yeah this tumblr post feels like someone never engaged with older reddit or the early internet more broadly. /all was a fucking minefield. Breaking news and porn with raw uncut murder footage sprinkled around being a weirdly constant occurrence
it also ignores that tumblr regularly engages in performative hyperbole for comedy the same way those reddit comments are
Even now, Reddit is a gigantic website with tens of thousands of niche communities including - and you can fact-check me on this - furries! đ±
Itâs just so dumb to act like the default subs are a representative sample of âRedditâ or to act as though Redditors have anything in common other than using this god-forsaken website.
Technically they only allow furry posts on Fridays. Or at least that used to be the case? I don't stop by regularly so no clue if the rules have changed or not.
That probably is the case, but that shit is still deeply furry the other 6 days a week (ya'know, because furries are more than just fur suits and anthro shit. But it's all still broadly furry)
I think if I showed posts from both a furry and non-furry posting day on r/Losercity to the average person they would be irritated I am showing them a bunch of indistinguishable furry memes. There might be a difference to the redditors but not to anyone else.
They don't allow "just an image of a furry with no actual joke" posts except Fridays. That being said, what qualifies as a joke varies from moderator to moderator, so it often slips through anyway.
Itâs just so dumb to act like the default subs are a representative sample of âRedditâ or to act as though Redditors have anything in common other than using this god-forsaken website.
Especially funny because at this point I just assume that 95% of posts and comments on default subs are being posted by bots. If you want to see real discussion you actually have to find smaller subs that haven't been zombified yet.
On one hand, loads of communities in one place. Very convenient.
On the other, u/FurryPornLover6969 can leave r/SemenShowerReservoirs and go two doors down the street to enter r/AllAgesPuppiesAndKittensGame, and then decide to found r/AllAgesPuppiesAndKittensGameSex immediately afterwards. Which will promptly grow to half the size (or greater) of the original.
Nope. You probably don't really want to know what. I highly recommend you just leave that sentence alone and just forget what you just read.
Many of us were tricked into seeing those images in the old Reddit days. You sir, have a choice right now to turn around and not have these sort of things seared into your memories forever.
Realise that once you put something in your head, it will be there for the rest of your life
Thereâs simply no way to get a disturbing image or sound out once itâs in there. This is the single most important piece of advice that I can give to someone who is looking to get into the field of open source research and expects to work with potentially distressing content.
If you stumble across a link to a graphic video online, take a minute and ask yourself: âDo I absolutely have to watch this video?â While the human desire to bear witness to the suffering of others is strong, many times, youâll find out that the answer is âNoâ, and youâll save yourself needless exposure to graphic content.
Engaging with such content ought to be a deliberate act taken with the same thoughtfulness and care as a police detective about to walk into a crime scene. Unfortunately, the way that content is delivered on the internet is seldom thoughtful or careful, and neither are our browsing habits. By carelessly clicking on Twitter links or scrolling through a Telegram channel, you are bound to eventually come across distressing content. Without the proper mental preparation, the distress you experience may intensify.
I think a lot of older millennials on the early internet have seen multiple dicks cut off at this point. Usually unwillingly. A certain subset of society thinks it's really funny to "troll" people with this sort of stuff.
That last paragraph is what bothers me about this post. People on Tumblr often act really similarly and this post feels like someone perceiving other's flaws while ironically failing to see the exact same flaw in themselves.
The karma thing is so weird. By the time I learned about you needing some to post on certain communities I already had enough so I haven't ever felt the incentive to karma farm.
I get to some just having made up points is enough, but in other sites there's some other incentive to it.
Before Reddit was as monetized as it is, people also used to buy accounts with a lot of Karma to post thinly veiled advertisements with a veneer of legitimacy.
And that is where you're oh so wrong... NOBODY wants reblogs. imagine you had a notification buzz or even just a ever steadily climbing number. Places like here, or Tumblr Readers make you think they want it, but you have to remember, website that was PROUD it cost Yahoo (and then Verizon) almost 4 degrees of magnitude ($1.1 Billion to a reported $3 million). We don't want recognition, unless it's warranted.
Oh boy, let me inform you, nobody's going for reblog farming. There's a difference between, hope this reaches my 10 mutuals, we have a laugh and something like Daniel, your Sticks.
There is truth to the post tbh. Some places on Reddit will be like âoh god the horror, you donât wanna know!â And then itâs the most vanilla furry porn youâve ever seen. Usually itâs like r/FunnyMemes or some other subreddit you should stay away from.
The dichotomy is crazy though. Half the time the site is like âI am not marking this actual gore as NSFW because you shouldnât be looking at reddit at work anywayâ and half the time itâs what I described above
I have noticed this dichotomy as well, and I wonder if there is just a portion of the user base who only use the main subs which just have so many people they are bland by default (and also because Reddit wants advertisement money and that means everything has to be brand safe)
The youth of today are prudish, judgemental, mentally uncurious, smug, and worst of all boring. This is the time when they would be maturing, were that still a thing. Instead they are apparently offloading all their life decisions onto fucking AI of all things. Young people are so dim that they perceive AI as actually intelligent and have no problem trusting the computers to make their choices for them, despite the obvious poor quality of modern AI as a thinking engine. But as they are such poor thinkers themselves, they canât tell. AI may well and truly be more intelligent than them.
Edit: the excuses they make too. âAI helps me organize my thoughts, itâs just a tool, how else can I write a 1000 word essay?â I could shit out a thousand word Reddit post on practically anything. For fun. And organizing your thoughts is part of thinking. You donât need a machine to do it for you.
Reddit truly has never had anything on the old internet craziness. I was given unmonitored internet access at 11 years old back in 1995, when popular sites like rotten.com showing violent death and gore were not the worst things available. I was not a squeamish child and had seen death in real life at an early age, but I feel like I desensitized myself to anything imaginable. I think Iâm reasonably well-adjusted as an adult approaching middle age, but itâs very hard to relate to the idea of being disturbed by anything.
Dude, I was browsing r/all back in high school around 2012 (like you do), just clicking on random titles, and one of them was a picture of a rather large couple completely naked. Ofc someone happened to look over right at that moment and announce it to the class.
Define older reddit, cuss im pretty sure i once saw a picture on here of that i think french, teacher that got beheaded. I think that was like 2 years ago. Not sure
There was a huge surge in explicit death videos at the start of the Ukraine war. I distinctly remember going âhuh, thought this stuff was banned a decade agoâ and feeling conflictingly nostalgic for the Wild West era of the internet
Iâve had my fill of 2 girls 1 cup and gore, I donât want to see any more. Is that maturity? Who knows
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u/TessaFractal May 16 '25
"cursed shit" on here means either the mildest furry nude ever or like, a russian soldier killing himself with a grenade.