“Get therapy” – usually used by people who’ve obviously failed to learn anything from their own sessions and their therapists milk them for years.
Usually these disfunctional adults also believe in astrology and Myers-Briggs personality types horoscopes – pretty much anything that justifies their stupid behavior and allows them to have no accountability for their own decisions and mistakes.
“On behalf of [insert race/gender/whatever], I apologize.”
You don’t speak for me. There’s a good chance I either don’t care, won’t apologize, or actually support whatever you’re opposing.
Also, any sort of sanctimony and the word “bootlicker.”
On controversial opinion threads, “I actually like pineapple on pizza,” gets upvoted like crazy. But an actual controversial opinion gets downvoted to hell.
Some street solicitor addressed me as my dude, and I just shook my head. Quite frankly, the user has to have a certain vibe about them to credibly use “my guy” or “my dude.”
When people are condescending and start off with “it sounds like you don’t x that often, or else you’d x”.
I work in sales and there was a Mr big dick salesman on here who thought we was an alpha male salesman and he just knew that I didn’t have that “seal team six killer hungry shark salesman mindset”.
Nah bro, our company sucks ass and you’re scamming people. A good thing sells itself.
“All [Insert gender] Do [Insert personal veiw]” any sort of mass grouping people in with one idea always pisses me off.
Also people who project when giving advice. Not “I’ve been through similar and this is what I’ve done.” No, I’ve just seen a lot of people giving bad advice based on their bad experiences and the toxic view it gave them. Especially to young posters.
This is more of a complaint about the state of the internet and commoditization of social media, but all of the substitute phrases to avoid saying ‘unseemly’ words. Things like “unalive” or many sexual related phrases.
Policing language doesn’t solve the percieved problem it’s trying to solve. People shouldn’t tell others to harm themselves, or make threats, or whatever else, but it’s going to happen anyway regardless of the language used. I actually think the sanitizing of language makes these types of statements seem less significant than they actually are which makes people more likely to say them because it doesn’t have the “bad words” in it.
We shouldn’t be casual about these things, but we should also be able to use the actual language that refers to it instead of weasel words to get past some filter to be acceptable to advertisers.
When having an online discussion, the answer “typical reddit response” drives me crazy. It’s a typical Ad Hominem attack, and begs the question – if you’re saying that, what are you even doing here?
When reddit insists you said something totally different than (and sometimes even the complete opposite of) the comment you actually wrote. Like seriously, it’s right there to reread if you understand it incorrectly
I can’t stand the whole somebody says a song lyric and people keep it going in the comments. Wow you guys heard that song too?!?! And you remember the lyrics?!?!
“Don’t people discuss pregnancy before having sex?” Usually seen in sex/relationship subreddits when someone’s had a pregnancy scare
I’ve never sat a woman down to have a formal talk about pregnancy/abortion before having sex with them and no woman has done it to me. If those redditors ever had sex they’d know it’s usually spontaneous, especially the first time, and that that conversation comes later. Usually after a scare lol
Using “cooked” to describe a situation. A la “I am cooked.” “We are cooked.” In 99.9999% of situations, we are not, in fact, cooked. Plus, its a spineless way to react to something bad happening. We’re only cooked if we do nothing and let the situation persist.
“It’s almost like”, typically followed by something douchey
Also the “Um acshually” thing people do on here where they think that they can completely disregard your post because of some minor point that they latch on to
Any legitimate concern about the integrity of one’s relationship can be immediately 2UU [Counterspell] if you just tell the guy he’s being insecure and controlling. There’s a post on /r/relationship_advice right now about a girl planning a sleepover with her “gay best friend” and the OP is being excoriated for insecurity, even with the added context of “she goes on nights out with her guy friends all the time, 1 is an ex, another was a former FWB, some of the others have openly propositioned/hit on her” …and dude is being called insecure.
Dude is widely considered to be a gender neutral term on the internet, my dude. (Sorry, couldn’t resist.) For me, it’s just the general decline in formal writing that makes me angry. Punctuation and the use of real words is important when text is the entire medium.
Also, having to scroll past the same 20 people making the same tired jokes on every thread to find any discussion of merit. Yeah yeah, you too choose his wife, we know, shut up.
I’ll preface this by saying I’m a queer liberal atheist elder millennial. I’m the target demographic for Reddit these days.
The absolute rageboner people have for queer performance art here is insane. And I don’t mean actual queer performers, I mean performing queerness. You have to be okay with every neopronoun or you’re a bigot. You have to be okay with tumblrkin identities or you’re a bigot. You have to have an indomitable hatred for Harry Potter and Chick-Fil-A or you’re a bigot. It’s so, so exhausting.
Reddit is second only to Tumblr as a platform for this, maybe TikTok in there. But if you’re not absolutely performing maximal allyship or non-straightness, you’re the enemy, always.
“as a ____ myself” on stuff that’s doesn’t fucking matter (like “as an avid chocolate ice cream lover myself”). I totally get it if it’s some medical or engineering shit, but useless factoids about urself just for the sake of saying it pisses me off for some reason.
Not only reddit, but I’m seeing a rise in sybau. I hate it, it’s such a lazy and insulting way to engage with people you disagree with.
I just don’t like the idea of normalising that kind of interaction, even though I’m well aware that social media is where manners and decency come to die.
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For me its “my dude” almost guaranteed not to be said by a man.
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This
“U mad…”
First off, I’d have to value your opinion for it to affect me.
Secondly, is that all you’re here for? Is to make people mad? How f’n pathetic is that?
I’m glad we’re not hearing people being “whatever-pilled” as much anymore. What a stupid fucking trend.
Not just a reddit thing, but my eyes roll to the back of my head everytime I see “ick”
“Get therapy” – usually used by people who’ve obviously failed to learn anything from their own sessions and their therapists milk them for years.
Usually these disfunctional adults also believe in astrology and Myers-Briggs personality types horoscopes – pretty much anything that justifies their stupid behavior and allows them to have no accountability for their own decisions and mistakes.
People diagnosing people they don’t know with mental illness or saying gaslighting, narcissist and projecting. That and hubby, wifey etc.
People calling themselves “introverted” when they mean shy. I understand there are overlaps, but shy != introverted.
“ Sweet summer child”. STFU.
“On behalf of [insert race/gender/whatever], I apologize.”
You don’t speak for me. There’s a good chance I either don’t care, won’t apologize, or actually support whatever you’re opposing.
Also, any sort of sanctimony and the word “bootlicker.”
On controversial opinion threads, “I actually like pineapple on pizza,” gets upvoted like crazy. But an actual controversial opinion gets downvoted to hell.
Ok boomer…
YMMV, AFAIK, IIRC
Some street solicitor addressed me as my dude, and I just shook my head. Quite frankly, the user has to have a certain vibe about them to credibly use “my guy” or “my dude.”
Full stop is incredibly stupid.
When people are condescending and start off with “it sounds like you don’t x that often, or else you’d x”.
I work in sales and there was a Mr big dick salesman on here who thought we was an alpha male salesman and he just knew that I didn’t have that “seal team six killer hungry shark salesman mindset”.
Nah bro, our company sucks ass and you’re scamming people. A good thing sells itself.
“All [Insert gender] Do [Insert personal veiw]” any sort of mass grouping people in with one idea always pisses me off.
Also people who project when giving advice. Not “I’ve been through similar and this is what I’ve done.” No, I’ve just seen a lot of people giving bad advice based on their bad experiences and the toxic view it gave them. Especially to young posters.
When people assume you know what they mean when they use an abreviation, they use it all the way through the post with no explanation
“this”
Fixed that for you. Or even more obnoxiously “FTFY.” It’s almost always used when someone is being an utter twat and arguing in bad faith.
Closely followed is: “X here.” As a template it’s weak. There’s better ways to write the same thing.
This is more of a complaint about the state of the internet and commoditization of social media, but all of the substitute phrases to avoid saying ‘unseemly’ words. Things like “unalive” or many sexual related phrases.
Policing language doesn’t solve the percieved problem it’s trying to solve. People shouldn’t tell others to harm themselves, or make threats, or whatever else, but it’s going to happen anyway regardless of the language used. I actually think the sanitizing of language makes these types of statements seem less significant than they actually are which makes people more likely to say them because it doesn’t have the “bad words” in it.
We shouldn’t be casual about these things, but we should also be able to use the actual language that refers to it instead of weasel words to get past some filter to be acceptable to advertisers.
My brother in christ
When having an online discussion, the answer “typical reddit response” drives me crazy. It’s a typical Ad Hominem attack, and begs the question – if you’re saying that, what are you even doing here?
“am I cooked”
Guarantee, my first response to seeing that is a burning desire to slap you with a trout.
I was happy when ‘le reddit army’ died off.
“You, good sir” is one that always irks me. It just reads as pretentious and circle-jerky.
😅😁👉🏼👈🏼😵🤔🖕🏼
Reddit fucking hates emojis.
Imma use em as much as I want. 🖕🏼🥸🖕🏼
“ah yes,…”
“I (MXX) and my girlfriend (FXX) blah blah blah” and their variations
There has got to be a better way to get that context in the Title besides just slapping the M/F[AGE] in. It’s painful to read every time
IFYKYK-not really
My brother in Christ
Sweetie
Sir, this is a Wendy’s
Mate (from an American)
Is the [point just made] in the room with us right now?
When reddit insists you said something totally different than (and sometimes even the complete opposite of) the comment you actually wrote. Like seriously, it’s right there to reread if you understand it incorrectly
Show receipts.
I can’t stand the whole somebody says a song lyric and people keep it going in the comments. Wow you guys heard that song too?!?! And you remember the lyrics?!?!
Nice.
/s
Colombian accent, drives me crazy in a different way
“Don’t people discuss pregnancy before having sex?” Usually seen in sex/relationship subreddits when someone’s had a pregnancy scare
I’ve never sat a woman down to have a formal talk about pregnancy/abortion before having sex with them and no woman has done it to me. If those redditors ever had sex they’d know it’s usually spontaneous, especially the first time, and that that conversation comes later. Usually after a scare lol
Saying “lil bro” to someone that makes a legitimate counter to something you write
“Tell me you are without telling me you are “
This shit is so lame, particularly when used as an insult. It’s just feels so pathetically passive aggressive
“You do realize that ___, right?” reeks of condescension and drives me mad.
Also shut the FUCK up about Tetris.
Using “cooked” to describe a situation. A la “I am cooked.” “We are cooked.” In 99.9999% of situations, we are not, in fact, cooked. Plus, its a spineless way to react to something bad happening. We’re only cooked if we do nothing and let the situation persist.
too many people being gaslit
“Oh sweet summer child…”
“Full stop”
Especially when the user that uses that phrase is whoefully incorrect lol.
The pseudo-therapist language.
I can’t.
Grape
Unalive
Be adults. USE YOUR WORDS
“It’s almost like”, typically followed by something douchey
Also the “Um acshually” thing people do on here where they think that they can completely disregard your post because of some minor point that they latch on to
“the bare minimum” + “the bar is on the floor” for demands that aren’t basic at all
People using the term gaslit incorrectly. It is more than simply lying to someone.
Also all the questions about red flags and green flags.
> insecurity
Any legitimate concern about the integrity of one’s relationship can be immediately 2UU [Counterspell] if you just tell the guy he’s being insecure and controlling. There’s a post on /r/relationship_advice right now about a girl planning a sleepover with her “gay best friend” and the OP is being excoriated for insecurity, even with the added context of “she goes on nights out with her guy friends all the time, 1 is an ex, another was a former FWB, some of the others have openly propositioned/hit on her” …and dude is being called insecure.
When somebody makes a long post and they use a bunch of acronyms that are niche to their field of work.
I.e.
“I work in tech and last week we had 2 wtpi’s and and in an hour we had 3 kprd’s.”
Dude is widely considered to be a gender neutral term on the internet, my dude. (Sorry, couldn’t resist.) For me, it’s just the general decline in formal writing that makes me angry. Punctuation and the use of real words is important when text is the entire medium.
Bro, fr, af, rn, literally, super, this, this is the way, cooked, cope
The “NEED” to be the “akshuly” person.
Over-used, predictable, stupid jokes. They can also be found in many posts in this subreddit.
THIS
Not exactly speak, but someone in a group asked for hot takes on that community. I gave my opinion and got permabanned.
“You win the internet”, “Doggo” talk and “Edit: thanks for the award” speeches, infuriates me to the max.
All the acronyms/initialisms
IMHO OP YTA.
TLDR: AFAIK YTA
When something slaps like it’s a good thing.
“Hmmmm, there’s a lot to unpack here.” and other kinds of therapy-speak.
“Hard agree/disagree” fuck youuuuuu
Also, having to scroll past the same 20 people making the same tired jokes on every thread to find any discussion of merit. Yeah yeah, you too choose his wife, we know, shut up.
I’ll preface this by saying I’m a queer liberal atheist elder millennial. I’m the target demographic for Reddit these days.
The absolute rageboner people have for queer performance art here is insane. And I don’t mean actual queer performers, I mean performing queerness. You have to be okay with every neopronoun or you’re a bigot. You have to be okay with tumblrkin identities or you’re a bigot. You have to have an indomitable hatred for Harry Potter and Chick-Fil-A or you’re a bigot. It’s so, so exhausting.
Reddit is second only to Tumblr as a platform for this, maybe TikTok in there. But if you’re not absolutely performing maximal allyship or non-straightness, you’re the enemy, always.
All the abbreviations driving me nuts. I have to go look them up because I don’t know what they are.
Fucking “aged like a fine wine”.
Just think of a single other way to describe it.
There are others that are obviously annoying and lazy, but this one really fucking does my head in.
“Google it yourself” or things similar
Especially when Google leads me to the thread where that’s the answer
/s
“as a ____ myself” on stuff that’s doesn’t fucking matter (like “as an avid chocolate ice cream lover myself”). I totally get it if it’s some medical or engineering shit, but useless factoids about urself just for the sake of saying it pisses me off for some reason.
Not only reddit, but I’m seeing a rise in sybau. I hate it, it’s such a lazy and insulting way to engage with people you disagree with.
I just don’t like the idea of normalising that kind of interaction, even though I’m well aware that social media is where manners and decency come to die.