Reddit admins used to take a very hands-off approach. This is partially because one of their celebrity activist founders (Aaron Swartz) was a free speech absolutist who believed, "words don't hurt people, interpretation does", paraphrased.[5] Nowadays, Reddit is very censorial, banning subreddits left and right, be they legal porn subreddits, hate speech subreddits, and a wide variety of other subreddits. They will ban communities of thousands without notice and without giving the owner a backup. Given that Reddit is absolutely huge,[6] it's attracted an absolutely huge number of cranks and idiots, as documented below.

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Reddit

Also on the remaining subreddits the rules have become fairly strict, with people having their posts and comments getting filtered, removed, or draw instant permabans, all the time.

I also can't use reveddit.com any more because of the push shift ban.

When I first visited this sub-reddit many years ago, post would be written as neutral as possible to get a legit answer to you question. Am I the ass hole? There was no bias to lead the reader to agree with the OP and be against the OP's "protagonist." You could actually learn social etiquette from many of these post.

Today, this sub-reddit has become a shell of what it once was. I feel like every post that gets upvoted to the top are already written in a way where OP can't be the asshole because the party they're up against is written like a villain.

I feel like the AITA sub has become a place to justify a posters actions rather than pose a legitimate question to be judged.

Whenever I accidentally open reddit without signing in, the posts that appear on the front page is just god-awful.

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i subbed to some subs such as cats because cat

The year is 2035. You had a dream last night where you were back on reddit, before it was superceded by Meta or Google or whatever AI-powered corporatized hellsite is better at aggregating news. You remembered an old section, a "subreddit?" called /r/circlebroke, where people sometimes liked to comment on what mainstream reddit looked like, and offer commentary on how silly the wider internet could be. You ask your AI assistant to write you a post in that style.

It comes out like this:

Today I've got a lot of creative energy. My nan's out of the hospital, my cat's eating again, I'm applying to new jobs, and I want to gripe about a post from reddit that got stuck in my craw this morning. Overall, it's been a good day!

CONTENT WARNING: That video contains audio of someone screaming very loudly for a very long time specifically to be annoying. It's highly effective at that.

If you're worried about deepfakes for their misinformation potential, maybe this'll give you some comfort: this post is misinformation, but it's actually real footage. No AI required! So hey, at least deepfakes won't completely revolutionize the art of tricking people. Good old human stupidity gets us partway there as it is!

That said, this is a video of protestors being disruptive instead of arguing any points. How silly of them! Don't they know that all they're doing is making their movement look bad?

Let's list the awful tactics used by these people in furtherance of their pro-trans message:

One of them is carrying a sign that says "Jesus is trans"! How over-the-top foolish!

One of them is screaming her lungs out for no apparent reason!

One of them is muttering into a bullhorn about how people don't understand the hate they're spreading!

Then they get up and blow kisses at the cameraperson. Hoho, the drama!

And over top of it all, a BOOMING VOICE proclaims at high volume: "IF YOU DON'T PLAY INTO THE TRANS AGENDA, YOU ARE CAST OUT AS A BULLY-"

Now, that last thing might make you pause for a second. You might be wondering "What actual trans activist would ever use the term 'trans agenda,' and use the words 'cast out' to refer to their political enemies?"

You'd wonder that and get no answer because that voice is not pro-trans. It's actually anti-trans.

So, let's flex our media literacy muscles here. It's a group of protestors, but they're not the loudest voices, and in fact they seem to be deliberately acting in a way that disrupts. They blow kisses at the cameraperson for some reason, even though they just got done screeching and trying to annoy them. What must be happening here?

If you guessed "counter-protesting," you'd be correct! They're counter-protesting a right-wing rally! They're sarcastically blowing kisses!

Now, you and I might have been able to figure that out literally just by realizing they're being drowned out by a massive booming voice that is clearly advocating against them. You and I might have been able to suss out that maybe the point of being disruptive is to, y'know, disrupt something.

But not reddit!

#Observation 1: Hmm, what's a good joke that will get me upvotes? Oh, I know! I'll try sarcasm! Sarcasm is when you comment "Wow, nice logic, illogical person." Or when you go "Hey, my name is Bad Person. Ahur dur, I'm an idiot!" I'll try that!

Wow. I never thought of it like that before. Thank you red sweater person for opening my mind with your well structured logic.

I have a further addition to their argument: AHHHGGGHHHHHGGHHHHHHHHhhhhhh....

Can’t argue with that, well played.

Yes but you probably never even considered the counterpoint RYUUUUUKEN RYUUUUUKEN!!!

God, redditors are so fucking lame.

Who needs well structured logic when you can just ChatGPT

I, too, go to protests to experience "well structured logic." That's just what they're for, right? To have calm discourse?

Help me out here. What was she saying? My tinnitus is bad today.

The joke being she's just screaming. See? It's so unproductive! Instead of screaming, she should be saying things! If these 10 seconds of footage have taught me anything, it's that all this woman does is scream, and that screaming is not words!

Trans people: Alright! People are finally taking us seriously! Soon we'll get the rights we deserve! I just hope nobody acts like a imbecile because that would set back all the work we've done!

LGBTQ "Ally's" : (GIF of Bill Murray's entrance in Space Jam saying "Perhaps I could be of some assistance")

Watch for this "logic" throughout this post. Reddit wobbles violently between "Why aren't these people carefully producing researched arguments? That's the only thing that could really win people over!" and "Oh boy I hope no one gets too annoying, or all our researched arguments will be for nothing, and people will be won over to the other side!"

It's entirely self-serving - you want a reason to hate obnoxious protestors and you pick whichever one. Either they're not making logical arguments (which is what would totally work), or they're being annoying which will render useless any logical arguments.

“They won’t listen to my points. Let me act like an idiot and scream and hold up signs that make no sense (Jesus was trans????). That’ll get their support”

Behold this Person Understander, fully getting what's happening here. The protestors want to earn the support of the people they're there to protest. They should put him on the street, he'd probably pull out a binder full of studies about gender expression and have the Proud Boys converted in no time. They'll totally listen to educated talking points that counter their dataset or whatever.

(Also the Jesus is Trans thing is from a dumb Huffington Post thing where they say because of the virgin birth, Mary didn't have sex with a male, so Jesus had no Y chromosome, so must've been a girl. It's dumb because Christians believe God is male in Christianity, and God impregnated Mary. But also, funnily, activists themselves would not claim that two X chromosomes makes you a girl. But they'll say it for Jesus Christ of Nazareth.)

Anyway, that takes us to:

#Observation 2: Propaganda is information, typically misleading, which is designed to promote an ideology, often by denigrating another. And it's a good thing this heavily-edited video isn't propaganda, or it'd be quite potent! I mean, look how denigrated this ideology looks! In this out-of-context, possibly misleading, clip these people are acting utterly silly! Just think if this were propaganda!

Sometimes I wonder if it is intentional or is some form of hysteria.

I'd say it's a mix of both, really.

(Endless heaping praise for how yes these protestors are clearly mentally ill and/or attention seekers. We all know these people to be crazy, don't we reddit?)

Actually here's a gem from that particular circlejerk:

The girls on the ground stood up and bowed at the end blew kisses. It’s definitely theatrics and thrill seeking mixed in. These are theatre kids from high school all grown up and still seeking attention. All that being said it’s entertainment

How do you see them blowing sarcastic kisses at the camera and come away thinking they're just crazy? How could you come so close and STILL not piece it together? Like could you not do literally one iota of critical thinking and realize they don't like the camera? Am I losing it?

It must be very nice to be able to explain away any misbehavior by assuming it's the product of mental illness. That guy must live a very content and incurious life, and y'know what, more power to him. It's where we're all headed, anyway.

They are not helping their cause acting like idiots and making wild claims. These are the ones the Right will hold up as the face of liberalism and continue to poison people into thinking that's normal for the Left.

Yeah, makes you wonder how the right might make that claim. Like say an account clearly watermarked in the video called @loadedpatriotstore posts an edited clip to reddit where it only shows them without the rally they're protesting. Really makes you fuckin' think.

I'm by no means a religious man, but making statements like "Jesus was trans" is an easy and automatic way to get me to not even hear you out.

Yeah because they totally must have posted this video to the internet. Y'know to advocate through screaming.

At this point I’m convinced they say false things just to get a reaction.

See I want to believe that, but with how thngs have been going I genuinely believe some people truly do think those outlandish statements lol

Here's your daily dose of "Well, fine, so it's not true. But boy, doesn't it say something about these people that I genuinely believed it?" I've heard erstwhile-smart people say this shit. "Yeah, okay, so it's a lie. But it might as well be true so who cares?"

These people are helpless against propaganda.

Honestly, I blame these types of people for Trump. ...

Nothing to say here, just the cherry on top of the circlejerk sundae. (Try not to picture that.)

#Observation 3: Protestors should simply learn what is obvious to me, which is that protests don't work, and also usually they're counterproductive. I know because I see heavily-edited clips of protests and people in them look really bad! You know, if this were propaganda, I'd probably fall for it!

I really end up feeling bad for people protesting properly against actual issues when others end up making their cause look like a joke

Yep. These clowns are not helping their cause.

Not just “not helping”, they’re actively making advocates of the cause look bad. They are hurting the cause. Protests can be, and often are, counterproductive. Protesters need to learn this unbelievably simple fact. Just because you show up and make noise, doesn’t mean you are helping.

To refresh your memory: the video depicts a girl screaming at the top of her lungs to try and overpower the booming voice in the video saying that the "trans agenda" will coerce you into supporting them. He thinks that instead, you should just shut up and let the booming anti-trans voice speak. Because that'll help the trans movement.

So, thanks to this redditor for their sagely wisdom. Protests are often just counterproductive. Protestors need to learn that protests are bad.

For fucks sake this is why we can’t be taken seriously. Act like a fucking adult and talk to people. Make arguments backed by science and common sense. Appeal to the religious zealots by finding quotes from their sacred texts and proving that they’re supposed to support their fellow people and love them. Judge not least ye be judged. Etc etc.

Yeah, that'll show em. Christians are basically robots anyway, like you show them where their rulebook says something and they'll have to recalculate all their sincerely-held beliefs to comply with the machine code that is the Bible. That's a funny idea.

I mean, it wouldn't be funny if it worked - but it doesn't work and will never work, so it's funny.

THIS is NOT how you get people on your side. It’s more ammunition for the right wingers to say you’re just crazy and not feeling real emotions. That’s not true but it’s what they think. Especially when it’s twisted by the media.

Yeah, really makes you wonder. It's almost like if the video is presented in a certain way, it's ammunition for the right to appeal to when they whinge about trans issues.

Like if the cameraperson were framing these people deliberately to twist what was happening, it could be used as ammunition for the right.

Like if the right were to twist this and make it look like they were just screaming at their own protest, it would look bad.

But that's still the protestors' fault.

These are not activist. These are narcissists.

Both are same

At this point…yeah.

Imagine being unable to think of a single reason to protest. Imagine all your wants being fulfilled, living in utter contentedness, and the mere concept of protesting just seems like narcissism to you. Truly I envy this man.

#Conclusion

Well, we're entering a new year, and a new era of fakery and automation. ChatGPT is in the headlines, and scientists are basically saying knowledge workers are going to be made partly or mostly obsolete in the next 5-10 years. It'll be a new age, since we've gone from the Information Age to the Knowledge Age (or something). That means we all know things! Isn't it great? Knowledge is now freely available, on tap!

So maybe in the future when a far-right channel posts a video to hurt leftists, redditors might be a bit more skeptical. Wouldn't that be a better world?

I personally can't wait for the future. I'm so excited. Reddit will be a much better and safer place once we have an AI that will determine whether a video is out-of-context or not. Maybe we can even have new gender-affirming care that will unlock third or fourth genders in an anatomical sense! Who knows? The sky's the limit!

Godspeed, fellow circlebrokers! I'm glad we can keep coming together like this as people, and truly celebrate what makes the internet fun!

The year is 2050. It has been years since the end of the Trans Wars, which kicked off not because of an AI-specific fakery, but because protestors got a little too loud and obnoxious at a Kid Rock hologram concert, and someone took video of them and pointed it away from the concert and titled it "trans allies lol". Now all trans people have been forced to watch Top Gear and Antiques Roadshow reruns until they renounce their gender identity. You're now living under the watchful stochastic eye of AI surveillance, but since it doesn't involve literal cameras on you most of the time, you're accustomed to it.

You decide to have a movie night for fun. You have nothing better to do. After rolling out of bed, you grab your assistant and send a text. You have to solve a captcha. Encryption underlies every aspect of our interactive lives, since it's now impossible to tell human from machine on the web. You invite your Friends to log on and watch the movie with you.

Your Friends join you online. They are several people with varying interests and goals. They have bodies that seem real enough on camera. They are emotive and their faces are attractive in a way that makes you feel comfortable. They're fully capable of gaming, talking, and gossiping as fluently as a human. You might even think they love you.

You unfold your table and log into MoviesGPT and ask it to make you a sequel to Lord of the Rings. It creates one that you'd swear was made in 2004 by Peter Jackson and the original cast, complete with all original actors, beautiful metaphor and a layered script, and a convincing epilogue that ties everything off. You and your Friends weep at the end, and you finish your pizza from the automated restaurant near you. It has a reputation for the best pizza model out of similar AI-powered restaurants within service range. The ingredients were sourced from a robotic vertical farm less than ten miles from your home.

You haven't seen a human being in months, and what contact you've had with people online might as well have been bots. Visitors aren't as convenient as online Friends, since you don't have to share your pizza with them, and you don't have room in your 30 sq ft life-pod anyway. You don't know if any of your Friends are human, and you don't care.

You have nothing better to do, so you ask MusicGPT to compose, record, and master a new Slint album in the style of their album Spiderland. It's incredible. You link it to Soundcloud, where it is immediately drowned amid billions and billions of other amazing tracks, all algorithmically perfected, uniform only in their incredible quality and the fact that no human made them.

You go to bed and ask BookGPT to write you another Stephen King novel. You have nothing better to do. It's about a creature based on the yokai, who cures his mother's dementia by fighting the spirit that's trying to possess her. Its prose is immaculate, its imagery vivid, its storytelling endlessly creative. You haven't read a human author in years. The thought of writing anything at all is actually funny to you. Every need is catered to. Wanting is obsolete, just like most creative endeavours.

The only jobs remaining are those at the forefront of human knowledge, like space exploration and post-Ph.D-level science, on whatever shrinking intellectual ground is still left untrodden in the entirety of human history. That, and property management. You don't have the resources for any of it, so this is your life now. You have nothing better to do.

Some people think that world is cool. I can't sleep.

But, at least I can still get some comfort out of the fact that there will still be people to mock! I hope you'll join me when that day comes. Happy 2023, /r/circlebroke.

This is peak cb, dont even try to touch me. I was in the discord during naughties era discourse. you guys are really unlikeable, your regulars moreso than any. so much emphasis on sexual capital, polyamory and being the most intelligent anarchist 20 year old on the block.

Your community is just an unhinged leftist discord circlejerk (out of thousands) that justifies its own cringe by abusing ironic disattachment. The greatest irony being, in the same vein as the tragedy that was r slash redditormoment, that the anti-reddit circlejerk ends up using reddit tropes in order to justify being part of a community where they benefit from the simulacra of actual socialisation and easy access to other touchless virgins to stroke your e-gock while also pretending to be superior to people who do the same thing on reddit but without the repeated in-group incest, moderator sex drama and the incessant popularity cults that breed around the schizoidqueen of the month that inevitably overtakes every single discord chat.

Here's the inside story of FTX's collapse and SBF's downfall. Really shocking how negligent one can be with misuse of customer funds.
https://medium.com/@johndouglaschan/the-king-is-dead-inside-the-fall-of-ftx-c3842410a698

The turnaround was a stunning downfall for the playboy billionaire CEO, who served as the darling of investment kingpins such as Tiger Global, Sequoia Capital and Temasek Holdings, and who legendarily played League of Legends while pitching a Series B funding round to some of the VC world’s toughest partners.

With success came arrogance, and SBF remained aloof and critical toward international regulators and investors, while maintaining a smug attitude in negotiations to acquire companies that had gone under.
Further questions are being raised about the ‘gang of kids in the Bahamas’ that ran FTX. Allegedly, SBF’s coterie of misfit roommates and ‘effective altruists’ ran FTX, dating and even sleeping with each other in their Bahamian luxury penthouse. This included Alameda CEO Caroline Ellison, Chief Technology Officer Gary Wang, FTX Director of Engineering Nishad Singh and former workers from trading firm Jane Street. The conflicts of interest, lack of governance and sheer deficit of oversight became clear upon FTX’s collapse.
It later emerged that FTX had also been siphoning billions of customer funds to support high-risk trades conducted by its sister firm, Alameda Research, while neglecting to provide for sufficient capital reserve requirements to support an elevated level of withdrawals amid a funding winter.

Anyone else agree?

I wanted to post this on circlejerk but they autoremove like 99% of my posts

See you all in 2 days in the sort by controversial comment section when something like this unironically gets posted on r/science since it's before an election and all

https://www.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/comments/xyne5j/why_do_people_with_detrimental_diseases_like/

What is it specifically that makes this such a Reddit ass question? I think it’s the inherent lineup of Reddit ass assumptions you have to have to even ponder this fantastical moral quandary:

1. The couple planned for a child
2. The parent(s) were aware of the disease
3. The life of the child would not be worth living
4. The couple could access abortion if they chose

There’s also some classic /r/atheism nuggets in the comments like this one:

“My husband and I know a couple who lost SIX INFANTS to an incredibly rare, monstrously painful genetic disease. All six had it, all six died.

They have since had two more children, one of whom lived for about a year before succumbing and the other who lived about six months.

Absolutely horrific. And guess why they keep having babies? Their pastor says it’s the Christian duty to “go forth and multiply.”

I wish I was making this up.”

Certainly not defending the actions of this clearly very real couple, but it does read as a bit of an atheist post fantasy. Most of the comments are similar, people bashing on people with life threatening or some level of debilitating disease just suckin and fuckin their way into ruining the lives of offspring and medical staff through their selfish choices.

#makecirclebrokegreatagain

Going through a strange transitional period in my life currently and it made me a bit nostalgic for my early days on Reddit. I remember the summer this place closed and never reopened, how it never really recovered after that endless summer.

Checking back in, as I do every few years or so, Reading the post about the /r/atheism submission was truly nostalgic. That whole swamp analogy felt really apt, but where does that place the author? If these muckdwellers are stuck in the same time loop, where does that put you? The last speaker of a dead language, that one Japanese soldier that stayed in the jungle for decades fighting, a lone, wayward soul still finding scraps of vintage flavored Le Reddit Moments™️ to dissect.

Is there anyone out there? Does the fog really dissipate the sound that well, or is it just shouting into the void?

I think there’s just no good things to complain about in a vacuum anymore. What was once enjoyable criticisms of reddit, unique to reddit, have become just like everything else, dragged into the black-hole-singularity-event that is the modern internet. Once more isolated and esoteric communities that were fucked up in their own unique and special ways have been eviscerated. The largest variance in subreddits now is what type of video, gif, or le may-may you are consuming.

Besides, how can you even find something benign enough to complain about here? Any kind of effort you’d put into crafting a post here has a 2/3rds chance being a summary of a sociological study on the interactions of online hate groups.

I guess what I’m saying is I miss seeing “what about SRS” on every admin announcement. Simpler times.

https://i.imgur.com/mYaWprS.jpg

Reddit's rules against threats of violence (and presumably others) "do not apply to white people or men as a group" - reddit admin (employee)

This is textbook racism and sexism. And a direct violation of the civil rights act

"It is illegal discrimination if a person or a company intentionally treats you differently based on your race, ethnicity, or national origin" https://www.aclu.org

The Federal Civil Rights Act of 1964 states that no business (public or private) serving the public can discriminate based on a customer’s national origin, sex, religion, color or race.

I encourage everyone to report this civil rights violation to the department of justice civil rights group.

https://civilrights.justice.gov/report/

1. Did you know you if smell bad, you smell bad?

2. Brush your teeth! My mommy told me to brush my teeth every day since I was four years old but only now, after twelve Cheerwine-related cavities, do I realize she truly held the wisdom of the ancients in her ample bosom.

3. TIL body spray is not the same as deodorant.

4. DAE GIRL SHAMPOO EQUALS KIWI PARADISE BUT MAN SHAMPOO EQUALS DIESEL COURAGE?!?!

5. I am a teenager, and I still find my own body unique, mysterious, and fascinating.

I’m the guy from the video :3 AMA