What makes something "Reddit"?

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Tablet County

Tablet County

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Reddit behavior gets shit on a lot on this website and others. Which is understandable, as tremendous faggots should be mocked for their tremendous faggotry. But the more I think about the more I wonder if these faggy behaviors are at all unique to Reddit. And if they are, what is uniquely Reddit about them? Moreover, what makes Reddit behavior any different than the behavior of users on KF?
Hiveminded circlejerk behavior? Every enclosed bubble in a website is masturbatory to some extent, whether it's a subreddit, a subforum, a board, whatever the hell Twitter has.
Milking a joke or a meme long after it's stopped being funny? JULAAAAAY!
Smarmy self-righteousness and appeals to the crowd in order to cover up for a low IQ? What are Autistic Thunderdome and Lolcow Salon except subreddits where you're allowed to say nigger?
Updoot dopamine addiction? People treat stickers like serious business on this site all the time, even despite Null and Hitler's best efforts, and ratioing someone is considered a crowning achievement on Twitter.
 
someone posted this on the reddit thread at some point, i found it pretty succinct, but tl;dr the site is fundamentally designed to promote a faggot baby bitch modus of communication

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I find it's more a quantitative difference than a qualitative one. As you say, there are "hivemind" opinions in every kind of group to some degree (shared beliefs are one of the things that make us want to group up), but it's both extreme and reinforced by how Reddit works structurally.

The site is tailored-made to reinforce all of those annoying in-group habits.
 
Hiccup Scream said:
someone posted this on the reddit thread at some point, i found it pretty succinct, but tl;dr the site is fundamentally designed to promote a faggot baby bitch modus of communication

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Ibanez RG 350EX said:
I find it's more a quantitative difference than a qualitative one. As you say, there are "hivemind" opinions in every kind of group to some degree (shared beliefs are one of the things that make us want to group up), but it's both extreme and reinforced by how Reddit works structurally.

The site is tailored-made to reinforce all of those annoying in-group habits.
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So what I'm getting from this is that Reddit behavior is unique because it's encouraged and enforced from the top-down rather than through peer pressure?
 
Tablet County said:
So what I'm getting from this is that Reddit behavior is unique because it's encouraged and enforced from the top-down rather than through peer pressure?
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Initially I'm sure that was the issue, but eventually that enforcement creates a feedback loop where anyone with even a hint of capacity for independent thought leaves or gets jannied and only the most mindless followers stay.

It's a vicious cycle that after years and years has led to "Reddit behavior".
 
Reddit is the only website that forces you to parroting what other users have already said in order for you to use the websites "intended" use (you have to farm karma points before posting). This is the first step in learning the "reddit language", and before you know it, you start typing like that out of a habit and now you are a redditor everywhere on the internet. On 4chan, Kiwifarms or other forum on the internet, if you type original or funny shit, it's appreciated. But on reddit, you will get downvoted and lectured by the heckn' mods to use the "correct" words and then banned, all that because of you were going outside their comfort vocabulary dictionary. Make no mistake, it's by design, it's on purpose that it is like this.

Retardation and faggotry can be found everywhere on the internet, but reddit takes the price when it comes to the % of the userbase being both.

"I'm locking the comments you biggots" - janny tranny
 
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Hardline Traditionalist said:
"Redditor" is basically a generic insult toward left-wingers, just like "soyboy" and "midwit".
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I've always thought of "midwit" as a universal insult. Though maybe that's just because I keep reading A&N threads and that's always the first word that comes to mind whenever some dipshit types "DIEversity" like they think they're clever.
 
Tablet County said:
I've always thought of "midwit" as a universal insult. Though maybe that's just because I keep reading A&N threads and that's always the first word that comes to mind whenever some dipshit types "DIEversity" like they think they're clever.
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I usually see it used against leftists. The reasoning for that usually goes as follows: you have above-average, but not incredibly high IQ -> you become insecure, cause you're not smart enough to be a genius and smart enough to realize it -> you adopt radical left-wing politics to distinguish yourself from the "normies".
 
There’s a few things that will make me consider something to be reddit:
•insincerity, especially when tied together with other things.
•smugness at the idea of being better than someone because they asked.
•hyperconsumerism
•lashing out at someone for not going along with the hivemind.
 
Hardline Traditionalist said:
I usually see it used against leftists. The reasoning for that usually goes as follows: you have above-average, but not incredibly high IQ -> you become insecure, cause you're not smart enough to be a genius and smart enough to realize it -> you adopt radical left-wing politics to distinguish yourself from the "normies".
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I thought the thing about being midwitted was you were smarter than average but not smart enough to realize you aren't that smart. The Sargon conundrum, you might call it.
 
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•insincerity, especially when tied together with other things.
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There's a lot of insincerity, but also this performative, over the top, cloying sincerity about very particular things.

It's weird. When somebody says stuff like "[POP CULTURE PRODUCT] saved my life when I wanted to kill myself" and everybody updoots and tells them how wonderful and heckin' wholesome that is, that's quintessential Reddit behavior to me.
 
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Tablet County said:
I thought the thing about being midwitted was you were smarter than average but not smart enough to realize you aren't that smart. The Sargon conundrum, you might call it.
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I've heard this explanation as well, and I personally don't buy it cause a person overestimating his intelligence is gonna get humbled pretty quickly. But I also think that arguing about an internet meme word is kinda gay, so I don't really care that much.
 
Nowadays, a lack of earnestness veiled by false positivity makes something Reddit. As others in the thread have said, Reddit is designed to get you to parrot the jannies' hive mind opinions, which you have to do if you want to speak on the website and get updoot dopamine. The more positively you speak about these things, the more updoots you get, which leads to lots of false positivity. Consoomerism comes from this because you're consuming these things not out of a genuine love for them, but because Reddit told you they're the most amazing things ever to exist; since the most fun part of these things is mindlessly consuming and posting on Reddit, you keep consuming again and again. In order to keep the stale operations of Reddit appearing fresh, you have to vary your comments, which means slathering on some flashy humour and explaining (to yourself and your fellow bugmen) why you're saying these things, in turn leading to the smug self-righteousness for which Reddit is known.

In a previous era of the Internet, Reddit meant being a smug know-it-all with a superiority complex. This original definition is still reflected in current Reddit, but because Reddit is now mainly populated by normies, these original bad qualities of Reddit have been amplified to the current definition, and none of it is earnest anymore because these normies weren't there when the Reddit hivemind was being formed.
 
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