IMO the moment that site jumped the shark was when the userbase agreed on 'reddit silver' as a way to acknowledge high quality content without being forced to pay for cyberstickers.
so of course reddit corp wasted no time monetizing it.
everything that's come since has been entirely foreseeable just based on that experience.
tonight, Gurmen joins the hunt
balatro: oh dear, oh dear. gorgeous.
yandere simulator: you fucking donkey.
get me in the shot!
there's no greeting card for "sorry we chemically castrated you", is there?
brother i'm not giving my government a pass to do shit, i'm well aware that i'm living in a surveillance state
bro thought he was the wall but forgot to put the shields on opposite hands
What's special about it?
the reason it looks to you like it's just part of the crowd is because it helped define that crowd, in a direction that was distinctly different from 80s cyberpunk and far more rooted in our modern reality - which is impressive considering it's approaching 30 years old now and the internet was in its infancy at the time. it was a pioneer in visual elements and aesthetic vis a vis the web, and it's ingrained in counterculture as its initial popularity spread on 4chan.
i've heard it said that lain is to autism as neon genesis evangelion is to depression, so it may also just be that you're not the target audience.
i'm so tired of nothingburger feel good 'stories' about search trends
this really is just reddit lite
there's literally no difference between banning tiktok and banning wikipedia
i thought it was just making fun of people who put their bags on public transit and has nothing to do with IT outside of a loose association with introverts
it's because it's from the rick region of france