable around my trans sister who is a staunch ethical vegan?". These are literally just enabling bigotry by aiming to use identity to ignite an association of negative traits.
- The tendency for conservatives on Reddit to make their ideology sound innocent by saying "stop oppressing me for simply wanting small government and low taxes!". People would enable this victim complex shit A LOT!
- Even seemingly positive and leftist communities letting really awful rhetoric slip by, often times when it's against the rules. Like how many transmedicalists could sneak into r/asktransgender and get away with it, even though mods are saying "It's completely against the rules to promote transmedicalism here!". Yeah right!
- Posting very uninteresting and boring things and trying to pass them off as interesting or noteworthy, like that fucker who posted something like him writing January 1, 2017 when it was actually January 1, 2018. sO RElAtABLe AMiritE 🤣🤣🤣🤣
- Treating mainstream and popular content like it's some hidden, underground shit.
"Have you guys heard this album called "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea"!? Heh, probably not. You all got shitty, immature taste and like POP and cRAP. As you can see, I only listen to REAL music."
- Misinformation on top of misinformation on top of misinformation on top of misinformation.
- The smugness. The pretentious aspect of these basement dwelling no-lifes. They're so unaware of how fucking lame they are that the true cringe will always be in them thinking that all of those aforementioned examples make them "kewl and "edge". I'm hoping for as many of them as possible to grow out of it one day.
Fuck Reddit. I could list more obviously, but I decided to cap it at 10 points just to not go too crazy in length on how much I despise that toilet of a site.
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
Thanking an SS grandpa for his service.
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.
"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.
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 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.
Literally anything that even hints at being related to china on reddit.
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.
cw psychic damage
Anne frankly, I did nazi that coming. I literally came here to say this but boy, that escalated quickly so to the top with you! Lost it at 'This is why we can't have nice things' and then my faith in humanity was restored, my mind blown, and manly tears were shed. Well said. As a 'murican, I can confirm this gem has just won the internet and is doing it right. Just sayin', I know that feel, bro, and while that was a risky click, this post was a 9/10, 11/10 with rice, would read again. I see what you did there and it feels good man. You're doing God's work, son. I laughed way harder than I should have at your list that seems legit and totally nailed it. You - I like you. You magnificent bastard; you, sir, are so brave, a gentleman and a scholar, and seeing how you are a redditor for 4 years, this checks out, so I'll allow it. I regret that I only have one upvote to give for this cool story, bro. CTRL+F "about tree fiddy" was not disappointed. Wait, why do I have you tagged as "NOPE NOPE NOPE"? Nice try, you monster. You are now banned from r/pyongyang What did I just read? Dafuq? I read that as "YOU HAD ONE JOB". I can't fap to this. No true scotsman could see that this relevant XKCD was bad, and you should feel bad. You must be new to reddit, so I'll see your cakeday and raise you a karma train. One does not simply rustle my jimmies, not even once. Jet fuel can't melt dank memes, that stahp gave me cancer for science, so that's enough internet for me today. OP is a fuzzy little man-peach, 2/10, would not bang. What is this I don't even know how is this wtf? Fuck Jenny. Circlejerk must be leaking. This will get buried but brace yourselves, some men want to watch the world burn right in the feels. When you see it, they'll KILL IT WITH FIRE! But this has nothing to do with atheism. Lawyer up, delete facebook, hit the gym, and SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY, said no one ever, so you wouldn't download a strawman. r/dadjokes. Damn onions, you scary like a BOSS. whoosh. Since rule #1 is 'be attractive', I'll just leave this here: This is my [f]irst post, be gentle.
Edit: This blew up. RIP my inbox.
Edit: thanks for the gold kind stranger
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.
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.
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
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
underovercurrent 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 misandristthe cringiest shit on reddit often is said in response to what redditors consider "cringe"
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.
Asking Rapists why they did it.
when does the narwhal bacon?
My posts
Back when Fox news did a piece claiming there were Muslim enforced "no go zones" in various UK cities and suddenly every American was an expert on what it was like to walk around these cities.
I had an extended argument with this one guy who insisted he knew more about the place I was living and studying in at the time than I did.
Like, unparalleled levels of smug condescension.
Me a few minutes ago trying to get r*dditors to buy my books.
the main one that made me want to puke was "when dudes walk by each other and nod"
I still nod at the dudes, actually. I think it confuses them. I never see women nod like that, honestly.
Where to begin, one of the latest disgusting ones I browsed was a worker on the Dollar Tree sub getting sexually harassed/assaulted while at work and per course misogynist, psychotic, classist redditors come out of the wood work to victim shame her.
"when dudes walk by each other and nod"
My man!
One I didn't see mentioned yet, the r/jailbait subreddit, a pedo community about posting provocative pics of underage girls.
In 2008 redditors voted it the "subreddit of the year", and it was protected by reddit at the highest levels.
Erik Martin, general manager of Reddit, defended the subreddit by saying that such controversial pages were a consequence of allowing free speech on the site.
It took Anderson Cooper doing a story on it for reddit to finally take action.
Just saw people who play magic hanging their commander from the middle of their deck, and everyone clapping and not offering much pushback... Bout to brew a deck list all about shuffling opponents decks if I see one in the wild... No I will not let people just have fun.
Oliver Markus Malloy
