People who wax nostalgic about old Reddit forget that
CW: Racism, pedophilia
its most popular board was r/jailbait, modded by ViolentAcrez, who also modded subs called r/[n-word]jailbait and r/watch[n-words]die. Every time he rightfully drew fire for this, the site rallied to defend him. The Reddit admins gave him a fucking award.
There was also an entirely separate network of subreddits dedicated to hating black people. It was called the Chimpire, because of course it was.
I like to point out how reddit loathed SJWs. That was the prior right wing boogeyman known today as "woke". They absolutely hated the people who were promoting socially progressive views.
At the peak it was like every single day the site was circle jerking about how much they hated that. People reminisce about really distorted views of reddit like it used to be this cool left leaning platform. Sure if you ignore literally everything about what it was.
ShitRedditSays was extremely hated, everyone on the site was having total meltdowns whenever they would "brigade" by posting a screenshot of some idiot saying something reactionary.
The Internet was always reactionary like this. I think people who are nostalgic for a more innocent internet must have been children in 2007 or something.
before the ShitRedditSays boogeyman came into being it really was awful. I mean it was still awful after that (that subreddit was the entire reason anti-brigading rules were added, to protect racists from being confronted directly). but at least once SRS came into being you could feel a bit more sane with like-minded people.
Also, the 2024 post is most likely by a bot seeking to farm user interaction and trained on posts that got the most responses. If property destruction bothers you, that’s just another way to get your engagement and profit from your attention.