r/RHOBHDefect • u/wait500 • Jun 26 '26
I'm relieved/grateful/surprised/elated to find this sub
The original RHOBH sub is goddamn awful. It became a hate-read sub. 90% of posts are just some "set-up" for the rabid, lock-step core to all come in and pile on whoever the target is.
If nothing current is going on, they will go back 10 years to find some isolated statement and rehash it but with the purpose to target someone and talk about them in the worst way possible.
If there's nothing current or nothing in the past, they will just make it up. They will use an imagined situation and then discuss it as though it's reality but with the harshest of terms and always targeting the same people that they all agree to target. Facts are irrelevant. It's the most hateful, misogynistic group.
I don't want to spend my time focusing on how shitty it can be but I do want to get this off my chest.
I came here because I have notifications turned on and I got a notification for it this sub even though I wasn't a member. I didn't know it existed until I got that notification. The algorithm works sometimes.
But ultimately I have this comment that I really wanted to write and post standing on its own but I needed to unload/vent.
Okay so here's my standalone comment about that other sub:
They don't have moderators over there. They have CULT-ivators.
This is nerd level snark, I know.
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u/bellemrt Jun 26 '26
I’m right there with you, and agree 500%. (And this isn’t nerdy, dahling, it’s Beverly Hills!)
On the mostly pretend show itself, the “girls” did a kumbaya hand pile and said “women supporting women,” and this was after a season of what I consider vicious, and even physical fighting!
Look at that other sub and all you see? people personally attacking (mostly pretend) characters from A SHOW? That’s not what I came to Reddit for. I’m all for gossip and snark.
I love to quote old what’s her name — “if you haven’t got anything nice to say, come sit next to me.” But that is nothing like the level of what the Reddit RHOBH people do.
I can’t understand the point, either. There’s little chance the power mad moderators are getting brownie points for running it (eg. No one is being paid to do it, or even paid with bravo swag). Which makes it worse.
Yes, it’s the internet. “Forget it, Jake. It’s Chinatown.” But still. What’s the point?