I have no words for how what I am about to show y’all, I am just beyond disappointed.

Especially the idiotic people who think calling a man an incel for displaying asshole behaviour is somehow the same as calling a women a wore for sports wear clothing that they think is revealing

I recently made a post on another sub about how I reactivated my facebook account after 15 years and i've really been enjoying it because my feed is much more positive than it is on reddit and people just overall, seem much nicer.

Theres almost nothing about politics or how we are all doomed or how hard life is in my FB feed and its all millennial nostalgia, stuff about my hobbies, and silly sketch comedy videos.

My post was up for 35 minutes before it was taken down, it received 90 comments. Over half of the comments were "something something, bot farm is back up and running", id say 10-15% telling me that im right-wing (untrue) and to leave (my favorite was, "if you like it so much over there, why dont you fuck off and never come back?"), and the other 20% telling me that I was stupid and that my experience was invalid and telling me what my experience *actually* is.

I received exactly 2 positive comments.

Man, I just dont remember Reddit being this hostile, I feel like its always had its fair-share of assholes but its so much worse now.

Am I crazy? Or has it fundamentally changed and become much more hostile over the last few years?

I've been to a bunch of subs, and people are pretty decent.

But every time i check on a larger sub, i'm met with the "average redditor". Focussing on technicalities and taking something silly way too seriously.

"It's too unrealistic" "It breaks the art-style" "epileptic people" "It looks silly" AND IT'S A FUCKING MINECRAFT MOD! I kid you not

Like it's so annoying. The posts that go "I know this will be taken down by the mods BUT...". But what? Why even post it then? You are no less annoying than the kid in class who disobeys his teacher and makes a scene, or a customer who comes in the store to yell at the manager. If you don't like the rules of a place online especially then you have the ability to willfully not be in it. In society people are expected to follow rules. You're not exempt from the expectations of society.

I go through this loop. First, I’ll Google something on my phone, then I’ll find a good Reddit thread but I’ll keep getting a message to download the app. Then I download the app and get shown all kinds of posts, mostly rage bait or cringey content. I’ll scroll for way too much time, rolling my eyes at a lot of it and then, because of the stupidity, I find myself making shitty comments in response. On threads where I give a more nuanced response, I get nothing but those shitty comments get more engagement. I’ll then delete the app…that is until I find a good thread on Google and the whole cycle starts over.

(For research purposes only)