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Another reason is that reddit is usually the only place with an answer for obscure tech questions since they killed forum culture and Discord is impossible to search. If I'm having trouble installing an old piece of software there's almost always a years old reddit post that answers my question.
Yeah Reddit is a nice microcosm of the internet as a whole. There’s some genuinely good stuff on there, but there’s also a bunch of retarded faggot shit that renders it mostly annoying
 
Villains have to be "safe" evil and not make them feel uncomfortable in unauthorized ways or that's emotional rape.
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This is patient zero. This image destroyed western villain discourse because it equates a villain being a good person with a villain being well written. I can't even think of a single character who has "better motives than the hero" because to be a villain you need to be bad in some way. This image has snowballed into ranking villains based entirely on how noble they are instead of their entertainment value. The tide has turned against it and people make fun of it now but it was treated as fact for years.

So no, it's not a mystery why this new wave of "I love villains that aren't bigots" is coming into focus. It's based on this ridiculous belief that being racist or sexist is worse than being a mass murderer or a thief. Rape is still unilaterally seen as evil though, but only if it's a woman going by how Anissa from Invincible is treated like Voldemort but there are infinite excuses for like, Dracula and his slave harem.
 
You just don't get it, bigot. Trans women are regular women, they just don't want to date each other because...uh...you're a bigot!
It seems Not even troons want to deal with the craziness of other troons. Also they find it funner to bully lesbians in the name of their fetish.

Some of the redditors called out the OPs bullshit.

"stupid ass trope

fuckers will kill babies for fun but it's okay since they would never say the n-word, wow such character depth and redeeming quality

now non-racist villains are good. bad guy having an "evil limit" is cool

but saying stuff like "guys, at least he's not a bigot" is just pure Reddit"

This reminds me of a fanart that was viral in the sonic fandom where Dr. Eggman is looking to kill Sonic and shouts "Sonic come out and face me like a man!" and then sonic comes out of nowhere and says "Im trans. I go by she/her now" and then Eggman says "Come out and face me like a woman!!" . There was another one where Eggman was asking Knuckles for his pronouns . Yes the narcissistic mad scientist who is out to take over the earth , actually asked for Knuckles pronouns before burning down his island.

Eggman may kill you, turn you into a robot slave, destroy countless ecosystems and burn down your island, but he would never misgender you. /sneed


The sad thing that there are actually people who unironically think that misgendering is worse than murder.


EDIT: Found the fanart
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One of the most depressing rabbit holes on reddit is this entire underbelly of addition to prescription medication that seems to exist in so many people on the site, only made worse by their humblebragging when they reveal how reliant they are on meds to function (the same kind of energy as "Don't talk to me before I've had my morning coffee,").

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These overmedicated ghouls are the ones preaching to you about how the world should be run, by the way.
 
One of the most depressing rabbit holes on reddit is this entire underbelly of addition to prescription medication that seems to exist in so many people on the site, only made worse by their humblebragging when they reveal how reliant they are on meds to function (the same kind of energy as "Don't talk to me before I've had my morning coffee,").

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These overmedicated ghouls are the ones preaching to you about how the world should be run, by the way.
From how their hand looks I'd assume they're in their late 20s to early 30s. The amount of meds they're taking is what people in their 70s take.
 
One of the most depressing rabbit holes on reddit is this entire underbelly of addition to prescription medication that seems to exist in so many people on the site, only made worse by their humblebragging when they reveal how reliant they are on meds to function (the same kind of energy as "Don't talk to me before I've had my morning coffee,").

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These overmedicated ghouls are the ones preaching to you about how the world should be run, by the way.
Would not be shocked if half of those are sugar pills
 
Another reason is that reddit is usually the only place with an answer for obscure tech questions since they killed forum culture and Discord is impossible to search. If I'm having trouble installing an old piece of software there's almost always a years old reddit post that answers my question.
And the answer is usually "nvm guys I figured it out!“ followed by dead silence from that account forever.
 
These niggas are so deep in the idpol bubble that they forgot that pronouns aren't a gender indicative thing as the main usage. It's literally just shorthand for a proper noun. You can use the "wrong" pronoun, or any other word as the "pronoun" and if the context of usage is correct you will understand what's being referred to or talked about.

Also I find it odd how the 3rd panel is like just my entire experience with the pronoun police online the last 8 years.
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My name isn't knuckles by the way, I think that's clear. Feels like these comics seem somewhat aware at least about how fucking stupid this pronoun BS is.

These overmedicated ghouls are the ones preaching to you about how the world should be run, by the way.
I'm genuinely glad every day I managed to only be on like 1 medication at a time during different parts of my childhood and weaned myself off the last one before adulthood. I have no clue how people let themselves become this reliant on big pharma.
 
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One of the most depressing rabbit holes on reddit is this entire underbelly of addition to prescription medication that seems to exist in so many people on the site, only made worse by their humblebragging when they reveal how reliant they are on meds to function (the same kind of energy as "Don't talk to me before I've had my morning coffee,").

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These overmedicated ghouls are the ones preaching to you about how the world should be run, by the way.
Would not be shocked if half of those are sugar pills
That tiny off-yellow one is baby aspirin. No clue what the others are, but from that I imagine they're overblowing shit for woe-is-me asspats and updoots.
 
All that makes me wonder is how many times can you misgender someone in a single minute.

Does pointing at them and saying "he" and/or "man" over and over even count?
The pronoun people have a double standard where sometimes if you piss them off and you've been marked as "bigot" by them for not caring about pronoun stuff they start intentionally "misgendering " you in a "it's ok when we do it! still don't you feel bad though? don't you not want to do it anymore?!" way. They're literally just projecting their own intents of control onto you when doing pronoun shit or framing you as bad for not seeing "preferred pronoun" shit as important. I've had so many fucking disgustingly predictable encounters with those types of people the last near decade now that my autismo pattern recognition knows every move immediately and yet can't really do much but go through the motions of the encounter because these people either see it as some kind of own or egg cracking shit or whatever. They are so hard programmed and deluded that they think this will help people join their cause, not getting the fact that if someone already showed no care about pronoun stuff that spamming them with it won't make them suddenly care about it.
 
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The person who wrote this must've not been studying history, or interacting with other people - because evil actions may, and often do, spring from mental illness or desire for power. "Motives better than the hero's" are more likely to be a fib to hide the actual agenda the person is representing. The higher tiers of this "chart" are written with the assumption that a villain does not want to cause any harm willingly - which does happen at times, yes - but this image is trying to portray this type of motivation, as if it's the only justified and acceptable one for a villain in fiction to be adequately written. This is just snobism.

Any of the tropes the image lists can be done well, by the way - it depends on the writer. And the person who made this should never be one.
 
also: Em dashes, and certain vocab. the way it's worded, it's clearly AI
I (28F) have been dating Jake (57M) for about a year. We met at a pottery class (yes, we’re one of those couples), and things have been going great. He’s a sweet guy—treats me like a queen, does nice things like carving wooden spoons for me, and I get free jazz fusion concerts in our living room. Yes, I know there’s an age gap, but we get along, so whatever.

Anyway, recently Jake got really into Reddit—specifically this subreddit. He started reading AITA posts out loud to me every night like it was his personal bedtime ritual. Like, genuinely invested. And he’s so dramatic about it! He yells at the tablet when a verdict doesn’t match his expectations, and at one point, he actually had a full meltdown over someone asking if they were the AH for not allowing their boyfriend to wear a full suit of armor to their wedding.

I wasn’t bothered at first. I mean, it's cute that he’s trying to engage with internet culture, right? But then, I noticed something. Every single post he reads follows the same format and has the same strange details: characters who always have names like Jake, Emma, Mark, and Sarah. The stories are always something absurd, like someone refusing to let their boyfriend keep his pet rock collection in their shared living space, and I just knew something was off.

Also—here’s the kicker—every single post uses an em dash instead of a hyphen, and inverted commas instead of regular quotation marks. Like, I’m no expert, but do normal humans write this way? Is that a thing that people just do? I’ve read actual posts here and I don’t think anyone in the world uses “inverted commas” in real life unless they’re writing in a grammar textbook.

So the other night, I kind of laughed and said, “Babe, you know 99% of these posts are fake, right? Like, they’ve got the same structure, the same names, and the same weird punctuation. Most of them are probably written by AI—seriously, look at how they follow this robotic formula: ‘Am I the Asshole for (completely random scenario that would never happen in real life)? Here’s the backstory, here’s the drama, here’s the plot twist—what do you think?’”.

He didn’t take it well. He got super quiet and then said, “Wow, so you’re just going to ruin the fun for me? I guess I just can’t enjoy things like you can. It’s not like I’m trying to manipulate my emotions with fake stories.” And then, of course, he dropped the “you’re just like Emma” bomb (yes, his sister Emma, the one who once pretended to be allergic to pineapple to get out of doing chores. Classic).

Now, every time I try to bring it up, he gets really defensive. He won’t read AITA to me anymore and keeps saying that I’ve “shattered his innocent joy” because now he can’t unsee the pattern. I didn’t even want to ruin his fun—I just wanted to point out that we’re both being played here.

For context: every single post he reads follows the same structure. Like, I’m talking the exact same pattern: "Am I the Asshole for this completely wild thing? Here’s some background. Here’s a detailed narrative that suddenly takes a bizarre turn. Here’s a question—what do you think, Reddit?". I just don’t get it. Why is this a thing? Every post is a variant of the same scenario, and I’m supposed to treat it like real life? Meanwhile, Jake is over here acting like I killed his pet hamster just because I said the posts might not be 100% genuine. So, AITA? Should I have just let him keep reading these completely wild, formulaic, punctuation-crazy, AI-generated stories for fun? Or am I justified in saying something?

Edit: In light of everything, I’ve decided to go no contact with Jake. It’s clear that he’s not open to having a real conversation about this, and the whole thing is just starting to feel too manipulative. I can’t keep pretending that these AI-generated posts are “authentic” just because they’re fun for him to read. I’m over it.
 
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