Charlie Kirk’s assassination continues to reverberate across the United States as investigators work to learn more about the killing and the 22-year-old Utah man alleged to have carried it out.
reddit is a shit website but i wouldn’t call it dark. it just has a lot of smartasses who can’t help but pull an “uhh akshually” even when it’s not needed.
usually the case but you also have the “fitness” subs which are places where people proudly display their eating disorders and suggest that fat people are untermenschen, the “childfree/petfree” subs which are wallowing pits of sociopathic despair, and worst of all, town/city subs in which hordes of demons pile over one another to declare first in response to the sighting of a homeless person existing
man what city subs are yall part of? my home town’s subreddit is half people complaining about the weather and half cool pics of the skyline. but yeah the fitness subs are hitlerite breeding grounds and any sub with “_free” at the end is bound to host some… interesting characters
i’ve never encountered a city or region focused subreddit that wasn’t 99% landlords and wannabe landlords complaining about undesirables lowering property values in the given city or region. they’re some of the worst places on reddit
I think the usage of “dark” means “isn’t touched by the light of the sun,” as in, it’s so deep down only Angler Fish live there. Reddit might be accessible from the “surfice web,” but there are so many people using the site and so many subreddits that it houses its own “dark web.” Small, niche communities, cryptic communities; all lurking at the very bottom of Reddit. Almost all social media, of note, houses dark corners where creeps and weirdos congregate. These systems are so vast that they require the crowd to suss out unwanted content, and if nothing gets reported, almost nothing gets removed. Fliters and automation only go so far, and when people adapt to those systems, they become useless.
That being said, CNN is also calling it “dark” because they couldn’t be bothered to even do a surface glance at places like Reddit to even understand what goes on there.
CNN, at some point, claimed that the dude got radicalized by Discord. i’m convinced that they know next to nothing about social media beyond insta and twitter.
I fully believe that. It’s also a kind of “black box” service, where you can’t just “browse it” like you would Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook. If you are not a member of a Discord server, Discord does basically nothing.
“the entirety of the internet” is a stretch. they get a bit over 20 million users monthly (compared to reddit’s 107 million daily active users), but they can definitely be a pain in the ass when they put their mind to it. then again, that applies to every social media. 4chan is just more lax with gore and slurs.
Oh, don’t get me wrong, I’m moreso talking about 4chan the idea. Yes, the site is small but it’s reach is vast. The fact that “redpill” “beta” “npc” “wojak” “onions” “soy” “zoomer” “mogged” “chad” “normie” are words many folk here will understand is a testament to that.
The number of users is (relatively) small, but they punch way above their weight-class in terms of cultural influence. It’s the generator for at least a comfortable plurality of contemporary meme culture, if not an outright majority.
this but unironically. reddit is a deeply anti-human website
reddit is a shit website but i wouldn’t call it dark. it just has a lot of smartasses who can’t help but pull an “uhh akshually” even when it’s not needed.
usually the case but you also have the “fitness” subs which are places where people proudly display their eating disorders and suggest that fat people are untermenschen, the “childfree/petfree” subs which are wallowing pits of sociopathic despair, and worst of all, town/city subs in which hordes of demons pile over one another to declare
first in response to the sighting of a homeless person existing
man what city subs are yall part of? my home town’s subreddit is half people complaining about the weather and half cool pics of the skyline. but yeah the fitness subs are hitlerite breeding grounds and any sub with “_free” at the end is bound to host some… interesting characters
i’ve never encountered a city or region focused subreddit that wasn’t 99% landlords and wannabe landlords complaining about undesirables lowering property values in the given city or region. they’re some of the worst places on reddit
man, guess i’m lucky then
It’s also a bunch of Gen X suburbanites. People who don’t live in the city but have endless reactionary opinions about it. Trends PMC.
I think the usage of “dark” means “isn’t touched by the light of the sun,” as in, it’s so deep down only Angler Fish live there. Reddit might be accessible from the “surfice web,” but there are so many people using the site and so many subreddits that it houses its own “dark web.” Small, niche communities, cryptic communities; all lurking at the very bottom of Reddit. Almost all social media, of note, houses dark corners where creeps and weirdos congregate. These systems are so vast that they require the crowd to suss out unwanted content, and if nothing gets reported, almost nothing gets removed. Fliters and automation only go so far, and when people adapt to those systems, they become useless.
That being said, CNN is also calling it “dark” because they couldn’t be bothered to even do a surface glance at places like Reddit to even understand what goes on there.
CNN, at some point, claimed that the dude got radicalized by Discord. i’m convinced that they know next to nothing about social media beyond insta and twitter.
I fully believe that. It’s also a kind of “black box” service, where you can’t just “browse it” like you would Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook. If you are not a member of a Discord server, Discord does basically nothing.
And they fucking never have anything bad to say about 4chan, the actual dark web, or ifunny.
You know, the literal digital gang controlling the entirety of the internet?
“the entirety of the internet” is a stretch. they get a bit over 20 million users monthly (compared to reddit’s 107 million daily active users), but they can definitely be a pain in the ass when they put their mind to it. then again, that applies to every social media. 4chan is just more lax with gore and slurs.
Oh, don’t get me wrong, I’m moreso talking about 4chan the idea. Yes, the site is small but it’s reach is vast. The fact that “redpill” “beta” “npc” “wojak” “onions” “soy” “zoomer” “mogged” “chad” “normie” are words many folk here will understand is a testament to that.
The number of users is (relatively) small, but they punch way above their weight-class in terms of cultural influence. It’s the generator for at least a comfortable plurality of contemporary meme culture, if not an outright majority.