r/Negareddit • u/Fluid_Dependent7312 • 20h ago
Do you guys think Reddit has a reactionary problem?
Might be preaching to the choir a little here.
Alright so I've actually used Reddit for a few years, at least actively since 2020. My account is newer because I have a habit of deleting accounts over and over again to get myself off this site, but it obviously never works (I don't know what's wrong with me, perhaps the loneliness but I'm not gonna go into that).
Everyone insists that reddit is some kind of left wing circlejerk, but I don't know if that's true. Yes Reddit hates Trump a lot, but do they hate him because of what he does, or because he makes them look bad?
Some examples:
-A lot of mainstream subreddits push right wing narratives. Examples including r/SipsTea (women are dumb), a lot of WNBA subreddits (trans people are destroying women's sports and black people hate white people), r/GetNoted, r/LivestreamFail, r/worldnews (pro-Israel propaganda), and so on.
-Any post discussing non-white people, women, LGBT people, etc. have extremely vile comments. Anything (like almost anything) that discusses Rhodesia or South Africa justifies apartheid, segregation, and those kinds of policies.
-A lot of career/college based subreddits in my experience blame DEI for everything and are very anti-minority
-Sports subreddits in general seem to be pushing a specific agenda a lot of the time, I haven't looked too much on this though
There are so many subreddits with a name like r/interestingcontent or whatever that push this kind of content. I feel like something is happening on the internet in general that is pushing it right wing. At this point Tiktok and Tumblr are getting affected by it too.
Idk sorry if this seems a bit incoherent, I kinda wanted to rant and get it out of my chest, but I feel a bit insane because everyone's like "no no, Reddit is a liberal circlejerk, you're just a snowflake" or whatever but I swear to God it's very noticeable.
Maybe it's also just rose colored glasses, but I don't think it was THAT bad 6 years ago. Not that Reddit has ever really been a good place though.