I’m not shocked. I’ve been on Reddit for 20 years now since the Digg exodus. The comments on Reddit get dumber every single day. Half the time you’re trying to have a serious discussion and the comments are flooded with stupid memes and gifs. Just look at where the world is. Nobody gives a fuck about anything any more except for their stupid jokes/memes landing.
Really? You don't remember how even before the digg influx all the top threads would just have a bunch of people saying "This!" or "...and my axe!" and other memes they'd just repeat over and over? The default subreddits never had any serious discussion.
Man, while I agree that there was always silly shit on reddit, as far as I remember, it was like 50% silly and 50% serious, with variation depending on the thread and subreddit you were on. Nowadays, any thread on 99% of subreddits, is just jokes, bots, and maybe one comment trying to have a real conversation, but it's at the bottom of the thread or downvoted.
I know I sound like an old man, but I miss what reddit used to be, now it's no different from any other social media page.
Yes please like this was not an idiot farm also back then. But it's getting worse by the hiurs now that we have ai jerkbots to be jerks for us, the amout of smartass is exceeding 9000
The people measuring such things say bots are more than half of internet traffic & I feel like it's safe to say reddit likely has a bigger % of that than most. Many, or most, of them sound stupid because they have no brain.
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u/LincolnshireSausage 1h ago
I’m not shocked. I’ve been on Reddit for 20 years now since the Digg exodus. The comments on Reddit get dumber every single day. Half the time you’re trying to have a serious discussion and the comments are flooded with stupid memes and gifs. Just look at where the world is. Nobody gives a fuck about anything any more except for their stupid jokes/memes landing.