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Pointless Pedant said:
Reddit started in the mid 2000s, it's not a newfangled website. Besides, they bring up Harry Potter all the time and that's from back then, the book series ended in 2007. This story just never got popular outside TV Tropes for whatever reason.
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When Reddit started it was run and populated by Right-Libertarian tech entrepeneurs and other more vanguard elements of internet freedom. They're all mostly gone and the people posting now are new.
 
Elkesh Taro said:
Reddit's a less ideal place for shilling whatever you like, despite being a shilling website. It's only hospitable to extreme normalfaggotry or on-topic media. TV Tropes explicitly doesn't care about notability up-doots.
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Reddit is a lot of things, but normal isn't one of them. There are literally thousands of mentally ill communist trannies on there.

I find the insistence that we capitalists who know what sex we are are somehow abnormal and Redditors are the mainstream of society pretty odd.

Shaka Brah said:
When Reddit started it was run and populated by Right-Libertarian tech entrepeneurs and other more vanguard elements of internet freedom. They're all mostly gone and the people posting now are new.
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Relatively new, as in mid 2010s. The crazy commies and endless outrage cycle started with the 2016 election, though it's arguably got more hysterical since then. I do remember Reddit pre-2016 and it was moderate politically, though I wouldn't say libertarians were particularly dominant. The user base seemed a lot more normal than it does now.
 
Pointless Pedant said:
Reddit is a lot of things, but normal isn't one of them. There are literally thousands of mentally ill communist trannies on there.

I find the insistence that we capitalists who know what sex we are are somehow abnormal and Redditors are the mainstream of society pretty odd.


Relatively new, as in mid 2010s. The crazy commies and endless outrage cycle started with the 2016 election, though it's arguably got more hysterical since then. I do remember Reddit pre-2016 and it was moderate politically, though I wouldn't say libertarians were particularly dominant. The user base seemed a lot more normal than it does now.
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/r/politics used to be so dominated by Ron Paul supporters that around the time of the 2012 election a subreddit was created by angry libs to try to get rid of them, called /r/enoughpaulspam. It was pretty vocally Libertarian during election season.

But my main point is that old reddit would have made fun of that, not enjoyed it.
 
Shaka Brah said:
/r/politics used to be so dominated by Ron Paul supporters that around the time of the 2012 election a subreddit was created by angry libs to try to get rid of them, called /r/enoughpaulspam. It was pretty vocally Libertarian during election season.

But my main point is that old reddit would have made fun of that, not enjoyed it.
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Comparing that to /r/politics now is...quite something.

What made all the crazy commies start using Reddit between 2012 and 2016? Sounds like Whateley was something written before its time, so to speak.
 
Pointless Pedant said:
What made all the crazy commies start using Reddit between 2012 and 2016? Sounds like Whateley was something written before its time, so to speak.
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They found out that they can easily create and enforce their own echo chamber with no chance of retribution from the administration.
 
Fromtheblackdepths said:
Whateley Academy:Just look how big this page is. This one follows TG super beings in a highschool.
Survival of the Fittest:And the other one. This one is about teens in a Battle Royal style island.
And yet, these two stories, have basically no impact on the greater internetosphere.
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Whateley academy:
It was inspired by an X-Men: Evolution fanfic written by one of Whateley's many authors, and retains many similarities to the Marvel Universe,​
Oh no...

SotF
As of March 2010, SOTF also has a spin off site, known as SOTF Mini, geared towards faster games and newer writers, as well as being the site for 'official' larger-scale Alternate Universe RPs.​
Oh FUCK!

Maybe COVID really is God's divine punishment...
 
Flexo said:
Whateley academy:
It was inspired by an X-Men: Evolution fanfic written by one of Whateley's many authors, and retains many similarities to the Marvel Universe,​
Oh no...

SotF
As of March 2010, SOTF also has a spin off site, known as SOTF Mini, geared towards faster games and newer writers, as well as being the site for 'official' larger-scale Alternate Universe RPs.​
Oh FUCK!

Maybe COVID really is God's divine punishment...
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No, autism is the curse of Adam and Eve, if you think about it.
 
Pointless Pedant said:
Comparing that to /r/politics now is...quite something.

What made all the crazy commies start using Reddit between 2012 and 2016? Sounds like Whateley was something written before its time, so to speak.
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NerdShamer said:
They found out that they can easily create and enforce their own echo chamber with no chance of retribution from the administration.
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David Brock literally purchased moderator positions on the subreddits /r/politics, /r/news, and /r/worldnews.
 
Pointless Pedant said:
It's not. I've literally never seen it referenced anywhere outside TV Tropes, and I was a reddit user for years (which is a site full of the same kind of commie pervert types). It's so not notable it doesn't even have a Wikipedia article, and they have an article on My Immortal.

I think what happened is that whoever wrote that stuff just put it all over the site, and no one else really noticed or cared.
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My guess is that the Whateley Academy stuff is similar to all the Pinball examples that popped up around 2016 or so. All of the Pinball entries and the entire category itself were written by one guy.

I think we have a similar thing with the Whateley Academy. I've never read the comic but if it's a Whedon-esque take on the X-Men, it probably was well-liked by Fast Eddie and most of the founding "Old Guard" of the site since they were all huge Joss Whedon fans.

You probably had a single sperg keeping the vigil and posting new examples during the site's weeb phase in the late 2000's and early 2010's, and now it's found a new audience with the troons in the turbo-woke TV Tropes of the Fighteer regime.

Pointless Pedant said:
Reddit started in the mid 2000s, it's not a newfangled website. Besides, they bring up Harry Potter all the time and that's from back then, the book series ended in 2007. This story just never got popular outside TV Tropes for whatever reason.
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True, but Harry Potter remained in the cultural mainstream throughout the 2010's thanks to the movies and the spin-offs plus a very large and very vocal fandom. I could understand why Reddit would bring up Harry Potter, same reason why they'd bring up Star Wars or Marvel Comics. It's one of those older pop culture works that has (or had) some staying power.
 
TV Tropes users discuss Japanese racism in Studio Trigger works:

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NerdShamer said:
>Claims Japan is racially homogenous.
>Doesn't know that Feudal Japan had their version of hillbillies.
>Doesn't know that Imperial Japan had a stake on several nearby islands.
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>doesn't know that before the Yamato people of Japan came to today's Japan there were a bunch of indigenous groups living there before them that in time got either wiped out or assimilated
Not a good look!
 
Syaoran Li said:
My guess is that the Whateley Academy stuff is similar to all the Pinball examples that popped up around 2016 or so. All of the Pinball entries and the entire category itself were written by one guy.

I think we have a similar thing with the Whateley Academy. I've never read the comic but if it's a Whedon-esque take on the X-Men, it probably was well-liked by Fast Eddie and most of the founding "Old Guard" of the site since they were all huge Joss Whedon fans.

You probably had a single sperg keeping the vigil and posting new examples during the site's weeb phase in the late 2000's and early 2010's, and now it's found a new audience with the troons in the turbo-woke TV Tropes of the Fighteer regime.



True, but Harry Potter remained in the cultural mainstream throughout the 2010's thanks to the movies and the spin-offs plus a very large and very vocal fandom. I could understand why Reddit would bring up Harry Potter, same reason why they'd bring up Star Wars or Marvel Comics. It's one of those older pop culture works that has (or had) some staying power.
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Don't forget all the closing logo shit
 
Helvetica said:
probably a weird "closed circle" effect. they literally don't realize that the world isn't the USA and that you can't judge everything by American standards.
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And their non-American users are just as spergy (see all the shit on Latin American dubs)
 
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