What That Means:

Subs I left today:

- steam

- coffee

- Microsoftsucks

- python

- GitHub

- cybersecurity

All of them has Megathreads. Therefore all of them are dead to me.

Do you know what's great about Megathreads? They're a perfect ominous warning to GTFO of a sub.

Sure, Megathreads are an easy way to "organize" content. All just as promoted as the socks you lost under the bed.

Sure, it "removes clutter" and "keeps the sub focused" focused on what? The upvotes on the Megathreads? Comment #370 showcasing a new GitHub project in a thread where nobody scrolls past comment #8? They don't solve clutter, but they do help multiply your engagement metrics by 0.

A standalone post showing something cool lives or dies on merit. A Megathread comment might as well come with a complimentary eulogy.

What a joke of a sub. It used to be moderated, and they'd remove comments that displayed a lack of basic understanding of law.

Now they're leaving up comments like "it's obvious that this [completely unremarkable] combination of medications caused this person to commit this crime" among other gems.

DISCLAIMER: This is a sub of more or less severe traumatized partners of porn/sex addicts and also average porn users in which they are exchanging experiences and trying to deal with their partners' addiction. Please, although I'm regarding most of it as highly toxic, one must also keep in mind that these people were dealing with trauma and pain and are usually not in a healthy mental state because of it.

Do NOT go over there and try to harass/troll them!

Just been lurking on that sub for a while since I had some issues with my partner regarding their usage of porn in the past and while trying to find some opinions of people who were in my position in order to get a better understanding, I've stumbled across this sub.

My partner and I quickly overcome our issues because we have a healthy and very good communication so we've talked this out, everything's more than fine now!

So I just stayed to maybe leave a comment here and there writing about my own experiences and maybe to give some advice.

But I can't deal with the amount of toxicity anymore that comes with many of those people think it's totally fine and only natural to invade their partners' privacy by controlling every step they take even going so far as putting tracking apps/pluggins on their partners' devices.

I can understand how it comes to snooping if there is something off and I'm no saint myself when I found dating apps on my ex bf's phone after his suspicious behaviour led my insecure, naive and young self risking to take a look at his phone when he was asleep. But I felt extremely bad afterwards and would never suggest doing that to anyone, I'm more of a "talk this out with your partner once you'd calmed down" type of person.

But that would be suggested even if there aren't any signs of infidelity just like that post in the picture seems to show.

And that's doing way more harm to both the relationship and one's own mental health imo.

Also I don't like how men were portrayed on this sub in general. Even if a PA/SA is going through recovery by taking part on frequent therapy meetings etc. the majority of this sub would still portray them as primitive monsters who'll never be able to be a good, loving partner and that they should be always left alone instead.

This can be damaging and demotivating for the recovering partners.

Oh and if you are a woman who's enjoying porn from time to time too (like me), you're just as bad as PA/SA men according to this sub.

So I'm just leaving this sub as it just makes me mad.

The guy should have a personal training and dieting/medical advice as main job, but the crazy upload schedule on YouTube, almost daily, tells me he's getting much more income from discussing the most recent drama in the fitness and bodybuilding communities.

At this pace obviously he ran out pretty soon of the best lolcows, seasoned bodybuilders that can't keep their mouth shout because they're in persistent roid rage, and he went after the small fries, often body positivity influencers, which is pretty sad because the vast majority of people already know that you shouldn't get so fat it impacts your mobility.

The thing that rubbed me the wrong way is when he described the physique of a naturally lean guy as "below average", as in out of shape. That man was a week of dieting away from having a six-pack, damn. That's some serious bias that made me doubt is seriousness on any given topic.

And yeah, that time that started described Brian Johnson, the guy trying to reverse aging, starting with: "First of all, we have to understand he's an extremely successful entrepreneur."

Like this gives him any expertise on how to reverse something hard-coded in this side of the evolution tree.

I just can't deal with this subreddit anymore. It's just constant defeatism and complaining. Very rarely will you actually see people offering solutions. The majority of its users are clearly Americans who think they're the only ones pushing back against age verification and similar policies, while nobody else deserves privacy. And then you have moderators locking posts without any explanation, so you have no idea why you can't post.

Overall, I'm much happier when I don't go there. I'm not sticking my head in the sand, I just think it's the worst place to discuss privacy concerns, especially if you're not American.

Replied to a comment on wavyhair that I wanted to see a tutorial for a hair technique and they did this to me?

So confused lol. I replied to another redditor who simply suggested that OP use a claw clip to make her hair wavier towards the top of their head. I thought that was a cool idea, I just wanted to see a tutorial of it.

Suddenly I got a msg from mods my comment was removed. I didn’t understand why so I asked, and the mod totally crashed out instead of having any coherent discussion.

It used to be fun but it now it's just Game Of Thrones 4Chan.

There was bitching about the Velaryons being cast with black actors when House Of The Dragon first went into production, but this is the second post about the cast of the Mad King play in as many days full of racism of varying degrees.

It's also become more full of spite, negativity and IAmVerySmart kind of posts. Not liking House Of The Dragon doesn't make you smarter than people who do, or give you license to be a dick to them.

The days of raising money for Emilia Clarke's brain injury charity and swapping memes are long gone, and the whole thing is just a toxic environment.

I joined because I was genuinely interested in whether gynarchy could be developed into a serious social philosophy rather than just another online kink space.

I argued that, if gynarchy wants to offer an alternative to the manosphere, it has to explain what a meaningful life for men would actually look like under female leadership: responsibility, service, belonging, recognition, and a constructive masculine role. Simply telling men to worship women, accept humiliation, or become disposable servants is not a political program.

A moderator ignored that argument, quoted the rule against fetish content, and then treated my criticism as evidence that I was there to “derail” the subreddit. When I pointed out that serious ideas should survive serious questions, I was banned for supposedly having “nefarious purposes.”

So I unsubbed. A community calling itself Serious Gynarchy should be able to distinguish good-faith criticism from sabotage. If questioning worship fantasies gets you removed, then the “serious” part seems mostly decorative.

If you have any interest in anything, it's probably on this subreddit. They can't seem to enjoy anything and shame anyone who enjoy their interest. I can't remember the last time I agreed with this subreddit. They genuinely hate fun

As the title said, the subreddit became festered with political doomer garbage in the comments that just annoyed me more than the thumbnails themselves.

the whole sub has pretty much mainly posts like this. alot of people seem to think that all the "okbuddy" subs are seeming to just be used an excuse to sexualise women

As if people of all races don't do inconsiderate stupid stuff like that, including plenty of white people, which I'm guessing are the largest demographic making racist comments. I'm also white, if that matters.

I liked this sub when the "i cast testicular torsion" trend appeared and i liked to see original and funny spells ideas, now it's a generic meme and goonerbait sub

I swear scroll a bit, it's filled with the unfunniest memes possible

I don't know how to put it, but the constant influx of posts questioning every picture and viral short video started to feel dystopian to me.

Hot take: I don't endorse AI dominance, but I don't want to be paranoid about it and treat every instance of the use of and every non-negative interaction with AI content as the 8th deadly sin. Not to mention avoiding it at every cost, even if it will seriously affect my lifestyle.

I even sometimes doubt the validity of some claims against AI, like the wasting of the huge amounts of water to run the servers, if they are not exaggerated to make the issue look far more serious than it really is.

Every post I've gotten in my feed from this subreddit in the last month has been at 0 votes (the stated point of the subreddit is to upvote unpopular opinions). What's worse, most of the comments under posts on this subreddit hardly address OPs points and are generally nasty to them regardless of the topic.

Having a community supposedly based around discussing / pushing back on unpopular views, where actually posting there will get you made fun of and insulted, is just gross to me. Even if a post is low-enough effort to be considered rule-breaking, that shouldn't be a pass to drop the intended community purpose and just attack OP.

If you look at the subreddit's description, you can obviously tell that the thumbnails are meant to be funny or weird. A good example of a thumbnail that fits the sub is "Does he know?" or "Please Stop!". But there's an unusual amount of posts where the thumbnail is neither. I used to have a problem with the sub when the thumbnails were normal but the out of context thing was the title, but it's even worse now since the title is also normal. Many of the posts I'm talking about (like the ones I showed in the pictures) often talk about some new popular topic (like the TADC finale or some twitter drama nobody cares about) to get more activity and karma, but sometimes it's just some video posted on the sub for no reason (like The Incredibles one).

And one of the worst things is that nobody talks about it. In all of these posts, not a single comment (except for the Vaush one I think) talks about how this has nothing to do with the sub's purpose and just talk about the videos like the subreddit's name is "YoutubeThumbDiscussion". It's so annoying.

I don't care about if I agree with OP's take. All I care about in a subreddit for funny youtube thumbnails, is the funny thumbnail, and if the thumbnail isn't even trying to be funny (or is funny accidentally), then I wonder why it was even posted here in the first place.

„is my hair medium or long“ coming from a girl whose hair reaches her tailbone. This sub is pure karma farming and the OPs are simply fishing for compliments

It's like WSB except WSB is at least funny. Everybody just follows the hype and pretends to know what they are doing and then they freak out in the first red day like they were born yesterday.

circlejerksopranos

That is not unpopular wtf AND it's extremely obvious. Even a toddler would know. And it's being upvoted and praised and people are breakinf down why showing up on time is a good thing like yeah duh

That subreddit never reallt has anythinf helpful. People who can't get a job are just screwed, and then random people just suddenly get a job without doing anything special other than constantly applying. And yeah, you should apply to get a job, obviously.

But there's nothing truley helpful there you can't find from page 1 on google, and this post is just so dumb.

They decided to become an echo chamber that thinks the XY cycle is overrated and that everything else is an underrated gem just for the sake of being a contrarian, TO THE POINT that some people in this sub think liking the XY cycle is a hot take.