It just seems like theyre so different and not in a good way. Anything general society agrees with, they disagree with. The hatred for kids too is just disgusting tbh, you dont gotta be in awe of them every moment but the amount of hatred some of these losers have for them is telling.
Ive had a person tell me something along the lines of a lot of redditors being neurodivergent. Makes sense but it doesn’t seem likely. Even on instagram I feel like theres some folks who seem to be in line with the general public. Maybe Im missing something here.
Comments
Which sub-reddits? What time of day? I haven’t found Reddit to be monolithic or homogenized anything? Could you be projecting or otherwise mistaking your own psyche for Reddit?
No
No I don’t find Reddit to be more odd than humanity, and no I don’t think it’s got more people with neurodiversity. It’s the same people.
Maybe the subs you’re in or people you engage.
Might be you have limited social network and are shocked by the variety of opinions when you get on a big public platform.
Anonymity changes what people share.
You will have more people here who are not the social media type probably – social media kinda pressures you to share your life to engage, not just thoughts and chats. Reddit is a forum, those are socials. I know that’s why I like Reddit – never been big on talking about myself, and I genuinely don’t care to see into peoples lives like that either.
It’s funny that you say this. Just today I was thinking that it seems most Reddit users are angry, liberal, snobby, think they are more intelligent. I completely agree with you!
I get a lot of oddball comments that are off topic, or insulting without justification. Responding to their comments is not worth my time.
There’s a lot of keyboard warriors tbh. They say things that they would never say IRL.
It’s human nature to look at things from different angles, and reddit is a place where many people of different views come together.
Pair that with being able to hide behind a username and zero consequences aside from getting banned from a subreddit, and you get people saying what is normally the quiet part of their thoughts out loud. Then, when people disagree, due to them also having the same conditions as the person stating their opinions, they usually match the energy of the person they’re talking to.
This can lead to what is usually civil conversation or talking points in real life being turned into black and white strawmans or accusatory arguments. Once that happens, it’s just back and forth vitriol where people are stating their opinions in a very extreme way, and if you don’t agree with someone, they see you as bad or worthy of bullying.
Sucks, but it’s how human behavior plays out sometimes.
YES
People are odd.
Redditis is a safe space for the undiagnosed mentally ill.
I think a lot of them are the equivalent of the sign guy on your town square. You might disagree with what he has on the sign, but you aren’t going to sit down with him and try to convince him otherwise because you already know that it won’t be fun.
People might be telling the truth…