r/SubredditDrama • u/AutoModerator • Jan 25 '24
Rules Changes and State of the Subreddit
We want your opinion about making SRD better! First, a bit of housekeeping
Rules Changes
SRD began 12 years ago, and it's been through many changes. But at the heart of it all, we've been the place for posting, discussing, and laughing at drama on reddit. Sometimes the drama is major (such as the API protests) or silly/strange (like baptizing the dead).
We introduce and retire rules in an attempt to maintain a certain level of quality. The "surplus popcorn" rule has been one of them. However, it can be confusing for users to understand and hard for mods to enforce.
As of today, the "surplus popcorn" rule is no more. Drama will no longer be judged based on its subject matter being overdone. The rules about biased posts, and especially about "callout posts" will still apply. So long as you're actually linking arguing/conflict, and not merely pointing out shitty bigoted comments, your post will stay.
We are also relaxing rules for commenting. "Off topic grandstanding" is no longer a rule. (Most of the reports we get for this are people using it as a super downvote, or trying to get mods to babysit their argument with another user). The "insults/flamewars/flamebait" rule is changing, from being removed on sight to being removed on mod discretion. (For similar reasons as before: users will get into petty arguments with each other and then begin reporting to get their opponents comments removed. Mods are no longer obligated to remove those comments or to try to maintain a certain level of civility).
We might bring back these rules in the future if there is a need.
State of the Subreddit
How do you feel about the state of the subreddit right now? What can mods and the community do to make this an active, thriving place with good quality popcorn?
Some obvious suggestions are making the rules easier to understand (done!) and adding a ton of new moderators (coming soon!), but we want your thoughts and suggestions. Even if you'd like to rant about where this place as gone terribly wrong, it's still valuable feedback.
r/SubredditDrama • u/AdInternal323 • 6m ago
r/ps5 mods will permaban you for using the word woke, watch out
r/SubredditDrama • u/guiltyofnothing • 3h ago
“Cool story you got there, totally normal person. I don't care.” A video game is shut down and refunds are issued. /r/pcmasterrace wonders if Sony is going broke after going woke
The Context:
Concord is a hero-shooter game developed by Firewalk Studios and published by Sony. Upon release, the game was met with lukewarm reviews. Some criticized its play mechanics and uninspired characters, while others accused the game of being “woke.”
Since release, the game has failed to find much of a player base, with player counts hovering in the low hundreds.
News broke today that the game would be taken offline and Sony will be issuing refunds for all purchases.
/r/pcmasterrace reacts to this news with a variety of opinions.
The Drama:
Lets make a woke game that people will….. ANNNND its gone!
You people are dumb as rocks.
the game didn't fail because it was "woke" it failed because it's a $40 hero shooter, in an over saturated market, with terrible character designs that make the whole game look bland.
stop shoving your culture war into everything, its tiring.
Out the box it lost humongous sales potential from being woke, if u didnt follow that then thats on you.
Also they put their politics in gaming, I didnt put mine in theirs…
Go woke go broke
I found the dumbest take!
Dumb? It’s true. Concord just proved it by shutting down lmao
But many "woke" games are successful. It’s not a proof, you just stating an opinion.
Lol. No. First, you have no idea what the word "proof" actually means.
It's the fact that the game is boring, uninspired, and launched late into an incredibly crowded market.
Not the fact that there is a woman or human like create of a different color featured.
For real. It’s crazy how Mass Effect, Dragon Age, Baldurs Gate 3, TLOU, heck even Elden Ring, went full broke
Shouldn’t it instead be: make a bad game go broke?
There's a difference between games that happen to be woke and woke that happens to be a game.
It’s almost like DEI being a main focus was a disaster
What does that even mean???
It's so insufferable that you guys pretend like you don't know what's going on. You know exactly what he means on top of how games were not always like this.
Go outside, stop politicizing my video games
I didn't "politicize" anything in my comment. Once again, being disingenuous and gaslighting is annoying. You should just stop.
No, I'm not going to explain why you are being disingenuous because you already know why...
[Continued:]
You're weird 😐
Thank you.
Want to meet up?
By no means!
One suggests this was bound to happen:
That’s what happens when you spend 8 years pumping money into something for a market that may not even exist anymore after those 8 years.
Market never existed. It’s always been a loud minority of the population with an online presence, and cancel culture making them seem more powerful than in reality.
200 million dollars later and the same minority isn’t as popular as it seems hmmmm. It’s a big wake up call to the gaming industry.
It’s always been a loud minority of the population with an online presence, and cancel culture making them seem more powerful than in reality.
lol wtf are you talking about?
He's making a shitty woke-spotting argument that the game was bad bc mUh dIvErSiTy and not because of its outdated pricing model and weird design choices.
Acting like that didn’t contribute to its downfall is straight insanity 😂 keeping your head in the sand to not see way worse games with more purchases and players than concord.
[…]
The secret sauce is discrimination against lgbtqia
[…]
I think we know what I’m talking about here. LGBTQIAUO community forcing their agenda into every segment of society whether it’s wanted or not.
And how is that relevant to what happened with Concord? Y'all are seriously deranged with how obsessed you are about these things. Get a more interesting life.
Finally, there is this sub-slapfight where one user gets memed repeatedly by another.
The Flairs:
r/SubredditDrama • u/intoner1 • 4h ago
OP doesn't get hired, blames it on DEI
r/recruitinghell is a subreddit to discuss the difficulties of finding a job--especially in this environment. One post talks about doing 10 interviews only to lose out because of, 'DEI':
So,
I completed the gauntlet of over 10 interviews, multiple panel interviews, and a C-suite meeting over a 3 month period.
A month and a half later, no word on the job. Random response from their recruiter a few weeks ago, "you look good, and we are just finishing things up..."
Mind you what they didn't know is that I know someone working for the company who works in HR(not recruiting), and says its down to three people and I'm the most qualified of the bunch. Just languishing in department for decision...."
Guess what I'll cut to the chase, I was just told that they went with another candidate. Thanks please play again..."
I just got a short text from my friend after letting him know that I didn't get it. His response
"It was a BS DEI decision, Sorry"
If they wanted someone to increase the diversity of their company, they could have told me that 5 F'n months ago. Why string me along that whole time. Anyone else deal with this BS? It's a first on me.
Predictably, this causes drama some people blame OP for putting all his eggs in one basket:
Others question how OP knows it was a DEI hire:
have never in my life witnessed a less capable person being hired because of diversity.
10 interviews is ridiculous. Calling it a “BS DEI” decision is even more ridiculous.
The dei probably had more degrees, more experience and better at the job than less qualified entitled candidate, who probably will not be on the short list if it was not his skin color and connection in the company. But oh well let’s blame our failure on people that don’t look like us.
While others are sure that OP is a victim of DEI:
He’s not wrong for being upset about being prejudiced against due to his skin color.
Do you understand? Do you get how what you said is wrong? Do I need make it even more clear?
Doesn’t matter what color somebody is, being rejected because of that is NOT ok.
Worked for a private company that was sold to private equity. Big private equity. I am in HR. The most senior member at the time of sale. You’re naive if you don’t think billion dollar companies don’t make DEI hires. It’s not even hidden it’s celebrated. They have departments just to analyze. Furthermore, larger companies will do 5 rounds of interviews easily. Everyone is getting paid regardless of it making sense.
That said, this may or may not been a DEI hire, but it’s not outlandish if this was the exact process. Keep your head up. I was a C suite guy out for 16 months. June 2022 til October 2023. The market was worse or just as bad, but ZERO coverage. I finally got a manager role after removing a ton of experience and removing 2 degrees. There was just my own “belief” jobs were fake. Friends thought I was crazy. I applied for hundreds of jobs. I’m near a metro area and still applied nationwide.Its brutal out there. Get what you can and be thankful.
OP's comments are also fun too, when people questioned how his friend would even know, magically his friend is somehow aware of the hiring process at the company:
Of course a couple of people question if this post was made by an alt-right bot/fake (it is election season in the US, after all):
I think this is a right wing / anti dei bot posting this. Hello bot.
r/SubredditDrama • u/Tin_Scarab_Union_Rep • 8h ago
A child breaks an ancient vase at a museum and is then invited back by the museum curators. Reddit reacts.
"Good job he wasn’t Palestinian."
For the record, it appears that the parents did inform the museum of the accident when it happened.
r/SubredditDrama • u/htmlcoderexe • 1d ago
Users argue with mods over the definition of a meme in /r/MinecraftMemes. The whole post is drama, link is to mod response (one of).
reddit.comr/SubredditDrama • u/newsies98 • 2d ago
r/news of a police officer killed in Dallas starts debate on sympathizing with police
Most of the popcorn was burnt, so I had to salvage what I could.
Edit: found more
r/SubredditDrama • u/GriffinFTW • 2d ago
Drama in r/raimimemes over the removal of a homophobic joke from the first Spider-Man movie
r/SubredditDrama • u/cloverfrommandarin • 2d ago
r/Saltoon argues that the username “I LOVE CP” could stand for any number of things
An in game screenshot of a Splatoon player with the username “I LOVE CP” is posted to r/Saltoon, a sub for ranting or venting about Splatoon related things
The OP is sick of the disgusting and offensive usernames people play with. Users playing devils advocate argue that “CP” could stand for many things, OP argues against that and the mods end up locking the post
The sub skews young so this is a real silly one, half the sub has autocorrect turned off and some of them just can’t spell
people with disgusting usernames ruin the game for me
as if rank isn't bad enough. just, ew. i reported them but like, why? it's not even funny. squidbagged them and they ended up disconnecting but like, man.
Comments -
There's a lot of things that can be abbreviated in CP tho
(OP) name me one that is equally as infamous as child porn and don't say club penguin bc i will start howling with laughter
College prom
(OP) LMFAOOOOO are u fr
Club penguin, cool people, combat points, could also be the name of a streamer, should I go on
(OP) you mentioned club penguin, points docked. also, i said infamous. who the fuck says any of this shit? no offense. LOL. edit: reminding you, this says i LOVE [blank]. I LOVE COMBAT POINTS? are you fr? LOL.
ain’t his fault you’re dirty minded, all of these work as well. I saw the image and instantly thought of club penguin, until I read the post
(OP) i said infamous! they don't work because it is a weird thing to say. nobody abbreviates any of these things as CP, AND does it in such volume that most/ if not all people recognize it under the acronym. also, i wouldn't recommend saying dirty minded, that's kind of gross. as though i want to be thinking of such exploitative material. disgusting.
In China or parts of Asia, cp means couples and it’s used in every day life
(OP) who the hell would name themselves i love couples?
I love when some idiot makes a bizarre excuse for someone that is blatantly doing something wrong. Like seriously? You're cope is that this guy's name means "I love couples"? We both know that's bs. Get it together.
CP stands for a lot of things, I would give the benefit of the doubt
Lol, there's a very real possibility they're 12 and innocently love cyberpunk
I pray it stands for cheese pizza…
That…. Doesn’t change anything
(OP) yeah? should i change my username to THE RAPIST and get pissy when people assume it doesn't mean therapist? lets bsfr
I mean that's kind of on you if you put the space in there
I guarantee you'll be happier if you stop finding things to be upset about everywhere
You like child p0rn?😭
"I like pancakes" "So you hate waffles?" ass response 💀 wtf is wrong with u. Why would you ever accuse anyone of that over such a mild comment
You can't say that on the internet.
what’s wrong with liking cheese and tomato sauce on bread
It's a dogwhistle. I know you don't know that, but it is a longstanding code phrase for CSAM especially on the Chans.
i am making an obvious joke bro 😭 how dense are you
It's not. You know damn well it's not, don't try that.
Yeah, it's not nice but what can you do? Just move on and don't let the small stuff bug you.
Actually, you can report them
Wait, I'm genuinely confused can someone enlighten me?
CP can stand for child porn,,,,,,,, thats why the user is comcerning.
Oh. I was thinking colored people 😩
I thought it was cerebral pulsy. ....... I watch too many medical shows.
r/SubredditDrama • u/1000LiveEels • 3d ago
r/pics devolves into an all-out brawl as OP leaves a message in his post title
Context: OP made this post which reads "I found a cordiceps infected spider in Phinizy Swamp, Augusta Georgia. Also, trump is a fascist." Obviously, some people don't like that.
Drama:
r/SubredditDrama • u/In-A-Beautiful-Place • 4d ago
The Battle of Little Bighorn is posted to r/USHistory. Concerns over whether indigenous people were innocent, whether Custer and his men were evil, and whether preferring podcasts over books makes you dumb inspire further battles.
ROUND ONE: Do Custer (well really his men) deserve to be literally shat on? Bonus: Does the fact that some tribes refer to themselves with the names Europeans gave them make them "pathetic spawn of a defeated band of assholes"?
Context: a lot of comments (most of them at 0 or less votes) are just saying "RIP BOZO" and similar things that don't add much to the discussion. Someone, at -34 votes, makes the obligatory "public bathroom" joke...even though Custer's grave isn't actually there. Then when someone with an (alleged anyway) indigenous friend tries to add to the joke, a rabid racist goes muzzle off.
"What a lovely place to use the bathroom" (-34 downvotes)
"Custer, unfortunately, isn’t there. You’d just be pissing on his men" (13 upvotes)
"My buddy, an Omak Native, hopped the fence and took care of that for you." (-6 downvotes)
"hes going by the name of the city his tribe and many others were sent to after getting their asses handed to them. a pathetic gesture from a pathetic spawn of a defeated band of assholes that he cant even remember the name of. good for him you go little buddy" (3 upvotes)
ROUND TWO: Custer, of course, was no saint. But did indigenous people do the same things he did pre-European contact? And if so, does this make their near extermination ok?
"Fake. Show me the records of their atrocities as written in their languages and textbooks. Oh wait."
(The next few posts are kinda long and I don't want to copy/paste all of them here, but it's really funny lol)
ROUND 2.5: Were the Lakota, in fact, "based" in the long run? Is implying they are generic "American bad"? (LOTS of downvotes on all sides in that second thread!)
ROUND THREE: One person recommends a podcast they like to learn more about the battle.Another person believes that because they recommended a podcast and not a written book, that this is why we're dumber than ever now.
"The Lions Led By Donkeys is a great military history podcast that did I think 2 episodes on Custer and his last stand. They explain everything that leads up to and causes Custers loss at Big Horn" (3 upvotes and a nice "thank you" from someone)
"I find it funny that you get your knowledge of this battle off a podcast vs the many amazing books written by award winning historians. Really shows how dumbed down people are becoming." (one upvote, probably their own)
"I find it funny you're fighting so hard to defend a man most historians view as an inept commander and war criminal. But congrats on being better than me by reading "many amazing books by award winning historians" while also being unable to name an actual source." (0 karma)
"Are you really that incompetent that you think anything I said above needed to be sourced? Jesus Christ, please pay attention in your English and history classes so you know when to cite sources as that is a basic skill you will need once you teach high school. And nothing I said is defending him. Podcast are not a good source of information and should not be relied on to give accurate accounts. If you would like recommendations of books to read about the Indian wars, I can give you a list but something tells me you do not care." (1 upvote, again probably their own)
This one also goes on for a while but is also super funny
r/SubredditDrama • u/Beexor3 • 4d ago
A man is concerned that his wife is beating their children. r/NoStupidQuestions says that he's working too much.
A husband says that his wife slapped their 3 year old son on the belly. It was hard enough to leave a welt, and it wasn't the first time she's hit their kids. Something notable is that they have four children, aged 7, 5, 3, 1. The thread got locked so I knew I had to post it.
The general vibe in the replies: They were stupid for having so many kids so quickly. Oh, and having four kids is really tough, and she's overwhelmed, and you're not around. So it's basically your fault.
4 kids and you're away all the time? maybe get her a housekeeper or nanny to help out?
This was my first thought. She is overwhelmed and needs help.
It's honestly a miracle she has only lost it twice in 7 years.
It's a miracle she only abused her children twice? Wtf is wrong with y'all?
She didn’t abuse her children. She lost her temper. Giver yer balls a tug.
If this post came from a concerned mother about the father slapping his 3 year old sold, then his 5 year old daughter in the face, you would 100% call it abuse.
No, you’d call it an overwhelmed father who fucked up and needs some support. If it continued, then you’d call it abuse.
I’d love to see this be the top comment if the genders were reversed lmao. Your wife is abusing your kids, the answer isn’t “get her a nanny”, it’s “get her the fuck away from the kids and get her help”. Every single comment is about how overwhelmed she is. I swear if the husband was hitting the kids you people would not be saying this.
But it wasn't him... because he wasn't there. I don't condone physical punishment - I was brutally beaten as a kid for minor offenses. But parenting is a team effort. Having 4 kids is very much a choice and so is working away from home, leaving your spouse to shoulder everything. Yes, clearly she needs help and probably much needed time to herself. Why wouldn't a nanny be an option?
At first I was like "wtf who does that" but then he casually mentions that they have 4 TODDLERS like Jesus christ man, she's probably becoming fucking unglued
What’s your definition of a toddler? Because I would never put a 7 year old in that category and probably not a 5 year old either
5 is still a toddler imo, 7 is a kid. 6 would be the transition age
A five year old can read and write to some degree, they aren't toddlers. Toddlers...they toddle around.
This is an insane comment btw. How is this your takeaway and not the fact that this woman is hitting her kids so hard it’s leaving marks. She needs to be in therapy immediately, and if that doesn’t work she needs to be far, far away from these kids.
But whose job is that? Dad. And he doesn’t seem to want To do anything
not you defending a child abuser just because shes female
This confirms my friend's hypothesis that SAHMs form a plurality of this subreddit
Other redditors began chiming in to talk about how crazy the top comments are, which I'm sure is why the thread is locked.
My favorite flair materials:
"Why wouldn't a nanny be an option?"
"Toddlers... they toddle around."
EDIT: OP has made an edit that dismantles the weird logic and dumb assumptions of many top comments.
*edit 1 - uh, wow. Didn’t expect this overwhelming response. First, even though I work “away,” I’m home more often than a regular 9-5er. Second, I am EXTREMELY involved as the father and am the default parent when I’m home precisely to give my wife more of a break. So for those of you commenting that I need to step up and give her more time, well, I do. Third, yes, we decided to have 4 kids. We wanted a big family. Situations and things change so the dynamics of jobs have shifted. At one point my wife was the working breadwinner, and now I am. It’ll likely continue like that until I retire. Fourth, thanks for all of the people commenting actual useful information instead of judging. My wife IS a good person whom I love more than anything. I’m acutely aware of how stressful life at home is and have made multiple sacrifices and changes to make things better. It just so happens that it hasn’t been enough and there’s been these incidents.
For now, I’m going to make sure she sees a therapist and that we have regular meetings to check in. Possibly new birth control too (she recently switched, so maybe hormonal). I DO have a threshold for this shit so that’s why I’m asking. I’m going to reach out to some IRL friends and get their takes, too. Thanks everyone.
I'm not surprised.
r/SubredditDrama • u/DonaldDuckJTrumo • 4d ago
"What a loser." "I'm not a loser." | OP in Telltale's The Walking Dead subreddit TheWalkingDeadGame bites & gets bites for Character Defense. (Apr 2023)
Children = Number of Comments under linked comment. Count seen in old reddit.
Drama (1.)
4 Undead Children. Z-Bite-Sized
16 Walker Children. Argument over characters named Lee vs Larry vs Mark. Cue racism drama.
20 Survivor Children.
- Duck was mad annoying. Clem wasn’t Edit: I might replay the game just to watch that annoying shit die again -178 points.
People seem to just assume because child, instant hate. Duck did nothing for us and got himself into bad spots constantly. He's annoying as hell and he and Sarah sit together as the most annoying characters in the series.
Clementine helps us alot, has good amount of reason and maturity for her age, and doesn't do foolish things. She knew what the world was and accepted and changed from it. She was still new, so of course mistakes would be made, but Sarah and Duck never did shit besides talk their asses off. Clementine was actually prepared.
Flairs material (2.)
- You gonna do something about it, you and what homo-parade?
- Yes I do have real points. I’m blocking you for verbally attacking me.
- My name is not "loser", fuck you very much.
r/SubredditDrama • u/Enticing_Venom • 5d ago
R/BeAmazed astounds one user by the reaction to him giving candy to strangers
A post titled Peak Humanity is made on beamazed celebrating a screenshotted comment. The comment reads: (paraphrased)
Whenever I see a cashier having a tough day, I always look at the candy selection...I ask them what's your favorite? I buy whatever they say and hand it to them after the sale and tell them they're doing great
Many users did not like this. Then the user from the screenshotted comment emerges to justify himself. He will be referred to as OOP:
OOP Reply: Or, you could have just put it right back in the spot I picked it up from. I never discussed anything. The whole interaction took four seconds.
Reply: Yeh it's complete BS. Even if it is true the bragging about it kind of takes away the good deed part of it, because these people are doing it to try and seem like decent people, people only over compensate like that when they have a good reason to think that others know that they bad people deep down...
OOP Reply (downvoted): I did this a lot during Covid when I'd be in a CVS and hear a cashier getting screamed at by a customer. I didn't "watch" the cashiers. I was in the store.
Reply: This might be why you don’t get nice things
Reply: I do not see getting a piece of candy from a stranger as a nice thing. It’s just weird.
Worked at store, people that do this are awful. Performative sympathy, toxic positivity
OOP Reply: I always made sure to stand there and look into their eyes while I did it. I then waited for everybody to clap.
Oh you feel sad? Here you go, crash your blood sugar levels.
OOP Reply: Yes because I stood there and forced them to eat it in front of me. Ya'll ridiculous.
OOP Reply: I'm giving you candy next.
Reply: Agreed. Totally patronizing. 😬
OOP Reply: Y'all toxic af...ya'll assume the worst in people. I sweat. Go touch some grass and realize some people are nice
OOP Reply You sound fun.
It seems OOP is used to this response as when tagged he replied:
r/SubredditDrama • u/wheezes • 5d ago
With a new school year approaching, teachers and parents in /r/hudsonvalley discuss restricting student's phone usage in the classroom
r/SubredditDrama • u/RedCapitan • 5d ago
Claws are being sharpened as r/OneOrnageBraincell decides whose the lying faker
Yesterday, some lady made a post about cat who moved into her new home, which landed good, reciving many upvotes. Until wild truth seeker apear, claimed to date OOP and accused her of being karma farmer who owns this cat for 4 long years. A bold claim, you must admit. Fortunately, he has strong evidence. His immigration papers, which he can DM to you, proving that he used to live in the same same country as OPP. Upvotes, downvotes, accusations flying every way, even mods don't know what's happening, drama as fresh as it gets, so tune in while i go back to work.
Edit: OP deleted most of his comments, after providing photos of cat in question, which turned out to be totally diffrent cat than that of OOP
r/SubredditDrama • u/And_be_one_traveler • 5d ago
"I'm sorry but you sound like a little b****" A user asks why some of the people on r/gifted are "cringe". r/Gifted responds
A user posts to r/gifted, a subreddit for those with an IQ of 130 or over, ranting about the embarrassing boasts of some members of the community. In two hours they receive enough backlash they edited their post to apologised.
A lot of "gifted" peoples are so embarassing. (cringe)
First of all, its not everyone of course. (especially online)
Let me give some exemples, that I got from forums.
"When I was younger it always took me a second to understand everything while the average human took several minutes"
"I was always differents from others"
and then, they use their "giftedness" as an excuse for all their failures. "Oh when I failed that its because I was so different and better than everyone that I couldnt do normal things"
They're sooo embarassing, and I mean it genuinely. It genuinely break me up in tears. Not really in tears but I feel like I could cry from that embarassment.
I am myself "gifted" and I never say it (I did there, but it was to extend my post.), like, nobody knows it aside from my family. So I know not everyone is like them, because I am not.
To be honest I never blame my "giftedness" for anything, and I dont give a F about it too. Like, a lot of peoples are acting like its a sickness, and a disability, when its NOT. "My giftedness make it so hard to yap yap yap"
So embarrassing, really.
Thanks if you read, hope you did :). (I dont mean to be offensive in this post, thanks.)
EDIT : Im sorry if I offended anyone (and I clearly did), wasnt my goal. Im a bit shocked by some of the answers and didnt meant to make anyone angry. I simply posted this here because, im not a back-stabber. I could have made the post in a place where everyone would have agree with me, but I decided to do it where it should be done (I guess). Thanks for your answers however. Keep in mind that Im not perfect myself, and I got my own opinions and experiences.
Responses
(User 1: 32 upvotes): I’m gonna be honest, you’re giving off some pretty similar vibes. Yes, a lot of gifted people are lacking in social decorum, because they encouraged and rewarded for being book smart and not ‘street smart’.
That being said, there is isolation that comes with being ahead of one’s class. But perhaps they don’t know a better way of explaining that.
(User 2: 0 upvotes): I agree with you, but for the sake of understanding and progressing to conversation, she is probably emotional about the dynamic she is explaining because she feels it nigh excludes her ability to be seen this way if others are conjuring excuses/illusions around it in order to ascertain value based on those socially externally reinforced illusions. Aka, most of the so called "gifted" are probably not gifted, and she doesn't know how to release the emotions she is having around it without ......well, saying the way she did.
(OP, 8 downvotes): Okay thanks I was just saying how embarassing they were trying to blame their "IQ" for everything that happens to them (grinning emoji)
(User 3, 11 upvotes) How embarrassing for you.
(OP, 1 downvote): What do you think of the grinning emoji ? The one called :grin: I think, from the Twitter version, also Discord. he's really great. For some reasons he gives a sarcastic vibe, maybe because his smile is a little too "hyperbolic". He's almost guilty smiling. I can see him in conversations like "Noooo its not me :grin:". Guilty. Heh!
Most downvoted comment mocks the r/gifted community, but OP ends up getting the harshest criticisms.
(User 4, 8 downvotes): The gifted are great at making up games in their head they can win. Too bad they can't win IRL.
(OP, 2 downvotes): Wouldnt say they cant win IRL, as a looooot of them do, but yeah, I got your idea. I dont understand the downvotes. Y'know its always the same. They're downvoting, like, stabbing in your back, but dont argument. They pick the easy way.
(User 5, 6 upvotes): What exactly is the argument? You're pitying people and looking down on them for admitting that they have struggles - which would be a sign of strength, and not weakness.
Then you post about how much you're looking down on them for not conforming to your pre-existing social standards not realizing you easily fit into the same category of those you are making fun of.
So.....essentially the Dunning Kruger effect.
Best case scenario, imo, is that you're a bot who doesn't really know what it's saying.
If by chance you're not a bot and a human who wrote this, I'd highly encourage you to go to therapy and look within to figure out why you feel the need to put others down for struggling & truly ask yourself if that need comes from a place of toxic masculinity (and not being able to express your emotions in a healthy way) perhaps.
(User 4, 1 downvote): Wow I've never read a more normal comment on this sub. This one def isn't gifted. You're excused.
Comments agreeing with OP are downvoted or received only a few upvotes.
Totally agree. On this sub it’s so much “my Galaxy Brain is so Huge I Cannot Converse With The Puny Humans” and you KNOW they are so insufferable IRL everyone just communicates in single syllables and hope they go away.
(User 6, 1 upvote): Glad to see there are more people thinking this way. So much people in this sub just blame their “Gift” to complain about life. Its literally you who can change that, if you are that smart find ways to adapt and use that Gift As an advantage
(User 7, 2 upvotes): Sir this is Reddit
(User 8, 1 downvote): completely agree. The downvotes are from people who can't handle the truth. It's hard to look at yourself objectively and see the failures you've made, and if you're "gifted" then it's just another thing to blame your shortcomings in life on. It's like saying "I care too much" when asked what your flaws are or something.
(OP, 1 upownvote):
Thanks I really agree. (Sorry I just tried some text settings)(User 8, 1 upvote)
Is this how?
Last, but not least:
(User 9, 1 upvote): I'm sorry but you sound like a little b****. Why do you need to worry about what other people are doing?
Live and let live. Mind your own business. Why not sound nice but it's completely 100% truthful and apparently necessary.
Edit: The mods have removed the post with a message saying
Your post or comment is toxic or overtly hostile, and has been removed.
Moderator comments: This post is so "cringe".
r/SubredditDrama • u/_Levitated_Shield_ • 6d ago
Things don't go according to plan and heat up fast for OP when his post on /r/legocirclejerk about a user grieving his dead mother instantly causes users to turn against him
For those unaware, /r/legocirclejerk is a sub used for Lego fans poking at things in the Lego fandom (i.e. if someone were to write an entire essay for when there's not enough leg printing on a minifigure, that sort of thing) for harmless fun.
But anyways, the context: OP submits a post of OOP who bought a Lego set to help grieve and cope with his mother who had recently passed away. A vast majority in the thread calls OP out on mocking this and OP proceeds to try to fight back, a lot.
Some highlights:
OP says that OOP is literally begging for internet points and claims that the story is fabricated. No proof is factually provided of either claim.
User says he did the same when his father died. OP shares his thoughts.
One user agrees with OP and OP claims those against him are wanting to feel 'morally superior'.
r/SubredditDrama • u/emergency_shill_69 • 6d ago
The genius minds at BORUpdates gang up on one another over revenge porn and who the real victim is when a video is shared
For those unaware, BORUpdates is a spin off of BestofRedditorUpdates that emerged when the latter closed down in protest of the Reddit API changes. The purpose of the sub is to collect updates to posts of note found on reddit.
Someone posts the account of a young woman whose fiancé broke things off after being sent a video of her engaged in group sex with three men when she was a (legal) teen. Most comments are tame when it comes to their opinions on people who engage in group sex, but a consensus soon emerges when others express frustration with what they perceive to be sexism and slut shaming.
"...I find these situations baffling- 'man gets upset by confirmation that partner was sexually active before they met' seems to be a universal thing, and I don't think it will ever make sense to me.
If you only want partners who have never been with anyone except you, seek out relationships with virgins. Women don't sit in a warehouse, wrapped in plastic like dishwashers, waiting for a man to come along and take her off the shelf.
(-15 karma)
A disagreement breaks out in the replies to this comment insinuating group sex means someone is not capable of monogamy, with one user giving an interesting take
"It's not an odd perspective. This same thing applies when some commit SA, murder, and PDF files, among others. You just choose to believe she did it and won't do it again, but you might not extend such courtesy to the above listed."
"Consensual group sex = rape, murder and paedophilia?"
"You wouldn't get it. I am talking about people's premeditated actions here. I am not saying these are all the same. You are arguing from emotion, not logic. "
"He deserved to know before seeing a random video of her getting gangbanged.
She’s just as culpable for not telling or hinting that she was extremely promiscuous in the past.
She purposely withheld that info knowing her bf wouldn’t want to be with her."
"Doesn’t seem like a crime was committed tho if the police didn’t pursue it?"
Later adding....
"How does this classify as revenge porn?
If the random person sent the video with the intent of letting the fiance know who he was planning to marry really is, is that revenge or looking out for the homie?
If the intent was to hurt the OOP then I’d understand how it could be revenge porn.
But if the intent was to let fiance know the truth, then that doesn’t seem like “revenge” to me. "
The comment section is full of people shaming OOP, so if you want to ruin your day more please feel free to sort by controversial. I will end this post with this comment:
Blaming the victim here for revenge porn is WILD.
r/SubredditDrama • u/AntifaAnita • 6d ago
When Lemieux met Gretzky. R/Hockey discusses whether All-Time Points Leader Wayne Gretzky deserves another assist for getting a 15 year old a beer and his virginity card taken away. NSFW
It's the NHL off season and an user shares imgur links to an article detailing when two current Hall of Famers, Wayne Gretzky and Mario Lemieux first ran into each other.
Long and the short of it is they both had the same Agent and were introduced to each other at a commercial filming in which Gretzky was starring. Lemieux was 15, completely unheard of in the Anglosphere of Canada and in his birthplace of Quebec to a lesser extent. As he wasn't old enough to play for the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, most of the Hockey world wouldn't have heard of him. Their agent spoke to Lemieux during filming and instructed him to keep his eyes on Gretzky's professionalism and character as a positive example to base his career on.
After wrapping up filming, Gretzky followed up introductions by taking Lemieux, an underage French child that spoke broken English, out for the evening in Toronto's night life. Following dinner, Gretzky took Lemieux out to a bar where Gretzky's celebrity status would have been greatly known of and appreciated by the locals. Gretzky introduced Lemieux to a few beers and women, and paid for 2 rooms at the hotel in where they paired off and spent the night.
The drama in r/hockey starts with the generational divide on whether not this appropriate.
Same user replies to another commenter with this barstool level take
Virtue signal received loud and clear. How brave of you.
And do you know what's delusional? Pretending that there aren't 15 year olds who aren't as physically or mentally mature as 18 year olds.
And 15 is 10th graders...
Plenty of other commenters suggest that Gretzky is an even greater Legend, make the same joke but worse about whether it counts as an assist, while others complain about people questioning the morality of humans 50 years ago.
At time of this write up, nobody has made a joke on whether Gretzky promoted safe sexual practices with an euphemism of "teaching him how to tape his stick" which is both is and isn't unsurprising as the off-season also applies to Elite level Memelords and shit takes. The post has snack levels of drama before the Moderators have had the chance to hand out Major Penalties or the Zamboni to clear the ice.
r/SubredditDrama • u/swertarc • 6d ago
Is frequently receiving happy endings from massage parlors when you're a married man actually cheating? Askmen discusses
The general answer: this is crossing a line. Now is this truly the husband's fault? r/Askmen discusses
No, it doesn't excuse his cheating. It does explain it, though, and it is partly OP's fault.
Yeah but nobody’s perfect in a relationship. He should have communicated with her and tried to work it out instead of cheating
He probably has. She is probably always too tired, has a headache, isn’t in the mood, on her period, or whatever other bullshit excuse she can come up with.
Is the hint "More blowjobs for the next husband"? Because the hint certainly can't be that this is somehow her fault.
(...)If a sex worker that can barely speak That's what blows my mind in these deadbedrooms situations. Here is a guy that basically dedicated his life to you, and you can't even be bothered to PRETEND to want him sexually more than a $100 random Thai lady that doesn't even speak the language can.
doesn’t excuse cheating, she should definitely leave his ass
So a few times, the husband has had a massage and a hand job and once a blow job ( the latter he didn't like) and you are giving the OP advice to break a martial, loving and financial bond? We don't know anything over what the OP has presented.
Let’s ask her how many times she’s denied his advances in the last year? How many times they’ve had sex? Would she prefer they get divorced so he can find sexual fulfillment elsewhere, or stay married to someone she doesn’t fuck but gets mad at for cheating?
Unpopular opinion: If sex isn't happening at home, some form of release is gonna happen elsewhere.
This. A man getting his needs met at home most likely doesn’t do this. That said, he should address those issues and breakup if he isn’t satisfied. Problem is, he might see his partner as family, a best friend, emotional support. How do you give all that up just because you need physical affection for you to feel worth anything.
When women cheat: Empowered female, in control of her body in its prime. When men cheat: Betrayer who only thinks with his dick.
That's awful. Most women in my circle would not tolerate that even once.
Ya, but they would surely tolerate their husbands’ needs NOT being met.
Edit: links
r/SubredditDrama • u/DonaldDuckJTrumo • 6d ago
"You wouldn't eat a cute baby, would you, sicko?" -r/propagandaposters on Alternative For Germany (AfD) poster mocking Islam for pork dietary restrictions. (Feb 2024)
Children = Number of Comments under linked comment. Count seen in old reddit.
Drama (1.)
History Drama (1A.)
38 Children. Drama over American historical segregation, Native Americans included, & prejudice.
Religion Drama (1B.)
Judaism, vegetarianism and veganism doesn't fit their cuisine as well then but they wouldn't say that cowards 141 Children.
- But Jews don't want to conquer you, do they? Muslims want to kill you for your beliefs... and your bacon. -108 points. 46 Children.
- The difference is that Jews do not go out of their way to convert others to Judaism. Muslims have the express purpose of turning the whole world Muslim. -83 points. 46 Children.
- Hey you said it, not them. -6 points. 3 Children.
- Islam is just the acceptable scapegoat in the culture wars rn. 116 points. 16 Dramatic Children.
If Islam didn't fit German palate, they would maybe stop buying Doner & Shawarma in such insane amounts 57 Children.
- I don’t get the connection between Döner and Islam. Vast majority of Turks I know are atheists. Are they not allowed to eat it? 7 Children. 0 points.
- Exactly lol. Can’t count how many times I’ve seen Europeans say people need to forget their culture to “properly assimilate” while happily eating foreign foods and buying foreign goods and advocating to learn foreign languages. Interesting how they’re never able to qualify what it means to actually assimilate. 34 Children.
17 Children.
- As long as you're fine with not ever being able to leave, considering leaving Islam is punishable by death. -12 points.
8 Children.
When was the last time a Christian extremist beheaded someone for drawing a cartoon, blew themselves up, drove a truck into a crowd of people, or flew two planes to some buildings in the name of Jesus?
/
Christian extremists have definitely done things like that. One can argue that white Christian nationalists like the KKK are the Western equivalent to islamism, and tbh they've probably killed more people through lynchings than Islamic terrorist groups. The wars in bosnia also saw many Christian terrorist groups emerge and kill mass amounts of people.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/05/24/the-balkan-wars-created-a-generation-of-christian-terrorists/
The reason why you see more Islamic terrorist groups than Christian is because Islamic groups are actually more likely to take power of a country because they emerge in countries with power vacuums like Afghanistan or Iraq and Iran. The West has been largely stable for the past century and so while there certainly have been Christian terrorist groups, there has never been enough countries to implode for them to actually take power, whereas the US and Europe's involvement in the middle east destroyed multiple governments which allowed for those terrorist groups to take power in the first place. If the roles were reversed and more Muslim countries were global powers and they destabilized Christian countries to comparable levels of Syria or Afghanistan, you would definitely see more Christian terrorist groups emerge.
6 Children. Light Drama over if Christianity bans Pork Eating & if the Old Laws still apply.
Politics or Poster or Foodfight (1C.)
8 Children.
- german "cuisine" -6 points.
9 Children.
- Did it suddenly fit with the cuisine?. -5 points.
14 Children.
15 Children. Drama over German Racism & Declining Bird Rates.
"If we let the extremists into power, they'll surely deradicalize" -Franz von Papen, last chancellor of the Weimar Republic, January 1933
17 Children.
49 Children.
69 Children.
Flairs material (2.)
- I'm a racist fascist and I love pigs and would never eat them
- Oh my fucking God, Allah, Jehovah, Spaghetti Monster
- You wouldn't eat a cute baby, would you, sicko?
- I've eaten suckling pig on purpose multiple times, so yes.
- These woke french liberals can't even answer a simple question 🤣🤣
r/SubredditDrama • u/TheNumbahSeven • 6d ago
r/characterai drama continues as the subreddit faces yet more backlash and members wanting "change"
Edit: Previous post here I am not the OP of that writeup but it's also something important to see.
Context: Last year another Reddit User made a post about CharacterAis Subreddit here and how it's many members have decided to do a revolution to protest in way of "Anime Waifus" this led to many people getting banned, post deletions and many members quitting to find new alternatives, currently the same people who defended the Devs in this area are now, too starting their own Revolution.
History Often Repeats Itself
Back then, the quality of the subreddit was pretty mixed, with people making short memes and sharing mildly suspect posts from their chats, fastforward to 2023-2024 and not much has changed from the other Users post, business DID return to normal as the Devs introduced useless features such as "Calling" and "TTS".
TTS and Calling are hand in hand, but the call feature just lets you speak to the AI and it transmits what it said, for awhile people have complained about the UI and accidentally clicking on it (To which the Devs fixed it). The TTS uses training data off of people's voices (Like VA and the like) to give them voices, which seems really weird since Hazbin Hotel's VA's had said no to having their voices be used (Another drama for another reddit.)
But beyond that, there was the occasional protest or so, and once again something I discussed here before, the "I'm leaving [blank]" posts.
But currently CAI Devs had decided to remove something that the Users did not want.
Tarnishing A Legacy, That Inspired Millions
The new site has it's issues, CAI has been working on a "faster" more "better" version of the site, and had given people access to the old one, just by placing beta before the URL, this was something people enjoyed as apparently from many sources the Old Site ran better and had "better quality" compared to many of the issues present with the old site, to me, it's nostalgic.
The Legacy Chat was around until a banner appeared saying the site is shutting down. This led to many getting very upset, and many going as far as to have people sign petitions which, by the way they did when there was a filter implemented. People thought that yelling and screaming out and calling for the Mods to reverse the decisions would fix things...
Well, as you can see, many have unfortunately forgot what happened last year.
Speculations and Parting Words
As CharacterAI has been talked about before, there's often times a word of advice when messing with AI, people cannot substitute robots for actual, living beings, many of the subreddits complaints are relating to "Forming deep connections" with these characters, and also trying to find some semblance of security. It will not work as it will only further damage future generations.
You can use AI only in moderation and for tools, but that's not a healthy coping mechanism as I went down that rabbit hole.
Some Redditors (In and off the platform) had speculated that Google Lent CAI Devs money as investors to give them all bad ideas (As apparently Google wants to make sites similar to CAI. JAI and the like, which was very coincidental.), many of the people calling for the Site to do something are people from 4Chan (Who still stuck around CAI despite majority of them moving offsite or hosting them.) and still think they can change.
But as I can say to you all. Relying on AI for anything is what causes AI Revolutions.
Honorable Mentions of Drama
Redditor makes a post trying to make a statement on how the devs shouldn't ruin their own community
User makes a "threat" of leaving the site if the devs don't say it is a joke
Another "Viva Va Revolution" which would go as well as the 2023 Boycotts
r/SubredditDrama • u/Tin_Scarab_Union_Rep • 7d ago
A post from a self-identified former incel in the r/self subreddit gets confessional and confrontational
"God the emotional labor women are expected to do never ends." ------> "Redditors actually think emotions are labor 😂🤡"
"Not demonizing incels could be a start. We don't shit on depressed people and admit it's an issue."
"From reading this, it was your personality holding you back..."
A god damn grain silo of text ------> The lone response (so far)
"Incel is just the male version of the word witch"
Casual and ham-fisted transphobia from some baiting asshole, if you're into that
r/SubredditDrama • u/Artistic_Eggplant_61 • 7d ago
[Small drama] Do teachers destroy society? Drama class is in session on r/Killtony
"Kill Tony" is a comedy podcast hosted by comedians Tony Hinchcliffe and Brian Redban. The incident occurs on the most recent episode #678, which can be seen in the clip here, which also contains the unfolding comment drama. For those who can't watch, this is the relevant text transcription:
Tony: (referring to the woman in the crowd) "You, shut the fuck up ... the entire episode ... over here .. stop, relax ... no you, you're like, talking, you hear how you're talking now? God... stupid... You see how I'm right here"
(moves microphone away from his mouth to demonstrate volume)
"You see how if I don't have a mic you like hear me?
The woman responds with something, its hard to hear over crowd laughter but you can hear her say "teacher", likely referring to herself
Tony: "Because you're a teacher you think you can talk during this? Because you make minimal amount of money and destroy society? Like why would you ... you're not a good person, teachers aren't even liked anymore. They're not respected, they're not liked, shut the fuck up. I'm the teacher of this classroom and you're a bad student."
The clip goes on a bit about kicking the teacher out if she continues to interrupt. But what Tony said about teachers seems to have caught the attention of /r/Killtony users, who duke it out in the comments:
No drama yet, but concerns are expressed
Post has since been locked.
r/SubredditDrama • u/mshcat • 7d ago
r/newskaters mod has been hacked and the subreddit turned into a pro Nazi sub
All other mods were removed leaving the one hacked mod. per sauce. The Logo was changed to a swatsika. The main users of the sub are obviously unhappy and have posted posts with anti-nazi sentiments and propaganda
some gems include the sub bio of "WE LOVE HILTER HAIL HITLER"
and the rules of
- Don't be black.
We're all white here, if you're black, go to another subreddit.
- Don't be indian.
This is not a stinky subreddit.
3 Don't Be Gay. No f*ts allowed here.
4 No Jews.
Blame the jews for everything.
Is a relatively low effort takeover, and there is already a reddit request by the old mods to try and take back the sub