The most insane Reddit Election meltdowns over the past week 🧵
This is the best metaphor for the state of Reddit's TDS:
Seeing a swastika in a random assortment of lights.
Redditors went mask off with Latinos who voted for Trump
Redditor attacked his grandma, telling her "nobody loves you" because she voted for Trump
Redditors delete their period tracking apps for some reason.
Redditors realizing they're in an echochamber
Redditors not realizing they're in an echochamber
We got some absolutely legendary copypastas
Redditors want to arm themselves but can't because of the draconian gun laws the supported.
Threats of violence skyrocketed
Calling this "Reddit's 9/11" is an extreme understatement.
The su*cide hotlines got absolutely flooded
Many relationships collapsed.
Many Redditors continue to cope and claim that Kamala was the Democrats' strongest candidate ever.
They instead are blaming "stupid working class Americans" for not "voting in their best interests"
People who said "kamala wasn't popular" were all banned.
The Reddit "witches" were notably insane:
Can't forget the election denial that's sprouting up.
Redditors are begging Biden to "snipe away" Republican majorities and execute Trump
Redditors (primarily Millennials and GenX) now have entire communities dedicated to k*lling Zoomers.
We may be witnessing the beginning of a mass exodus from Reddit because of all of this.
Countless of people are realizing they've been lied to and they're not happy about it.
The best part? They all lost.
The people who ban you for being a Conservative lost.
The people who celebrated the assassination attempts lost.
The people who call you "fascists" lost.
The astroturfers
The liars
The communists
They all lost.
Free speech won
MAGA
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Mikayla Raines, founder of "Save a Fox Rescue" just took her own life.
2 months ago she was seen on r/SaveAfoxSnark attempting to defend herself from her detractors.
Here's how the subreddit's creator responded when she showed up:
It's time to address "Snark" subreddits. 🧵
Back in April of 2024, reddit user u/Pale-Explanation-709 created r/SaveAfoxSnark after rumors of a bobcat biting a volunteer surfaced.
u/Pale-Explanation-709 would go on, posting unsubstantiated speculation about the "mysterious disappearance" of Dakota the Coyote or discussing "various injuries and deaths" at the rescue.
Meet u/explosive_donut, the progressive trans Redditor aka "David 'Reya' Jasmin".
u/explosive_donut was just indicted on second degree murder for allegedly stabbing his wife to death.
To put it lightly, explosive_donut is the prototypical Redditor. Which is genuinely terrifying to think that such a person can exist on Reddit for over a decade.
explosive_donut mentioned his wife several times on Reddit, notably expressing frustration when she wouldn't use his preferred pronouns and how she was upset with him for cross dressing before he officially transitioned.
Meet "IndictEvolution," the likely online persona of the alleged fertility clinic suicide bomber.
IndictEvolution was not a "right-wing Christian", rather he believed in a niche secular philosophy called "Efilism" which calls for extinction of all life to eliminate suffering.
This is not the first Redditor with this anti-god hyper-rational ideology who tried to hurt others. Nicholas Roske tried to assassinate Justice Kavanaugh and he was driven by a similar belief set.
The ideology of Efilism has roots in antinatalism (which believes procreation is a fundamental evil) but goes a step beyond, calling for the mass extinction of all life on Earth.
The core value of this ideology is the hyper-rationalization of "nothing consents to existence"
BREAKING: The University of Zurich has been using AI bots to secretly manipulate Redditors since November 2024.
The scariest part?
The bots were 6 times more likely to change the minds of Redditors than the baseline, often by leveraging misinformation.
More below🧵
The paper, innocuously titled "Can AI change your view?" details the process researchers from the University of Zurich used to make AI interact on Reddit.
This was done in secret, without informing the users or the moderators.
2 days ago, the mods of r/changemyview revealed the study and released usernames of 13 bots who had been created by the study.
I queried my server for the usernames and found, over the course of just a few months, the bots had written close to 1500 comments.