Redditism 1: “It’s the internet. You are allowed to swear.”
I hate when some very grown-ass adult says that because someone didn’t cuss enough for their taste. I swear all the time in my posts here but I still find that shit really, really tryhard and it seems more immature than not saying the naughty word to me.
Redditism 2: Ending a rebuke with a question mark when it’s not a question to make it sound extra snippy.
I’ve heard this being compared to a “vocal fry” and maybe it is, and coming from CA, vocal fries were often said out loud as a form of subtle hostility toward people perceived as lessers, such as retail and restaurant workers. If you need an example of what I’m talking about, it usually goes something like this:
Poster: “I think (opinion).”
Redditism enjoyer: “You’re wrong?”
Redditism 3: “Do you need help? Who hurt you? Help is available if you need it, buddy!”
This one is the worst one I can think of right now because it contaminates even the very possibility of showing sincere care and concern for someone else. It comes loaded with the implication that the person that was “hurt” or “needs help” is fundamentally wrong and should shut up. Fuck that ableist shit, forever.
I don’t know why, but “this is the way” bothers the fuck out of me. Might as well clap like a seal and go “THIS”.
“this is the way” bothers the fuck out of me. Might as well clap like a seal and go “THIS”.
Alright, let’s try…
47:4 When you meet the disbelievers in battle, strike them in the neck, and once they are defeated, bind any captives firmly — later you can release them by grace or ransom — until the toils of war have ended.
☝️ THIS!! ☝️
Allah could have defeated them Himself if He had willed, but His purpose is to test some of you by means of others.
…I’m gonna be honest with you, I don’t think it hits quite the same.
Generic ass joke
Edit: didn’t think this would blow up
Edit 2: thanks for the gold kind stranger
(…) is bad, actually
Someone posted a Shinzo Abe death meme on twitter, then came the ‘Making fun of someone’s death is bad, actually’ civility lib
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lmao I just got this tagline
“[thing] is [bad/good], actually” is a pretty good stilted sardonic line, especially for making fun of libs. Good things are bad, actually. Bad things are good, actually. Actively sabotaging yourself and trying to collaborate with your ontologically evil opposition is just smart political strategy, actually.
It’s just so awkward and bad it really just brings the rest of it together.
@Civility@hexbear.net posting mandates are just the internet version of anti-bullying rules that are mastered and exploited by bullies almost immediately.
I just generally wish Reddit would die. And everything associated with it. Fuck Reddit forever.
It’s not solely a reddit ism and I’m not immune from doing similar things but when it’s just the same tired jokes over and over in reply to articles or whatever.
Like say it’s an article about Russia doing anything and invariably there’s a homophobic joke about Trump and Putin being gay together. Again and again. Over and over. Like watching a train pass by where every car looks the same.
Yeah, that shit is dreadfully common in offline conversation too.
I can handle in-jokes and even traditional cliches (Hexbear has its own for sure) but I hate when something horrid and hateful is normalized and repeated like “dae Putler and Drumpf gay amirite” or even just normalization cognitohazards like “Anne Frankly I did nazi that coming”
I did nazi that coming.
That quip is so old, worn out, and predictable that I audibly moan in annoyance when I see it.
I do not understand how people enjoy r*ddit “humor.” It’s the same jokes non-stop. They will beat a dead horse years after it died. Almost every “joke” discussion turns into:
- References to The Office
- References to The Sopranos
- Attack helicopter copy pasta “did you assume my ____?”
- Drumpf Pootin Winnie the Pooh
- Song lyrics
- “I also choose this guy’s ____.”
- Mom helps son masturbate “help me step bro I’m stuck”
It’s almost a guarantee any non-serious topic will devolve into one of the above topics and will go on for dozens of comments.
Like watching a train pass by where every car looks the same.
Those are called unit trains and they mostly suck ass for the environment but are highly profitable for the railroads because they don’t have to do a lot of switching and are typically sent to just a few customers. Examples include coal trains and oil trains. Grain trains are kind of ok, but the coal and oil must stop.
