Hot Take 1.0
It is official, my dislike for Reddit has grown to a level that it will never be able to recover from. Not that the administrators or anyone else care, though. Who am I? Nobody, that is right. If you're reading this, remember that no matter what site you are on when you are online you are an anonymous nobody even when you don't want to be. Even when you're on Reddit, where the site's own administrators have posted that they want all Redditors to "remember the human", you're still no one of any importance.
Reddit is 4chan, simply reconfigured as the "lunchroom cool kids table". I have never been a cool kid, nor do I have any interest in being labeled so. The one time I remember breaking off from sitting with my friends during lunch to get an experience of what the cool kids were doing during their lunch, it wasn't fun. The only thing I remember anyone saying to me was, "Isn't that your table over there?", while pointing at my friends. The look on their faces, that look of betrayal I still haven't forgotten after all these years.
Reddit is exactly that, a massively overgrown table where everyone picks a different section to sit at. Depending on what section you're sitting in the rules, people, and even the way the conversation is held is different. Reddit administrators are oblivious to what happens at the table even though, it is how they get to eat. If the table isn't robbed, taken over by an unruly mob, or broken into a million pieces they don't care as long as their food keeps coming and isn't poisoned.
Reddit is like a virtual prison. When you first enter they try to scare the shit out of you and if you don't scare easily they keep pushing until they get you to break, and then they use that as their weapon against you whenever they feel like keeping you in line even when you aren't actually out of line. The prison could be a better place if they only let you be yourself and accept you as that in their environment but, they're not interested in doing that. They want to promote their version of the status-quo as being something new because they put their own header at the top of the page and all the different subreddits, not boards are displayed on the sideboard. This isn't the same prison you were once locked inside of and felt compelled to keep coming back to the safety of, this is something else, something "new".
No, sorry not sorry. You're not new, Reddit. You're all the same. "The Front Page of the Internet", they say. I think if you want to try something with that new header and sidebar, you should try out a new tagline for your website. How does, "The Internet's Fully Grown Adult Version of the Cool Kids Table", sound? If you don't like that, you can make it more current and trendy by using, "We're The Orange of the New Black of Aggregate Websites". You have got to make friends with your worst enemies, cut deals with the psychotic Russian or the veteran drug dealer, or have sex with the guy with the child molester style mustache if you want things to get better for you.
Reddit is 4chan, simply reconfigured as the "lunchroom cool kids table". I have never been a cool kid, nor do I have any interest in being labeled so. The one time I remember breaking off from sitting with my friends during lunch to get an experience of what the cool kids were doing during their lunch, it wasn't fun. The only thing I remember anyone saying to me was, "Isn't that your table over there?", while pointing at my friends. The look on their faces, that look of betrayal I still haven't forgotten after all these years.
Reddit is exactly that, a massively overgrown table where everyone picks a different section to sit at. Depending on what section you're sitting in the rules, people, and even the way the conversation is held is different. Reddit administrators are oblivious to what happens at the table even though, it is how they get to eat. If the table isn't robbed, taken over by an unruly mob, or broken into a million pieces they don't care as long as their food keeps coming and isn't poisoned.
Reddit is like a virtual prison. When you first enter they try to scare the shit out of you and if you don't scare easily they keep pushing until they get you to break, and then they use that as their weapon against you whenever they feel like keeping you in line even when you aren't actually out of line. The prison could be a better place if they only let you be yourself and accept you as that in their environment but, they're not interested in doing that. They want to promote their version of the status-quo as being something new because they put their own header at the top of the page and all the different subreddits, not boards are displayed on the sideboard. This isn't the same prison you were once locked inside of and felt compelled to keep coming back to the safety of, this is something else, something "new".
No, sorry not sorry. You're not new, Reddit. You're all the same. "The Front Page of the Internet", they say. I think if you want to try something with that new header and sidebar, you should try out a new tagline for your website. How does, "The Internet's Fully Grown Adult Version of the Cool Kids Table", sound? If you don't like that, you can make it more current and trendy by using, "We're The Orange of the New Black of Aggregate Websites". You have got to make friends with your worst enemies, cut deals with the psychotic Russian or the veteran drug dealer, or have sex with the guy with the child molester style mustache if you want things to get better for you.
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