gnar

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my take on it is that its impossible to believe in "this is reddit" as an insult and also "cringe culture is dead" simultaneously unless "cringe culture" means something much more narrow than people typically say it is (which i think is the case)

see like this is also the same sort of deal that i dont really understand. why do people love to pile on how bad reddit is but not {facebook, instagram, twitter, tiktok, etc}. i get that its a funny sentiment but its also just "my website is better than your website". i dont understand the impulse. the reddit front page is not significantly worse than the twitter timeline, the tiktok for you page, or the youtube trending tab

notably, people complain about twitter the website, but dont typically dont go on to label [mostly harmlessly annoying] behavior as being "twitter". ex: people complain about how QRTs drives a certain type of strongly negative and meanspirited behavior, and people have negative terms for certain types of twitter users like "reply guy" or "irony guy". but it doesnt seem either of those things describes twitter users as a whole.

theres an implicit assumption that "reply guy" isnt the same thing as "twitter user", and moreover that "twitter user" isnt a coherent group and that it would be unfair to try and assume twitter's userbase is any one thing. but reddit doesnt get this treatment even though it is also obviously true.

(also sry to essaypost at u, this isnt intended to be confrontational)

I think this might just be a demographic thing, tbh. Spend enough time on Reddit and there are plenty of comments suggesting that Twitter is a uniform hellscape of complete idiots, devoid of any value. Most people, while willing to criticize "their" social media site, aren't going to do it quite so broad terms. If they do, they'll do so in semi-ironic "hellsite" terms ala Tumblr.

thats true. "our website sucks (but not really)" vs "their website sucks (and is legitimately bad)"

(this reminds me of when league vs dota was sort of a thing and you had the sentiment of "dota sucks but at least its not league" and vice versa)

Funnily enough, I think League is almost at the point where its own players are its primary detractors.

But yeah, I think part of the social media effect there is selection bias of course (if you think a site is truly horrible, you won't stay), and also that anyone who has is less invested probably has a worse time. At least in my experience, most of them improve dramatically when you curate your own experience. The "front page" of any large social media site is poison.

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