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[โ€“] harmsy 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I always wondered why a subreddit like that was allowed to exist in the first place. I guess I have my answer now.

[โ€“] nutt_goblin 7 points 8 months ago

As I remember it, reddit got its start when "internet culture" was pretty heavily downstream of 4chan/somethingawful/ytmnd. And pedo-type behaviour was pretty normalized in those spaces.