WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLL.... (best read in a hideous old west/buck breaker accent for full effect)
It was about, oh, two years ago.
I joined Reddit as an attempt to get a new Social Media platform after I briefly quit TwAtter. Problem was, I joined as the site entered its current dark age.
I joined communities for stuff I enjoyed; horror games, Resident Evil, Doom, Half-Life, Left 4 Dead... But the thing was most of those communities were full of Social Justice Warriors masquerading as fans. Over time I left most of these communities for that reason. The big exception was Resident Evil, as I left that subreddit as it was becoming overrun by pathetic, perpetually horny teenage simps for what I consider one of the franchise's worst monsters (Lady Alcina Dimitrecu). Whenever I joined a community for something I was interested in, it was the moderate and large ones that were completely wokeified. Sleepwalkers would call you a right-wing propaganda nut just for telling factual truths. And even if a subreddit DIDN'T look like it was run by angry, foul-mouthed power-trippin' sleepwalkers, I would soon learn that IT WAS just for telling my thoughts, like on a kickstarter for a piece of blatant Black Lives Matter propaganda.
And barring SocialJusticeInAction, the communities against wokeness were soon turned into hiveminds for the other side of the Evil v. Evil culture war: Obsessive Anti-SJWs. KotakuInAction and KotakuInAction2 nowadays constantly virtue signal for far-right bullshit, attack people for even daring to buy something for some reason, and even push propaganda and go on childish outbursts if you said something along the lines of "Happy Pride Month to
sane LGB people".
Basically, Reddit is Social Media at its worst, and I'm soooooo done with everything to do with it. It's a shame too: the site apparently used to be so good before the wokesters showed up. Now? I'm subscribed to a Discord thread called "Watch Reddit Die".