On AskReddit, lostabro33 tells the sad story of how he, er, lost a bro. The tl;dr version:
I lost a really good friend because he didn’t want to believe his wife was a fucking whore bitch slut cunt lying piece of shit.
Here’s the full quote. As you’ll notice, it has 1314 upvotes.
Yeah, that totally happened.
Is Reddit officially the worst place on earth?
(Sadly, I know the answer to that is no. But, damn, Reddit, you really to seem to want to take that number one slot.)
(Thanks to ShitRedditSays for finding this, er, gem.)
EDITED TO ADD: [TW: Child porn]
Speaking of shitty things on Reddit: There was more child porn up on Reddit, this time a post in r/videos with more than 900 upvotes and numerous positive comments, with a link to a video that showed the sexual abuse of a six-year-old boy. The folks in SRS have been talking about it; after numerous complaints from SRSers to the r/videos mods, Reddit admins, YouTube, and the FBI, the video has apparently been removed from YouTube. More details, and a link to the original r/videos thread, in the SRS thread devoted to it. There’s also a lot of discussion of it in the comments to this post here.
BTW, noone is buy the CP bullshit your trying to sell. The most vociferous voices against reddit are feminists, for the exact reasons I stated.
Rick Astley rickrolled the Macy’s Parade thanks to 4chan memes. Chanology was the first world-wide protest of the Church of Lawology, and Anonymous (the hacker group) attacked fraudulent or harmful major corporations and the Syrian government (It hasn’t always been good, but it has taken some actual action).
Something Awful called for, and *got*, substantial donations to Hurricane Katrina victims.
Reddit’s done…. what?
No, really, that’s the reason. It happened; some of the goings on are detailed here.
Look, if any of that were actually true, I might be inclined to like it (but not so much as to ignore the CP), but mostly it just strengthens the establishment; you just think you’re anti-establishment.
Not ‘once’. Posting CP got you banned and reported to the authorities with identifying information such as could be found. They annoy people on internet sites, but at least they have some measure of decency. Not a lot, but again, more than Reddit.
For real?
Also, Something Awful maintains a most excellent Wikia of recipes, called “Goons with Spoons”. I highly recommend it; it even has an Easy section that helped me when I was getting started with cooking (And i like some of the recipes for fast preparation even now). Which is still more than Reddit’s done.
Because people who like child porn are mavericks calling out “establishment ideals”. Imbeciles with utter contempt for people who they see as below them and with no comprehension of the suffering of anyone else other themselves are rebels fighting against THE MAN.
Tru fax, mags.
Won’t anyone please PLEASE think of the clueless, entitled young men!
It’s not just one post, Mags. You know that. Are you trying to say that feminists couldn’t be against Reddit because of any of the many examples of misogyny and rape, intimate partner violence, and pedophila apologism (and, frankly, celebration)? The only possible reason anyone would raise a vociferous voice against Reddit, that unimpeachable beacon of civilization, is … it’s too good?
Riiiiiight, Mags person.
Dammit Mags, this is not the FIRST time that there has been CP on Reddit. And honestly, one instance that doesn’t lead to the offending party being turned over to the FBI is enough to make me hate that organization forever and ever. It’s not because I’m a feminist, it’s because I’m a decent human being.
Mags, seriously, your response to the news that there is CP on Reddit featuring a 6 year old boy is that reddit is AWESOME and we’re just jealous?
You guys realize you’re arguing with someone who thinks it’s cool to print the word “awesome” with spaces between the letters.
M Dubz, there is unfortunately CP on the internet. There are millions of people on the internet. Just because there is CP on the internet does not make those millons of people guilty of advocating for CP.
The CP argument is just the lastest in what will undoubtedly be many attempts to politicize some problematic issue and paint the whole community with the accusation of guilt. This is, as I’ve stated, because feminists believe that reddit itself is a problem for feminism and their agenda.
It kind of reminds me of the ever changing arguments against prostitution. It’s not the alleged problems associated with prostitution that are really hated, but prostitution itself. But, in order to legitimize the fact that they don’t like the act of prostitution, and since they can’t very well demonize the women, they congure up false statistics with advocacy research to create an issue in which they can demonize men.
Even the asshole who ran Is Anyone Up reported people who posted underage content to the proper authorities, ffs, and he’s a scumbag of epic proportions.
People, please. There is nothing more edgy and cool and anti-establishment and Totally Sticking It to the Man than calling women strings of expletives when you catch them being sexy.
Well, besides child porn.
Also, SRS isn’t “half MB regulars and half SA.” It’s mostly disgruntled Redditors. I don’;t think any of the regular commenters here are involved in SRS in any way. Nor am I, aside from being someone who reads it, sometimes comments, there, and sometimes posts stuff I find there on MB.
I know there are some Something Awful people involved in SRS, but I think only a handful. At this point SRS has 15,000 subscribers, which means that in a matter of months it’s gotten half as many subscribers r/mr has accumulated over 4 years. And, though it’s only got half as many subscribers, it apparently gets more traffic than r/mr.
In other words, there are a LOT of people on Reddit who are disgusted with a lot of what’s on Reddit. And the SRSers are never at a loss for material.
You fail to mention David, that there are a lot of people disgusted with /r/SRS who visit the reddit. I assume you also visit /r/SRD and know that /r/SRS digusts many people with their behavior.
BTW David, as much as you would like it otherwise, I am not responsible for editorialize about all CP on reddit.
How DARE SRS object to misogyny, homophobia, racism, and child porn.
Objecting to these things is the WORST.
I bet the NAZIS told people not to watch child porn.
Mags, I know you prefer posting without bothering to look at the facts, but the issue in this case is that the CP is on a big subreddit (r/videos), that it’s got more than 900 upvotes, that people in the discussion are describing the 6 eyar old victim as a “lucky kid,” and that the mods didn’t take it down when they were informed about it.
This doesn’t trouble you in the slightest?
Also, we’re talking about child porn here. We’re not talking about prostitution, or porn in general.
Magz, given the ignorant things many of SRS’s critics say about it, I am fairly sure that most of them never actually visit it, and that they get most of their information second and third hand from other SRS-haters. Sort of the way most r/mr-ers get their info about Man boobz.
You know what Mags? I’m just going to go ahead and say it: you’re condoning child rape. I hope you’re proud of yourself.
One more thing, not ever having sought out, or actually seen CP on reddit (or anywhere, for that matter), I am just going to take it on good faith that there was in fact CP somewhere on reddit, and that you guys aren’t extrapolating that CP where none actually does exist. Furthermore, not only are you guys arguing that CP was on reddit, but that it was not aberrational, but rather common. That, of course, I don’t buy.
M Dubz, seek therarpy You need it.
Mags, sorry you’re too busy to care about the sexual abuse of a 6 year old boy.
So Mags, you’re admitting you haven’t explored reddit much, but you’re sure that CP is an aberration on reddit. Mmm, okay.
Mags, you don’t have to take anyone’s word for it. Go to SRS; there’s a link to the r/videos thread. It will take you less time than the amount of time you’ve spent complaining about us talking about it here.
I bet the NAZIS told people not to watch child porn.
The thing is? They probably did.
Internet, you are being worse than Nazis. Nazis would give you side eye.