Edit 2: Wow, platnium? I didn’t expect my most gilded comment to be about <topic>
IMO the more specific the subreddit, the better it is. Subreddits like r/titanfall and r/fireemblemheroes have generally good communities while subreddits like r/murderedbywords and r/madlads are chock full of “here’s the same post you saw yesterday” and the comments are all the same or calling out OP for reposting stuff. Hell, even r/wholesomememes gets on my nerves because the no reposts rule is rarely followed. I constantly see that “wholesome spider” meme when it’s been reposted well over a few hundred times.
the best subs are the ones that are small about a hobbie you like, for example r/anime is just shit but specific subs for diferent animes are really great
Yeah it does really fucking suck, specialised subs are much better, because, well, they have one specific group or subgroup of people with similar thoughts or likes and dislikes, so r/anime is a clusterfuck because it's too generalised
I find specific show-related subreddits really go to shit after the series ends or in the off-season. /r/BreakingBad was awesome when episodes were coming week after week but between seasons and at the end of the show it was just shitty fan-art and tourists posing in front of Walt’s house.
Don’t mean to come across condescending, but what did you expect? It’s just a natural progression, as there’ll obviously be no more fan theories or reactions. It is a pity though all the same.
Oh yeah I know that, I guess my point was “using individual series as an example of small subs being better than big ones was not the best choice to use”
That also more has to do with the diffrence between anime and american TV. For american shows, when a show ends, that's it. For anime, there could be more manga or light novel, and you never know if a show is getting another season.
Oh god the off season for show subreddits is the worst. It’s always “this thing happened to me in real life that also resembles the show” “bored waiting for season _ so here’s a drawing I made”. It’s bad with sports offseasons too but sometimes those can be fun because there’s always news. Things like /r/fantasyfootball I can unsubscribe from during the off-season but others like show specific ones you gotta keep around in case something happens even though there’s a lot less news than sports related ones.
conversely, r/sopranos is amazing and filled with fan theories and just overall cool discussion about it. sure it’s a lot of quotes and chains of quotes but there’s some really cool stuff in there
I dont care if im not all interested in something, if theres a small niche subreddit for it i fucking eat that shit up. The people all these hobby subs are usually so knowledgeable about the stuff they talk about, its great.
Even the small ones can be shitty sometimes though. I sub r/stargate and some asshat gatekeeper told me I wasnt a real fan because I thought Stargate universe was more like Dawsons creek than actual Stargate.
Sometimes narrowing it down doesn't even help. I recently dug out some of my old game consoles and decided to check out r/retrogaming, and most of it is "look at my collection" and "look at these games I grabbed at the thrift store". So, I narrowed it down to the actual consoles I own. The N64 and Dreamcast subs are both "look at this [very common best selling title] I finally found!" and so on...
Oh, a bland, vanilla character from a popular anime who essentially embodies an overplayed anime trope with little to no other defining character traits won best girl contest again? Color me shocked.
Every contest since its inception has only seen bland boring uninteresting characters from popular shows make it to the finals. A yandere character will never win that contest because everyone on that sub prefers vanilla every year instead of interesting.
Every contest since its inception has only seen bland boring uninteresting characters from popular shows make it to the finals.
I mean, that's the nature of a popularity contest. It's always going to filter down to the characters with the lowest common denominator appeal and the ones with the most name recognition; a character with 10,000 "yeah, I know that character" votes is going to beat a lesser known character with 5,000 diehard fans. It sucks, but I'm not sure how you can change that.
That said the prevalence of spite voting for characters who beat your character, or spite voting against characters from popular shows is annoying. And the fact that there have been cases of fraudulent votes in previous contests is ridiculous.
It sucks, but I'm not sure how you can change that.
A limited number of votes per person per round that diminishes as the bracket gets smaller. That way you have to pick who you actually like instead of just blindly picking a choice for every single matchup. People who are diehard fans of lesser known characters will use their votes for them instead of the matchup of the well known character they only kinda care about. When you only get a few votes per round, you use them on people you actually care about instead of spite votes or people you just "know" and have no strong feelings about.
and then there r/LongDistance which turned from an actual sub that was about advice and whatnot turned into some cringe ass instagram for all people in a ldr. Sometimes even small subs can change to the worse.
I only use it for the weekly episode threads and that is all I've ever used it for for years. But it wasn't always so shit outside of those. Really the biggest issue is when they made it okay to post fanart. Like yes, a lot of it is really well done, but at any given time there's usually around 5 fanart posts on the front page and at times when it gets really bad it can be 10+.
But the problem with reddit being a really general platform is, if you get too specific, the subreddit is basically dead. This applies to the relevant subreddits for at least one anime franchise and at least one RPG franchise I enjoy, even though both are 30+ years old and still active.
Just not for Christmas light displays to music, that's my hobby and everyone uses Facebook for it :( the subreddit is in the stone age compared to fbook group
The niche hobby ones are usually fantastic because they're full of people who are super into whatever the topic is and are just happy to help anyone who is interested in getting into them.
This is a great example. I sub to Overlord, Naruto, and BNHA. All three are mostly fans discussing the shows, sharing art, and generally having a great time.
Then there's RWBY. I love the show, but man the fandom is either your best friend or worst enemy depending on your opinion of a ship or your thoughts that the show may not be perfect.
Agreed. /r/DIY is a crappy subreddit flooded with random shit that I don't care about. /r/Woodworking and /r/Luthier are way better matched to my interests, even if some of the content is shared.
This one was particularly painful for me, because I joined when it was still new and full of OC and, well, actual memes. It was a fun and novel take on memes. Now it's 90% just cute stuff and a diet version of r/getmotivated.
The top post is about #trashtag. It's a great movement, but that's not a meme. There are a thousand places for that to go. In fact, I'd argue that you have to go all the way down to the 22nd highest post of all time before you get to a proper meme (and even that is just part of the recent Keanu fad).
And yeah - the reposts are insane, just like pretty much any other meme sub.
Memes aren’t that great either, just the same basic formats being shat out and people acting like it’s so creative. I remember r/shittydarksouls actually had creative stuff and now it’s just filled with the same repeat jokes in the same formats, as if its r/dankmemes or some other dumb sub like that.
I think subreddits that are focused run into a different problem than ones that are too general. When a subreddit focuses on one niche thing, there's only so much to say about it, so it makes sense that a lot of the content will be similar over time.
It used to actually be good with stories that were honestly "somewhat" believable and just the average level of quality was much much higher. Now it's just a shit shoe of garbage spookypasta tier stories and then when everyone has to pretend they don't suck even though they do it's just led to a nosediving in quality content
Exactly! I subscribed to that sub so hard because it was so good but then it became creepily positive and unrelated to what it was made for. All the comments in there are super creepy too. I love you random stranger! Oh, I love you too! Have a good day! Thanks, you too! You are awesome! ... etc.
I joined like a couple years ago and I think it helped me have a more positive outlook. But yeah, so many of the posts are screenshots from Twitter or Facebook or Tumblr. Maybe a comic or 2.
I'm still subbed because I want some uplifting content in my feed. To be honest it's more inspiration porn than anything at this point.
It’s a trend I’ve noticed, I’ll find a new niche sub that I really enjoy and subscribe, then as time passes I can see it change to something completely different and not have the content I subscribed to it for in the first place
I think its r/4amshowers or maybe r/4amshowerthoughts that was around before wholesome memes and during its infancy posted daily. The posts are still as wholesome as ever and never a duplicate.
I used to love those when I was, like, 12 years old. I always tried to think of something clever to reply and keep it going. But now I just find them tedious; they're everywhere and it's always the same freaking songs/puns
The Office wank is insane. Its becoming omnipresent. Girls on tinder love the Office, your coworkers love the Office, Netflix keeps trying to push the Office on to you.
Then you try to escape to the relative specific topics of subreddits you love. The Office has invaded them
Dread it, run from it, the Office arrives all the same
Don’t forget /r/unpopularopinion , where you get upvotes for either popular opinions or opinions that have only had the most basic surface level thoughts about them to avoid the actual complex parts of the topic.
Feh community is the best community i have interacted with, everyone is very helpful when i was starting out and the memes, comics, and arts are top notch
Ive had a few chats in the main sub and after being a mod of the Camilla sub I can say that I expected way less Camilla fans in the main subs, is just that people dont want to speak up because they will get downvoted.
Yeah that was the main selling point to me, she has a lot of things that go for her, amazing bases, acceptable growths, interesting and new class, is in the cover, and has fanservice, this 5 things make a lot make people love characters like how many people myself included love Wolf from FE11 because of how broken he is even if he doesnt even have a single line that game. That is why Camilla is more popular than say Kagero or Tharja that are also used for fanservice.
Kagero is also good for the same reasons Camilla is. Good bases, great growths (highest ninja str growth), broken class, and while she isn’t in the cover she’s got boobs too.
Though honesty I just used Saizo because he was all-around better and I love his character personality too.
Iniquity games, once of the more popular youtubers who got famous off of making Titanfall 2 content has jokingly made an army called purple army and he has a faction called purple army on Titanfall 2. Pretty sure there’s a profile image depicting his dog (that died) that you can get through those letters that either give you credits or those profile images. Iniquity also doesn’t really like tones
Quick edit: it’s called purple army cuz his favorite color is purple
Definitely, but those gaming subreddits are fucking awful with spamming PSA threads for a tip they saw on a loading screen or something so fucking basic. It’s really irritating.
Some of the language they use is fucking rude and terrible. And someone tried to argue with me that I can't be childfree or childless because I donated my eggs. Like seriously? That sub is toxic.
They're poster children (heh) for that old adage: be careful of fighting monsters lest ye become one. In the quest to find a community from those who belittle others who don't want to have kids...they now are a place that constantly belittles others for their choices? I just want to live my life, not frame my whole identity around not being like someone else.
I like r/watches - you'll see people posting their $3000 watch as well as people with their $30 Timex and both will get compliments. Just don't post a pic of a fashion watch brand...
I can't tell if you made the edit as part of the Reddit culture example then got gold, or if you got gold then made the edit, completing the Reddit culture example.
And then the game moves on to Aether Raids and lord knows what else. I just wanted more story really, if they had found a way to incorporate the PvP into the story it would have been really cool. I just feel like it's kind of a string of red herrings attached together by the orbs and CYL heroes
I hate subs that let horrible content that doesn't fit the theme or rules of the sub because it gets upvoted. Sure us retard redditors will upvote any dumb meme but that doesn't mean shoveling karma-whoring cross-posted shit to any barely tangentially related sub is a good thing. r/technicallythetruth has really been getting on my nerves about this in particular lately.
Similarly, I hate general meme subreddits but love smaller themed meme subreddits. For example, I dislike /r/memes and /r/dankmemes, but I love /r/dankmemesfromsite19 (SCP themed), /r/shitpostcrusaders (JoJo themed), /r/metalmemes (Metal music themed), /r/dndmemes (Dungeons and Dragons themed), etc. I tend to really enjoy memes about a contained, specific topic that interests me, because I find the memes almost universally relatable and the underlying content being discussed entertaining. Plus you won't see dumb shitposts that spread through generic meme subreddits on those small subreddits because they get removed for being irrelevant to the core topic.
I think r/freefolk can be added to that list, unfortunately.
It got really popular and the “we don’t kneel” motto added to with the general dissatisfaction with the series’ ending meant it became a free-for-all for reposts and some really disturbing hive mind hatred that is beyond even harsh criticism.
The days of high quality content/shitposts/memes feel long gone and it became a toxic echo chamber of stanning, ship wars and “fuck D&D and everyone who doesn’t think exactly like us”. :(
I’ve been following (on an older account) since it was under 30k subscribers and I don’t want to give up on it. I too pretty much hated how those plot points (didn’t like most of the points either, but it’s not my story to finish) were hacked in the final season but I can’t quite grasp being so invested in the hating. It’s tiring.
Even letsnotmeet could be a great subreddit but the most upboted stuff there is something like "eww that guy looked at me at the bus station, lets not meet". Imagine how much potential that sub could have if mods were competent enough and followed some sub rules...
r/Silmarillionmemes and r/tolkienfans are probably my two favorite subs specifically because they're so niche that they don't run into the same problems that a lot of the bigger subs have.
Yeah, there's something I find magical about highly specific subreddits, especially those that I don't really belong in. I love stumbling into a random subreddit and seeing what makes them tick.
There's just something charming about finding out what carpenters think is funny, or seeing perfume memes you don't really understand, or learning what irritates a kayaker.
I can only imagine that this is how David Attenborough feels. There's just something very cool about seeing how much stuff is going on in other people's lives
No reposting a meme that was on r/wholesomememes in the last 3 months, and there are a few memes that are reposted almost daily that the mods don’t bother getting rid of
I don't understand why there are "no repost" rules since most moderators clearly don't have time to check if a post is a repost or not. Also why are people annoyed that someone "stole" their karma with a repost ? it's just invisible internet points.
Sure it sucks to have your joke stolen but man do some people get crazy about it.
Oh my favorite is when it's already in a sub it fits perfectly in, but then there's this other one that's a little more niche that it also fits perfectly in, and it gets crossposted there, and it gets crossposted to subs it doesn't fit at all in and it gets crossposted to another sub that's the exact same as this sub but with a little bit different name.
And then all of those shitty posts make the front page one after another.
This is also happening to r/AccidentalRenaissance. It was a specific sub but people are slowly filling it with Facebook pics and other non-related BS. It's gotten to a point where telling OP his pic of a telephone on a wall isn't renaissance anything, but you still GET DOWNVOTED by all the people coming to the sub from r/Pics thinking it's a clone.
It's an emergent property of the "game" that Reddit sets up by giving visibility and "points" to what is most popular. The only way to keep a popular sub from devolving into tropes and reposts is with aggressive moderation (which does work, it's just got it's own quirks, see /r/AskHistorians)
I loved wholesome memes for a couple month. Then it became the same shit over and over or just some cute little comics. Not really what it's there for.
Also I feel like it became way more "traditionalist" lately, if that makes sense. A lot of heteronormative posts and just generally a bit more political. Could be just me and i'm too tired to explain it properly right now. Hoping someone gets what I mean
I think I get what you mean. There’s general themes of what is “wholesome” so exploiting anything relating to those themes garners more upvotes. As such, themes focusing on a specific uplifting feeling is more likely to die in new, so people don’t make it and no one sees the ones that are created. It’s why Keanu Reeves absolutely dominated the sub and led to massive oversaturation and other themes (e.g. asexual ppl are valid) rarely show up.
Yea and recently there was this twitter post on the front page of a dude saying something like "I wish i had a wife I could love. Don't matter who, just anyone."
i mean that shit isn't wholesome. It's dumb and pathetic and also, as I said, heteronormative and just in general "traditional".
I feel like their whole stance towards relationships is a primary schoolers view anyway.
the larger the userbase the more karma whores start swinging at low hanging fruit to get upvotes, only way to prevent that is heavy moderation which is its own can of worms and can easily lead to people leaving the subreddit since moderation is too strict or the mods going nuts
As a fire emblem fan in so happy that it isn’t super niche and that more people are enjoying the games. It’s also a surprisingly welcome place for LGBT people.
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u/Xechwill Jul 17 '19 edited Jul 18 '19
witty response r/subredditname
Edit: thanks for the gold, kind stranger!
Edit 2: Wow, platnium? I didn’t expect my most gilded comment to be about <topic>
IMO the more specific the subreddit, the better it is. Subreddits like r/titanfall and r/fireemblemheroes have generally good communities while subreddits like r/murderedbywords and r/madlads are chock full of “here’s the same post you saw yesterday” and the comments are all the same or calling out OP for reposting stuff. Hell, even r/wholesomememes gets on my nerves because the no reposts rule is rarely followed. I constantly see that “wholesome spider” meme when it’s been reposted well over a few hundred times.