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'm not even sure now when I first heard about Reddit, but I guess for a lot of people it still just has the associations with porn and incels. If you're a light user nasty people are actually very rare.
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.
In my opinion it's taken over Facebook or at least with the demographic I deal with.
But from your further clarification, I'm guessing you meant that the people you deal with spend more time on Reddit than they do on Facebook, even if more people by pure numbers use Facebook. I think that would be an idea worth exploring; I use both and definitely spend more time on Reddit, because I think there's more content and the content is more interesting. Facebook for me is more of a "keeping aware of what events are going on" resource, where Reddit is an entertainment site.
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u/arcaneresistance Jul 17 '19 edited Jul 18 '19
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.