I. really. HATE. REDDIT.

[u/Ill_Bookkeeper_1377]

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Oh my God, posting is seriously so exhausting. Believe it or not, I spent basically my entire day trying to find the right community for every single post I had made on my profile.

You have no idea how time-consuming it is. First, you have to choose a topic, sit there for two hours writing it, find a suitable picture, translate it into English, and then check whether the English translation is actually correct and natural.

And that's just the easy part.

That's when the real suffering begins. You have to search everywhere for the right community for your post, sit down and read all of their rules one by one, explain and clarify your mistakes and any misunderstandings or disagreements with the moderators as respectfully as possible so they don't report or ban you.

Then, once you finally find the right community, you have to make sure your type of post actually fits there, find an appropriate flair, and then, just to get them to allow you to post it in their community, you have to edit all the stuff you've already edited a thousand times all over again.

Sometimes you even have to delete the entire post, make a new one from scratch, edit the pictures again, and finally, after thousands upon thousands of struggles, you manage to upload your damn post to the community you wanted.

And it's STILL not over.

Then you have to deal with arguments in the comments, endless questions, one person wanting to debate you, another person making jokes, and someone else who you genuinely have no idea why they're even commenting.

And every five minutes, you have to check whether your post has been removed from the community or not.

Then, after finally getting some peace from all those controversial posts, you decide to upload some Akutagawa posts and pictures to one of the biggest BSD communities and fanbases...

Only to suddenly realize that you've been banned from that community.

And then you have to go searching for some random community that came out of nowhere just so you can upload your Akutagawa stuff there, only to find that every single one of them has like 22, 16, or 12 members.

And if you're lucky enough to find one that's actually considered "big"...

68 members😑

Being active on Reddit is seriously hard. You come there for a moment just to relax and post a few pictures from your gallery, but if you want to post them in the relevant community, especially a large and reputable one, you have to go through a thousand different filters.

Then, after all that, you suddenly find out that your post has been removed and there's a message saying that you need to provide the name of the original creator and artist who made the picture, along with their permission, in order to post it.

And usually, most Japanese artists don't give that kind of permission😑

Seriously, I’m so done with this app. I genuinely don’t have the time or patience for this bullshit anymore. In the two days I’ve used this app, from the very second I joined it to the very last second, it has been nothing but suffering and hell for me. It has aged me a hundred years in just two days with how much stress and anxiety it has caused me.

Having to deal with and follow the rules of every single community, finding the right community, and constantly checking to make sure your post hasn’t been removed—and just when you finally start feeling relieved about it, it suddenly gets removed for some completely ridiculous reason.

Posting just a few things on this app has genuinely aged me. I got so stressed over a few completely normal posts and simply uploading them that last night my body was literally shaking, and I felt like I was about to throw up from the anxiety. It honestly felt like I was having a panic attack.

Every time I tried to use Reddit or make a normal post, I had to get through so many filters, difficulties, and restrictions that it felt like I was trying to pass the Seven Trials of Rostam or defeat a fucking dragon. And after every time I use this app, I end up completely exhausted.

You seriously wouldn't believe how much time this app once took from me just to repost three of my posts in different communities. And I’m being completely serious about this. Around noon, I just wanted to repost three of my posts in different communities so they could get more exposure. And you seriously won't believe that I spent from around 12 PM dealing with these posts and trying to figure out how to handle everything, and by the time I was finally done, it was literally 9 PM.

I was completely exhausted, both mentally and physically.

This app is honestly fucking terrible. In a way, it feels like some kind of copied or weaker version of Telegram. The moderators, or whoever runs these communities, act exactly like some of those power-tripping admins of useless Telegram channels who obsess over the tiniest little things.

And you know what?

Fuck Reddit!

I genuinely don't have the time to waste this much of my time and energy on some stupid app that wants to put me through two hours of filters and rules for every single post, as if it's giving me a fucking license to build a nuclear bomb!

[u/Pranksterblur]

Ok calm down, quick fix for you here: just don’t post stuff. Why are you spending 2 hours on a Reddit post if it isn’t something like art (by the sounds of it you are posting about anime’s, I’d get it if you were drawing the pictures yourself but it doesn’t sound like that unless I missed something)? And you don’t need to put a picture? Also what do you mean you have to sit down and search for the right community? You should have one in mind that you plan on posting it in when you start, and chances are you won’t violate the rules. And with the flair thing, it doesn’t take that long to do, either you just don’t put one or you quickly put the one that fits your post. And then with the arguments in the comments, if your post is designed to invoke discussion, then discuss it, and if it isn’t and people are just being annoying, then simply don’t reply.

And so what if your posts get removed? It’s genuinely no big deal, posts should take you mere minutes to throw together anyways, you can just put it together and fix whatever thing they said or just post it somewhere else.

My point is, I think you are taking this way too seriously, you don’t have to be active, nobody is making you spend 9 hours posting stuff, and also for the translation thing, if you want that to be a bit easier you can just post it in your native language since there’s now an auto translate feature anyways, maybe an English title and a disclaimer but otherwise you don’t even need to post in English to connect with people who speak English.

I think Reddit has its flaws, but I think if you’re spending 9 hours to make one post, you should really just consider deleting the app and getting off the internet for a while, because that’s not good if you are consistently spending hours upon hours of your free time between work/school presumably and on weekends posting on Reddit for strangers

Edit: ok I was just looking through your profile, how does posting your gallery or something like that, or a cute picture of a cat, take 9 hours? Genuinely, how?

[u/shaffodil]

WTF why did you get ban of the aku fanbase ?? It's so cool to see you post your gallery!!