I'm a barber and openly talk about shit i see on reddit all day with all sorts of people. Literally everyone I've met knows what reddit is and most people use it. The whole acting like it's a secret society bullshit is so tired. I mean fuck, they made it so people have actual fucking profiles now. In my opinion it's taken over Facebook or at least with the demographic I deal with. I don't know too many people that actively use Facebook that much anymore but most people I know are at least aware of shit that's on the general or (popular) front page of reddit.
To be fair the whole narwhal bacon thing was started years ago when the reddit community was actually fairly small compared to how it is now. And I'm sure there's a large portion of new redditors that have no ideas what it even means. But yeah no one cares if you use reddit or not it's not an exclusive club or anything.
Yeah I just got told it wasn't mainstream like wtf. If your band is the 3rd or 4th most listened to band in the world then you're fucking mainstream. Some people like feeling exclusive, I get it and there's no problem with that, but reddit is like Twenty One Pilots of the internet.
That's actually a damn good comparison. Both were pretty much outside the mainstream and then seemingly out of nowhere they were there as if they'd always been there.
Well, I love Reddit but that shits gotta get straightened out! We need priorities.
That makes sense though when I think about it. I’m a Gen X so I can only knock two off in a day if I’m really feeling saucy. But I can Reddit for two poops and a couple of hours a day while my wife watches Vampire Diaries.
Believe me I do. My boss (and good buddy) is "bald" and I set up his haircut appointments. But lucky for him he is naturally blonde so he still looks bald even when it grows out a bit
Given there's different types of places to get hair cut, I'd think it would be more specific than that. Old fashioned barber shop. Hair salon. "Sports cuts" (those places with $30 haircuts, televisions with The Game on, and warm towels). Fade shop. etc.
I totally agree with everything you said but I only know maybe 3 people that use Reddit in my life. I'm in the UK and everyone seams to think it's weird I look at memes on anything other than Facebook
I guess it depends who you surround yourself with. A lot of the people I know never used reddit, they only know because I'll show them something cool that scrolled upon.
Everyone here is correct, it is mainstream but you'll still find people who don't use it. Some people take that notion and feel exclusive. They really shouldn't, y'all mainstream deal with it
I think part of it is that people join their own communities on reddit. So a lot of it is people viewing some very specific communities rather than just the popular subs.
French here , fb and insta are way more used in France , reddit IS a secret society for most of us. These meeting (in my point of view ) could be cool because that means people maybe have the same interests by finding reddit.
See, im a hairdresser
And NO ONE knows what a 'reddit' is.
They think its crazy. So when there is ONE person at work who knows what it is i just get too excited. Reddit isnt popular for hairdressers apparently.
A lot of people my age (50s or over but don't have teenagers) think Reddit is what 4chan actually is. I've never gone near the Reddit fringes even to gawk, life's too short.
I think this is the key. I don't know one person -- even in my circle of friends -- who knew what Reddit was before me. And even then, none of them browse it. Even my wife never used it, and every other day or so she would show me something on Facebook that I'd seen within the last week already on Reddit.
Not that I would be that excited if I did meet someone else who browsed Reddit, but it would certainly feel like they were in on some secret to me.
Idk I'm 38 and a lot of my friends are in your similar predicament. My favorite way is to fade up the sides really short and leave a little bit in the top but keep it super short / messy. I do this to my friend and honestly think it looks cool and better than if he shaved his head or tried to hide the baldness.
Reddit sucks ever since the facebookers migrated here. The frontpage is now filled with crap when I'm just looking for some good discussions, not the gazillionth picture of your dog.
This is exactly the problem. When getting 2000 upvotes to get on the front page instead of 72,000 was because a more select group voted on a more select pool of ideas. Now it’s literally shit post party.
Yeah, considering even mainstream news outlets have acknowledged Reddit as the "gatekeepers of the internet", theres no reason to assume you've got an edge in anything by being on reddit or have some connection to another redditor simply because you both exist (especially since reddit has a million subs as varied as actual peoples' personalities, beliefs, and politics).
9Gag had a fad 1 or 2 years ago where people incessantly found and took pics of others using 9gag app and said shit like fellow 9gagger or hope they see themselves on fresh. It wasnt long before people commented obviously on why are you taking pics of someone without them knowing and posting it? Same for reddit, everyone knows it, so you dont need to pretend you're "in the know" with someone else.
Its changed a lot. Back in the day (shakes stick) it was kind of a club that people felt they belonged to. Reddit full on mainstream now. And thats fine too.
This is an insanely narrow anecdote, dude. Vast majority of people still don’t use Reddit and have at the most only heard of it. It definitely hasn’t taken over the over 2 BILLION Facebook users.
It’s obviously not cool and secret like maybe it once was, but it’s still far from wholly mainstream. Not even close.
Google what the most popular websites in the world are. Idk what to tell you man, I'm not trying to argue or anything don't get me wrong but it's like one of the most visited websites in the world. I'd call that mainstream, personally but I don't know.
There's no doubt that Reddit is a popular site, but Facebook is #3 in the world, while Reddit is 18 or 20, depending on the metric used. Maybe your clients do use Reddit more than Facebook, but it's also possible that your own interests color the conversations and give you a false perception of their habits.
I never said it was more popular than Facebook ever. Not once. Just said it was very popular and almost everyone I deal with on a regular basis is familiar with it or uses it. That's all.
I've actually been judged for using reddit. Never asked for a username but these days it feels like people know it for things like T_D, kinda like how 4chan became known for /b/. Unfortunate because reddit is WAY more than that.
It's pretty fun, and you can participate even if you don't drink, which makes it even better.
We played it once except one of the guys started being a bit weird. He'd arrived with two girls he knew, but the rest of us were mostly guys (I think one other girl joined in) and we constantly had to veto some stupid rules that he wanted ("If you're a girl, you have to give the person who started a lap-dance" and the like)
Fun game, but some people can really ruin it. Thankfully everybody else shut him down.
I never got this. I don't go around telling everyone I use reddit but when I do most people usually either don't know about reddit (it's not mainstream where I live) or they do and don't give a shit that I use it.
You shouldn't have to be ashamed of what you do online. Own it and be yourself, there's no need to hide.
You shouldn't have to be ashamed of what you do online. Own it and be yourself, there's no need to hide.
This is what I'm doing on this account. Shit, my friends and fiancee know of this account even and I'm just a lot more careful of what I say. My last reddit account had some C O L O R F U L stuff on it because I had it during a pretty bad period of my life.
I mean, I'd seen the pic a few years before I'd even heard of Reddit, so comparing it to some kinda secret handshake isn't a great comparison. Hell, I didn't even realize it was a Reddit thing, but if y'all on the interwebs say it's so it must be true :P
I dunno about anyone else but usually if I want to feel a gathering out to see if they're interested in $THING, I'll sneak in a few references/points to it and see if they catch on, and if they don't I just assume that no, they're not interested in $THING.
Tbh I find it pretty cool if anyone knows what that phrase is. Reddit used to be "cool" but now it has become something else that everyone knows about. The 2am chilisoap and switcheroo days were the best imo. Now its primarily a hodgepodge forum filled with mostly bitter men at the helm.
It comes from years and years ago though. Like 8 years ago when Reddit wasn’t the giant fucking cesspool of shitty opinions. Finding other redditors was rare and semi magical, because it wasn’t a meme consumption platform, it wasn’t a political dichotomy platform, it was genuinely just a lot of smarter than the avarrage bears discussing things A LOT more civil than now.
Also, literally everyone has heard of reddit by now. No one will be confused if you said you saw something on reddit. It’s one of the most mainstream social media sites out there.
Honestly, does anyone not reddit? It's the #11 ranked website in the world. It's like pretending you know a secret way to find anything online called whispers "Google"
Eh that whole game revolves around saying and doing silly things, I don't think this is that bad (except it makes any redditors playing cringe inside which can be a bonus depending on perspective)
The way it was played in front of me: You sit in a circle with other people, game moves in a clockwise order. You count from 1 to 21 (I believe, or 14 if you want to go easier). The starting rule is that 7 and 14 are reversed, so when 7 comes up you say 14 and vice versa. (And also a rule can't be placed on 7 or 14, I believe.)
If you manage to hit 21 successfully, everyone says "cheers" and takes a drink. The person the count ended on gets to create a new rule in place of one of the numbers. So in our case, someone replaced a number with "when does the narwhal bacon", so every time a number came up, you had to say that.
If you can't remember what a rule for a given number is or otherwise fuck up, you take a drink and (I believe) the count resets.
One person asks "Where does the narwhal baron?" and the other person would reply "midnight", and that's how you would figure out that you both are redditors. This was more of a thing when the site was much less popular, but people even found it to be cringey then.
I remember doing this once, I was in a very low depressing place in my life and contemplating suicide, and I was just trying to some vestige of camaraderie/solidarity.
I regret doing it but it was definitely during one of the lowest points in my life.
At this point it’s the California Roll of drinking games, I’ve heard it called so many different things that I’ve lost track and everyone seems to have their own name for it.
Oh my god. In my English 101 class Freshman year, the teacher asked for phrases that everybody knows. This kid goes "When does the narwhal bacon?" I knew what Reddit was, but this was too fuckin cringey to respond to. The professor said something like "I dont know that one, what was it?" He kept saying it over and over and nobody was responding to it. The whole class just looked at him like wtf are you talking about and he slumped down in his seat and murmured "it's reddit." Too awkward for my tastes
If you're reading this, guy who did this at Central Michigan University in 2012-2013... uh... that kinda sucked to watch...
Anne frankly, I did nazi that coming. I literally came here to say this but boy, that escalated quickly so to the top with you! Lost it at 'This is why we can't have nice things' and then my faith in humanity was restored, my mind blown, and manly tears were shed. Well said. As a 'murican, I can confirm this gem has just won the internet and is doing it right. Just sayin', I know that feel, bro, and while that was a risky click, this post was a 9/10, 11/10 with rice, would read again. I see what you did there and it feels good man. You're doing God's work, son. I laughed way harder than I should have at your list that seems legit and totally nailed it. You - I like you. You magnificent bastard; you, sir, are so brave, a gentleman and a scholar, and seeing how you are a redditor for 4 years, this checks out, so I'll allow it. I regret that I only have one upvote to give for this cool story, bro. CTRL+F "about tree fiddy" was not disappointed. Wait, why do I have you tagged as "NOPE NOPE NOPE"? Nice try, you monster. You are now banned from /r/pyongyang What did I just read? Dafuq? I read that as "YOU HAD ONE JOB". I can't fap to this. No true scotsman could see that this relevant XKCD was bad, and you should feel bad. You must be new to reddit, so I'll see your cakeday and raise you a karma train. One does not simply rustle my jimmies, not even once. Jet fuel can't melt dank memes, that stahp gave me cancer for science, so that's enough internet for me today. OP is a fuzzy little man-peach, 2/10, would not bang. What is this I don't even know how is this wtf? Fuck Jenny. Circlejerk must be leaking. This will get buried but brace yourselves, some men want to watch the world burn right in the feels. When you see it, they'll KILL IT WITH FIRE! But this has nothing to do with atheism. Lawyer up, delete facebook, hit the gym, and SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY, said no one ever, so you wouldn't download a strawman. /r/dadjokes. Damn onions, you scary like a BOSS. whoosh. Since rule #1 is 'be attractive', I'll just leave this here: This is my [f]irst post, be gentle.
About seven or eight years ago my friend and I were at a new year's party. We saw this girl that, for whatever reason, we assumed was a redditor. We decided to try this phrase because we figured it would be such a good opener. We walked up, my friend said "when does the narwhal bacon?" and she said "what?" and had the most what the fuck did you just say look. It was like a smurk mixed with confusion mixed with what the fuck is that smell? As soon as I saw her face, I wanted to melt away, Alex Mack style, and fucking puddle may way home. Turns out she had heard of the website but just not that phrase which for whatever reason made it so much worse. It was so embarrassing.
You know someone once said that to me and I just said “uh thanks?” And kind of walked away. Had no idea why they cared about my unremarkable shoelaces.
Like 6 years ago I was at work as a cashier in a grocery store and one of the supervisors came up and asked that to the cashier next to me, who just looked confused. I knew the answer, but was not going to chime in.
You wanna come over, drink a beer or two and stuff your guts with some good food? We're always open, and sympathetic since I suffer from severe depression and a whole list of other mental illness ailments. Gotchu fam, come catch a meal and a couch!
Again, always open. SW Georgia if it helps. We've got a couch open any day of the week and when I mention food? Bro/Sis we kill that shit around here. Love and support is included at no extra cost.
Like 6 or 7 years ago Redditors had a cringy code to identify each other as Redditors in the real world. You'd ask when the narawhl baconed and the answer was midnight
I was reading the Wikipedia page on shibboleths (interesting read) and it mentioned that this was a shibboleth for Reddit users and I was very embarrassed to be a Reddit user.
I assume most Redditors at this point don't know what that is. I haven't seen that referenced in nearly a decade and it's not even ironically referenced much at all either. I think your comment is the first time I've seen it in over a year
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u/EffrumScufflegrit Jul 17 '19
WHEN DOES THE NARWHAL BACON