Specifically in 2015 I noticed a trend towards everything I wanted to read being in video form. I'd see an interesting headline on CNN, for instance, and it links to a video with no supporting text. So I'm wondering, is this a cultural trend towards general illiteracy, or is it truly easier to plan, record, edit, and upload a video than it is to just write 500-750 words about it?
Extremely annoying when i want to read the news in class and i have to search new sources because there is no text, lets start a crusade against that BS
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 03:27:10 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Fucking right. Game guides are the worst now. Googling something about a game will present you with dozens and dozens of "guides" that just like to 20 minute videos of people fucking around in the game. Just tell me "Go over there and click the thing" I don't need to see you fucking do it.
[deleted] · 101 points · Posted at 00:34:13 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
To add onto this, I hate when I actually do need a video walk through for a game and some asshat titles his video as a walk through but it's really his Let's Play with his shitty commentary and he fucks around and only gets to the objective after 20 minutes of shit.
Or when you finally find a walk through of what you need and the person playing actually has no clue how do it. So you watch 5 minutes of useless video of them trying to figure it out. Like, edit that shit to the part where you actually know what you're doing and where to go so I don't have to watch you fuck around trying to figure it out. Drives me mad.
This has been happening to me a lot recently. The sheer volume of shitty lets play channels take over your search for anything even remotely valuable. Just recently I looked up a guide for subnautica and I literally could not find anything besides the wiki because my search was so swamped with fucking lets plays.
Amp3r · 2 points · Posted at 23:27:47 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
It is because of the way YouTube monetizes their videos now. People are paid based on how long someone watches for rather than just views.
So they are incentivised to have long rambling shit videos rather than one that gets to the point
[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 04:03:48 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I dunno, this is one case where I generally prefer video. I feel like most of the text guides I run across are really terribly written. Like "Then veer right when you see the tree that looks slightly different." Bitch, I am in a forest full of trees, you really expect me to look at every single one?
For some directions, sure. But if the question is "Why won't this character talk to me?" and the answer is "You need to do Quest Of Talking in City of Quests first." then I really don't need a 20 minute video of that. I don't need to see you walk to the City of Quests and do stupid shit along the way, then do the fucking quest, then walk back to the first character and click on it and say "Look, that was easy!"
Na3s · 1 points · Posted at 03:27:11 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
What games are like the one thing where a video guide is helpful?!
I didn't even have a YouTube account, I made one just to subscribe!!!
I figured, haha, hey, I liked your tutorial on how to clean a .357, so I'd want to know about your tutorial on how to make soap as soon as it came out!!
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:09:46 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Well I can kind of understand a video about cleaning a gun, but a picture guide would be more efficient.
corylew · 8 points · Posted at 04:55:37 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)*
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I hate when they spend five minutes at the beginning talking to their subscribers before they get into the tutorial. I'm not watching this video because you made it, dipshit. I searched a topic and this video came up first. I'm not subscribing to watch you do other shit that I don't need to learn.
Yes! I'm usually looking for a very specific feature within a tutorial, like where to access a specific menu or how to change a setting. If it's a transcript, I can CTRL+F and find the specific action I'm looking for. If it's video, I have to hunt through the video and listen to hear if the narrator is getting anywhere to the function I'm looking for help with.
It's even worse if I'm in an environment with other people and I don't have headphones on me. Then I just deafly click through the video hoping I catch the moment he shows how something is do.
jooes · 4 points · Posted at 21:40:29 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
"Today I'm going to show you how to do (blank). But first I wanna thank all my subscribers, I just hit 1000 subscribers. I never thought I'd get this far and get that many, so I'm gonna do a giveaway soon so be sure to keep your eyes open for that. And just an update on what I did in my last video, blah blah blah... Okay, now let's do the tutorial!"
It's like they don't realize that the vast majority of people who are watching their video tutorials are really only there through a google search. Nobody cares about their last video or their next video or what they had for dinner or none of that shit.
I can forgive crappy intros and terrible music (To a certain point, anyway), but that kind of pointless irrelevant crap just makes no sense to me. It adds absolutely nothing to the tutorial, nobody out there cares about that information at all.
The only time I've ever seen someone get a Tutorial right is Primitive Technologies. Too many tutorials are riddled with worthless fluff and bad intros, but he dives right in and wastes no time showing how something is done.
Part of it, I feel, it's because the school system ingrains into our writing style that more words = more informative from a very young age. While this is true to a degree, you can generally get your point across with much less talking.
In other words, why use more word when less do trick?
The guy who does all that shit on his friend's property using hunter-gatherer techniques? I don't think those are 'tutorials' and more like straight-out entertainment
I suppose so, but he stated in the description of one of his videos that his inspiration for the style of it was because of how badly tutorials are run.
Oh I know. I hate when someone tries to make me sit through a 10 minute Youtube video for something they could have just told me with a couple pictures and bullet points.
So many times this past year I have gone to look up a tutorial and there are 100 videos on it but no written tutorials specific enough that I can find.
I took an astro imaging course in college and we used this software for analyzing spectra called Rspec. No Manual only videos. I had some experience using astronomical software before so I didn't need to start at square one but whenever I wasn't sure how to do something in the software instead of opening a PDF and doing a search for a solution I had to sit through a 15-20 video. Also the guy pronounced pixel wicked funny he would emphasize the second syllable so it sounded like pixEL. Fuck video manuals.
I hate video tutorials with the fiery passion of a thousand suns. They spend so much time dicking around, and all I really need is help with two steps somewhere near the middle. Not to mention that text/image tutorials make it easy to come back and reference stuff as you're doing the task, without you having to take notes on it.
Every time I need a tutorial to do something on my computer, without fail, the tutorials will only be in video form, which are at least ten minutes long. Video starts, hentai wallpaper. Cue "let the bodies hit the floor." Time to pull up notepad and type at a brisk 13 words per minute...
I like tutorials in video form. Most tutorials are in English while my OS is in German. It's easier to see what I have to do than trying to find the right option in a different language. Sometimes the translation is different than what I thought.
That works too, but I have no problem pausing the video.
Keep in mind that this only applies to proper tutorial videos, short and to the point. Videos that have a 30 second intro and then a story about the posters day for another 2 minutes can burn in a fire.
Video tutorials are both the best and the worst. If made right and targeting the right thing, they can be great. E.g. Unreal engine's lecture-like blueprint tutorials are great. They are planned ahead and scripted, and well executed without a bunch of bogus shit around them.
Then you have the incredibly bad kind, like adding a stroke in Photoshop. You literally just double click on the layer and select the stroke tab. Done. But then there's people like this.
Hello, this is a really brief tutorial on strokes and framing ...
Brief my ass it's 10 fucking minutes long and he doesn't show what I described above until 2 minutes into the video.
And then there's the Youtube videos that are just 5 minutes of Windows Movie Maker text. No pictures, no film. Each "slide" contains 10 words and is on screen for 20 seconds.
I prefer a lot of tutorials like building things and doing computer tasks to just be one long, unedited video. That way you can just follow along and do as exactly as they do. When it's in text form or an edited video they sometimes skip the simple steps, but not everyone thinks to do the simple things.
I've just started using CAD programs in my engineering class, and I didn't take it last year so I'm behind most people and it the most goddamn annoying thing when everything is in video form. Seriously I just want to know where stuff is in the UI I don't need a fucking 5 minute video.
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 21:41:00 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Seriously? Video tutorials are the best thing to happen to the internet after the internet! They're so easily consumable, and make demonstrations easier. Can you demonstrate with text? Sure, but it's very difficult. I don't understand why you wouldn't choose a video over a lump of vague text.
When I look up a tutorial on how to do things usually I'm looking for one specific part of that tutorial and don't need it in full. Instead of being able to quickly get to the part I want with text, I have to listen to the narrator blather on with some introductory statements and jump around through the video a bit before I can find the relevant part.
It's no ideal for me, and while I understand that people process information differently I wish there was more of a balance between video and text.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 02:43:38 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
That's why I skip around the video until I get where I want. Then again, it's good to watch the entire tutorial, because at the same time you can pick up on new information that may be helpful to you.
As I mentioned before I skip around the video too, but that still takes significantly longer than going through text to find the part I want.
Often when I'm looking up a tutorial the rest of the video is irrelevant to me and the only reason I chose it in the first place is there was no text option available.
If I want to hunker down and digest a bit of information like that I will expressly search for a video tutorial version of whatever thing I'm trying to do. But this trend of having a video tutorial for everything, even things that can be explained more quickly in text, is a big pain in the ass and I'll be happy to see it go.
It's so annoying when I'm having a discussion/argument online and they link me to a video. Like... no, I don't want to spend 15 minutes listening to some unwashed guy explaining why anime subtitles are the hot human rights issue of our time. Just make the argument yourself ffs.
As a digital marketer, I think it's likely because videos and images are significantly more likely to be shared and viewed than text stories on social media, according to multiple trend reports I've seen. Agreed it's super annoying though.
KJ_jk · 2 points · Posted at 05:50:13 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
As a reporter, I find it way more difficult to pack all the relevant information while making it interesting in to 1-2 minutes.
But you're right. My newspaper is doing it because statistics show people click on videos more than stories, and share videos more as well. When we do companion videos and stories, the videos have more hits, for the most part.
I see a lot of tech support answers in the form of an instructional video instead of an article.
Maybe I'm just looking for a single command line or some buried directory, and I could see that in just 3 seconds in an article. Sometimes they're explaining a very simple process, but they take 10 damn minutes to walk through it!
I think people just don't want to read anymore. Not only do I see it with news articles like you say, but I can't tell you how many times I will send a detailed email at work, only for the person to come to me later and ask me what I said...like...did you fucking read it? It is very clear what I said.
Hell it's the very foundation behind the term "tl;dr" which we see on Reddit all the time.
This annoys me as well. Especially when the video remains the same on any given news site while the headline changes.
Some Internet providers are also starting to get rid of unlimited usage. 500-1000 word articles here and there vs 30-60 second clips makes a huge difference.
I'm with you on this one, this is getting annoying. This is especially true for tutorials. I'd much rather have a text version with pictures so I can look at steps individually rather than have to constantly search a video
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 19:29:47 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's bullshit. Or a quick lesson on doing something in excel? Just write the fucking formula you asshole.. Dont need a five minute slow talking video. (They're just doing this to monetize)
It's not about the one article. It's about the 50 other videos that people will watch after that one because it's easy. People are more likely to binge watch than binge read which means more page views and more ad revenue.
They're not targeting people looking for a specific story, they're looking for people like my mother, who uses the news sites like we do reddit.
If you already have a 24 hour news channel, it is indeed easier to just edit an existing snippet from your 24 hour show and throw a headline onto it, than type out 500-750 words and edit. Probably get more ad revenue from a forced video ad than sidebar ads.
Tiver · 2 points · Posted at 18:57:29 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
What really pisses me off is when there is supporting text, but the video auto plays. Or the worst, when it starts playing audio matching the text, and I can't find any controls to shut it off.
KJ_jk · 2 points · Posted at 05:41:17 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
As someone in newspaper, we are being told by higher ups in the national company that no one wants to read the story. That we get more clicks on video than on stories. That video is the market we need to be aiming for.
It's all part of incorporating social media as a replacement for a print product. Washington Post has had a hell of a drop in print subscribers, but made up for it in online readership. That's why all those news sites that used to be free are now charging. Their website is now their main product.
So they think the next logical step in posting to social media is making 1-2 minute videos instead of 60-100 picas of text. And cutting down the length of stories, or at least breaking them up into shorter, 30 pica length bites.
It's more lucrative for the media company (CNN) to sell a video ad that rolls before a video than a display ad that's shown on the same page as an article.
/u/Icarusbird, The video ad is worth far far more then the banner ad text format would have. I'm 99% sure that is where this trend is coming from.
q4norm · 1 points · Posted at 19:22:24 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I couldn't agree more. However, if you really want to know why this happened, the answer is, of course, money. Revenue from video ads > revenue from static image ads. On high traffic sites, it's an order of magnitude of difference. Thus the push to make everything video.
This this 100x! I work in a quiet building and sometimes will take a stress break and look at my phone, I'm afraid to click on links because the stupid video breaks the silence.
Mod645 · 1 points · Posted at 20:04:54 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm with you, but this trend has been going on a long time. I had a post from 2009 complaining about this same thing (with CNN specifically called out).
rivzz · 1 points · Posted at 20:35:00 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I do like reading better. I wouldnt mind video if i didnt have to watch a 30 second to 1 minute ad for a clip thats 15 seconds long.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:37:19 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I think it's just people playing with toys. They can do videos, so they thing they should. I deal with this a lot at work (content dev) - people are always asking for videos, even though no one watches videos, particularly over 30 seconds or so
osound · 1 points · Posted at 20:37:52 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm wondering, is this a cultural trend towards general illiteracy, or is it truly easier to plan, record, edit, and upload a video than it is to just write 500-750 words about it?
It just has to do with ad revenue being much more substantial in video than text.
It stems from the fact that people are more likely to watch a video (even though it takes considerable more effort to make one) than they are to properly read an article.
urixl · 1 points · Posted at 21:01:59 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yeah as someone who's hard of hearing, I hate it when there's only a video! Background noise drowns out all the speech, so unless it has subtitles (which is pretty much never) I have no idea what's going on. Would much rather read an article.
And even worse, when the video starts playing without actually clicking play. Huge uptick of autoplay videos in 2015.
TCnup · 1 points · Posted at 21:31:29 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I hate this. Deaf people get left out, especially if the video isn't captioned. Blind people may miss visual content that is key for understanding the video. If you absolutely must have a video, at least have a good transcription. But other than that, text would do just as well (with a screen reader for blind people who prefer them).
Accessibility is important, unfortunately most people don't realize this.
Ruval · 1 points · Posted at 21:36:04 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I really hate this trend for video games. I get stuck on one part. I'd rather just read how to get past this thing, likely a stupid button I didn't see. But no some fucking 14yo you tuber wants me to watch his 26 minute video.
As a deaf person, I hate this so much. They either have no captioning, or the they use some shit auto-captioning program that gets 90% of the words wrong.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:40:09 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I agree and I hate the slideshows also. Just give me a list and be done with it.
Yep. I can usually read something a lot faster and understand more than when watching a video. Of course there are benefits to both in different situations but i would most often prefer to read. Maybe its because they can make more money from a video ad?
Everything's an argument is a really good book portraying the short attention spans of people now adays. We can't sit still, like all of us have ADHD. We can't read an article, we need a video to keep our attention.
I'm a reporter and it really is easier to upload a video than to write an article about it.
Why? Because I need to do the video anyway, it's television. Also because I only have 1:10 for my story its considerable shorter than a full article. Just as an example my story Sunday, which was two minutes long (pretty damn long for television) is only 336 words INCLUDING the anchor scripts. so yes, it is a whole lot easier to upload he video than it is to write an article about it.
That said, if I didn't include a web version of my story every time I uploaded something I would be called out on it and told to upload an article along with my video. And we're talking about a local ABC station in a town ranked the 92nd market in the country, not a national news agency.
It's much easier to disguise a crap story that has no content if you put it in video format. Much easier to identify garbage if you're reading it.
N1H1L · 1 points · Posted at 22:55:26 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Copyright too. Your watermark/corporate logo will be on the video, but text can always be copied and pasted fast without the creator ever being attributed.
ploz · 1 points · Posted at 23:09:56 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The main reason is that video ads pay more than traditional banners and video ads spending increased considerably in the last couple years...
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:14:25 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I hate that. I want to read a news article not watch a video about it. I don't even bother at that point.
Worst part is that everything's autoplay now, which is particulary nasty when you got a data plan.
However, there's a browser extension called Flashblock that blocks all Flash elements (including video players) and requires you to click on something to unblock it. Add exceptions for streaming sites and you're golden.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 00:27:48 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I don't like it because I'm currently to broke to afford unlimited data, so I can't watch any of the videos or I hit my cap. I don't get to see the new story. Why can't they put the video at the top and the story in writing at the bottom?
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 00:28:47 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I get all stabby and fisty now when I see those stupid 30 - 60 second "simple recipe" videos that show how to make something like a flourless torte. In reality, that shit takes a couple of hours and a fair number of burnt batches. I have to wonder how much food gets wasted because of these videos.
This one sucks. Most of my browsing time happens at work, in coffee/lunch shops, on the train, or somewhere I don't want the sound on, and don't want earbuds or headphones on.
Also, I read fast. I'd rather skim at article quickly and move on, than have to get the info at the video maker's pace.
What I learned when I studied journalism is that people don't read large amounts of text online. They do however read small amounts (Twitter) and video. Studies show that's true so they have a basis for doing it but I think there should be both text and video so if you want to read it you can.
I've noticed this at work too. I'm pretty new so a lot of people like to show me where to learn more about web technologies. I've noticed a strong affinity to tutorial videos instead of articles. It's like that's all they get their information from is videos
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 01:23:40 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I love to multitask, I don't even think it's that bizarre to listen to music/TV while reading the news anymore. I can't stand when I have to pause whatever I'm trying to listen to, so I can listen to something that would have been so much easier to read anyways.
Worse yet, programming tutorials/information that's in audio form. For fucks sake, programming is literally the epitome of something that is written out, I don't want to listen to you babble on, just type the shit out. If I'm supposed to believe you're a component enough coder that I would want to learn from you, you can probably type faster than you can speak anyways.
legs · 1 points · Posted at 01:25:18 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I wrote a letter to CNN about this. I asked them to have a little picture of a tv or video by a headline to denote that is wasn't text. They did it! Was it just me? Doubt it. But now I can skip over all the videos.
There were marketing reports going around telling everyone that users prefer video and they took it too far.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 02:39:50 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
That's exactly right! And the saddest thing here is that we are jonesing for 500 words...that's three fucking paragraphs. When did people stop reading?
sk11ng · 1 points · Posted at 02:41:16 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I think it's that those are usually clips from their news channel, so it's no extra work to just post them online, whereas writing text would be extra work.
This! This is a trend in the last couple years with major US garbage news networks like CNN and Foxnews.
Quality news sites like Bloomberg, BBC, Reuters, etc still offer actual articles to read. Some are augmented by related video, but the article still exists in written form.
It's horrible if you're trying to find instructions to do something auto repair related. Watching a guy do something is so tone consuming and you can't just refer to that section in the video when you're trying to actually perform the repair
smb510 · 1 points · Posted at 03:26:41 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Advertisers are willing to pay a lot more for a video ad than a display ad on a page of text, so content creators are much more inclined to make videos.
What a coincidence, you're here, and so are the legions of people that have fucked you
Small world, right?
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 03:51:45 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I thought you died.
podboi · 4 points · Posted at 21:39:03 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I agree but I we don't really know, I know people who are beautiful both inside and out but are still insecure, although I can't imagine them doing that shit, so you're probably right...
[deleted] · 8 points · Posted at 21:42:20 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Those type of insecure people that are good both inside and out tend to be the most introverted and tend to ignore their insecurities when around others just so they don't make it all about them. You should always give those people a great big hug and tell them they are beautiful always.
podboi · 6 points · Posted at 21:54:33 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)*
Yeah I did more than just hug her (100% wholesome), I dated her... This will turn into a dramatic reply.
I lost her though, I guess my support and love did erase her insecurities, so she does not need me anymore, it sucks, just happened a little over a month ago... Tho I do not consider her to be one of the "good on the outside, bad on the inside" even after that she is still a great girl, I just still don't understand what happened really...
Chin up, man. It's hard to believe, but most of the time when relationships end it was for the best. I think when the breakup isn't so new you'll come to feel that way.
podboi · 2 points · Posted at 00:54:19 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yeah, I'm battling with some insecurities now because of it, no closure unfortunately, my mind keeps on racing with negative shit, hopefully after some more tie it'll pass too...
No, not at all. People heal at different pieces and that's nothing to be ashamed of. That really is very recent, anyhow. I wouldn't expect you to be over it by now. I think you'll feel better with tinge. In the meantime if you need someone to talk to, pm me.
podboi · 2 points · Posted at 01:51:11 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yeah, Thanks, you're not the first to offer a listen to my story actually, third to be precise, I was pleasantly surprised people on reddit would be this kind to a broken idiot like me, thanks again but I kinda don't want to relive, remember, and narrate what happened to me for a third time, its emotionally draining, I don't have tears anymore to be honest, again thanks kind stranger...
I kind of actually feel you have been in a similar situation? The two other people who offered to listen were, and I reckon you are too, I'm extending the same kindness, if you are, I'm open to listen to you too...
I appreciate the offer for a listening ear, but I actually don't have a similar situation. I have a lot going on in my life that causes me strife, though, so I can easily empathize easily when I can tell someone is hurting.
podboi · 2 points · Posted at 03:31:42 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'll have a crack at that then, whats happening? Shoot me a PM...
[deleted] · 25 points · Posted at 20:58:41 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)*
I just looked this up and I actually have all of the exaggerated features they draw on their faces: acne, clown lips (from eczema and allergies), glasses, and a unibrow.
Wait what. How is something like the ice bucket challenge have anything to do with attractiveness? Your comment sounds horribly bitter
6kami · 27 points · Posted at 18:20:47 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I think they were talking about the "Don't Judge" challenge.
Wiitard · 12 points · Posted at 18:21:00 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
No, it was that thing where kids would put a bunch of makeup on to look ugly, then through video editing "rub" it off and they look like their normal selves.
mcm743 · 6 points · Posted at 00:47:37 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Don't worry poopthrowhitler, I had no idea what they were talking about either.
Yeah it was clever. They played to people's narcissism and desire to to do cool "wacky" internet trends for views and likes to raise a lot of money for a good cause
Not really, because I'd bet that most people still don't know what ALS is, what it stands for, or why there was a challenge.....only that there was one.
"Oh, I guess u/chequilla BETS that most people don't know what ALS is. Guess those four hundred and forty MILLION views for our international, celebrity endorsed, highly recreated awareness campaign that raised heaps of money and is literally the subject of a thread u/chequilla is commenting on a year later DIDN'T WORK. Shut it down boys."
Seems to me like the ice bucket challenge did its job, in terms of her now being aware of the disease. Maybe she looked it up and is now aware of how horrible it is.
Ice bucket challenge did a lot of good and spread a lot of knowledge about a debilitating condition
Some people just threw buckets of ice on themself without even mentioning ALS.
Btw the challenge was either do the ice bucket thing or donate. Now im all for raising awareness but because it became so viral the ALS part became meaningless.
ALS deserves more awareness because not only is it devastating and totally untreatable, it's also pretty rare. A lot of people just don't know about it.
Here in the UK just 1 in 100 000 people will get it in some form, while the lion's share of that small number will be men over the age of 50. I know a retired general practitioner with 37 years of experience and literally countless patients. He reckons he only saw maybe 150 cases of motor neurone disease in his entire career.
Contrast that to the 1 in 3 for cancer of some kind.
I agree with everything you said but I think that eventually ALS becamse just the name of this challenge because people didn't looked up what it meant.
Here in Portugal the challenge spread in the most stupid way ever: it wasn't about ALS anymore, it was about paying someone for dinner. So, if I was challenged by a friend, I'd have to do the challenge, or else I'd have to pay dinner for that friend.
Then, I could challenge someone else who then would have to pay me dinner if they didn't do it.
I never understood how this happened, but no one doing it here had any clue about ALS and its relation to the ice bucket challenge.
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 23:38:18 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I made a habit of asking people if they knew what it was just to embarrass the hell out of them. If you're willing to dump a bucket of ice water over your head then maybe you'd be willing to do a cursory google search to find out what ALS stands for....maybe skim the wikipedia article.
Could someone explain this in greater detail? I googled it a bit, but I can't see how it started out as an anti-body shaming movement and ended up resulting in videos like this one.
In those challenge videos, people would make themselves look ugly, through make up smeared over their faces, ugly clothes, etc.
Then they would remove all of the stuff that makes them look ugly and would turn out to be an (arguably) attractive person.
The point was meant to be that you shouldn't judge people based on their looks, i.e. a "don't judge me" type of thing... when it was just attractive people seeking attention. Actual ugly people can't just take off their ugly - the people in those "challenge" videos were judging entirely on their appearances.
People, most of the time Really good looking, would make their face look ugly then make the screen go black and boom they're back to their good looking self.
I absolutely HATED that challenge. Watching people full of themselves show off is not a damn challenge, it's a way to prove that they are pieces of human garbage.
Like "Feeding the homeless" challenge. Why in the fuck does that need to be a challenge?!? How about you just do it and not make some big showing of it.
M3nt0R · 2 points · Posted at 03:41:35 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Because making a show of it makes a lot of people want to do it. Sure the motivation is narcissistic, but the result is more people were fed than otherwise.
Those that don't make a show of it do it anyway, and those seeking that attention do it too.
ALS Ice Bucket Challenge raised awareness and money.
Cinnamon Challenge was stupid but at least it was a challenge that wasn't an easy task.
Don't Judge Me Challenge: You can wipe the shit off your face, you are stupid and if you did that challenge, frig yourself.
I'd also like to include the worst trend of all time: "Put Em In A Coffin" which may have come out in 2016. It involves a person jumping on top of something in the form of a coffin. Many Vines have been made of people jumping on shit in department stores causing a mess and then sprinting out of the stores. People also do it on car hoods, people building sand castles and other things. If you do this, you are a prick and I hope if anyone sees you doing this, you get the shit beaten out of you. There have already been arrests made for people that do this.
My work did this with a pie-in-the-face challenge to raise money for the charity we support, because after you got pied and donated your $10 you could nominate 3 people to get pied and donate their $10. They weren't hitting their fundraising goals, so it turned into a peer-pressure fundraising drive. Drove me nuts and I completely dodged it.
I always thought it was about pointing out your insecurities (a la if you're insecure about the bags under your eyes you make them more extreme) through extremities then wiping them away or something like that
I see the 100 day happy challenge on Facebook. Them posting pictures of something that makes them happy usually something shit like a movie or a picture of them smiling because they got a new dress. So stupid. Screw your 100 days of happy.
Joald · 1 points · Posted at 22:14:53 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The Paradox Challenge: don't complete any challenges
They really all tend to be someone eating something. There's this really over weight YouTuber that does it and just eats things. Someone needs to just tell him "hey man you're an American.. Eat what ever you want because you don't need an excuse"
Never heard of it, just googled it, omfg that is so cringey... So you made yourself ugly to get people to judge you so you could show them that deep down you're actually a beautiful girl with flawless hair and makeup? That'll show all those people who make fun of or rather don't want to date ACTUALLY UNATTRACTIVE PEOPLE. Wtf. Who thought that was a clever idea?
I may be the only one this bothers, but I am already sick of dramas where every fucking character whispers every fucking line of dialogue. I'm looking at you, True Detective season 2.
It seems like modern sound editing as a whole is pretty bad. Most shows I watch seem really intent on drowning out the dialogue with music (Doctor Who is a really big offender of this), or just making certain things too quiet. I honestly have no idea how people get paid to make such awful sound mixing.
[deleted] · 24 points · Posted at 01:19:59 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I now have subtitles on as a default just so I can understand everything. It has gotten pretty fucking ridiculous.
its probably the director/sound guy mistaking volume contrast for "drama", ie. "we're gonna build this shit up real quiet like and then SHITS GONNA HIT THE FAN AND BLOW PEOPLES MINDS". but they go overboard and it just ends up annoying people.
Interestingly this is only Doctor Who in the US. The UK version of the show does not have this issue. So someone decides to take the original BBC footage and fuck the sound completely before sending it over to the States to be aired there. And yeah, Doctor Who really is the worst offender of this. Not just the huge difference between dialogue and other sound, but the fact that the soundtrack often drowns out the dialogue entirely.
I guess it's cause we're dumb Americans who need everything to be loud and in-your-face or else we'll lose interest?
Amp3r · 2 points · Posted at 23:29:52 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)*
They mix it for a 5.1 stereo system where all the dialogue goes through the centre speaker. Most TV's don't adjust it properly so the dialogue track gets blended in too quietly.
This is what I have been told by people who do mastering at least.
Most speakers that people hear movies on at home are often tiny (tv speakers, laptop speakers, headphones, etc) and they don't have the dynamic range to properly give the volume for both quiet and loud sounds. If anything, it's the DAC and equipment manufacturers not engineering for the way films are mixed. Watch an action movie on a receiver with late night mode, apartment mode, or high dynamic range mode. It compresses the low parts so they are as loud as the high parts.
The issue is your tv/speaker system. Modern sounds mixers use 5.1 surround channel speakers or something higher. Your tv system probably uses 2.0 channel speakers unless you have a home theater with surround sound installed.
When you have 5.1 audio but you only have 2.0 speakers, your tv rebalances the audio but generally does a poor job of blending the channels together which gets you loud explosions and quiet whispers.
They do this with music, too. Quiet dialogue, then extremely loud music out of nowhere for a montage.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 02:19:40 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I heavily rely on subtitles now.
ditto.
The problem is multipled because I have neighbours.
If I lived in a bubble would I'd just pump up the volume so I can hear both the talking and explosions (like in cinemas), but in the real world if I turn up the volume loud enough to hear the dialogue, it will PISS OFF my neighbours during the explosions
Reason nr. 1 I don't watch american series in english without subtitles, together with strong accents (fuck the walking dead, man). If they only could speak as clear as the synchronizing voice actors... :(
cmckone · 11 points · Posted at 20:57:16 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
yet any action scene is louder than a fucking deep purple concert
Thank you! This is why I can't get into all the shows everyone raves about. I have to turn the volume way up to hear dialogue and then turn it way down if no one is talking so I don't have a heart attack.
Especially if you watch on a platform that has commercials. The sound is just prefect to where you can hear the show and BAM commercial that boats your ears off.
I think the way it works is commercials cannot be louder than the show. So the companies make the entire duration of the commercial the same volume as the loudest part of the show.
It's like they expect everyone to have a 5.1 surround system. You know what's worse? Because of how cheap built-in tv speakers are now, these shows sound better on old rear projection TVs.
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 02:21:13 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
tangentally related- youtube compilation videos where they don't normalise the volume before editing the clips together .
I now exclusively watch tv shows and movies with subtitles for this very reason. The inconsistency is so aggravating that I'm tired of using the remote to fluctuate whispers and mumbles in between crowds screaming, bombs, gunshot and fucking Dragon shrieking in Game of thrones.
I sort of did (made a deal with my SO), good lord that was some of the worst tv I've ever seen
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 21:29:44 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yeah, that season was shit tbh
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 00:33:18 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Season 1 was one of my favourite seasons of any show i've watched. Maybe my favourite.
Season 2 made me sad. (however many episodes I managed to get through before giving up.)
Jo-dan · 2 points · Posted at 05:37:47 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I wish it was just dramas. It seems like at least half the shows I watch do this shit. It was bad enough when just the commercial's volume varied wildly, now that crap happens in the show?? Bullshit.
I don't really have that issue due to using headphones while watching that sort of series, but I definitely have a lot of trouble with heavily accented speech in english. I simply can't understand what Mads Mikkelsen and the entire Walking Dead cast is saying without subtitles. It annoys me so much.
And this is why my wife has not watched all of "Drive". Tried to watch it at home and Gosling whispers half the dialogue followed by an excessively loud shotgun blast.
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 05:47:43 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Why?
If you say 'it wasn't like the first season' you are a fucking idiot and that is the point, but if you have a real reason why it was 'bad' please explain; also 'just because' isn't an answer either.
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 19:37:21 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's more that people say the second season is not as good as the first season, but never provide real proof; I was just making sure you aren't going to use factless opinion to try and show that it's a bad season.
I'm sure fucking glad I have you fact checking my opinion. I'm thrilled to have such a highly respected member of the critical community demanding more of me and my opinion about whispering on TV, and how it makes dialogue unintelligible. Now let me waste my time proving to you that I am entitled to my opinion because you were nice enough to call me a "fucking idiot."
Season 1 was tight as a drum. There were two main characters trying to find one guy. That was the arc. It was so simple it allowed the investigation to take place over decades. The characters changed, they were dynamic. They had personal lives and histories that could be explored in depth, without sacrificing the depth of the investigation they participated in. It ended with the main characters discovering that what they were investigating was massive, and possibly worldwide, and far too much for them take down. They are at peace with that though, and ride off into the sunset.
Season 2 starts with four main characters, each played by major celebrities, all four of whom are at very different points in their career, so you know off the bat that the power dynamic behind the scenes is fucked to pieces. So two episodes in and the whole thing is a murky mess. Four characters are too many, and the mystery itself is weird and hard to follow. Somebody is doing shady land deals for a highway, but he died but the land deal is going forward, maybe because Russians, and Vince Vaughn (in the most out-of-place role of his life) is getting screwed so his friend, a cop who murdered somebody a long time ago, goes to talk to a mayor who is obviously dirty and drunk, but incredibly unhelpful, he doesn't actually do anything throughout the entire series, so we wonder why he is even involved, but his kids are wierdos too, and hes rich, so that guy doesn't help. So theres a lady cop, (Played by the most respected, but the least bankable of the actors, so they try way too hard to give her "challenging" things to do) who was in a relationship with somebody at work, or maybe it was everybody, and they ask her for help, but she keeps getting distracted by her family, a dad who is a priest and a sister who is a sex worker and she just preaches at them and never really connects to the crime so Colin Farrell (the most bankable and, therefore, powerful star) has to take matters into his own hands to deal with this mysterious dead pervert, because he died for some reason, and was found by a motorcycle cop (the least respected actor, so they give him like two character traits to play with, one of them being 'gay').... See what I mean? Its confusing, not mysterious and scatterbrained, instead of focused. And this is just the first two episodes. Then, they do something awesome. They kill the most powerful actor. The guy whose character was overpowering the most respected character and suggesting using her as a whore, cramping the growth of the most out-of-place actor by preventing him from using their common connections, and filling the masculine role that should belong to the least respected actor. Maybe this will give the other three characters a chance to grow? Maybe it will help simplify the plot. Oh wait, hes not dead? So, later, when other characters start to die, I won't be able to take it seriously? Great. Well, he got killed by a shadowy birdman in a den of sin... Maybe it will tie into season one's Carcosa theme. It was supposed to be nation wide. Nope. Just some kid who is tangentially related? Who is the villian? Will they stop whispering so I can try to figure this out?
Episode 10 rolls around and they are still introducing bad guys and I seriously can't keep up. But if it's "facts" you want, here is the President of Programming over at HBO apologizing for season 2, personally.
But, really, when I think about it, I hate it "just because", asswipe.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:24:07 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)*
See, there you go, you provided evidence that is actually relevant. Thank you for not being the usual "just because".
Also, if you think that season 1 is about one guy, you need to rewatch it, it's about multiple people, a child sex-ring and corruption. Did you forget about the pastor that was let go in the end of the first season? Also, did you forget that the main villain was working with other people?
The second season is weaker, but by all means there is justification for the issue of constant villain introduction; they are dealing with organized crime.
Also, the article you linked places blame on the network itself, not on the show. That speaks volumes.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:19:08 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yellow King=main bad guy. The pastor was actively covering for and participating in the sex ring. Just because the Yellow King is the 'leader' doesn't mean that their aren't others. There is a conversation between Rustin and Martin after they kill the Yellow King about how their job isn't actually done, but it will have to do.
That's not the point. I'm not talking about the Yellow Kings role in a real functioning sex ring. I mean, in the second episode of season 1 they start hunting the Yellow King. Then they spend nine episode hunting him down and killing him. That's setup, focus and payoff. What was the objective in Season 2?
Somewhat related: sitcoms where its like the characters are trying to speak as fast as auctioneers or something. I don't know if they think its somehow funnier, but I can't imagine why it would be.
As someone who works weekend overnights and would like to watch tv or a movie before going to bed at 9am, this is literally the worst. I tend to just watch HGTV because I can turn the volume down and still get all the visuals since all the shows I want to watch is going to have a mix of action/whisper scenes.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 09:51:24 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
On a similar note, different shows on Netflix seem to have completely different volumes.
I hate in movies and tv how acting with inflection and feeling seems to have taken the backburner to this low-volume near-monotone. When used well it can convey a solemn or serious feel but if every line of dialogue is spoken like this regardless of context it's so annoying.
The Kylie Jenner lip challenge. I'm not gonna blame her for it since she never encouraged it but it was really messed up. There were injuries ranging from broken blood vessels to the glass people were using breaking and splitting their lip open.
Some fuels will leave enough water when they burn that you will be protected. A friend of mine did it with acetone (nail polish remover) a few years ago; said the water protection worked but that the acetone burned too hot to be comfortable.
Some other challenge. You could probably Google "set yourself on fire challenge" and find it yourself.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 21:05:40 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's called the Fire Challenge, IIRC. You basically put some flammable substance on you and light it. People's hair and stuff caught on fire, it wasn't a good time.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 21:45:24 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I remember recently (this year) some guy lit his arms on fire and did a flaming dab before putting it out
Kylie Jenner got lip injections, people tried to replicate her big lips by sucking on shot glasses. It either made their lips look ridiculously big, broke their blood vessels, or cut their lips.
Its a sure fire way to spot stupid narcissistic women though...
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 19:00:14 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I second this inquiry.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 06:42:23 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I actually have a lip pump that does bruise your lips for the first time using it/if you don't use it for a while. However, it does work decently when used properly. That said, this is not the same thing as sucking on a damn shot glass...which can break, and shatter shards of glass everywhere including in your mouth.
Kylie even admitted that she had surgical intervention in her lips. Why are people trying to get a look that can only be achieved through a doctor and their needle full of Juvaderm?!
It's ridiculous how all these kids thought they could get the same look from suctioning something to their lips when it's obvious Kylie has had work done.
The Kylie Jenner lip challenge. I'm not gonna blame her for it since she never encouraged it but it was really messed up. There were injuries ranging from broken blood vessels to the glass people were using breaking and splitting their lip open.
Not just clickbait, but the fucking awful clickbait websites that are coated in ads, the clickbait is a slideshow, the arrow to go to the next slide is buried in a sea of ads, and halfway through the slideshow they redirect you to some other shitty slideshow.
They're basically cancer in a website.
Rush_nj · 753 points · Posted at 13:52:28 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The worst is when you go to click the arrow and the ad that was slow to load suddenly pops up just as you were about to move on so you end up clicking that instead.
These are usually Pay Per Impression ads. They pay like $3.50 for every 1000 impressions, so they basically are gonna pay anyways. If one of these impressions gets a customer, then that's like instant profit.
If it was Pay Per Click then it likely wouldn't be shared on popular websites since most people don't click ads, the website will earn more per Impression that they make. This only works if the website is popular. If the website isn't popular then the advertiser will pay every time someone clicks.
Jidesia · 221 points · Posted at 15:35:32 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Might not have been a coincidence. Some of them are made to pop up only when you move your mouse after a set idle time or hover over a set spot.
Yup. In my (very brief) tenure as a web developer I had an assignment to implement a javascript window that didn't pop up until after something on the page had already been clicked. We designed websites for car dealerships so there was a lot of stuff to click, and some old-school ad-blockers would only work on the first page load. It was basically set up so that if you clicked the "next" button on a slideshow of a car, the pop up ad would appear over the slideshow, making many users think the ad was part of the slideshow.
The trend I seemed to notice most in 2015 was the close button getting smaller or otherwise harder to see by making it close to the same color as the background.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:47:01 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yeah but south park made an episode about it in 2015 meaning its valid
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 03:24:32 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Sometimes, I actually do want to see the "top 20 whatevers", but trying to do so on a mobile device is a lesson in frustration. Each of them is on a new page, and it's littered with ads which make the entire mobile experience about as fun as pooping without using your hands.
Usually out of my mouth, if you ask my friends, co-workers, family, etc.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 14:11:21 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Add to this that apparently Facebook's algorithm thinks these are by far the most worthy things to show up in my news feed.
Isord · 3 points · Posted at 14:30:12 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
If a slideshow is involved, I'm out. Fuck slideshows.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 16:27:59 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I was on fivethirtyeight.com a week ago, which is a political and sports statistical analysis website. It's owned by ESPN. Well, there was some article on there by the "food writer" for fivethirtyeight. WTF is a food writer doing on there? Anyways, it was just a two page freaking article about some rice maker that she loves and how it changed her life. It was a fucking ad.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 18:09:32 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's all stolen content with 8 pages to show 8 images. It's ridiculous.
Less bothersome but common and annoying: "Wait, don't go!" pop-ups. I was looking at a page yesterday and had that message come up when I went to look at another tab. I wasn't even closing their window. I wanted the information on that window. But as soon as my pointer moved towards the navigation, it put up a shitty message that I then had to close.
Not just that, but the clickbait slideshow is usually screengrabs from a video which you then have to click to the very end to find the actual video itself.
Has anyone ever bought something because of one of those websites? "No! Not the ad, the arrow! Fuck this website! Let me just see the slideshow. Why is it taking so long to load! Oh, well since I accidentally clicked on this ad I might as well order this useless thing." No, it just makes me angry.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:50:54 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I followed one of those sites once out of curiosity, but it just seemed to lead to an endless thing of more clickbait bullcrap links. What is the endgame for those sites?
Someone should make a google chrome add-on that blocks out this shit. Like if you see a site you could flag it and everybody would find out or some shit idk
Whites girls on snapchat "hacking" their friends phone by picking it up and taking a picture on their story.
[deleted] · 11 points · Posted at 01:56:31 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Now I want to make an app that recognizes the word "hack" upon submission on any app. If hack is used incorrectly you have to sit through an hour of black screen with fast-flowing green text to confirm you want to submit the post.
Basically a bunch of pretty people try to look as horrendous as possible then suddenly "transform" into super good looking people (which they all are).
I don't understand the point. It's called the "Don't Judge Me Challenge" but basically you're just judging people on their appearance.
Besides, actual ugly people can't participate at all since they don't get to transform.
[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 23:30:23 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Apart from feeling like a pedophile at work, I had to shut it down after the first idiot in the video went full duckface. Jesus Christ, my blood pressure after this...
I'm part of that generation. Check this out if you actually feel that way. We've got some idiots sure, but every 'generation' does.
[deleted] · -5 points · Posted at 00:09:17 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Check this out
Thank's for posting this. I was there. I was one of those kids that the adults would wonder about, if I would ever "get it right"... But to be fair to your generation (and I'm only 31 so only slightly older than you, I'm assuming), it's the culture that's been created by my parents, and us, in producing the outcome we see in your generation. The consumption, "individuality", vapidity, entitlement.... We have to take credit for it. It was not bred out of nothing.
The girl with the fries that switched to burger was pretty funny, too.
[deleted] · 30 points · Posted at 23:34:14 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)*
Yeah, I also liked the guy with the short curly hair who suddenly had long straight shiny hair, but otherhwise looked exactly the same. It's as if the person who put together that youtube video couldn't tell who was really into the trend and who was making a joke video? I only got about 3 minutes in and there were 2 or 3 that made me laugh, but most were kind of disgusting. Like, "Oh! there are face pimples on my face! Wait, now I have clear skin and I'm hot!" wtf...
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 04:07:46 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
And the way the guys rub up on their face like they've got facial hair or something.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 06:39:20 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm going to give them the benefit of the doubt and suggest that maybe they all have a horrendously long mutant worm eyelash stuck in their eye and that's why they're blinking furiously like that in their "beautiful" segment.
I'm so confused by this. Actually, I think the people who are doing this are the ones confused. This is absolutely stupid. From what I can tell, the point is supposed to be that "you shouldn't judge people" however everyone then basically goes way out of there way to make themselves look as much like what "society/media" says is attractive, and therefore reinforcing the idea that humans judge each other based on looks. Either this is a complete failure, or it was intended to be making fun of unattractive people, with attractive people using their ability to look good to rub it in unattractive faces. I'm going to guess it's the former and then just became an excuse for people to draw attention to themselves. Either way guess what humans judge each other, and some people are attractive other people aren't, some people judge only on looks and some people don't. Ugly or Attractive we all can have happy or miserable lives and it is mainly on yourself, not others to which of those your life is.
the stupid thing is, it started off with a video of a woman (I think she was famous for doing makeup tutorials on youtube) who wanted to make a point about how without makeup, she's not as physically attractive as many of her fans think she is, so she made a video of herself with and without makeup, revealing the fact that her skin was pale, greasy and she had bad acne. it seemed like a good thing to do.
then , the vinetard fuckheads picked up the idea, but somehow made the complete opposite go viral. they made hundreds of videos of themselves wearing makeup to make themselves look ugly (stuff like drawing on monobrows and fake acne) and then jumpcut to themselves looking attractive, which completely misses the point of the original video by a fucking lightyear.
See, now that actually makes sense (the opposite thing). Man, kids are dumb and shallow.
logos__ · 16 points · Posted at 20:04:29 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I think the people who are doing this are the ones confused.
Exactly. They've lived in bubble of beauty their entire lives, which has caused them to reverse cause and effect in their thinking, making giant asses out of themselves on youtube.
It probably has to do with all of them being like 14 years old too. Makes me not want to have kids just to watch them grow up in the generation of social media 24/7. It's quite sad.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:00:24 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Not that I am ugly, but I have other things in my favor besides my looks ;)
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 17:03:53 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's like those idiotic videos where some girl paints a unibrow on herself, wears ill-fitting clothes and asks for a guys number after saying how much she loves to play D&D. To be polite, the guy will say "no thanks" or "I have a girlfriend" or something along those lines. The same girl comes back later all glammed up and possibly in a bikini, asks for his number and he gives it to her. Then she reveals shes the same girl as before and he shouldn't judge people/he should give more people a chance. It's so stupid because she went out of her way to come off as unattractive. She's just trying to demonize what all humans would do when they aren't attracted so someone.
[deleted] · 30 points · Posted at 22:19:50 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The best ones are the parodies.
Girl with burger is killin it.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 06:35:00 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
That girl was the only one that I was remotely jealous of. Sure the other girls were beautiful, however I'm very drunk rn with no food in my apt. That burger and fries were...I can't even find the words. Holy shit I'm fucking hungry.
If they wore the 10lbs of makeup like these kids, the ugly people could do it too. I'm convinced everyone who does it if ugly and insecure.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 06:36:40 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
With the power of makeup, you can basically make it look like you've had plastic surgery. You can contour literally any facial feature with enough skill.
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 20:41:06 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I can't remember the last time I felt such murderous intent.
rexo12 · 5 points · Posted at 22:29:21 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
i *think* the idea was to show that ugly people can look good if they change their style or something.
but it sure as hell didn't turn out that way, just a clusterfuck of attention whores.
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 21:05:51 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I've never heard of this but it makes me cringe. Incredibly vain, foolish people. Maybe they are cool, who knows...but I wouldn't associate with any of these people
Did anyone else get a super rapey vibe from all the dudes? What's with the lip biting and weird face rubbing. It's not sexy males, it's creepy, please stop. You're like..12.
Bouncing off of this, another annoying trend was people who said "don't judge me" when they didn't want to be held accountable for weird or dumb behavior.
As someone relatively close to the age of the people in this video, I'm absolutely disgusted. This was so ridiculously narcissistic, and felt like an unnecessary call to attention. 10:02 was great, though..
This was so fucking hard to watch. Seeing the guys and girls so full of themselves, making googley eyes at themselves in the camera, so narcissistic it's unbelievable.
echjul · 1 points · Posted at 20:21:02 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
What the actual fuck did I just see!!??
Maybe it's meant to be "Don't judge me because I'm a stupid attention working fuck hole"
Fryes · -1 points · Posted at 20:20:07 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Some of those were really funny. Calling it a "don't judge me challenge" was pretty stupid and vain but it was interesting watching the transformation for some of them to be honest.
The one girl who didn't transform and just kept hitting the camera made me giggle. That's about as much of that as I could take. I only made it that long thinking that somehow if I watched enough of them the point of the whole thing would become apparent....
Fryes · 3 points · Posted at 21:23:52 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The fat dude shaking his man boobs had me
Dying.
jalif · 847 points · Posted at 14:40:58 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Only 3% of people get this maths question correct!
Always the dumbest people I know who post that shit. It's almost like for a moment, they had the thought that "hmm.. I may not be the brightest bulb in the bunch", then they take a basic math/iq quiz to alleviate that worry. "Pheew, I knew I was smart all along".
[deleted] · 35 points · Posted at 00:17:17 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)*
Meanwhile I'm over here knowing the answer and then my other brain kicks in and says "what if you're wrong, are you sure? SAY NOTHING EVER JUST IN CASE!"
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 01:40:27 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I will explain to you thineself's lack of knowledge that I, myself, am one of the amazingly gifted third percentile, although I do not hold great belief that you will understand what I mean with my wonderfully gifted words.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 01:43:13 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
What I hate is people who say there is a right answer. Mathematically no one gives a shit. It's just shitty notation that's pretty ambiguous (some of the times, sometimes there isn't any ambiguity) and people can interpret it differently.
Coming up with 17 is a bit daft (I'm not quite sure how someone would get it even if they tried), but getting 5.33 is understandable, assuming they interpreted it as 1 + 15 = 16, 16/3 = 5.33, rather than 15/3 = 5, 1+ 5 = 6. Although, then again, it's an incorrect order of operation.
17 was a random number I came up with, the point I try to make is that every time I see this math questions someone ALWAYS comes with a messed up answer that I have no idea how they got there.
This has been around since MySpace days at least. Certainly on 4 Chan and the ign vesti too. Thousands of replies arguing, trolls trolling trolls. In the time before reddit "implied parenthesis" was a meme.
It's pretty much the math version of https://xkcd.com/169/ where people don't seem to realize the concept of "ambiguity", and that the order of operations they were taught in grade school is completely arbitrary. There is no deep mathematical significance to saying that 1+15/3 should be interpreted as 1+(15/3) and not (1+15)/3.
And you get people who can't do order of operations in the comments. Half of people took 2nd grade math and correctly said 6, the other have are like 16/3 right guise?
I had a dream the other night about orange juice cartons with touch screens. In the dream I used the technology to display a dick pic on my family's orange juice. Naturally.
I found vaping to be really unsatisfying compared to actual smoking. I'm sure that not having a smoker's cough and being able to run more than 500m without wheezing and feeling as though you need to vomit would be lovely, among other things. But lighting a cigarette, then smoking it, maybe having someone come up and ask for one and starting a conversation... Vaping just doesn't give me that. I wish vaping did it for me, but it doesn't.
I too can't wait to see a study on the long term effects of vaping. I want to go into research after I finish my degree and to conduct/participate in one of those studies would be even better. Maybe it would convince me to quit myself.
EDIT: Forgot to mention that vaping makes you look like "that person" which is never a good look. It's just... cringe.
[deleted] · 8 points · Posted at 01:26:19 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
yeah. vaping is not as good, but it's better than cancer.
roidie · 1 points · Posted at 07:46:23 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
There's 3 distinctly different types of vaping. Mouth to Lung (eg: Innokin Endura T18 and T22), which replicates the tight draw of a cig and is normally used with 12-18mg nicotine. Then there's sub ohm tanks (eg: Aspire clieto) which gives a fuller 'hit' but feels less like a ciggi and is normally used with 6mg nic or less. Then there's drippers, which are for lack of a better term, a super sub ohm (eg: Kanger drip box) used with 3mg or less nic. People who start vaping tend to only really find one of the those 3 satisfies them enough to have it replace smoking. Mouth to lung (MtL) seems to be the most popular for quitting ciggi's. PG/VG (the 2 base ingredients, all juices list their ratio's of each) can have a huge difference too. VG is smoother and gives bigger clouds but smokers prefer high PG as it irritates the throat and gives that throat hit similar to ciggi's (it's also the base ingredient in asthma inhalers, so nothing nto worry about health wise). Sub ohming and dripping works better with high VG.
This complicated set of vaping types can make quitting ciggi's difficult, but it's really worth spending the money on each type to find what works for you. In the end that money is small change compared to what ciggi's will cost your long term health. I find that I still smoke, but vaping has replaced 9/10 of my cigarette's.
[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 22:59:06 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Same thing it does in asthma inhalers probably
Aetyrno · 11 points · Posted at 23:16:42 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Wasn't aware it was used in inhalers. A quick google search actually doesn't turn up anything for "propylene glycol asthma" or "propylene glycol inhaler" that isn't talking about e-cigs. Regardless, inhalers don't use a heated coil to vaporize what they're delivering, they use pressure through a nozzle which has a net cooling effect. It's not necessarily comparable.
Worth noting I don't have a problem with e-cigs or e-cig users that aren't complete turds about it. In my state, they're treated just like any other smoke product regarding where you can use them. Still get some people that think it's OK to puff on it wherever they want because it's "just propylene glycol."
I just realize it's not well studied, just like it's not well studied exactly what long term effects occasional hookah tobacco use will have, despite what my city seems to think...
[deleted] · 12 points · Posted at 23:31:56 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I was wrong it's in nebulizers not inhalers. My bad
seriously, like I have seen people puffing these things in my school library... Like god damn dude have some respect for the people around you those things smell/are nasty to most people
Just try again, I vaped for a year while slowly stepping down nicotine. 3 months ago I went to 0 nic and last week I just stopped using my vape completely. That's after 10 years of smoking reds.
I successfully quit with a vape 2 years ago. Christmas time 2014 I remembered I was poor, it stressed me out, I got drunk and smoked. I've been a smoker again for over a year now. :(
Get one of those 6 dollar disposables or even the vuse isn't too bad for a temporary solution. A lot of the vape communities would happily send you one of their old units to keep you from smoking too.
It's like we solved the instantaneous data problem but not the energy problem. That's what I have the smart couch for, a bunch of micro usbs dangling off my couch in certain places ready to use (all I have are androids)
You just know that manufacturers won't bother with anything as inconvenient as firmware or security updates.
"Your fridge might get hacked and boil all your food before bursting into flames but fuck you because it's more than 6 months old so we don't support that model anymore."
jusmar · 8 points · Posted at 18:21:36 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Forced updates to Fridge OS 10, now with integrated spam adware and in app purchases.
Because we want to make you goddamn fridge "Better".
Custom firmware for a door knob, how does that sound? With all the latest security patches. Some functionality might not work due to OEM not releasing proprietary driver blob.
Ah good. The average consumer is getting fed up with smart. Now is the time for my campaign for neo appliances. Neo stove! Turn on and off your oven from an app on your phone. Neo fridge! Lock and unlock your fridge to keep out midnight snackers. Built in camera lets you monitor the condition of your cheeses, or let's you know how many beers your SO has been drinking. Neo washing machine! Your dryer will now call and leave voicemails when it's finished. No more wrinkly clothes! Neo TV. Controlled by an app on your phone via Wi-Fi! Neo coffee maker. Your alarm clock is now synchronized with your coffee maker!
Neo line appliances change the way you see the future from the past presently!
And the eMac came before the iMac, which led to the iPod...
khat96 · 3 points · Posted at 17:32:37 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
There was also the whole "dot com" thing that happened for a while. Though I vaguely remember several "e-blank" things that happened before iPods and whatnot, but I may be wrong cause I was in middle school or so when that happened.
They are pretty great for backpacking. Much lighter than Nalgene bottles and more durable than bladders. Plus they are easy to put in the side pouches of backpacks. Can get two in each side. Now for every day use and only drinking that water then I agree.
Edit: I am thinking of something completely different. Disregard.
Similarly, the "Internet of Things" and "smart home".
It's mostly pointless and gimmicky, not to mention you see security flaws that were considered old news in the year 2000 - not even kidding. I work in information security and you would facepalm at some of the penetration test findings in brand new kit.
Nobody needs to be able to operate their dishwasher over the internet - it can't load or unload itself and leaving it running unattended is a serious fire hazard. Nobody needs a fridge that warns you things are running out or going off - you just need to open the door and fucking look. Want your heating to be running when you get home from work? Basic timer units have existed since the 1960s.
I was joking about this with a friend and said he wanted someone to invent a chair that senses you gaining weight and then shames you everytime you sit down. If it senses weight loss, it compliments you and posts to Facebook about your "progress."
I have to agree with you. Every thing that is new have the word Smart in front of it. It's like the companies are telling us, here dumb people buy smart thing to feel smart
I feel like this has been a trend for years now. I can not stand it. Before "smart" it was "xtreme" because my deodorant and value meal need to be XTREEEEEME
I actually really like the idea of a smart water bottle that keeps track. I'm super spacey and definitely don't drink enough water. Something that reminds me would honestly be helpful. I will agree the smart trend is crazy
zimonw · 1 points · Posted at 22:10:23 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I had never heard of it so I had to google it, I'm tilting 180 degrees atm.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:39:11 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
And if I hear "the internet of things" one more time I'm going to lose it.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 01:32:42 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
If I had a smart fridge that could tell me what I could make with the stuff inside it, that'd be cool. But I don't need an electronic notepad.
it's because the "Internet of Things" is hitting it's peak in the technology hype cycle right now, and everyone is trying to come up with some new thing that will make tons of money. The problem is that because everyone is making "smart" stuff, they all have to try to make something new, which inevitably leads to gimmicky shit products.
Had a guy pitch his smart bottles to me recently. Connects to your phone via Bluetooth and tells you when to drink water. Also functions as a speaker. Sounds quality was nice, though.
ncocca · 8 points · Posted at 17:51:12 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
We already have something that tells us when we need to drink though. It's called thirst.
People bitch about smart devices all the time... I've come to just take it as jealousy.
I love my house's devices and how they interact.
I get home and my lights are already on and my thermostat has already got the house to the temp I want. My security system knows I'm there and disarms.
I leave the house and my security system is armed. My lights turn off. If it's night, my outside lights turn on. My thermostat goes into away mode automatically.
If there's a fire or carbon monoxide event, I know immediately.
If any outside access door or window is opened, I know immediately.
If someone breaks in, I know immediately AND have a video clip. Full video from all angles is already saved locally and backed up remotely.
So I'll take these smart devices over having to turn off all my inside lights, make sure the outside lights are on, make sure I remembered to close the garage, make sure I remembered to arm my security system, make sure I remembered to lock my front door, make sure I turned the heat off, etc.
I get that, but we're talking about bottles that beep to remind you that you need to drink. There's a difference between added convenience and unnecessary gimmick
Yeah. I agree there's really stupid "smart" devices that put "smart" in the name to try to latch on to the trend.
The GOOD smart devices though are great. Starting to feel like Bill freakin' Gates when I come home :P
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:11:06 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I feel like that's kind of a pointless luxury. I feel like our standard of living is already extravagant enough and that as a society we should be funnelling these kind of resources into fixing a lot of long standing social issues rather than making our lives marginally more convenient.
I don't really look at automatic lights the way I look at putting in-app purchases on your fridge, but I still feel some vague frustration over how sci-fi we as a civilization are capable of getting while completely refusing to do anything about all of the people living in squalor.
[deleted] · 5261 points · Posted at 12:24:00 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
"The worst trends of 2015. Number 7 will blow your mind."
I fucking hate clickbaits. In my country even news media is picking up on it, and going on facebook has become a source of rage for me. I'd quit facebook if it weren't for some of the friends that I still care.
[deleted] · 1183 points · Posted at 12:54:22 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I literally just Google 'weather' and it knows where I live and tells me everything. Plus it's a shitload faster than any other app I've used or website. Hell, even when I have to type it in and type my town and state name out its faster than the other apps!
Yep. I went from Weather.com to Wunderground.com as well. Same company, but Wunderground is centered around data and has much less advertising. Their app is pretty nifty too.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 03:34:29 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I have mixed feelings about the recent update. I like that chance of precipitation is overlaid on temperature, but it feels so bloated now. 😞
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 19:56:35 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I quit using weather.com a couple of years back when I read the headline (front page of the site): Thousands dead on the East Coast. Holy shit, right? THOUSANDS! Hurricane? Tsunami? No! After reading the article it was about the next 10 or 100 years of deaths caused by weather. Fuck that, and fuck you, Weather.com.
I've been using wunderground since the late 90's and I'm only 25! I'm a weather nut and have always loved their content. But yes, the Weather Channel is cringeworthy these days.
Plus all the other information you can get from NOAA vs every other weather news source. Hell the text reports that go with the color coded maps are pretty awesome to read.
Sounds like Wunderground could be your jam as well, if you would like a cleaner interface. You can flip between NWS data and their own data modeled off of people's personal weather stations that they crowd source. Pretty cool, you can drill down into the individual weather station's data as well.
[deleted] · -1 points · Posted at 21:35:52 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Oh I love wunderground, if only for the reference to 1960s civil disobedience.
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 17:53:20 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It gives you a nice forecast, but it's hardly "all the details". There's no maps. I much prefer looking at barometric pressure and radar/satellite maps than the simple forecast.
Accept no regurgitators. My favorite thing to read are the discussions during hurricane season. There's one forecaster you can tell has a very dry sense of humor. Little things slip through from time to time. I think his name is Bivens, Blevens.... Something like that.
aubska · 3 points · Posted at 16:50:57 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
New England got pounded by snow in 2015 (February was the biggest month for snow fall in NE) we had so many storms last year they started naming the damn storms like hurricanes..
Weather.com is like, "Winter Storm Juno kills millions, Maybe"
People in NE are like, "weather.com chill out, and tell Winter Storm Juno to bring some more Alan's Coffee Brandy we're all out and it's quite the trip into town for more."
eedna · 2 points · Posted at 19:19:35 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I used the weather channel app on my phone until it gave me a notification on Halloween asking if there were ghosts in my forecast. Now I don't have a weather app on my phone.
You should use weather.gov instead. Similar name and easy to remember, but it's run by NOAA so it's actual weather and radar and not sensationalist bullshit.
I usually use yr.no, it's a norwegian website and even though I live in germany it is the most accurate weather website I've used, not sure how good the us info is though.
No hourly function iirc which is basically why I still use weather.com I like to know when it'll get warmer for my bike rides. Knowing it'll be 70 today doesn't really help me when its 46 right now but will start warming up at 2pm.
Use weather.gov instead! Government operated, so no ads, and probably way more accurate. Doesn't look as pretty tho, but the new weather channel layout is pretty shitty imo
Yes! Even naming winter storms is a form of clickbait.
Seriously. If the temperature wasnt under ~32 degrees, are we going to name every rain system? Because that is all snow is, rain that is falling in an area where the temperature is less~32 degrees.
As someone who lives in an area prone to tornados this is a huge problem for me. After the April 2011 tornados I'm a little more jumpy around the siren. Now the weather channel reports,"We're at an 8 on our tornado scale today! Call your loved ones cause it's all gonna end today." I get my weather else where.
Did they just change it from last year? Because what I'm looking at is all weather related news with headlines, and when I check my zip code, it actually gives me weather.
Ten ways that you can avoid drowning in the upcoming rainstorm
I mean, to be fair, what if there ARE ten things you can do to prevent drowning? How does a headline convey that information without being several paragraphs long?
Sometimes there's click bait (You wont believe what happened next!) and sometimes there's just "Hey there's not enough space to list all this so click here to see a bunch of ways to avoid dying"
"So and so just shocked the internet by doing this!"
YOU'RE THE FUCKING WEATHER CHANNEL. I just want to know if it's going to rain tomorrow or not.
jseego · 1 points · Posted at 20:30:10 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
There was a great interview on NPR with the head of the Weather Channel, where he talked about their new media strategy as you describe it, basically saying that this is what they have to compete with now, and they felt like they had no choice.
WSJ is paid only for most of the good articles, and stay out of the opinion section if you don't want a Fox News lite experience (Murdock's influence shows there a lot).
emr1028 · 12 points · Posted at 14:44:02 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
WSJ is a great news source, but the opinion section is where intelligence goes to die.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 15:07:27 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Checkout Yahoo news comments.
[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 15:43:17 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Well, by then, it's already been dead and buried and is starting to smell
I quite like their opinion section, yes it's sort of an echo-chamber for the right but it's not like the NY Times is any different in that regard for the left. Most articles follow some sort of internal logic and reason rather than devolving into emotion and mudslinging like Breitbart or Huffpost. I think it's pretty great for educating oneself on points of view that deviate from the vast majority of the MSM.
Seconded, they really have their shit together. I can't even tell if they're a slant, they appear to be quite centrist.
arimill · 14 points · Posted at 15:55:17 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)*
I believe they've stated they're social liberals and somewhat fiscal conservatives. But they're typically really good at calling out both sides when they slip up. But this "slant" is pretty reasonable. They called for drug decriminalization (and legalization?) as well as gay marriage rights something like a decade before even liberal newspapers did. So while they do have a slant, it generally seems very reasonable to me.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 00:36:03 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
They've always seemed fairly left wing to me, for the past few years their support of right wing fiscal policy has started to erode.
"Liberal" in a classical sense though - they're fiscally conservative, socially liberal, heavily pro-Western, and with an active (mostly interventionist) foreign policy view.
arimill · 3 points · Posted at 18:26:50 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)*
I always see them write about the China slowdown with a negative tone. And not just because it affects the West but because they just care about their growth in and of itself. However they are hard on China when it comes to currency manipulation, human rights and environment.
Currency manipulation is such a joke. When the US does QE that manipulates the currency. When the ECB does NIRP/ZIRP that manipulates the currency. If there were a country that didn't manipulate its currency after the US went full QE crazy post 2008 their currency would be extremely strong and their export sector would die.
QE isn't currency manipulation though. It's pumping US dollars into the US economy for US stimulus. There may be inflation and that might potentially lead to a slight devaluation of the currency but the effects are minuscule compared to what China does which is selling other countries currency reserves on the forex market with the aim of devaluation of the Yuan. Saying that QE is even remotely close to this clear attempt at devaluation is simply dishonest.
Well, I wouldnt want gay weddings on my news source either. I dont hate gays, but I do love news and if the news is filled with gay weddings, then its not actually news
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 12:36:21 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
When you say that it has been shitty lately, you should provide some actual examples that go beyond mere cherry picking. They publish hundreds of articles every day, if you go to the NYT looking for something that you think is shitty, you can find it... while ignoring all of the other great work they do.
Sevrek · -4 points · Posted at 18:30:45 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
And there are plenty of other news sources that are way more biased than the New York Times. So what. The NYT is a massive institution that publishes the writings of thousands of people who all have their own personal views. Saying it's biased as a conversation-stopper is silly.
Nah, I've been saying this for years. The quality of writing has steadily declined as new lifestyle columns have been creeping out the news and analysis, pushing some image of being young and hip. I don't need to buy a paper to read someone interviewing their best friends about alternative parenthood or a personal essay on relationships by an undergrad.
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 02:04:46 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
That doesnt mean the quality of the writing has gone down. It just means you dont like what the paper has been reporting on as much lately.
The NYT apparently has ties to Clinton and so much of the news tends to just be political pro Hillary stuff.
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 18:43:28 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
NYTimes has been pretty shitty since they started trying to get rid of math education in public schools.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 02:06:06 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Huh? Any substance to this claim?
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 05:21:02 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm exaggerating for effect, but in 2011 and 2012 in november, they had these two articles about how Americans are bad at teaching math, so we should get rid of required advanced math.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:50:07 on March 29, 2016 · (Permalink)
Btw, just remembered the article that I was thinking of.
[deleted] · -2 points · Posted at 00:34:35 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
What do you mean? They're one of the few sources of quality journalism nowadays- just because they printed something you don't agree with doesn't mean that they've necessarily gone downhill. Just to add on to that list, the BBC is still excellent, as is Al Jazeera (remember, go to BBC News rather than the BBC website)
Sevrek · 1 points · Posted at 15:44:31 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Just because they print things you agree with doesn't mean it's good journalism either
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:23:33 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
That's true, and I recognise that many publications listed do have a left wing bias, something that I probably don't notice too much because they tend to fall in line with my own political views. Maybe it's my own bias speaking, but outside of a few well regarded publications like the Wall Street Journal, I haven't really been able to find anything on the right with the same level of coverage and investigative journalism compared to liberal media outlets. I think people all across the political spectrum can recognise that the best democracy is an informed one, but all too often that's easier said than done.
I actually find myself reading news/opinion sites I disagree with more often just because they are still making an actual attempt at proper writing/reporting, without the clickbait.
I always read things I disagree with, then make my own choices. For example, in my newsreader I have Daily Beast and The Blaze sitting right next to each other, and both get read daily.
If something comes along that challenges my views and forces me to take an honest look, I welcome it.
See, the thing with The Blaze though, is that it's just not a good source. I always say that people should read things that they disagree with, but I don't think that this necessarily has to include low quality news sources. I think that looking at high quality sources that disagree with each other are generally a better way to go about it.
If it were up to me, Herman Cain would have run again... or never dropped out the last time. Coming into the election, I had no specific favorite although I did give points to Fiorina in the foreign policy arena based on her experience on the CIA's External Advisory Board.
Running through some of the other candidates:
Kasich: Actually to the left of Democrats on many subjects. His immigration stance in particular is a complete non-starter for me.
Cruz: Touted himself as an outsider yet worked in the Bush administration and even met his wife there. Speaking of his wife, she's interjecting herself way too much in the campaign, pulling out the "We" moniker several times, such as saying "This is why we are running for President". A Hillary 2.0 in the making.
Rubio: A younger McCain with better functioning arms and a worse functioning brain. The moment he stooped to insults, showing his true colors, he no longer was a viable candidate for me.
Sanders: What you get when you throw Granny Warren and Howard Dean in a blender. Has crazy eyes, but generally like his stance on 2nd Amendment issues. A small part of me keeps expecting him to pull off his face like a mask, a giant boot popping up showing that he is actually Vermin Supreme in disguise, and that we might actually get our free ponies!
Clinton: Patraeus got sent up the river for a tiny fraction of what she did, and did so many times more brazenly. If she couldn't figure out what was classified with her own email, what makes anyone think she can be trusted to do the same in the Oval Office?
and finally, Trump: Brash delivery can be extremely offputting, equal chance of rubbing other world leaders the wrong way, or restoring the perception of a backbone to the country. Even though he says things in an inflammatory way, hindsight and history have actually proven him right in several areas. These include the recent Brussels attacks that he predicted back in January and his "Wall with a big door" commentary actually having the force of both law and history (other Presidents have done it in the past). While I don't like how he says things, the core thoughts and ideas are ones that need to be spoken. I like that he has stated the desire to keep us out of Middle Eastern conflicts, that we should leave them to just keep blowing each other up as they have done for centuries, as long as it doesn't threaten the US in any way. That being said, he is Putin-lite in some thoughts and mannerisms.
I voted for Trump. The final choice was not made until just before I cast the vote, when the realization came that both sides are ganging up on him because he wants to upset the system... a system the rest of them are already a part of and attached to the hip with, financially and otherwise; a system that everyone claims to want to fix, but only so far as to allowing themselves to benefit from it. The most telling part was realizing that Cruz and Kasich were no longer asking people to vote FOR them, but rather AGAINST Trump. They have dropped any pretense of trying to convince voters of the positives for voting for them other than "They aren't Trump." -- Zero substance.
As for a brokered convention: If Trump is anywhere close to the number of delegates needed and they pull the rug out to stuff an Establishment player in the game, you will not only see riot on the convention floor, you will see a large enough portion of Trump voters staying home in November, all but handing the election to the Democrats.
This primary has long since stopped doing what is best for the people by putting forward the most viable and most popular candidate, instead becoming a power-play to maintain the power status-quo of a group of entrenched lifelong politicians.
Edit: Someone just PMd me asking how I categorize my political views. I am relatively Conservative to Austrian on most fiscal issues, a Constitutionalist/Originalist in the area of enforcing our founding documents, Moderate-Liberal to Libertarian on the majority of social issues (drugs, abortion, etc.)
Edit 2: My view on Trump and the other candidates was just echoed by none other than Salon (another place I regularly read but not always agree with):
Trump may be raw, crude and uninformed, but he’s also smart, intuitive and a quick study who will presumably get up to passable speed as he assembles a brain trust over the coming months. Whether Trump can temper his shoot-from-the-hip impetuosity is another matter. There is a huge gap between the teeth-gnashing fulminations of the anti-Trump mainstream media and the perfectly reasonable Trump supporters whom I hear calling into radio talk shows. The machinations of the old-guard GOP establishment to thwart Trump voters and subvert the primary process are an absolute disgrace. But it’s business as usual for tone-deaf party leaders who, barely more than a day after the discovery of Antonin Scalia’s corpse last month, stupidly proclaimed there would be no hearings for an Obama nominee to the Supreme Court.
The writer goes on to lambaste all the other Republican candidates, and I can't say I disagree with much of anything she wrote.
That was a very good read and you seem to be incredibly reasonable and open minded. The media and the political establishment are making it very hard to have any opinion other than "Donald Trump is a pick your favorite insult". Not a perfect candidate, but the only one that is a true outsider, and that's becoming clearer by the day.
The only times I've tried to read a nytimes article, my browser nearly shit itself from the horrible, abhorrent, ad-stuffed mess that is the NYTimes website.
Mranze · 1 points · Posted at 19:18:30 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
yeah I really have appreciated the WSJ as it's super helpful and usually not too biased.
jseego · 1 points · Posted at 20:31:24 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's geared for average Joe Schmoe. The same guy who would make payments on a ten year old car from a buy-here-pay-here lot, or who would spend half their tax return on lottery tickets. They have to pander to the dumbest of the dumb.
I work at a regional newspaper in Scotland and we've started putting our web stories out like this and it does my fucking tits in. It's the worst shit.
Thank goodness for those amazing people who will read through that bullshit clickbait for you and leave a comment on the Facebook post summarising ~5 min of clickbait bullshit in a few sweet, short, sharp sentences.
710cap · 4 points · Posted at 15:01:25 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
There's a page on Facebook called DeClicked that does that, too
I took a social media management class as my final credits for school. One of the requirements was that we had to do weekly blog posts linking an article pertaining to what we were learning that week. The instructor literally told us that we had to make clickbaity headlines for the link, like "you'll never believe #4!!". I died on the inside every time I had to do it
[deleted] · 14 points · Posted at 14:11:08 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Clickbait might be a relatively new word, but the concept is as old as media.
Clickbaits prey on the unintelligent, gossip-happy bottom feeders who have nothing better to do than read up on the 'juiciest new stories' that are typically either untrue or mundane facts.
Same in my country. Luckily there's a facebook group with like a 100 000 followers that tells the content of the clickbait article shortly and also awards weekly diplomas to the worst offenders. Some news outlets have promised to make changes because of this.
Don't lie; You'd quit facebook if it was as simple as "quitting" or "deleting" your account...
Instead it takes 5 separate pages, numerous links, ect ect just to delete it; And after all that, your account is still available to bring back at the simple click of a single link sent to your email...
Unfollow everyone except for the few friends that you still care about. Trust me, it'll improve your FB experience tremendously. I actually unfollow literally everyone and everything. I only keep FB around for messaging, event planning, and 1 secret group that I have with all of my friends.
And that those "top 10" are on 10 difference pages with about 40 adds on each page. I wont click past page 1.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:46:46 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
You might be surprised at how easy it is to keep in touch with those friends without fb...I had to get rids of it too cuz I was always geating pissed off going on it ..
I'd quit facebook if it weren't for some of the friends that I still care.
Great plan: Every time you see a clickbait article or picture shared, take note of which friend shared/liked it, and immediately remove them from your friends list.
After a few weeks, Facebook actually becomes kinda decent (although it's still obviously an appalling spying machine).
Clickbait was one thing, lists that you had to click through were another. Now they've combined the two into actual stories, with clickbait titles, that you have to CLICK THROUGH WITH ONE FUCKING SENTENCE PER PAGE. It's so infuriating.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:05:07 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I know it's pathetic, but overuse of the word Adorable. Every fucking thing with big eyes, fur, or the incapacity of wiping away its own shit is described as Adorable in the title.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:12:42 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
If you use FB on a browser, look up FB Purity. Will get rid of many of the frustrations.
I've quit fbook since August and it has been liberating. I was so sick of bullshit posts and pictures of shit I didn't care about. Your real friends will stick around and find ways to keep in touch. It is harder to organize events and such but I use evite and whatsapp now. Keeping friends was my final worry about quitting, but just put your account dormant at first and you can always hop back on to track down someone's email if need be.
"This will blow your mind" is directed at the small-minded. Tiny explosions everywhere...
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 01:30:06 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Just don't browse it and use their messenger app. I uninstalled Facebook on my phone because it was a battery drainer but it's genuinely the best thing I've done besides regardless of my battery life improvement. I've kept the messenger app for the group chats my friends and I have and I don't sit in bed and scroll through a never ending Facebook time line in bed at night any more. Nor do I see all the shit that is on Facebook.
I still sit through the never ending reddit and twitter though.
I seen one today that said "15 Celebrities You Didn't Know We're Dead. Number 7 Will Shock You." The picture was of Jennifer Lawrence who is as far as I know, not dead, and a huge celebrity so I wouldn't be finding out about her death from a bullshit click bait ad, and thus not shocked.
That social media trend of setting yourself on fire and seeing how fast you can put it out is quite an awful trend. On the other hand though, let natural selection do its thing.
I dunno, these were the only "challenges" that I actually enjoyed watching. Who doesn't want to watch the idiots burn?
[deleted] · 160 points · Posted at 16:29:57 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)*
I was annoyed when it was in articles and on the news telling people to stop lighting themselves on fire. No. Please. Let people dumb enough to light themselves on fire light themselves on fire please
He had bad wording for sure and even the wrong sentiment. Although I still think it's kind of bad that somebody is fine and rather encouraging towards the self inflicted injury of others.
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 21:12:25 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I don't think /u/iliketosnuggle is encouraging it, he just doesn't have a problem if people want to be dumbasses and risk their lives like that. And, to be honest, I don't either.
Exactly. We used to have to arrange that shit ourselves, and usually keep it a secret - it was a right bother. Now the undesirables just do it to themselves!
Can you say "Darwin Award"? This should be encouraged! All the positives of eugenics with none of the moral conundrums. Burn on brothers, you're doing your part to improve the human genepool.
[deleted] · 10 points · Posted at 16:12:10 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
This reminds me of a friend of mine in highschool who would borrow my body spray, spray it on the crotch of his jeans, and light the spot on fire, and quickly put it out. But he did this a few years ago. I'd like to believe he inspired whoever started the trend.
People aren't singing kumbaya loud enough. The terrorists are unaware that we do not enjoy them blowing us up. If we sing louder, they will hear us, and peace will come to the world
Terrorist attack ? HEY EVERYONE TERRORIST ATTACK HAPPENING ! HEY ! STOP WHAT YOU ARE DOING AND GIVE ALL YOUR ATTENTION TO THESE CRAZY ATTENTION SEEKERS. THIS IS THE MOST EFFICIENT WAY OF GETTING NEWS TO YOU. STAY TUNED FOR THE LOREAL AD RIGHT AFTER THE EXPLOSION
I'm a rock radio presenter and I'm kind of twitching at this because of how many times I've had to redefine "classic rock". In the end, I just decided "screw it" and started playing music from whenever.
They said it as a joke, but I've actually heard damn kids calling the music I listened to as a teenager in the late 90's as "classic rock". They need to get off my fucking lawn.
We were saying that same shit back in the 90's when we discovered Led Zepplin and Jimi Hendrix. in 20 years, kids are going to think they're le wrong generation because they discover the good music from this decade. What they don't realize is that it's always 90% garbage in every era. Yeah, we had Nirvanah and Pearl Jam, but there were also boy bands, novelty songs, third string grunge bands and other assorted crap that dominated the charts most of the time.
echjul · 1 points · Posted at 20:54:39 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
30 years in the future, some teenage girl is going to be crying on her bed wearing vintage uggs listening to One Direction sobbing about how nobody understands her and all the good music came from the 2010.
Imagine in 50 years, at weddings all the old couples with hip replacements and old times clothes dancing enthusiastically to classics like "The Wobble", the Nae Nae, and What Does The Fox Say. While their grandkids are saying WTF as they listen to techno-grindcore-soft-pop, or whatever the kids of the 2060s will listen to.
I'm in several Mardi Gras krewes that have existed for over 50 years, and they're kind of like sororities/fraternities where you never graduate. The 50-85 year olds FUCKING LOVE THE WOBBLE. We do it at every single ball, Christmas party and event throughout the year. When I bring friends who don't know who to do it, the lady I ask to teach them is 70. She's the best at it, adds her own stank.
Freege · 3 points · Posted at 20:47:56 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I fucking hate this shit so much. I get that its supposed to be sarcastic, and that they're just referring to the Filthy Frank video, but its getting ridiculous. Seriously, I see more comments now than I did prior to this stupid Filthy Frank video circlejerk.
Its identical to how people complain about Vegans on reddit.
Here's what I'm gonna do. If I see a comment like that on something by, say, the beatles, I'm gonna say "Why are you listening to this newfangled devil music?" and then tell them they should listen to Mozart or something.
I'm just skipping through a YouTube playlist of music (rip grooveshark) when I come across a really cool music video w and want to discuss it / read other people's thoughts. I scroll down to the comments section and it's 100% of meaningless shitposts like this.
It's 'cause mental retardation is an actual mental condition, so people don't want it to be used as an insult.
Imagine that the person you're ridiculing actually was retarded in the clinical sense. You'd be suggesting that their condition, which is out of their control, is something to be ridiculed about. That would be pretty offensive.
Fair enough. Like most offensive slurs it sometimes comes up between friends who know it's not meant as a malicious attack. It's the people who call random people racist, sexist, etc slurs in public that are the assclowns.
I understand where you are coming from, but we regularly make fun of people for being unintelligent. We refer to people as dumb or idiots in jest all the time. Mental retardation is the clinical condition of having a low iq, and it feels like a natural extension of hyperbole to use the term. In the colloquial use its a fairly in line with what someone is trying to say about a person or action. Now obviously, it would be incredibly rude and mean-spirited to make fun of a person who actually has such a condition, much as it is mean-spirited to make fun of someone's appearance or anything else thats out of their control. But people aren't going to quit calling each other stupid, fat, short, old or ugly just because some people actually are.
The implication, to me, is that you're telling someone that they're acting in a way that is only excusable if you truly can't help it, with a clear implication that they can and should cut it out.
You mean why are people using "short" as an insult? Good question. Probably to feel superior. Kind of like when they call other people stupid.. or retarded.
I for sure would never call someone developmentally disabled a regard. I do yell it at retards on the highway though. Bear in mind that I'm kind of a dick.
I think it's reasonable to be offended by it, but it isn't as bad as other slurs, IMO
mhblm · 2 points · Posted at 02:59:30 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
If you're using it as a put-down, I don't see a way to really defend it.
"That's retarded" was in my vocabulary until I started working with people who had actual mental disabilities. I saw how hard their lives were, how much they wanted to be independent, and how they knew they never could be. Frustrations that they were unable to voice. The hopelessness of having to dismiss relatively simple ideas that are too complicated for them to grasp, even when everyone else gets it. Having to take everything on faith because they simply don't understand what's going on.
Their lives are hard enough, they really don't need me using their condition as a put-down for things I don't agree with.
odyssey.com or something like that seems to hire every singe college freshman in a sorority to write these. I know people who have written them and I'm quite frankly ashamed of it sometimes. Stuff like "an open letter to my parents" or "an open letter to my ex boyfriend" seemed super popular.
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 22:41:18 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I knew a kid who wrote bullshit of this caliber for the college news rag. He always thought he was "telling it like it is" but really it was him being a snarky asshole while taking passive-aggressive potshots at other students. He graduated easily being the most hated person on campus and his last column was him trying to pass off the his three year career of being an unlikable shit as some masterful trolling. I think he ended up getting punched by some drunk kid on graduation week.
They're always written in an alarmingly intelligent and snarky fashion not befitting the author, almost as if it's staged.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:35:25 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)*
If they seem too well composed for the poster, it's because they are using a form letter and just inserting their name where appropriate, EG: I, (insert name here), do not formally or otherwise consent to Facebook using my personal information for xyz etcetera.
It's also so obvious when they've had help or it's been written on their behalf for extra impact.
For example, some of the near-Shakespearean victim impact statements you hear in court apparently from young teenage rape victims etc. Sorry, but I was 15 once, and can tell you here and now even the smartest 15 year olds can't write or talk like that. Clearly been drafted by their parents or lawyer.
Glad I'm not the only one annoyed by the open letters. I saw one that was addressed to the writer's hometown. Not the people of the town. The actual geographic location. Since the town can't read, I can only assume it is so people will think the writer is sooo deep and sensitive.
The don't judge me challenge. People would mess their hair up, put black paint on their teeth, unibrows, fake zits, etc. Then put their hand up to the camera lens, pull it away (editing obviously) and they'd be making "sexy" kissy, winky faces with ten pounds of makeup on. Probably the most self absorbed thing I have ever seen.
I wish that shit never would have started tbh. H3's vid just felt so... unnecessary. Like I don't think he was in the right place to talk shit about Leafy. I'm with Pyrocynical, and more or less agree with what he had to say about it.
Definitely, I don't watch Pyro that much recently (due to the clickbait), but he was right to wish to call it off, due to the intense hate, and to keep that video under wraps
I'm slowly trying to deal with the horrifying reality of the Facebook posts I made in grade 10, which was like... 2006, 2007? Trying to delete a couple months' worth of posts per week. But it's slow going, because just looking at it again makes me cringe right into my grave. I just keep telling myself, "it could have been worse....."
Just watched a compilation of them on youtube. Wow.
Most of them seem incredibly pretentious for obvious reasons but the ones with the dudes were some of the most hardcore cringe things i've ever seen. And I'm pretty well versed in internetting
ErlendJ · 12 points · Posted at 18:00:43 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Holy shit that was some top grade 1st class pathetic bullshit.
I hadn't seen this before so I just looked it up, and why do all the guys have the same stupid hair cut and why are they all like 14. Vine is the worst
Yeah, it was stupid. If you wanted to spred awareness of how society makes norms about what's sexy or ugly... why would you follow these norms in the same fucking video? Jesus.
tsdav · 1 points · Posted at 19:01:17 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Never heard of it. Looked it up. I'm leaving this thread now. Going to go read a book.
I've always had a slightly rage for facebook memes or super old reposts on facebook but this whole "TAG A FRIEND WHO" with with black bars and fucking emojis takes the cake.
[deleted] · 129 points · Posted at 18:30:08 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I specifically hate those baby pictures with "1 like=1 prayer" or something like that.
They legit put a pic of two dead little girls with the caption, "she is sick, 1 like = 1 prayer." And that's the first one I saw before blocking began.
I took a screenshot if anyone for whatever reason want me to I can upload to imgur and share link. (Took it to show my friend who didn't believe me) fair warning it is extremely NSFL even if its fake.
i'll pass! My mom's friend put a bunch of photos up of their still-born grandson who had been born for hours and it was enough for me for one lifetime.
My husband's aunt posts the WEIRDEST shit, a video of bodies being cremated, photos of people found in death positions like a guy who died on a boat lost at sea. Just shit I didn't need to see.
Kiiid · 8 points · Posted at 19:38:35 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Those pictures with emojis with improper grammar and the image so covered in artifacts you have to wonder how many format conversions it went through to get to that point.
I can't believe this doesn't have a bagillion upvotes. It seems like that is all my Facebook news feed is! I always thought that maybe just all of my Facebook friends are mindless fuckwads, but then I see that every one of the reposts or idiot dummy videos has over 1m views and I get really sad
I used to hop on daily to see what my friends and family were up to, but now going on is just a waste of time so I usually don't get in unless I have a notification. It's pretty damn sad.
https://imgur.com/oqcOExD is one example, they're literally all over my news feed. They have them for videos, pictures, or just text each one dumber than the other.
You forgot all the zodiac sign ones.... "squad who slay: Pisces, Aquarius, Leo
Squad who ugly: Virgo, Aries, Taurus" and all those bullshit ones... like what does any of that have to do with a zodiac sign?
He's a little cunt basket that puts a quick clip of him saying " This is SO me when (insert task/activity)" then puts up someone else's video without crediting them so he can get tons of views with clickbait-y titles and shit while the original person who made the video that soflo ripped off gets diddly squat. h3h3productions did a great video on it that I recommend you watch
Well, his recent video calling out another Youtube channel with a similar format got the to front page recently. I recognized him from being the weird guy in some of Jontron's recent videos so I decided to check him out.
He's definitely a strange guy but I find him hilarious. Also he's been calling out people on their BS recently like SofloAntonio or Leafy (the video that got to the front page) and actually getting a response.
The SofloAntonio series of videos is pretty satisfying to watch since h3h3 rips him apart after the guy and his business tries to attack him poorly. The Video Game Attorney (who is an actual attorney) also came to help him and give him advice when they were threatening to sue him for defamation.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:07:59 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Ahh alrighty thanks.
Xboxben · -8 points · Posted at 19:10:30 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I boycott that shit . Come up with a better name and its not productions you make youtube videos for christ sake not multimillion dollar movies
rube · 3 points · Posted at 17:12:35 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Ignorance of idiotic things is one of the benefits of getting older.
Bardy_ · 1 points · Posted at 16:54:03 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Ok, I was going to throw you a link to the stuff I've seen him post on Facebook etc, but wow... His Youtube channel is the embodiment of cancer.
It IS the "[NEW 2015] Best pranks of 2018 [IN THE SEXUAL] [GONE HOOD] [DEATHS] [ARRESTS] [NUCLEAR HOLOCAUST] [MUST SEE]" channel, and I didn't even know that beforehand.
"Silento sounds like the kid who keeps nagging his mom to watch him dive into the pool and the mother wishes that he would hit his head and drown." - Buckley
No they didn't. It was invented by Filthy Frank in 2013. You might be thinking of the OTHER dance named the Harlem Shake, which came from the early 1980s, but has no relation beyond the name
A surprisingly successful attempt at pop that somehow fails to be particularly memorable or work as a good dance tune, and this is from someone who loves trashy pop.
I went into that video having only heard the song on the radio before I changed the stations, or at sporting events where I can't turn it off.
I thought it was a woman the whole time, but now that I have seen part of the video I am not sure if that is a man or a woman.
[deleted] · 12 points · Posted at 20:41:18 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I don't see why there is such hate for this particular song. It's an easy to follow dance with a catchy beat, just like any other popular dance song.
[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 23:08:26 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I think that if it didn't just consist of literally spelling out the names of the dance move you are supposed to be doing at that moment, even a pretentious jerkwad as me could find it borderline enjoyable/not too annoying.
The Macarena, The Ketchup song or even Tunak Tunak Tun at the very least had some sort of narrative going on.
I just heard that for the first time right now and I have to say, that song was a constant dissappointment for me. Each new dance move the man listed it sounded like he was about to go in on a rap verse (or some sort of verse) right? I watched the whole goddamn thing and that song is literally just him listing dance moves. Bullshit
Nah man the dab is a movement. S/o to Skippah Da Flippah
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 20:08:22 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Nah the dab is cool. The whip and nay nay are fucking horrible now but I like the dab cause it's easy to look good doing.....unless your somehow soooo white and rhythmless you can't put your fucking face in your elbow on beat lol
A student at my school once said to me, "Miss bijouxette! Let me see you whip! Let me see you neigh neigh!"
I looked at him with a straight face and said, "seeing as i am neither Indiana Jones or a horse... You shall NOT see me whip. Nor shall you see me neigh-neigh."
Looking for this one. At the suburban high school I teach at there was not a day during which a scrawny white kid didn't try to "whip" after doing some menial task. The "whipping" after sharpening a pencil got old really fast.
Any artist who has to repeatedly say their own name in a song shouldn't be an artist. Any idiot can repeat a few words. Fucking hell, some of those I dont think are even words
[deleted] · 1847 points · Posted at 12:26:16 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Broken or unfinished games being released.
Qurse · 649 points · Posted at 14:01:03 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Just pay the extra $50 on top of the $60 game for a season pass where the future content isn't even announced yet.
Sorry! We decided not to release anything this season, but if you want you can pre enroll in the next seasons pass for only $80! If you wait until next season to buy your pass you'll be paying $100
Qurse · 4 points · Posted at 15:58:12 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Exactly, how is this allowed? Why do we fall for it?
DrQuint · 34 points · Posted at 16:25:56 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Well, I don't. Speak for yourselves.
... That's pretty much the mentality all of you idiots falling for it should learn. It'd stop happening if you didn't buy any form of day 1 DLC and unrealized products whatsoever, EVER. It's just basic marketing.
Pretty much, although at least Kickstarter doesn't take your money until the kickstarter has both finished and met its funding goal. It also has SOME protection not a lot but some.
Buying a season pass before you know what the DLC even is... its actually riskier than backing something on kickstarter these days.
Well I feel this is okay if they rethink their season pass and expand it or realize they are making the DLC larger than originally planned. Those studios need to make money somehow and if they deliver real expansions for a finished game I am willing to pay a bit extra for their content.
Another good recent example of this is Fallout 4, at least they were honest when they said they weren't sure what they'd be making as DLC when they first released the season pass.
A few months later when they did finally announce DLC details, they said there was more content being made than entipated so they're jacking up the price of the season pass but then gave people 2 weeks to buy the season pass at original price before it went up.
It was genius actually, a LOT of people ( me included ) who were on the bench about the season pass snapped it up because we finally had something to go by and we all wanted to pay as little as possible!
The Arkham Knight Season Pass however, can eat a bag of dicks. Still got a foul taste in my mouth from that.
That's the only game I've ever pre ordered and bought the season pass for because I'm a huge Fallout fan. I did get the game for $40 and the season pass for $30 so really it's only $10 more than the original game price
I always see the comments like this, but something to consider is games themselves haven't gone up in price in years, they've been $60 for a long time. That being said, consider how the production price of games have jumped; with more people working on them to get them out faster, and the cost of everything now it costs the company a whole lot more. But everyone would be absolutely outraged if the base price also scaled, $120 for a game seems ridiculous when stated like that. But the company needs to make money somehow.
[deleted] · -4 points · Posted at 14:07:55 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Fallout 4's season pass was much cheaper than that. Unless you're referring to Battlefront, where they told you exactly how many maps, game modes, heroes and gear was included in the season pass before you bought it.
To be fair, they did give some warning for it and when you added it all up, the three pieces of content that was announced added up to just over the original price and under what the total price will probably be (if) when they announce the additional DLC was promised.
[deleted] · -2 points · Posted at 15:56:49 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
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[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 16:12:09 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
But they announced what the DLC was and then gave you two weeks to buy the season pass before the price went up, giving a reasonable explanation as to why the price went up.
[deleted] · -1 points · Posted at 16:14:37 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
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[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 16:19:50 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
TL;DR: They initially planned three DLC packs, so the season pass price was for those.
The price increase was because they decided to make more DLC than their initial plans, but they honoured the original season pass by upgrading people who already purchased to include these additional DLCs (rather than making a second season pass or releasing DLC outside the season pass, like Borderlands 2).
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 16:21:28 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
To add to this: steam greenlight is a huge problem. In concept it's wonderful to help independent developers get their big project started. In practice someone can write up a generic UE4 environment, build a rudimentary gathering system and allow you to place buildings and BOOM you've got a massively multiplayer sandbox game that is raking in $50 for early access.
Aypse · 17 points · Posted at 19:36:19 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
And if people purchase this BS, it is their own fault for not doing any research into it. "Don't believe everything you read" has been an internet meme since the 28k AOL days. If someone goes out and spends $50 for a green light game based on a paragraph and a few screenshots....well it's a learning lesson earned cheaply. It isn't a problem with greenlight or early access, it's a common sense problem.
The problem is that it is very easy to skew the review ratings if your game by flooding the comments with paid positive reviews. If that goes south you can always re-release the game under a different name to get rid of the reviews and still a pretty good bit of money.
Besides someone has to be the first person to buy the game, otherwise you're not going to find any reviews of the game. The problem with the greenlight format is that it's very hard to figure out whether the game is actually terrible in the first few hours or whether it's just a game that has promise but needs a bit of polish. By the time you figure out that you have a genuinely bad game you're past your refund window for steam.
Yes, as an individual I can prevent being burned by this process by being cynical and never buying anything until I've watched gameplay videos on youtube. However this isn't going to help alleviate the wave of bad games I have to wade through to find hidden gems. It also isn't going to help everyone since someone's eventually got to buy the game first.
The problem is the greenlight system itself. It needs a lot of work, some moderation, and higher standards or Steam is going to start losing money on the program from the huge amount of resources they are going to have to pour into their Customer Service giving refunds for every 4/5 games they sell on Greenlight.
I feel like Valve has set things up so that it's pretty clear that you're taking a risk with your money. New devs need cash flow somehow or another and it's certainly a better model for achieving that than kickstarters.
Yes, that does happen, but lots of well-known indie developers blaze straight through greenlight. It's designed to keep the crap out, and it works. Mostly.
I'm not trying to be rude but almost all of the games I've gotten as early access/greenlight are still in development. Rust, Ark, DayZ, RoboCraft. Not all of of them are duds, but Rust and DayZ have been in development for almost 3 years.
I realize that I need to be wary of Survival Sandbox games now, but my point is that I had to learn by playing the games which isn't in the interest of the consumer IMO.
I feel like the success stories can be counted on one hand, and that these offenders of cash and grab stories like are much more prevalent.
It was nearly impossible to get your friends all in the same lobby to even start searching for matchmaking and assuming you actually found a match after about an hour it would kick half the party and put them in a random game without you and your game would be 7v1 instead of 4v4.
And then if the servers didn't crash your game probably wouldn't count because of the lag at the end anyway.
That's why if you buy it now there are literal 10s of gigabytes of patches to download.
Keep in mind I was EXTREMELY lucky to not have any of these issues and the worst glitch I ran into was 2v6 and 3v5 games. But I have friends who to this day have never finished a game of public matchmaking.
arhanv · 12 points · Posted at 18:19:59 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
2015 did in even worse, bigger ways, but in less quantity.
[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 15:50:28 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Battlefront...
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 20:32:45 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Jesus christ, I've never been so disappointed with a game. It got to the point where it couldn't find a match... on a Friday night. Fml
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 20:38:45 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I've never had that problem, but yeah, for being the third installment of a series it sucked BALLS. Especially when one and two were literally some of the best games I've ever played.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 20:42:09 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yupppppp, this release has lost all credibility with Dice for me. It quite literally was an unfinished game, wasn't patched properly and had some major bugs/over powered things that weren't addressed. I get it EA is shit yet Dice can suck a dick too.
It was, there's more great games than ever. There's also more shitty forever alpha games as well. Overall as long as you're a discerning consumer, gaming is at one of its heights.
I'm just getting into gaming and my only regret is that I don't have more money to buy all the games and equipment. In my opinion, the gaming community doesn't really understand value or when their hobby has become some sort of an addiction..
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:56:02 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yeah what screams dlc to me is destiny if you didnt get their season pass yoh would be paying like triple what it is now and the game is almost unplayable if you dont have any of the dlc
Life is strange is kindof shit, the Dialogue is horrible ("Sad face", "Go fuck your selfie", "Beeeyatch" Non Ironically, "Amazeballs") seemed like the video game equivalent to Oscar bait.
My 17 year old sister loved this game. I got 5 minutes in and turned it off. Your entire game is based around listening to dialogue, don't make the shitty millennial high schoolers so terrible to listen to.
Both years had both great and shit games. 2015 had some fantastic games, but it also had its fair share of games that released broken and were barely fixed (coughArkhamKnightcough)
Except there isn't. The problem isn't that developers or publishers are fucking us, the problem is that people don't do their research, then bitch about how they made a bad decision.
I've bought plenty of games on day one (even ones reddit told me I'm supposed to hate!) that I haven't regretted. The difference is, I've read the previews, watched the gameplay trailers, played the demos, whatever is out there.
The real problem is people who don't do any of this, buy games on a whim or because it's part of an annually released franchise, or whatever....and then realizing they shouldn't have for whatever reason. Those are the people who cry the loudest. Developers can release whatever they want, and nobody is required to buy it. They shouldn't be blamed because average consumers are stupid and need to be saved from themselves.
And yet they still do.....I used to when I was younger but that was also when games were being released with all the content and minimal bugs, and then maybe just maybe gets a patch that adds more content and more bug fixes and even more rarely got a DLC that added a whole other game's worth of content to the game. Those times are long gone now that companies see that customers are willing to buy a $60USD game and $50 worth of DLC's within the same year.
ncocca · 8 points · Posted at 17:52:18 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Even worse: No more local multiplayer games. Halo is fucking ruined.
So, if the options for the developers are to release the game in installments throughout the year or wait a year to release the full game, you think they should give people less options for purchasing their game?
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 14:41:25 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I agree truely broken or unfinished games being released, like Batman:Arkham Knight for PC, is dissapointing. What annoys me is people complaining about a game like Battlefront and saying it has only 4 maps. That game is neither broken nor unfinished, yeah if you want "additional content" you will have to pay more.
Ever since the Sonic & Knuckles pass-through cart that hasn't been true, it's especially not true with the previous generation of consoles that had HDD's to store stuff, DVD/BR drives & internet connections to get stuff: worst case scenario is slap the DLC together, bung it on a disk, call it an 'expansion pack' and that'll be £40 please.
The only reason it hasn't been done to date is a lack of will to do so on the part of publishers.
Oh yeah I think it's great we have it now. But there's a lot of cutting the developers do now, because they'll try to nickel and dime the consumer after it releases
Yeah but as long as customers keep buying the $60 unfinished shit, why change? You can make 100% of the money off of a game that's 60% done, you profit!
At least that's probably how math works, I'm not a rocket surgeon
At least these days we get patches when games are broken. Back in the day there was no way to do that, and game breaking bugs would go unfixed forever.
I've been thinking about this and come to the conclusion that part of the reason is pirating. If you release a game with loads of bugs and it's cracked within a few days it doesn't matter as much. They have the release version that doesn't include the patches the developers have implemented in the weeks and months after launch.
Now the pirates have to make loads of patches and game versions so it's a lot harder to pirate a proper version of the game. This leads to some people not bothering with it and just buy the game.
Welcome to the DLC era of gaming. I've said for years that DLC is the worst thing to happen to gaming and constantly got told I was an idiot. Eventually you're going to pay full price for half a game and you'll need to buy the rest as DLC. Well you're starting to see it.
and don't even get me started on DLCs little brother, micro-transactions...
The overall finish and build quality of games has basically headed south since consoles had ready access to the internet.
I would play console games on the N64 and whatnot, and they'd be perfect. Few bugs, no showstopping glitches, everything was optimised and smooth. No patches were ever required.
Nowadays just ship the game ASAP broken as fuck, and make everybody download a 4GB patch on the very day its released when starting up for the first time.
Don't you like paying an extra 60 buck for 3 DLC of content that should have been in the game when it was released but we realised we could make more money off from that ?
I recently purchased the first Assassin's Creed on the ps store, and I was surprised by the fact that I didn't have to update anything. I just downloaded it and played. I forgot how simple it used to be.
My 17yo self is thinking about this. Why exactly did i build all these trucks that i can't use? why did the manual show all this stuff that wasn't even in the game?
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:29:52 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I love the hitman series, unsure If I'm going to buy the new one until it's all been released
It's always fun not knowing a deleted comment's contents and then trying to link the reply to the rest of the chain. I've gotta say I'm at a loss this time
-WPD- · 8 points · Posted at 02:57:56 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
💉🔪 💉🔪💉🔪edgy shit edgY sHit 🔪thats 🔫some edgy💉💉 shit right 🔪th🔪 ere💉💉💉 right there 🚬🚬if i do ƽaү so my selｆ 🔫i say so 🔫 thats what im talking about right there right there (chorus: ʳᶦᵍʰᵗ ᵗʰᵉʳᵉ) mMMMMᎷМ🔫 🔪🔪🔪НO0ОଠＯOOＯOОଠଠOoooᵒᵒᵒᵒᵒᵒᵒᵒᵒ🔪🔪🔪 🔫 💉💉 🔪🔪 Edgy shit
Oh right, US. Sometimes I forget that you guys get shafter in phones
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 02:14:41 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
We get shafted on service, but we usually get good deals on hardware, promotions for free swag, updates, first roll out on subscription services etc. We do alright.
I just got my Galaxy S7 Edge through my Att Next upgrade. Pre-ordered at Target, got a $100 gift card and a Gear VR. Then I registered a card with Samsung Pay and got a $30 Best Buy gift card for using it the first time. Nice incentives.
Where do you live that people still use texting a lot? Here in the Netherlands pretty much everyone with a smartphone (so everyone) uses Whatsapp for messaging.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 00:48:41 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The birthplace of freedom.
And I use Hangouts. I just don't think it's a big deal to support the devs with a buck for a solid app.
That's just the terrible android faces. You have to add something like SwiftKey so you can actually have emojis. I have a Samsung. Just need a custom keyboard. 🎓👝💄👙👘👗👛👘👡👗🎒🎓🎒👡🎓🎒👗
Don't know why your being down voted despite expressing your opinion. I personally could never switch from Apple due to aesthetics alone, not even including the numerous other reasons like os and iMessage that are huge pros for me. But that's also my opinion, and just because I think iPhones are very aesthetic doesn't mean other phones aren't to other people. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
jwaldo · 5 points · Posted at 19:23:00 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The explosion of color after this comment is friggin [removed]
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:16:36 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
They're was an article on npr about he passing of one of the founders of Intel. Apparently he used to respond to memos by stamping them with custom cartoon face stamps he had to show how he felt about it.
Basically he was using emojis before the concept of emojis was even around
Seyr · 16 points · Posted at 16:40:43 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
If they're custom that would be emoticons, which existed well before emojis anyway.
I was calling them emoticons until a few week ago. What's the difference!?
Dre_PhD · 10 points · Posted at 20:09:20 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
emoji are the ones that use actual graphics on smartphones or tablets (and some desktop OS support it as well,) eg 😂😂😂.
Emoticons are the one made by stitching together unicode or ASCII text into rough pictograms that show emotion or responses. eg :), (-:, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯, ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
I mean, before emojis became a thing, we called the actual graphic ones 'emoticons' in MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, and the like. But I'd agree that, yes, now 'emoticon' refers to text-based ones and emojis are the graphic ones. It just wasn't always that way.
Seyr · 1 points · Posted at 11:50:38 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Emojis are a part of Unicode, and thus the same library is on every device no matter how they're rendered, exactly the way the Latin alphabet is. Hence why so many emojis are Japanese. They are basically a part of our alphabet now.
Emoticons are made independently by different people or companies, and everyone has a different repertoire of which ones they use, which can be added to freely. Think MSN, Yahoo, many forums before the rise of emoji.
Seeing as his/her username is oldepoetry, it seems like it might be original. And you're right, it's good enough that my first thought was that it was from somewhere else.
Is or was "bravely" ever used as an adjective and not an adverb? It certainly sounds like antiquated usage but... I've never heard it used like that before in any context.
Yeah that's true, but you'd think we have already evolved our language 👅👅👅beyond that. The main issue is that the emojis are done repetitively and it gets excessive. One emoji? 😚😚😚Sure. But comments like the ⬆️above? Fuck dat noise 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡
Great words get killed because people overuse them. "Savage" is a perfect example of an exceptionally discriptive word that has been taken over as trendy slang by white people and just people in general. I'm pretty sure gangsta shit is a lot more savage than your chipotle burrito tho.
There is this thing called the Internet that holds a ton of shit
Mikav · 6 points · Posted at 20:07:29 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yes well you see the internet is a series of tubes, not like a truck. And what happens when this tube gets turned upside down? It rains memes. So what we need is some kind of a... a bucket, or a truck that holds memes, and we need to build it, and I know how to build it, and it's the best. We're going to build it, a truck full of memes that will be in every library from coast to coast. A truck with context and with interpretation. A truck to surpass metal gear.
M3nt0R · 1 points · Posted at 04:18:19 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
My god, you've gone full Trump.
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 21:31:48 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
bad shit ba̷̶ ԁ sHit 👎 thats ❌ some bad 👎👎shit right 👎👎 th 👎 ere 👎👎👎 right ❌ there ❌ ❌
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:58:37 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I don't know what you mean. I want to know your feelings!
[deleted] · 11 points · Posted at 19:28:32 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)*
Try to text in the early 00's and tell me emojis aren't brillaint. Texting with any kind of tone or subtext (subtexting?) was impossible, and it was a total crapshoot if you ever sent anything sarcastic, playful, flirty, whatever
I hate this attitude. Emojis aren't making the world worse, Netflix & chill isn't making the world worse, and life wasn't better in 1950
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 06:48:30 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
The problem is that Emojis were never intended to, you know, exist outside of Japan. Or as, like a standardized thing.
Unicode basically made a computer text format to display every single kind of text ever in every language. And there was one or two obscure phone companies in Japan that let you put little pictures in your text. So obviously for backwards compatibility reasons, they reluctantly included these things.
Then in the mid-2000s someone figured out how to hack their iphone to access these weird Japanese pictograms that were never intended to be ever brought to any other culture.
Suddenly people were being sent emojis, and wanted to do it themselves. So Apple was forced to adapt this obscure Unicode feature out of necessity, and everyone else did the same thing.
Problem is, again, nobody really planned what emojis would, you know, actually be useful. There was also the problem of, say, how all the smileys and people were white, or how all the foods were japanese. Why is there an emoji for Bento box but not for a taco, for instance?
Most computer science things like this are planned by taskforces, commissions, companies, etc. far in advance, with tons of planning to make sure problems don't pop up. But emoji was something like one random guy in a Japanese cell phone company came up with, and it's really not built for long-term sustainability, or general use in everyday western life, or as a universal standard pictogram.
That's the problem with Emoji. It's not making the world worse, but it's just something that shouldn't exist, you know? And come on, people have been using ASCII smile since forever. It's not like we were unable to express sarcasm in texts, we just put a ;) in our message, rather than 😉.
There's actually a really good novel by Greg Bear called "Eon" that includes an advanced culture of humans whose languages is all images. The explanation/rationale is that a single image can convey a lot more information than a single word. The advanced culture had become so literate that traditional written language couldn't convey information fast enough.
I dont see the problem. Didn't written language begin as emojis on walls?
If you don't see the problem, restate your thoughts to the same complexity and precision using only emojis.
[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 19:27:46 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
sign me the FUCK up 👌👀👌👀👌👀👌👀👌👀 good shit goOd sHit👌thats💯some good👌👌shit right👌👌the👌ere👌👌👌right💯there💯💯if I do say so my sel f💯I say so💯thats what im talking about right there right there (right the fuck there) mMMMM M💯 👌👌👌👌👌HO0O OOOOOO Ooooooooooooo👌👌👌👌💯👌👌👌💯
Excessive use of emojis is a dating red flag for me.
QFlux · 1 points · Posted at 19:33:47 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Holy shit, what happened with this? I swear it was like just randomly one day all of sudden I was getting spam in my GMail just loaded with emojis. Have these emojis just long been included in subject lines and GMail used to ignore them but now it's rendering them?
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:38:53 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm an American studying in Europe and I have to say, Europeans have their emoji game on point. I'll use the generic :) most of the time, but here I have to use the actual emoji or else I feel wrong.
My mother uses no less than six emojis in every text every time she texts. I had never felt as powerful an urge to strangle an inanimate object (my phone) as when she began texting.
I miss the good old days when everything was just plain old black on white unicode text. It looked better, it was more versatile (good luck doing any sort of text art with this shit), it used very few resources, and they looked more or less the same across all devices. The worst thing of all is that on mobile devices anyway these things have taken the place of existing unicode characters in the font pack, and can't be removed without inordinate effort
My Grandfather smoked his whole life. I was about 10 years old when my mother said to him, 'If you ever want to see your grandchildren graduate, you have to stop immediately.'. Tears welled up in his eyes when he realized what exactly was at stake. He gave it up immediately. Three years later he died of lung cancer. It was really sad and destroyed me. My mother said to me- 'Don't ever smoke. Please don't put your family through what your Grandfather put us through." I agreed. At 28, I have never touched a cigarette. I must say, I feel a very slight sense of regret for never having done it, because your post gave me cancer anyway.
Especially the crying laughing one. Not only do people (mostly girls, it seems) feel the need to add them after anything even slightly humorous, but they put like ten in a row. It really irritates me.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:18:54 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
That fucking YouTube ad where the girl says "I like emojis a lot" makes me so goddamned angry. I've never watched long enough to find out what it is really about, I just can't stand more than the five seconds. It got to the point where I had to take my favorite channels off my Adblock whitelist.
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 14:40:49 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I don't get why they're called 'emojis'. That sounds super fucking stupid, and I hate that they're no longer black boxes. They don't deserve to be characters, that should got to useful symbols, like LETTERS and NUMBERS and other miscellaneous symbols like ! and ?.
I went expecting videos of people blowing up minion dolls. Found a bunch of Facebook reposts, instead. It doesn't really look much different than /r/minionlove unless you read the comments.
I just got back from grabbing some pad thai for lunch. A minion, a skater with overalls and a surfer accent, and a guy dressed as the Count of Monte Cristo stopped my buddy and I and asked if we're Jewish. We told them no, and they acted all sad and sulked off. I legitimately have no idea what just went down.
Facebook can scan images and identify the faces of your friends with a fairly high degree of accuracy, can't they scan images for Minions so you can filter them out?
[deleted] · -1 points · Posted at 18:30:26 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
and the fact they are based of Jewish kids who tested gas chambers
Jargen · 94 points · Posted at 13:42:37 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
That's even worse IMO, I'm not part of an experiment unless I signed off on waivers and contracts indicating that I understand what's gonna happen to me.
Lidasel · 11 points · Posted at 16:24:04 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)*
Only if the experimenter cares about ethics. You can still be a part of an experiment without your knowledge or consent if the researcher doesn't care.
A great example is this study from 2013 where they tried to influence people's emotions by manipulating facebook feeds which got massively criticised for the lack of ethical considerations (and we only learned about that study because they published it in a scientific journal. There are probably tons of social experiments going on on the internet that we are subjects of, but we have no way of knowing it).
Jargen · 1 points · Posted at 17:02:10 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Well facebook can do whatever they want to their news feeds. We don't own them as users.
I'm not part of an experiment unless I signed off on waivers and contracts indicating that I understand what's gonna happen to me.
doesn't hold true if the researcher doesn't care about informed consent.
Jargen · 5 points · Posted at 17:28:29 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Right, but if I am subjected to an experiment where I am harmed (physically, medically, psychological, etc) in any way then they should be held liable.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 02:03:56 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
In regards to facebook I am sure you did sign off on a lot of things you don't know about.
Has nothing to do with "not caring about IC". There are long held and followed principles regarding what meets the criteria for necessitating informed consent.
[deleted] · 50 points · Posted at 16:25:28 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
IT'S ETHAN BRADBERRY
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 21:41:39 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 01:34:59 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
My first thought reading this was an old Yorkshire lady shouting 'Ohh Christ, it's gone wrong!' while hanging off some sort of machinery. I think my brain's gone wrong.
Teoke · 1 points · Posted at 11:43:39 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
💯
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 18:28:21 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's just another clickbaity tag used by the people who make these prank videos (usually alongside a thumbnail of a woman in a sexual position or something like that) to get people to click on their videos.
If it was Sam Pepper, that one was fake. I couldn't remember his name, but someone else commented it. He also apparently did a video where he pretended to kill a friend in front of another friend. Apparently that one was fake too.
Vawqer · 3 points · Posted at 23:10:17 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I think there was more than one youtuber who did that, but the main Sam Pepper one was indeed a fake.
That's the one I referring to. I couldn't remember his name though. Thanks!
Wow I didn't know others did it also. That's awful. I don't watch those videos and they haven't shown up in my recommended videos so I didn't know that. I only knew of the Sam Pepper one because of other Youtuber I'm subscribed to who mentioned it. Still really awful that anyone would do something like that.
Vawqer · 3 points · Posted at 01:43:05 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Let me guess: You follow h3h3?
Anyways, I know that is a lot of copying and trying to 1-up, so I am not 100% sure on there being more but iirc I did see one in my suggestions. That is a tad odd since I never watch those videos, but YouTube algorithms are how they are.
Anyways, I know that is a lot of copying and trying to 1-up, so I am not 100% sure on there being more but iirc I did see one in my suggestions. That is a tad odd since I never watch those videos, but YouTube algorithms are how they are.
I really wouldn't be surprised if there were more. Hopefully others were faked as well. I've heard that many prank videos are fake reactions, but I don't actually know. I remember when prank videos were just people playing harmless pranks on their friends or family. I guess it just escalated since then.
And yes, YouTube algorithms are really weird sometimes lol.
In The Netherlands we have a group of friends who are really popular on YouTube. They make pranks what isn't that special but it's obvious that it's fake but nobody seems to care about it. There's a reason he gained so many subscribers in such a short time. It's like reality television with 3 pranks a week from "having sex with best friend of girlfriend" to "torturing our best friend GONE WRONG!"
RTL has everything to do with it at the moment. They offered him and his shit friends a contract which makes everything they do fall under the responsibility of RTL. Like ruining store supplies and breaking the law. I really want to know how their advertisers think about it. Time to do something about it.
I heard a podcast a while back about the guy who created Candid Camera. I guess at one point in his life, he was on a plane that was hijacked, and everyone on the plane recognized him and assumed the hijacking was a prank. Once they realized the hijack was not a prank, they were pissed at the Candid Camera guy for some reason I can't remember.
Not my problem. If they won't make it without an income, they probably didn't give a shit anyway. Theres near infinite actually free content out there, why should I support some dickwad that just cares about his paycheck?
If you're on chrome, right click, inspect element and look for the strand of text that highlights the image impeding your view and delete it. Done
Keltin · 1 points · Posted at 05:26:12 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Any browser, actually. I loathe Safari's dev tools (and many other things about it, but especially the dev tools), but it even works on there. IE/Edge as well, though it's tougher to find on IE if I remember my last experience with it correctly.
[deleted] · -2 points · Posted at 22:45:04 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)*
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[deleted] · -3 points · Posted at 01:30:46 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
agreed
[deleted] · -1 points · Posted at 07:02:49 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Well can you blame them? They're trying to sell a service by displaying ads, you can hardly call them out on trying to protect their income.
I've seen a few videos that say "who made dis?😅😀😆" on Facebook. If you uploaded the video, you must have downloaded it from somewhere. So you know damn well who made it!
[deleted] · 233 points · Posted at 18:51:26 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Outrage. Everyone was up in arms about everything. 2015 was the year of ZERO CHILL.
It's an addiction to infuriation I've seen it called. The example in the book I saw it in was saying: "people complain about what they see on certain news stations, and then proceed to watch those stations to find more to complain about, thus encouraging them to show more things for them to complain about".
As a whole the I think it is because people have realized they just need to wave around a sign saying "Look! I'm a victim!" to get all the free press attention they want and the ability to exclusively use ad hominem attacks against any critics. Couple that with increasingly thin-skinned people getting worked up over non-issues and you have recipe for a lot of people beginning to not give a shit about any issue which will in turn lead to, you guessed it, more problems.
Wow, that turned out to be more long winded than I intended.
[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 04:01:56 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I absolutely agree that it's about playing the victim.
I mean really, what do you have to lose? All you need to do is: carry around a mattress or go to an Ivy League school, then post something on Twitter about your "struggle" and internet will do the rest. They'll generate a nice false consensus and call anybody who bothers to do fact checking a (insert "-ist" and/or "-phobic" of choice here) shitlord. They might even dox them for additional lulz. Next thing you know, you're being interviewed by a major magazine, or perhaps end up on the nightly news, hell, you might even get to address the UN on your (incredibly relevant and pressing issue that represents continuing blah blah blah)!
If you wanted to hurt someone, their reputation is ruined. If you wanted money, you sure as hell got it. If you had an agenda, it is complete. If you just wanted fifteen minutes of fucking fame, you just got immortalized on the interwebs.
On the technical side, this and most everything else people are talking complaining about ITT is stuff that takes advantage of "peripheral processing". Nice bits of info you can absorb and add to your existing schemas without needing to think critically.
(I'm sorry, I'm Psych student. This sort of shit comes to mind.)
I don't hate the series. I hate the people who started in depth blogs and theoretical think tanks over the fucking bite of 89. If you dedicated a tenth of that time to something real, like a hobby or school, you'd actually better yourself. This just seemed ridiculous to me.
eh, FNAF itself was okay, just a guy trying to make a living. Scott is a cool guy, does what he loves for a job, donates a ton, and is very talkative with the fans. shame that youtubers like Markipler fight to have their face all over it
Less fun if they aren't scared and are just screaming for attention.
We like being scared, and seeing people get scared by things that scare us. Watching someone ham it up isn't why I'd personally watch a video of someone playing a scary game.
[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 21:01:24 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I enjoyed some of the series. First one had an actually decent framework for a story, and was pretty creepy with the weird, unexplained aspects.
Then the creator didn't get why people liked it, and instead began catering to the "weird" part of the fanbase shared with Sonic and Undertale, with the sequels. Real bummer there.
[deleted] · 8 points · Posted at 21:08:37 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)*
Ugh, Game Theory. It was good! Then, a few bad episodes here and there, then MatPat started a few other series... then FNAF... then a whole channel... Now I just stay subscribed for Culture Shock
Thank god I'm not the only one. I am getting really sick of Game Theory. Its about nothing but FNAF.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 03:40:52 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Actually MatPat hasn't posted about FNAF since his end of December live stream.
DrPac · 1 points · Posted at 01:41:36 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
THANK YOU
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 22:51:40 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Then he botched the fourth game because even if someone unraveled the poorly written ball of insanity for a continuity, it doesn't matter because it's so inconsequential.
That's not really a trend so much as the last sputtering gasps of violence in an increasingly peaceful land. If you look at the stats you'll find that you're safer in pretty much every when than when you were a kid, assuming you're in one of the nicer countries.
I never got an allowance, so I didn't have to save anything up. If I wanted something, I would ask my parents and I had to be good and not bratty to get it.
I remember being nervous to ask for video games though because they cost a lot of money to me!
[deleted] · 63 points · Posted at 19:31:52 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Same here, and if the cover of the game looked "weird" or "demonic" I couldn't get it. Even in high school with my own money.
It was great growing up Jehovah's Witness....
No, mom, pretty sure Jehovah doesn't think Pikachu is Satanic.
Yikes, I didn't really have to worry about that although my mom was very strict on ratings. I'm sure she would've liked to ban Pokemon from the house though haha.
Hah, when the first Harry Potter movie came out, my mom didn't want to take me to see it because she had watched some religious talk show that made it sound "evil" with all the witchcraft and monsters.
Then Oprah talked about it a week later, and suddenly Jesus didn't think it was such a sinful movie after all. But I still wasn't supposed to read the books on Sundays because it "could bring bad spirits into the house". Fun times.
I am so, so glad I wasn't raised religious. Because I'm pretty sure if my mom were, I wouldn't have ever been allowed to do anything at all.
As it was, all the way up until grade 12 when I was 17 she wouldn't let me wear clothing with skulls on them. I went out and bought a longsleeve t with skull and crossbones on the arms to wear under t shirts all skater-style since that was what was cool at the time. Not only did she try to stop me from wearing it to school, one time she did laundry for me (I normally did my own but sometimes she did the whole house's at a time) and left that shirt in her room thinking I wouldn't notice it just disappeared.
Great lady, but really didn't like skulls for some reason.
I mean, I knew that a dollar was a dollar, I just thought that it was a lot more money than it really is because it could buy me so much candy. Video games are worth more then candy, so they must be worth a lot of money!
This isn't uncommon thinking for a kid, I'm sure you thought that $100 was some crazy cash when you were around ten.
Oh yeah I completely agree with you. And as a child, a dollar should be worth A LOT. I never really learned too well honestly. I just used my early adolescent cash on fast food and expensive status symbol products like ray bans. Gave me some really bad habits.
Heh yeah, I feel like a lot of kids do that. No real concept of saving money unless it's for something else that's pretty frivolous that you can't afford quite yet.
At the same time though, I will still spend money that's given to me on something frivolous but nearly all of the money I make at work is going to be saved.
Like I hypothetically could afford the aforementioned hoverboard but I can't because it'd be out of my budget for leisure spending.
Being an adult, I look at my money less as a figure but more in paychecks. And something that would be about 60% of my biweekly paycheck better be worth it.
When I was in my last year of college I took my niece to dinner at a local restaurant, I took her to a movie and to the mall where we got ice cream and she got a shirt. I explained to her how much I made an hour, that it was above minimum wage in our area and what that was, and then had her do the math for how many hours I worked to provide just those things on that day for her. It actually seemed to stick!
I remember I saved my allowance and cut grass all summer so I could save up enough money to buy Mortal Kombat 2 for the SNES. When I finally had enough and it was released, my parents let me buy the game but took away my SNES. I don't remember what I did to warrant that, but I was not a happy camper for the next 2 months. When I was finally able to play it, it was everything I hoped it would be, I couldn't get enough of it.
wtf is an allowance? i had to go above and beyond with my chores to earn money as a kid. my dad was TIGHT when it came to money. still is.
though granted he owns a respectable piece of land and a house, debt free, could stop working if he wanted and just coast on savings, etc... so he was doing something right.
It was something like $2 a week in in mid-90s, so it wasn't much. Dad called it an allowance, but it was really meant for extra snacks at lunch time during school, where 50 cents would buy an ice cream. I just did without so I could afford my toy.
When I was 12 or 13 my grandpa bought my cousin an awesome remote control car. We wanted 2 so we could race so I spent all of my earnings from chores, snow shoveling, lemonade stands, and allowances. I thought it was so expensive.
I recently wanted to get the same car so I looked it up. What I was expecting to be $200 was $40 back in 2002. And they don't make it anymore.
Haha yeah, I feel like kids don't really have a good idea of money and what it is, but we usually didn't go in the "only $300" range, rather in the $40 is soooo much money direction.
Shit, if I ever said "only" about anything more than $15 as a little kid, my mom straight up gave me the "ONLY?" lecture, no sugar coating. We weren't particularly broke, but she wasn't about to have me make light of cash.
She's twelve years old but when I was her age, twenty bucks was a lot of money and a big purchase, $400 would be far out of the question.
this right here makes me grateful for how my oldest is - he looks at the price tags on stuff when we're shopping for things for him - hockey gear especially. he gets(at age 10 no less) that hockey is goddamn expensive. he worries about the gear budget just as much, if not more, than i do. he will regularly go in favor of the less expensive option much of the time.
meanwhile i hear his cousins acting much like the kid you're talking about.
Even if I was rich, I'd still hesitate with $400. Even if I had a spending problem, I'd still hesitate with $400. How do I know I'd hesitate? I still hesitate buying a $3.00 item that I absolutely NEED and have plenty of money for
The age of her having a hoverboard doesn't matter, I had silly gadgets when I was her age too, it's her lack of understanding what money is worth to people that bothered me about the situation.
Heh, I really can't remember. I made this username a long time ago, so I don't even really know myself anymore. I just let people make their own decision as to what it stands for.
I was a bit young for the N64...actually, I wasn't born when it was released (I came around a year later), so I wasn't really asking for the N64 or really any other game system unless it was Christmas and it was a shared family gift.
(Yes, 1996 was nineteen years ago so, no, I'm not ten.)
Regardless, that doesn't really matter because I had little concept of money other than "I've never seen $400 in person before, therefore it is really big."
So you were too young to even play it until the price went down. That's fair enough. What I was trying to say is that high price gifts are not that bad. Also the fact that perhaps your cousin has a warped sense of money. Where perhaps their parents bought it for them easily so therefore the amount must not be that big of a deal.
Ah yeah, I get it now. My main issue isn't that she's getting high priced gifts, it's Christmas and her parents had clearly saved up enough money to get them that, but her warped sense of money.
I was talking shit about these things a few weeks ago and got downvoted into oblivion. They're seriously useless. Their slow, unstable, expensive and make you look stupid.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 13:18:31 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm not on my own dick (what does that even mean????) I can just tell a fad when I see one. Talk to me in a year when no one is riding them anymore and they have faded into obscurity.
It's supposed to be useless. They're toys, not personal transportation. People saying that they're completely idiotic for that reason are almost as annoying as the people that use them for that reason
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:45:36 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I tried one and i don't see the point except the really small challenge to be able to rive it around. I'm pissed that they charge so much for such a senseless thing
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:32:41 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
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Well you can't really get from a to b quicker with it than with a bike, skateboard or something similar. It brings out lazyness in people and they start to get more fat. And where i live it's not even permitted on public ground because of the careless handling and the possible dangers that occur with it.
In your mind anything motorized is a waste? Like seriously what the fuck is the big deal. No one talked this much shit on Segways, or minibikes, or anything else.
What is wrong with a little hoverboard? For quick short trips or you know, having some fun? Why does it have to be involve a physical aspect
My SO refuses to bend on this subject and it is UNACCEPTABLE. THERE IS NO HOVERING IT CAN'T BE A HOVERBOARD WITH NO HOVERING. IT HAS FUCKING WHEELS FOR GOD'S SAKE.
Lava lamps are meant to look like lava in a lamp. Probably named that for their supposed resemblance and I'm pretty sure nothing was called a lava lamp before their invention. (Also that's a dumb comparison. Who the hell has a lava lamp anymore? And they were made in the seventies everybody was high)
Facebook... yeah that's a weird name but there is no confusion there because nothing else is called that. Zuckerberg came up with a unique name that became synonymous with the website.
Hover boards were already a concept before those idiots named their handleless segways. They didn't invent hover boards, they just leached off the hype surrounding them. That's my issue with it. They're the crappy knock off brand that tries to fool you into spending money on them
Also they do look like you are hovering from a distance, they sure as hell feel like you are hovering.
Nothing else is called hoverboard either. The things in the movie? Yeah no one ever brings those up. Ever ever ever ever ever. You hear that word in the movie and never again in real life unless you're watching the movie.
THey are not Segways, segway is a brand name. Funny you call people idiots.
So you agree with me that Facebook is not a book of faces and that is a stupid term right? If hoverboard is stupid so is facebook
Do you know how language works?
Are you aware that NO ONE sells or markets these things as "hoverboards". That is just what the general population calls them.
Are you aware how language works? How words are formed?
Yeah... 2015... The year everybody was making a big deal about everything Back to the Future... and nobody ever brought up hoverboards /s
They don't even remotely look like you are hovering from a distance. This may be impractical and not fully developed to its full potential but it looks a hell of a lot more like a hoverboard than these "smart electric scooters" do you prefer that over Segways?
I'll agree that Facebook is a dumbass comparison to make but oh yeah you sure did make your point /s
And I would not say the general population calls them hoverboards, just the moneygrabbing people who sell them and the gullible dopes that buy them and want to make themselves feel cooler after they fall on their ass 20 times. Which group do you belong to?
Show me. Show me someone who is talking about hoverboards talking about the thing from the movie. Do you know anyone who just walks around talking about a device from the movie?
How is Facebook a dumb comparison?
NO THESE THINGS ARE NOT BEING MARKETED AS HOVERBOARDS
Show me where THE FUCK they call them hoverboards.
Everyone calls them hoverboards. Even people on reddit bitching about them. That is what they are called.
You guys just don't like people having fun. Lets try this again
Can words have more than one meaning? Yes or no.
Can the meaning of words change over time? Yes or no.
Does common usage dictate what the meaning of words are? Yes or no.
Do you know how words work? A vast majority of people call something something that means that is what it is right? That is how words are formed? Yes or no
Okay. Let me see if I got this straight. You paid a bunch of money for one of these things and everyone made fun of you so now you go on the internet and get in a spitting rage over people that dare speak ill of your precious "hoverboard" Those fools don't understand! They'll never understand the brilliance and fun of this fantastic invention! Well one day they'll see! THEY'LL ALL SEE!! AND THEY WILL RUE THE DAY THEY EVER CALLED ME ME AN IDIOT!! I, HOVERBOARD HAVOC, WILL MAKE THEM ALL PAY!!! MUAHAHAHAHAHA (rides away on "hoverboard" into the night)
When I first saw them they were being sold as roller-boards which makes perfect sense, I don't know who started calling them hover boards but they can fuck off
A ZippiBoard! There, I just saved the awesomeness of the Hoverboard for when it actually graces us.
...no, I didn't? Damn.
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 23:32:39 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
What really irks me is the internet geeks that lose their shit over the name. Lots of things are called something different than what they otherwise do. People call everything with 4 propellers a Drone which most of the time isn't right, a drone is in 100% control of itself, yet people call them drones. Quadcopter or UAV would be correct. Though people are for "drones" do they don't nitpick at that one. Chinese checkers isn't Chinese or checkers, Killer Whales aren't whales. The world is filled with Misnomers, deal with it.
You are aware a Lava Lamp isn't actually lava right?
What about Facebook not being a book of faces right?
A fire engine isn't actually an engine...
I don't think you guys know how language works. The population calls them hoverboards, thus they are hoverboards. Words can have more than one meaning and language changes with time
Because it doesn't really matter? Like do you think there is some law that says people must follow the rules of grammar? What rules? Show me, show me these "rules". Who decides them? Oh wait its "accepted usage" right? Thats where these "rules" come from right? People make mistakes all day long. Just like this post, I bet there are at least 10 "mistakes" in it, yet you know exactly what I am saying. The purpose of language is to convey meaning no? So if you understand what I said than by definition didn't I use the correct meaning?
Accepted usage pretty much calls these things hoverboards......thus they are hoverboards!
The main company is called IO Hawk and they call them "Intelligent Personal Mobility Device"
That is hard to say so most people just say hoverboard so you know what they are talking about. Just like I don't call my car an "automobile" or I don't call my cell phone a VS980. I say "phone".
The main company, IO Hawk, released them as "Intelligent Personal Mobility Device." The name "hoverboard" is just what people have decided to call it, and it has become accepted usage. It does not need to be capitalized.
a written or printed work consisting of pages glued or sewn together along one side and bound in covers.
So its not a book at all right? It cannot be called facebook if its not a book right? As a hoverboard cannot be called a hoverboard if it doesn't hover right?
How is it any different?
Yes it does make it correct, it is correct because thats what people use it as. Thats how words fucking work.
I don't think you know how language works. Show me where it says a hoverboard must hover. Cite it. Show me the governing body that says a word must be taken literally
Does a sand castle have to resemble a castle?
I know no castle that looks like a pail turned upside down.
Right, so, I agree with you on the fundamental basis of "if people call this thing a hoverboard, then that's what that thing is called", but that doesn't take away people's right from finding said term stupid. I also find "I could care less" (and many, much more established idioms, which I use myself as well) silly, I just don't go around telling people they're stupid for using that idiom (because I know intelligence has very little, if anything to do with it).
I really don't get why Reddit has an issue with them
My theory: people on them are having fun and Reddit resents that.
That don't have an issue with any other word that doesn't make sense when taken literally.
Let people do what they wanna do. Plenty of words don't make sense. Reddit just wants something to bitch about. Like I don't think they realize they are "that guy" every time they bring it up
They wonder why they don't get invited to parties. Its because you say "well actually, you see...."
No one cares guys. The fact that when someone says "hoverboard" you instantly know what they are talking about is proof enough.
Words have multiple meanings.
Take the word "either". It can either (heh) mean "both" or "one or the other"
Also thanks for responding and not just downvoting me. I don't get Reddit's hate with these
[deleted] · 160 points · Posted at 13:30:44 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
When I was on ski vacation two months ago, a new group checked into the hotel with a bunch of cunt kids who, among other things, used these things inside.
Needless to say, I wasn't too bummed to leave the next day.
YUNoDie · 103 points · Posted at 14:09:28 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Why would you bring those skiing? They most certainly do not work on snow, or even hills for that matter.
Arwox · 189 points · Posted at 14:36:48 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Throw some chains on the wheels you'll be good to go
I've tried one and while i can't deny they're a fun toy to mess around with, people using them in public is really annoying.
wicksa · 68 points · Posted at 17:58:22 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm a nurse and I had a patient's boyfriend get pissed at me because I told him it was unsafe for him to take his newborn baby on a "cruise" on the hoverboard down the hospital hallway.
You say I shouldn't use them in public, the other guy says I shouldn't use them inside, is the only place that's socially acceptable to ride mine on my back porch?
Maybe you guys are the douchebags that for yelling at people for doing something that doesn't affect you at all.
I'm not saying you shouldn't, i'm just saying that i feel they're kinda unnecessary to use in public when you can easily just walk without the extra hassle.
Yea, to me theyre like skateboards or bikes. So ride em on the sidewalk, backyard, park, to go run to the corner store but not in the mall. To the mall, yes, but not in the mall.
Because Reddit doesn't like to have fun while at the same time complaining how much life sucks. Like seriously. Reddit you are NOT Jim Halpert. You are Andy Baines in your office. This is why you don't get invited to parties. People start talking about hoverboards and you walk up and say "well actually..."
No one fucking cares. Just live life and quit hating on everything. Reminds me of that South Park episode where Kyle or Stan are talking shit about every single movie they see previews for.
This is too true. I was hanging out at a friend's place watching something once, and all the people there did was hate on everything. I mean, it wasn't just that nothing was off limits, but every fucking thing that they could make a comment on, they did. Everything was stupid. I was dumbfounded. I didn't know what to do - I wasn't enjoying myself at all, but I didn't want to be rude.
Like I get why people don't want to use them but why does it bother people others use them. It seems strange I mean if they aren't running into your with them why care what others do.
Someone was riding one inside my church yesterday. A guy next to me and I were laughing because it probably took him an hour to get on. We were going to push him off of it and tell him to not ride it in the church. But he face planted before we could.
I saw some guy ride up to a hot dog stand on one, step off of it for ~30 seconds and some guy grabbed it and ran. That poor man who now had to walk home like a simpleton wielding his hot dogs.
Like when I tell kids I won't sell them cigarettes without ID, feels so good seeing their face drop and their fumbled "Oh, I left it in the car," as they run away.
Felt good to see ads on the subway explicitly saying they're banned
tdug · 2 points · Posted at 17:20:50 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I love my hoverboard. Got it about a year ago. Having one of the first ones in the USA was great because people loved it then. Almost everybody thought it was sweet. I really hoped they'd stay uncommon.
[deleted] · -1 points · Posted at 17:25:38 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
How have you prevented it from exploding?
tdug · 3 points · Posted at 17:40:28 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Many of them were shipped with chargers that didn't automatically shut off, and this was a large part of how batteries got damaged. My charger does have auto-shutoff.
"It's like drinking Starbucks, but with your feet"
0food · 2 points · Posted at 18:54:56 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
"Hoverboards" piss me off so much because I ride unicycles, and whenever you're looking for unicycles on sites like eBay, etc, the stupid Chinese listings for hoverboards always call themselves "unicycles." And because unicycles aren't popular and "hoverboards" are, you always get lots of results for hoverboards but none for unicycles.
mbuff · 2 points · Posted at 19:03:38 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Dude. I commented to another fellow redditor and mentioned how it's the people who "hoverboard" they're usually the douches on it. I actually know someone who got one of the first I/O Hawk scooters. Sure, they spent more than others would probably be willing to pay (seriously they paid like over a G) but that also means that they're going to take care of it. Now I know that's not always the case with people but this persons not a douche, it's tech, they geeked out, they use it. I agree that's pretty damn awesome. We have to progress, even if it means Wall-E style, just don't be a fuckboi getting there.
Theyre stupid and shouldnt be used to get around by any means.
But have you ridden one?
Fun as fuck.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:35:37 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
did you see the video of the fat mexican kid on the "hoverboard". He was on his knees riding it around. Fat bean eating kid couldn't be older then 10... so sad. Parents should be charged with child endangerment. My future children will not be allowed to eat fast food.
I honestly think if those things cost $35 they'd be HUGE right now and be more than just a trend. but they all started at $200 and only douches bought them and have now been forever labeled douchemobiles and even if they start coming out cheaper it will be too late
Due to this shitty trend and the low quality crap that has come from China, half of the items on the Australian governments recall list under electronics are "hover board" items.
One of my all time favorite TV shows is the US version of Shameless. They tried to make Hoverboards look really cool in the show. Such a shameless bullshit commercial that felt so forced and pointless.
Not to mention several of them have spontaneously combusted. That's right, your $400 piece of shit fake ass 'hover' board can just randomly burst into flames.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 02:30:05 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I don't understand why everyone loathes hoverboards.
It's no different than a scooter/skateboard/roller blades. Just let people travel how they want, it's not like it affects you.
I have quite literally watched this trend rise and then fall into backlash territory - they were all over my campus in winter... now that the weather is nice, I have seen fewer than 2 sightings in a month. Maybe because they finally realized how absurd it looked and that walking is better.
And don't even get me started on how much they cost.
I live in a college town. I cracked the fuck up when I saw some dude just riding one to class. Partly because I thought it was a segway and I hadn't seen one in years. Then I realized it was one of those fucking things instead.
Don't really get how riding one of those makes somebody "douchy." I'm sorry. Why's it such an issue to people? Do these people hurt you! Does it bug you its referred to as "hover boarding"? Either way, why?
For some strange reason every time a see someone at work on one of those thing I just want to spear the fuck out them then tell them "You are not allowed to have this inside" is that weird?
Oh, it's just I've never heard anyone say that. It's certainly not the first thing every douchebag who thinks he's clever says when the topic comes up. I was just wondering if you came up with that brilliant witticism yourself, or you had a team of highly paid comedians work on it for months!
I went to a local park to walk my dog. The park has a 6 mile paved trail around a small lake. There was this asshat "hover boarding" on the paved trail. I was behind him for about a mile. The whole time he was leaning back and forth trying not to fall. He finally fell. I walked by him and asked if he was because he was just sitting on the ground. He replied "stupid hover board, I need to take it back, it doesn't work right!". I laughed and kept walking.
Idk why everyone hates on them. They are pretty sweet no lie. Unless people are being total douches, I don't see nothing wrong with them. I also know how you guys will respond, "but everyone who rides them rides them like a douche". Well whatever, this is the future get with it!
I consider the "hoverboard" (the fucking thing touches the ground. That's the definition of not hovering) to be one of the biggest examples of how lazy this society has gotten. People don't even want to put the effort into walking. Just walking. Not strenuous exercise.
If you use one of those, you deserve whatever weight you gain.
I just break out in laughter when I pass guys (it's always a guy) using those down the sidewalk. And I work in San Francisco, full of dudes with a bunch of money and hard-ons for gadgetry.
Segway: For the top 1% of nerds, the nerdiest of nerds
Hoverboard: For Douches
Phouza · -1 points · Posted at 15:43:49 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I facepalm each time someone calls those things hoverboards. It doesnt even hover. It has wheels and it touches the ground. It's not a hoverboard! It's not that difficult.
Its a parody of a stupid meme Damn Daniel by the youtuber I Hate Everything, whose video on Damn Daniel got copyright claimed because the fucking stupid meme is copyrighted
Sums up this thread. Give the world 20 years and then the people who posted this stuff will look back and laugh, like how people look at poodle skirts or Afro hair and laugh.
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 20:53:31 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Nah, the old ones were shit too.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 21:51:02 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I would argue that they suck because they suck, not because they're new, but I'm sure others would argue the same about Schwifty Five and Boom Goes the Dynamite. I like those two, not so much the newer ones.
It's SCHFIFTY FIVE. SCHWIFTY FIVE would be Rick Sanchez's age.
Holy balls I haven't seen a Gröûp X reference since I was in college. I was so tempted to buy the CD at the time but never really had the money, being a broke-ass college student and all.
Also does anyone know the original source of the high-pitched screaming "BITCH WHAT THE FUCK?? WHAT THE FUCK?!?!?" Like if you google "Makin it with Molly" her top video is her pouring whipped-cream on her cat, and then playing that audio... (turn down your speakers it's fucking loud)
The thing that freaks me out is that children who were born when Zelda: OoT and the Nintendo 64 came out are almost drinking age. I literally have shirts I wear to school that I got from Nintendo Power that is basically as old as these kids.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:54:27 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm 17. OoT was kind of old when I was playing it at the age of 7.
I was five when it came out; it was literally next level shit. I would throw up magazine cutouts of upcoming N64 games like they were playboy pinups. I can only imagine what it's like for kids that grew up with Minecraft and how much it blew their tiny minds.
Fun fact once you hit 20ish you don't care about Vines. I'm 31 and never had a vine account and have only seen vines posted here and a few on facebook. I have no idea who they big vine stars are or any of the trends.
They're pretty annoying to begin with but the possible worse is right when they seem to be dying out even younger children pick them up. So I have to hear the same things all over again but in a higher pitched more nasaly voice than before
To be fair the deez nuts one was funny for a bit, the others not so much. Also the unexpected loud porn in a normal seeming video and actual unexpected jihads like the toy story cut to 9/11 are funny as hell to send to friends.
and i wouldn't mind...... IF THEY WEREN'T SAID 178945614027368918561349653489214946901242861062356921 TIMES A FUCKING MINUTE! granted 21 has mostly died, but still.
I actually thought Damn Daniel was kind of funny in an annoying my friends kind of way. How it spread so fast and has been turned into an app and other stupid shit is retarded.
I see that in my medium-term future, and I'm at the point where I don't think I'll care all that much. My dad bics it-- I think I'll go with the Statham.
z500 · 1 points · Posted at 19:40:59 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm kind of lazy with it. I don't feel like shaving every day, so I usually wait about a week until it gets to Statham-level and past which it wouldn't be easy to bic. I'm thinking of just maintaining Statham-level, but I just love the feeling of being freshly shaven.
i'm 27 now, have been doing the ponytail thing since 19 and beard since 21. I have become the beard and ponytail guy to everyone and neither they nor i can imagine me any differently.
I think I could handle it if my wife left me for beard but no ponytail guy, or left me for no beard but a ponytail guy, but if she left me for no beard and no ponytail guy it would just be too much to bear.
I read your original comment with a bunch of "with"s in there. I thought you were a woman saying she's been with a guy with a beard and ponytail since her 20s. That she will still be with this guy despite the tide of trends that come and go.
Now that I read you're a guy with a ponytail and a beard, I must inquire: how can man be born again, Lord?
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 21:55:19 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Just cut the ponytail, I've never seen a guy with a good ponytail. The beard is fine, scruffy or clean depending on your style. But for real ponytails have never really be good.
[deleted] · 214 points · Posted at 14:59:05 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I digress. As a big brown guy, I'm so fucking happy. In Sydney I couldn't get into a lot of bars if my hair was too long or my beard was too much. I always had to look cleaner and more dressed up then white dudes.
I don't like hipsters but fuck man they liberated my arse from having to shave every weekend. Plus I'm Punjabi I get a five o'clock shadow at midday.
You Punjabi's and your glorious mustaches. I can't grow a beard to save my life. I'm the wrong kind of indian (American).
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 03:14:10 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Ahaha I'm glad you think it's epic. High school I felt ashamed of my body hair and its a little wierd now girls are into hairy guys. I've been so used to shaving and keeping everything hidden.
Wait are you from the motherland? Or did you mean you're Native American? Is that acceptable or is indigenous Americans? The whole Indian Americans and Indians from South Asia have always confused me on reddit. Are they talking about my people? Or the Native Americans.
Native American, indigenous, also known as "American Indians" or "Red Indians" if you want to go way back, because people are dumb.
When I was a kid proper Indians were rare in the U.S., and people still referred to us with that label. Then they attached "American" to it which didn't really make it any better. Then "Native American", but "America" was a thriving place before Amerigo Vespucci showed up, so that's not so great either.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 03:58:13 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
That was an interesting read. I remember watching TV as a child and seeing American kids play cowboys and Indians. I'm like wait a minute when did we have cowboys in India. I've met people here who thought Native Americans were decedent's from Indians ( they were a particularly slow group of people I knew.)
So what do you prefer if you don't mind me asking? I've always enjoyed reading Native American history (albeit it's also quite sad), the culture is so rich and diverse.
My grandmother called herself "Indian", my mother calls herself "Native American", I prefer "native" or "indigenous" because I don't like being named something attached to colonialism, but I know a lot of natives who aren't political and still call themselves simply "Indian".
I don't have any indigenous blood in me at all, I've also never met an actual indigenous person where I live in the US. But I tend to say American Indian. Because I feel that Native American is too broad, like I was born and raised and live in the US, therefore calling myself a native American is technically correct, but there's absolutely no way I can call myself an American Indian.
Am I just outdated?
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 22:10:18 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
What shitty bars do you go to? Or is Australia just a stuck up place?
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 23:21:29 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It was a stuck up place, still kinda is. In the late 2000's and early 2010-11, things started to change.
I still find it hard getting into more Asian dominated bars/clubs though.
I don't hate the "man bun", I even like it, but I don't get why it has to be called a man bun. It's not like the hair style is called the glittery pink feminine rainbow or something, it's named after a pastry.
I'm a woman. About a month ago, I went to work with my hair in a high messy bun. A coworker commented "rocking the man bun, I see!" What? This was the moment it dawned on me how stupid the term man bun is. It's a bun, no matter who is wearing it.
Yup, as a man who happens to put my hair in a bun, I see no reason why people insist on putting a gendered term on it especially when many of the same people are supposedly for gender equality.
I don't want to look like a lumberjack, viking is the way to go. The bun (because I hate when people call it man bun) is just a way to tie my hair so it's out of the way
An annoying trend of 2015, and any other year for that matter, is people's obsession over how other people choose to look. If you want your hair in a fucking bun and sport a beard, be my fucking guest! So long as you like it, that's all that matters. People really need to learn to keep their opinions to themselves sometimes.
there was a thread where a guy was looking for a song of a SEAT ad. he made posts on numerous sites including reddit. then months later someone anonymous sends him the link of that song. OP wants to thank his saviour and let it be known who that hero is.
hero's response: shh bby is ok
i am probably incorrect on numerous bits of that story but you get the gist of it.
I'm the same way. I tie my hair back because my options are "homeless" or hair back and honestly fuck people right in the eye that say "well just get a haircut then". I like having longer hair. It's soft, I clean it well, and I even condition it. So it's not hygiene that grosses people out. It's people that can't handle other people looking like they want. It irritates the hell out of me.
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 16:29:26 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Putting your hair back isn't a man bun. A man bun is a somewhat specific style. It's like samurai meets princess leia.
Naw, I'm actually a born-again long-hair. I like to play the part though. Man-buns are insipid though. I don't even like pony-tails ('cept on gurls) but if you need to keep your hair out of your face we can allow it.
You're sweating because you're wearing flannel. Where a t shirt with a sweater and take the sweater off when you come inside. Or where a long sleeve compression shirt under a t shirt.
su5 · 38 points · Posted at 12:54:45 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Just choppin' down some trees to build a table so I can have my breakfast of a dozen eggs. Beard keeps the sawdust off my face so I should be fine to eat after.
You know, just manly stuff.
[deleted] · 12 points · Posted at 13:20:16 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
manly stuff... hot.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 15:16:24 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Hot username
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 15:18:02 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Thanks baby, wanna share a fetus with me?
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 15:28:06 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
nope
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 16:08:06 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
ah well fuck you then...
su5 · 1 points · Posted at 16:22:01 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
What a rollercoaster of emotions
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:56:27 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
it was, i feel broken hearted i've been lumberdumped.
It's weird. I've been growing my beard since 2009 or something. Long-ish hair on and off since then as well. All of a sudden now I'm trendy. I don't know if I appreciate it or not. But yeah, never flannel.
Man, do you and don't let Reddit (or anybody else) tell you what you should be into.
It's been ten years, I've graduated university and have a real-ass job and emo girls still turn me to butter. No shame.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 20:28:02 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I think /u/zarmin was just expressing their opinion, not telling that girl what she can and cannot find attractive.
[deleted] · -30 points · Posted at 16:14:33 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Me too man. They make me melt like butter on a hot biscuit. Ride my cock and turn me to mush while I cum inside your pussy while ripping your tits off of your tattooed chest...
Actually, people hate it because it's basically a mullet and it looks fucking stupid. I've seen women with that look, and guess what? It still looks absolutely terrible on 99% of people. You're not Jared Leto.
Dunno if anyone has noticed, but the Hitler Youth haircut has made a huge resurgence as well. People are not going to remember the mid 2010's as a good time for hairstyles.
Nothing, as long as you rock it with pride and purpose. But the mullet that results from an undercut and man bun is not an intended mullet. It creates a mullet by accident.
I dont get a mullet when I let it down. It just turns into bieber's what do you mean style. I usually slick it back, do a pompadour, or wear a hat. Top knots are my last resort and do it if im gonna be active alot
Alright, it is kind of annoying. But I honestly really like this look and it has been making me very happy while watching these guys, who are already hot, put their hair up and grow nice beards, and end up looking even hotter because that's my favorite look. It makes me weak.
And I would never mean to take that from you, but guys who just jump on the bandwagon because of the effect it has on women like yourself annoy me. Not the ones who do it as a life choice.
Sorry, I thought I was replying to a different comment.
Anyway. It's the same as the fact that I've always worn glasses, always mismatched my socks, and made my own outfits from thrift store finds and indie brands. The only thing that really frustrates me is that people used to make fun of me for it, and now I'm labeled as a poser who's just following the trends, or an annoying hipster. Bugs the fuck out of me.
All of the beard trend annoys me. People seem to think it makes them look manly. All I can say is wearing a Michael Jordan jersey doesn't mean you have 6 championship rings and having a beard doesn't make you rugged.
Having a beard is fine, just don't make it into your entire personality where you are obsessed with your beard and telling people about how great it is.
Nervoz · 16 points · Posted at 13:45:16 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Found the chubby nerd who believes a beard turns him into a man's man. I can make assumptions too, see. And I like my odds of being right better than yours.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:29:08 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I have all that except for the beard. While you may not like the trend, I look incredible.
jrmax · 1 points · Posted at 16:13:54 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I like flannel because its comfortable and my beard covers my lack of a chin. I'm not a lumberjack or do I pretend to be one. I hate that everytime I wear a comfortable flannel shirt I'm some how a poser.
Somebody on reddit not long ago described the 'hipster beard' trend, saying the main thing they hated was how 'those guys' with beards like that always posed for pictures as if they were the guy who invented beards altogether.
It was hilarious, and I probably should have saved that comment. Regardless, perfectly describes my sentiment on the 'hipster beard' trend.
I'm so sick of hearing about man buns, as if they just exploded on the scene recently.... pretty sure as only as any man has had long hair, man buns have existed.
Not crazy about the man buns, to each their own. But fuck those guys, flannel is the cloth of the gods and some of these douchefucks are making flannel look like asshat clothing
SosX · 1 points · Posted at 02:34:04 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Manbun is awesome tho, you want your hair long? You don't want said hair in your face? Do you love pussy? There you go, manbun.
The whole lumbersexual thing seems like a really funny joke tho.
Fleek can stay as long as thugger says it. But I've noticed savage is totally overused on social media. People will say it over stuff that really isn't close.
Savage is a great word, therefor stop using it wrong just because you think it's funny to exaggerate your poor life. Gangsta shit is savage. White people just love being white.
People are killing the word brutal. That's always been my go to for things I find cool, but now everyone's using it for everything. And the people going around saying everything's "metal as fuck". "This chocolate ice cream is black! IT'S METAL AS FUCK"
Savage is actually a pretty good term, when used sparingly. Like in describing my usually very quiet and non-confrontational mother pulling a very savagely, passive-aggressive move against my father. It was a beautiful thing to watch, really. Savage was the first thing that came to mind...
I appreciate people like this game but I said something about trying it and decided it wasn't for me and people got so mad because it is "clearly the best game of all time"
Those fucking beiber pants that make you look like you shit yourself. I went to NYC for xmas last year and saw 7 pairs on grown adults the first fucking 3 hours. Twats, all of them.
MikoSqz · 19 points · Posted at 18:31:18 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I thought those were a flash-in-the-pan fad that happened in 2013 or so.
That's surprising considering no one in LA was wearing them. Maybe I saw a couple of pairs of harem pants, but that was more of a thing a couple years ago.
Hammer pants, not Beiber pants. They were a big thing in 1990. My favorite pair was a leopard print overall version I'd wear with crop tops. It's no different than bell bottom pants from the 60s coming back into style in the mid 90s. Though, I seriously doubt they'll catch on like they did last time. Justin Beiber is no MC Hammer.
[deleted] · 10 points · Posted at 15:36:46 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Paid reviews on Amazon. It used to be that you could sort by reviews and buy. Nope, not any more. "I received a discount on this product in exchange for my honest and unbiased review"
t31os · 12 points · Posted at 16:10:18 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Invert your logic, read and focus on all the bad reviews, as you can always pick out the dumb asses that can't work a given thing or simply aren't equipped to operate anything short of their own mouth and fingers. If there are no bad reviews, then it's possible it's a really good product(rare) or quite possible that the site moderates bad reviews and/or purposefully removes them(much more common).
Bad reviews are a good thing, you can always ignore the ignorant and stupid criticisms some users have, but usually you can find a few nuggets of good and useful feedback amongst the ranting and raving.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 14:45:59 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I always go straight to the 1-3 star reviews to see whether it's just a bunch of "shipping was too slow/chainsaw was not child-friendly/this Beowulf book is nothing like the movie"-type reviews, which usually means that it's a good product if no sane, literate people are complaining. Stupidly enough, the actual number of bad reviews is usually irrelevant—it usually just tells you how appealing the product is to people with no problem-solving skills.
I used to be concerned. Now I am in a state of "I just don't give a fuck".
Funniest thing is, it's all rhetoric and if he wins he just might be more progressive than Obama. Most NY'ers (even the ones who call themselves republicans) are generally pretty liberal.
I actually kind of think this, he didn't seem to be such an outspoken bigot before running for president, all of the shit he says (besides his views on women) seem to me like he's just telling his supporters what they want to hear. The concern for me comes from the fact that it's working this well, and what that says about society.
If he is elected by his electorate, and he wants a second term, then he will pander to that electorate for the next four years. Being unable to predict his future behavior is cause to feel disconcerted, not only for his political opponents but also for his political backers.
Certainly. He's incredibly disrespectful to people and his supporters eat it up. All he ever does is blame people who aren't white Americans for problems. He not so subtly uses racist and xenophobic jargon to rile people up. He brags about being able to shoot someone in the street and still have supporters, basically mocking his supporters as well. Really all he ever does is mock and bully. And a huge amount of people want that to lead them. It shows that a massive percentage of the population think we can solve all our problems by focusing on Muslims and illegal immigration, when there's so much more we need to focus on. It also reflects a society that adores the disrespect of women, minorities, and "ugly" people, and thinks that anyone that disagrees with its mindset should be ridiculed and not taken seriously.
He's incredibly disrespectful to people and his supporters eat it up.
So your argument is you'd rather have a comfortable lie over the uncomfortable truth?
He not so subtly uses racist and xenophobic jargon to rile people up
I would love to see some evidence of this "racism", it's the buzzword liberals use to say he's meeeeaaan.
And a huge amount of people want that to lead them. It shows that a massive percentage of the population think we can solve all our problems by focusing on Muslims and illegal immigration, when there's so much more we need to focus on
Yeah and he was right, look at Brussels.
So basically your whole argument is "he's meeeeaan". I wish you guys could move past that and actually look at their policies because they are really good.
What policies are those? He's a policy vacuum. I don't know what guys policies are and neither do you. It's one of the infuriating things about his campaign. Even for US presidential politics, there is absolutely nothing of substance there. You're being fooled by an authoritarian snake oil salesman.
But they're so empty and he doesn't seem to understand the fundamentals. Just to go with an infamous example, he wants to remove the lines around the states to foster competition. But you can only get a plan if it meets your state guidelines, thereby making that totally meaningless. He doesn't know what a nuclear triad is. You know that the president is our chief general, right? If I'm more informed on our strategic capabilities (and I'm just a nerd with a laptop), doesn't that pretty much disqualify him on its own? What about his flight of fancy tariffs? He's just not a guy who holds up under scrutiny.
Actually, if you watch his speeches he pretty much says that exact stuff over and over. "We're going to build a wall. We're going to be tough on China. We're going to bomb the shit out of the middle East. My opponents are losers. Get that protester out of here. Actually beat him up for me will you?" We're not making this stuff up. If Trump really has a real plan for this country, he's sure not campaigning on it. He's a fake demagogue at best. Do you really think a man who incites violence at his rallies and makes fun of people with disabilities is fit to be president?
"Knock the crap out of em would you?" Don't even try to tell me that it's a joke and his fans wouldn't take it seriously. Donald knows that people are getting assaulted at his rallies.
b_port · 19 points · Posted at 18:47:39 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I still don't get how some of his supporters don't believe that he's been directly promoting violence. Where the hell have they been the last 4 months? Are they blind and deaf? It amazes me how many people try to claim that it is "lies" when there are blatant examples.
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 23:43:12 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Most of his supporters think that saying he's a racist is slurring his name and demonising him unfairly... its just calling a spade a spade. Is it politically incorrect to say he is a bigot? So much irony, so little self-reflection.
Joenz · 0 points · Posted at 21:01:10 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm not a Trump supporter, but there has been more violence from the anti-trump protestors than the trump supporters. Chicago was a complete shit show of people actually causing violence.
All Of what you're saying is just broad generalizations based off of all the negative circlejerking that the media loves to do with Donald Trump. Look up what he actually wants to do. Give him a fair chance when you look at him instead of all the bullshit they want you to believe
See, all of my opinions were based on things I've actually seen him say and what I've seen of his supporters, but I'll look more into it. I'd like to know his opinions of things I care about like environmental issues, renewable energy, private prison corporations, unfair tax cuts for the rich, the disgusting way our education and medical systems work, etc. unless the media is SERIOUSLY twisting his words, he thinks that we can fight terrorism by bombing innocent people and discriminating against those trying to enter the country, which of course will only make the situation worse. I know the media is biased but the only political issues I ever hear him talk about is a zero tolerance policy on illegal immigration and foreign Muslims, and it might just be where I come from but I never hear his supporters talk about any other issues, either, except that "Trump will make everything great," spoken with complete, unsettling certainty.
the disgusting way our education and medical systems work
These two he actually talks about. The rest is pretty much off the radar for him. He talks about reforming education and doing away with common core curriculum. He isn't very specific, but he recognizes it as a big problem and wants to at least take away one known issue. On healthcare, he wants to deregulate insurance to promote competition. Make it so healthcare can be bought across state lines, and allow citizens to not buy products that aren't cost effective for them. For the citizens that can't, he wants to expand Medicare to those who need it. His platform may be missing some planks, but there is real substance.
On the topic of racism and xenophobia, I don't see it. Many of the things he says are just as easily fueled by reality as racial hatred. Terrorist attacks of the last decade have been largely a result of radicalized muslims. Allowing poorly managed immigration allows that radicalism to spread. If it were a disease, you wouldn't think twice. This is a disease that muslims are seemingly susceptible too, and this is a temporary solution to stop the spread until better screening can be put in place. Similarly illegal immigrants can bring anything from drugs, to weapons, to bombs and terrorists. On top of that, they are a large group that allow companies to dodge taxes by paying them under the table. Much of the money they are paid is sent out of the country and not in America where it promotes the American economy. Making illegal immigration harder helps our economy and if the immigration process is improved it may lead to a better life for immigrants. The man is married to an immigrant, so you can be fairly sure it isn't that he hates foreigners or anything.
On the topic of "inciting violence", he said some things in frustration when protesters were getting out of hand. Lately, protesters have shown pretty clearly that they are quite disruptive and dealing with them calmly will not help. Was it right? No. Was it something that almost any human might do when being provoked day after day during an exhausting campaign? Absolutely.
I am willing to calmly debate any of this, but the misrepresentation of everything he says and does really gets to me. I really believe he does want to make America great again, but everyone has a different opinion on how to get there, and many are afraid to actually say what they think.
he thinks that we can fight terrorism by bombing innocent people
I dunno, are the families of terrorists really innocent people? Why or why not should we target them to discourage radicalization, and why is it stupid that doing so would be considered a war-crime?
xSnarf · 20 points · Posted at 19:11:50 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
If you think killing innocent families members would decrease radicalization, you have to be crazy
Actually you know what? Thats not okay. You're saying innocent people should be killed just for possibly being related to someone. FUCK that, and fuck everyone who thinks that way.
How can you be sure that everyone caught in the explosion is family of a terrorist, even if what you're saying is correct? If innocent, unrelated people die, their friends and family learn that the US is their enemy, creating more radicals than there were before
I dunno, are the families of terrorists really innocent people?
Some may not be, but I imagine most are.
Consider some of the likely scenarios- Maybe a man became radicalized after getting married and having some kids. Considering the part of the world we're discussing (and moreso, that we're talking about radicals), I doubt his wife and kids have much sway over him.
Or perhaps it's the kid who became radicalized. Maybe they're a teenager or young adult, and they've effectively joined an incredibly violent, hateful gang. Maybe how their parents raised them is a component, but that's not necessarily the case.
Why or why not should we target them to discourage radicalization, and why is it stupid that doing so would be considered a war-crime?
Lets say ISIS blows up your family. Are you going to think "Oh wow. I guess I was wrong to disagree with ISIS, they've actually got the right idea." and fall in line? I doubt it. The opposite might even happen- you might feel the urge to join the Army/Marines/etc. If nothing else you'd probably support a war effort against ISIS more than you currently do.
Trump's idea of bombing their families would have the same result. Killing their families won't discourage them, it'll re-affirm their belief that the Western World is evil and their cause is just. What's more, by targeting non-combatants like that we'd likely push other members of their community towards extremism as the US reinforces ISIS's statement that the West is against them.
I dunno, are the families of terrorists really innocent people?
Yes. They are.
Why or why not should we target them to discourage radicalization, and why is it stupid that doing so would be considered a war-crime?
And you can't kill the fight out of people. You can achieve specific goals through use of force, but general pacification is out of the question. Look at die Ostfront if you want an example. You really think we can crack down harder than the wehrmacht did? And isn't America supposed to be above that?
[deleted] · 27 points · Posted at 17:37:46 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Donald Trump's actual opinions
massive tax cuts will generate so much growth that they will pay for themselves,
Wrong (not even gonna bother giving a source on the first one, its a proven scientific fact)
and wrong The EPA's cap and trade program has been very successful
Take jobs back from foreign countries to lower unemployment.
There are next to no economists that will agree with Trump's protectionist garbage. Free Trade and NAFTA were net benefits that do not contribute very much to unemployment. He is, once again, wrong
The Unemployment rate is much higher than it looks, even up to 42%
You're not gonna convert someone by insulting them then showing them a few links of people who disagree with them lol
[deleted] · 9 points · Posted at 18:03:35 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
well if we're being technical I insulted you after showing you links evidence of him being proved wrong.
You're right though. I shouldn't have insulted you. You are supporting a Candidate who is wrong on just about everything, and you claimed it was due to media circlejerking, rather than anything of actual merit, which I showed you was wrong.
Sorry, and I hope you reevaluate your opinions with some of the things I've shown you. Are there any other policies you agree with him on?
My main thing is he wants to lower taxes and seems to want focus on domestic issues first. That's the simplest way I can explain my thinking. I like the way he seems to want and do things, there's nothing wrong with that, many people agree with me too. As far as the being proved wrong on his tax policy.. Idk, how can you know how it'll work before we try it? That's what I think. Loads of people are on both sides, to say Trump is wrong about everything isn't fair because that's just an opinion, same as if I said "Bernie sanders is wrong about everything".
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 20:03:51 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
As far as the being proved wrong on his tax policy.. Idk, how can you know how it'll work before we try it? That's what I think.
You know economics is a thing right? There is a whole subject of study devoted to this kind of thing?
Oh yea I know, I really enjoy economics actually. I've read alot about his policies working well too! And as a voter, I think less taxes for me are a good, so why shouldn't I vote for what I think will help me as an American?
This conversation summarizes what I love and hate about reddit. I disagree with you, but seeing two people actually willing to have a conversation about something they disagree about is great. It's a shame you're being downvoted just for your views, even though you're contributing to the discussion.
Because anyone who actually understands economics understands that money needs to be taxed and spent for the economy to grow. Allowing large tax cuts and allowing the wealthy to simply sit on their money like has been going on is NOT good for the economy, as we've clearly seen. Every other first world country has much higher tax rates and much better social assistance programs that are supported partially by those higher tax rates, and their economies work.
Americans seem stuck on the idea of "this is mine, so I deserve it regardless of how I got it, and the government has no right to use the money I wasn't going to spend anyway to help the poor, fuck those guys", and it's really scary that there is such a large percentage of the population who buys into that idea, Trump supporters or not.
do you have a job? have you been employed for a long time or talked to people who have been? alot of them agree with me, its not about being selfish and saying "fuck those guys" to the poor.
Maybe not, but you really should be able to see through such thinly veiled populist nationalism. I thought we in this west learned this lesson as a whole.
Keeping Muslims from entering the country. Also i don't know if he's ever come up with a specific plan for renewable energy other than "this thing is bad, and this thing is good!," but he seems to be very against it.
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 22:21:54 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
i remember the last time a right-wing populist with centrist economic policies promising to make his country great again implemented a policy of labelling and deporting a religious minority thought to be a threat to national security
i'm referring to hitler in case you didn't catch on
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:33:09 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
thought to be a threat to national security
I wasn't aware Europe had a problem with suicide bombings and attacks performed predominantly Jews in the 30's.
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 12:44:49 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
If you were a German in the 30s, you would believe so. Propaganda is a powerful force.
Meanwhile the rest of the world sees that America is clearly discriminating against Muslims and many Muslims start to think that America truly is their enemy, causing more to join Isis and other anti American groups
Meanwhile the rest of the world sees that America is clearly discriminating against Muslims and many Muslims start to think that America truly is their enemy
No you are missing the point. We will be taking muslims that have been vetted and we can be certain they won't be a problem.
We don't need more useless people/potential terrorists/illegals clogging up the streets and using our system for free. We have plenty of people trying to enter the country LEGALLY and it's a big fuck you to them to just bring people in that truly aren't our problem.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 23:47:15 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Clinton is just the same old corporate sponsored evil America has always seemed to have. Trump is a whole different flavour of evil, but is in my opinion is way worse. Its a shit choice, but Trump doesn't believe man-made climate change is real. Even besides everything else, that is completely fucked
I'd say Hillary is the shiniest turd out of Trump and her. Trump lies a lot more (infact the most out of all the candidates) and way to reactionary. I'm not a Hillary supporter at all, neither a Bernie..since I know people are gonna accuse me of it. I'm just saying, if it comes down i'd vote for the lying cunt rather than the clown.
TJA0912 · -4 points · Posted at 00:24:32 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
That's the worst reasoning I've ever heard. Don't vote if you hate them both. Don't advance one of their campaigns because "they're the better of two evils."
I'm not defending Hillary AT ALL. Like I said, she is the shiniest of the two turds. Trump is an ego maniac and ALSO a fucking liar, probably worse than Hillary, which I thought wasn't possible. His main reason for popularity is fear and anger... I don't want someone who has to capitalize on peoples anger and fears to win votes. That type of person in the White House is more dangerous IMO than someone like Hillary. It's like having to choose from having my Kidney removed or half my liver. I'd rather have my liver, since it has a chance to regenerate.
mhblm · 3 points · Posted at 02:31:01 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Not participating in the democratic process isn't a solution, it's just complacency. If you don't like the candidates vote for a third party candidate you believe in. I'll freely admit that it doesn't do much, but it does do a little.
Voting for a third party is especially powerful now, when one of the major parties seems to be on the brink of collapse or at least a major realignment. Why? Because times of tumult are when third parties become mainstream parties, or when mainstream parties abandon their crumbling ideologies and look for new ideas.
[deleted] · -6 points · Posted at 16:16:11 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's HER turn! /s
[deleted] · -11 points · Posted at 14:20:19 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Nah we'll recoup our losses when ladder and rope sales skyrocket.
grendus · 15 points · Posted at 16:08:35 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Nah, they're cheap. I picked up a few for $5 the other day down at Home Depot.
Zeig9 · 5 points · Posted at 01:53:02 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Illegal immigrants actually provide a net gain in tax revenue. Most of them work in low-skill wage based jobs where taxes are taken out of their paychecks automatically. Additionally, they're unable to file returns or file for social services because doing so would risk exposing their illegal status.
I liked your comment. Don't worry. Your friends over at /r/The_Donald won't even bother trying to come out here considering all of Reddit backs our supposed "Lord and Savior" Bernie Sanders who has all these "great ideas", but has absolutely no idea on how to execute them.
"Bernie still has a chance! Now he just has to recover from an even larger margin than yesterday. To prepare for the upcoming states, please go bother literally every person you know and tell then to vote for Bernie Sanders. Also, keep donating!"
I'd still way rather have an egotistical and manipulative mastermind as opposed to an incompetent felon owned by Wall Street or a Bible thumping retard.
You know, everyone acts like it's the most apocalyptic thing possible, but really, what's gonna be so bad about president trump? So we spend a few years focusing on making lives for Americans better. How HORRIBLE.
Being connected all of the time has really driven our culture towards narcissism. People generally do not seek to challenge their own views and since they are always connected and the channels of information are constructed in such a way to show people only what they want to see, they are unlikely to meet a reasonable critique of any given contrary idea that is not framed in a negative way.
People remove or hide people from their Facebook feeds if they don't agree with them politically. I think that generally this is a horrible idea because it allows you to dehumanize their ideas. Facebook then becomes an echo chamber of ideas you already believe. You fail to see that the people who hold them can be good coworkers, good parents or even just a normal human trying to make their way through a confusing and scary world.
You know, I really have trouble expressing my thoughts, beliefs and you wouldn't believe how glad I am when I see posts that express these things. I'm really grateful to you for posting this even though i'm fairly sure it won't gain much traction because "We're more connected now than ever, how could we be more closeminded etc etc".
Well I agree with you and if I had gold you'd be the first person i'd have ever given to out of all the posts and comments ive seen on reddit. Thanks a lot for posting this.
mhblm · 2 points · Posted at 03:17:48 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Not only do we hide Facebook friends who disagree with us, but web algorithms are designed to present us with things that we will like and click on. It's not just us, the chamber is designed to keep us happy and clicking.
I think you might be interested in this TED talk. It's a few years old, but I think it hits close to home. The phrase "information junk food" itself is worth it.
I hide my opposing friends' alternative styles of thinking because I am sick of hearing about it, really. I don't post much pro Bernie stuff, but I also get tired of no-context quoting with the only research being done by the posters is "Facebook research."
They are the "weed is a naturally occurring plant, therefore it should be legal" people. Well....yeah...so is the coca plant. So are poppies. But we know what they're used for.
I hope it never dies. Sometimes I wonder how rap will age with me as I become an elderly white man. Will I bump the chronic? Will I still dab? Will I embarrass my grandchildren rapping along?
I imagine an old Snoop Dogg, grey and frazzled, passing away and having a state funeral, like if Sinatra had died. The disapproving looks of my imaginary grandchildren really helps me visualize cycle of life and generational shifts. We were once rebels, only to grow old and still rap along to Eminem while an uncomfortable populace stares on disapprovingly.
That's a question I have for myself all the time. I just can't see my grandpa going "Fuck if ya leg's broke bitch, hop up on ya good foot" along with the radio.
[deleted] · -7 points · Posted at 14:54:58 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Nah he is just so edgy and in the know. We get it dude, you smoke weed.
[deleted] · -3 points · Posted at 15:05:48 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's not about the weed, it's about the fact that the "dance" is retarded.
[deleted] · -8 points · Posted at 15:12:27 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I happen to think it's fun, especially when the God send of a QB that my team has does it in the endzone. Why do you feel such a need to hate on something as trivial as a dance move?
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 15:17:34 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
You're getting way too bent out of shape about it. All I'm saying is the word dab was weed-related years before this shitty dance move was invented.
[deleted] · -3 points · Posted at 15:27:42 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
shitty dance move was invented
I'm getting bent out of shape?
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 17:16:13 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Dude you are wrong, it was clearly green and orange.
medik13 · 27 points · Posted at 16:35:33 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
that fucking blue and black or gold and white dress
delecti · 24 points · Posted at 20:32:01 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
That faded away pretty fast though.
It was also an absolutely fascinating phenomenon. It's like a real-world experiment testing that philosophical question "what if the red I see isn't the same as the red you see".
It's the way your brain perceive the colors in the photo. The light source is not visible and there is nothing else in the picture that give a clue about lightning.
If your brain thinks the light that reflects off the dress is yellow-ish (natural sun light), you'll assume the gold shades are reflections on black material. The dress appears black and blue. On the other hand, if your brain thinks the light is blue-ish (artificial lightning), you'll assume the blue shades are reflections on white material. The dress appears gold and white.
The interesting part is the realization that your brain can lie to you. You can be convinced of something because you are currently starring at it and yet, it's wrong. Adding to this, our brain "makes up" a huge part of our sight by approximating the zones we don't directly look at so we can understand what's in front on us. This little accidental experiment was really good to help people realize that.
The worst part is the sound the letters ß and æ would make the phrase sound more like szaesch or szash, not 'bae'. You can Google the Eszett on the U.S's version of Google, the first recommend search is 'ßæ'. Let me point out that in a language like say, German, the Eszett is not simply 'a fancy b'. It's usage highly varies from that of a 'b' (the Eszett makes the long s and z sound; or the long s over round s sound).
It was a thing on my team to try and weasel ourselves into asking "what are deez?" (Similar to the "what's up dog" joke). Sounds stupid but it was incredibly satisfying to lay down a DEEZ NUTS on the unsuspecting sap and watch their face melt into complete and utter shame.
Its only going to get worse man... IMO the day Ringo and Paul McCartney pass away will be the day the music dies. I just can't imagine a world without the Beatles... :,/
What's really annoying is people say "cringe" when they mean embarrass or awkward. Cringe is watching a tooth get pulled or the sound of nails on a chalkboard. Not watching people do embarrassing things.
Bae. Or "only 90's kids will get this". "If you remember this show your childhood was awesome!" It's sad the direction social media is going. Thanks to Facebook, you can learn how ignorant your coworkers/peers/family/classmates truly are.
[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 22:23:30 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I fucking guarantee you've never met someone who insisted on being called a wolf. Guarantee it.
NiChun · 11 points · Posted at 16:27:56 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Youtube drama.
React World. Reaction Channels. Prank Vids.
wyxtt · 3 points · Posted at 19:53:03 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Prank vids kinda piss me off but kinda make me laugh. Funniest one was where they would tie a bike up to a tree and random people would steal the bike only to flip off of it when they got far from the tree. Shit was hilarious.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 00:17:14 on March 26, 2016 · (Permalink)
Did guys have buns before? Sure. But it was like spotting Nessie when you saw one, except that no one cared. But at some point this past year it went from seeing maybe 3 a year in the hipsterest, hippiest, or trashiest parts of town to every other college dude. I don't know how they all grew their hair out so long so fast. Some were just guys with regular length hair snapping the back - most few strands in an elastic, but they were everywhere and still are
I can't stand them! maybe cause i don't wanna fight for hair ties etc. Plus it seems a certain type of hipster douche (I'm a hip girl myself) and wooks wear manbuns. i've yet to meet a decent guy rocking one.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 14:03:50 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
This. I saw the footage from Yale where students were demanding safe spaces and one girl was screaming at an admin "you're not here to create an intellectual environment!" Like, you're at fucking YALE, an Ivy League School. The whole point is to create an intellectual environment! And this whole protest stemmed out of the administration telling students that they wouldn't police Halloween costumes and they were okay with people wearing whatever they wanted.
They're important though. What's your issue with them?
zjm555 · 16 points · Posted at 18:56:56 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Words and ideas are not a threat to one's safety, so it's a misnomer. The more ridiculous part is that many college students are trying to convert their entire campuses into so-called "safe spaces" in which dissenting or controversial opinions are silenced, which is completely contrary to the role of universities. Nobody has a right to silence controversial opinions, and in fact, being exposed to those who are different from you is an important part of growing as a person. Echo chambers, as we have seen from so many online communities, are really bad for public discourse, as they push people toward extremes rather than compromise and understanding.
Discourse isn't the point. The point is to have a place where vulnerable people don't have to worry about shitty people. Identity is not a matter of opinion, and therefore discourse is only valuable from a learned opinion. So unless you're a feminist / queer theorist, or a psychologist, or sociologist, then your opinion doesn't matter. When your words actually damage people, then maybe you shouldn't resent their place of solace.
zjm555 · 9 points · Posted at 21:12:31 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
All due respect, discourse is a very important role of the academy, and fostering a culture of censorship and echo chambers is not going to change the hearts and minds of bigots.
How do you define vulnerable? With the amount of safe spaces I see in my uni, you would think the world was a dangerous place for everyone unless you're a straight white man.
No, they're not. If you can't function in the real world without having a room full of kittens and coloring books provided then you need to seek help. And I don't mean that in a disparaging way. I mean that you need to get better coping mechanisms and find someone to talk to because this is a first world rich kid problem.
Seeking help is the entire point of a safe space, so I don't see your point. Clearly, there's a reason these spaces exist, and there's a reason that universities promote them. Otherwise they wouldn't exist. Your distaste for vulnerable people shows a lack of maturity and empathy, and yet you complain about others needing "kittens and coloring books". Clearly, you've never been depressed or faced severe trauma, so what right do you have to denounce the coping methods of others? Based on our interaction, I can tell you are the kind of person who wouldn't be welcome in a safe space. Words won't break bones, but they still cause harm.
I'm type II Bipolar, was horribly abused and molested as kid and have the scars to prove it emotionally and physically. So please, tell me more about how I just don't understand. Safe spaces are being provided because coddled children are demanding them. They aren't helpful. They don't fix problems, they're a place to hide from problems. The kittens and coloring books wasn't some bullshit I made up, it's what a university did when Christina Hoff Sommers gave a speech for the people who couldn't handle dissenting view points.
Your distaste for vulnerable people shows a lack of maturity and empathy
Being unable to have a conversation with me without resorting to ad hominems is extremely immature. As for empathy, I wasn't showing a distaste in people I was showing a distaste for the pseudoscientific treatment of hiding from things that make you uncomfortable. These aren't war veterans having night terrors from PTSD these are middle and upper middle class children upset at people disagreeing with them.
So CLEARLY the problem here isn't the person suggesting they get real help.
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 02:08:27 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Ravinac · -3 points · Posted at 22:43:51 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
No, words cannot harm you. There is no way for words to physically hurt you, and only you can let them harm you mentally. If you are so weak minded that people calling you out on your bullshit triggers a psychotic break down, you are not a well adjusted adult. You are defective in some manner, and should seek help from a professional, not from a hug circle of people telling you society is wrong for not propping you up all the time.
An area that is safe and respectful (by enforcement of those in it and possibly by a person in charge of it) for a minority group, especially LGBT people
I'm sorry but I think that is ridiculous. Is everyone allowed in a safe space? What are the rules? Why especially LGBT people? It just seems like students are trying to run from the real world and attempting to coddle themselves. I hope I don't sound too harsh and I'm sorry if you've ever felt marginalized but a safe space isn't going to do anything for you once you're off campus.
[deleted] · 12 points · Posted at 22:47:40 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Why especially LGBT people?
probably because LGBT+ people are still being mistreated and it's nice to have a space where you know you're not going to be insulted/attacked for your sexual or gender identity?
It was sad seeing some of the kids in my hs that aren't fortunate enough to have expensive shoes and hearing people yelling "WHAT ARE THOSE?" And laughing at them. Thankfully it has died off.
"Wutz dat" gotta love the darkys and their poor excuse for English
[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 02:03:15 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Those stupid fucking big beards and shaved sides, quiff and man bun, the fucking bland music of this decade, big phones and thin clothing with equally bland colours.
I think the clever setups that some have done are funny. It's definitely funny when used properly, but kids with terrible meme game just trying to be cool bastardised it.
Never hearing get that song before the YouTube rewind, I knew how it sounded. It's weird how you can figure out how it's supposed to be just by guessing.
Vine. I know this is not just a 2015 thing, but I feel like it is unnecessary and most just get stolen for Vine compilations featuring a picture of a girl in a bikini
Idk if this counts as a trend but recently I'm seeing web pages block you from using their website unless you turn ad block off. Fuuuuuck that's shit man, I just don't use that site anymore.
Right after the Minions movie came out, a bunch of old people on Facebook started making "memes" with a minion just standing on the side of the picture next to some "witty" remark disparaging Muslims, gays, Obama or really anything not old and white. Those were pretty dumb.
The Whip Nae Nae song. To kids of this decade, this is your version of Crank Dat Soulja Boy which kind of started it all if you think about it. Speaking for all teenagers from the late 2000s, I am sorry we've cursed you.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 12:40:03 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)*
The Keynesians have been right about the Great Recession; the Austrians have been wrong. The Austrians (real and charlatan non-economists like Peter Schiff) have been predicting hyper inflation and the collapse of the US dollar, neither which have occurred.
My girlfriend and I now refer to each other as "bae"
It's fun and cute, just another long list of nicknames we use on each other. IT's also one syllable, which is nice when I don't feel like using one of her grander titles that I've come up with.
No, it's supposed to mean before anyone else. A pretty fucking stupid way to refer your significant other as. Plus, it's supposed to translate as shit in Danish.
It isn't an acronym, it's from that woman who wrote "bae caught me slippin" but you can see in the mirror behind her that she's taking a picture of herself. She meant to write "babe" but missed the b and hit post too quickly.
I think it caught on because it sounds like baby-talk, and the internet seems to love baby-talk... with all of its feels... and all of the things...
Encouraging Donald Trump and giving him the most air time. We're still doing that now, but I think if we just ignored him he wouldn't be where he is now.
"There's no such thing as bad publicity", yet news and social media make a point to talk about him EVERY day, even if it's just to talk about what a shitty person he is.
I'm by NO means a Trump supporter, but what you seem to be talking about is censorship. Yeah, the fervor that everyone gets whipped up into is a bit much, but he has every right to run.
Yeah, I'm a huge supporter of allowing everyone to run; that's what makes our system of governing great. However, I'm talking about the media focus on trump has been skewered mostly to his favor. No one talks/talked that much on the other candidates as much as they did for Donald. That I find unfair
Yes, the point of BLM was to bring awareness to the fact that black men and women were still being treated with prejudice, especially by the police. There were multiple instances in 2014 and 2015 of black people being shot or killed in a situation where it was entirely unwarranted.
A guy gets choked to death by the cops on the sidewalk for selling cigarettes, with video evidence that he was not resisting. He certainly wasn't resisting enough to be murdered on the sidewalk by someone's bare hands.
A guy gets shot in the back multiple times while running away from the police in Charleston, also caught on video.
The South Carolina state capitol flies a confederate flag and refuses to take it down, citing heritage and ignoring that fact that many people of an entire race (and citizens of SC) see it as a reminder of a time not long ago when their people were slaves to the whites... in that same state.
A group of black people holding a bible study in their church are murdered simply because they are black.
BLM was meant to bring awareness to the fact that racism, especially between whites and blacks, still exists and shouldn't be overlooked. Blacks, being the minority and the ones who were slaves to the whites, decided to focus on the fact that it seemed like their lives (black lives) didn't matter to anyone as proven by the above examples and many more.
Yes, all lives do matter, but that completely misses the point. White people aren't dying because they are white. White people aren't being killed by the cops because the cops have a prejudice against white people. White people aren't being murdered in churches simply because they are white. Black people are.
exelion · 291 points · Posted at 14:44:16 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yes, the point of BLM
Got subverted almost immediately when many of the more publicized BLM events refused to let non-blacks participate.
Racism still exists. Prejudice still exists. Wrongful things still happen. And we should ALL be coming together to deal with them. When a BLM protest tells white people they aren't allowed to join BLM in solidarity, or a hispanic reporter than he's not welcome to film them, they're part of the problem too.
Sadly this was the biggest facepalm for me. I do still argue in favor of BLM since it's a glaringly obvious issue, but this was where I felt the most like "This isn't getting attention for change. This is getting attention for getting attention."
I think some of the BLM events basically became about non-issues and mimicked the worst ideologies from modern Feminism. This includes like you stated: alienating people from your movement who are not in their demographic. The inability to have rational discourse. Like I stated before, the creation of problems where none existed or could have been handled rationally. Creating an "Either you agree with everything we say or you are a racist" line in the sand.
Then there have been the NUMEROUS violent outbursts from some of supporters and rather than denounce the worst people, they either remain silent or support them.
Finally there is the issue of Leadership. As anyone who watched the Occupy Wall Street movement play out (as I did when working and living in NYC), I can tell you that not having a strong leadership is the main reason that the BLM movement is being treated like a joke. The few smaller leaders in some of the Universities were upper class and came from rich families and refused to utter the idea that true separation of people comes from those who have and those who have not. In all the discourse, no one has stated other from the ignored people, this is the real issue that EVERYONE faces, it doesn't matter what skin color or race you belong to.
The issue is learned experience. Black people have experience with discrimination, so clearly they should be the ones who speak at events about it. But very often there'll be a white person who does the talking, and their message doesn't resonate as well, is misleading, or completely false. All unintended, but possible. This happens a lot to feminist speakers as well. Turning people away from expressing solidarity is just wrong, though. Same for the reporter thing.
Sevrek · 536 points · Posted at 14:20:55 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
People missed the point because everyone in BLM was being a huge cunt about it
So, obviously the police are murdering people in cold blood. There's been multiple cases where there was video evidence of no resistance. How should we bring attention to this social issue?
I dunno. What if we incite riots and generally act like the stereotype were trying to fight?
Genius.
skidoos · -8 points · Posted at 14:37:25 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
People missed the point because everyone in BLM was being a huge cunt about it
Cool sweeping generalization bro.
Gruzman · 28 points · Posted at 15:13:10 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Ironic considering that a phrase like "blacklivesmatter" is itself a sweeping generalization that still requires qualifications by supporters not to come off as racist.
[deleted] · 11 points · Posted at 16:28:52 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It really doesnt. People arguing about the semantics of "too" at the end are being purposefully tone-deaf. It is damn well understood that they aren't implying that other lives don't matter or matter less.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 13:14:33 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
oh please. Find me even one instance of someone actually involved in the organization saying "only black lives matter" "white lives don't matter" or some variation thereof.
The plain truth is, the detractors insert "only" in "black lives matter" in their own mind just to reinforce their pre-existing disposition on the subject.
Gruzman · -1 points · Posted at 18:26:20 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It really doesnt. People arguing about the semantics of "too" at the end are being purposefully tone-deaf. It is damn well understood that they aren't implying that other lives don't matter or matter less.
Then why are they compelled to argue it? You don't think they have genuine reasons for concern with the titling? Do you really think they're all just trolling people?
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 18:50:06 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I think they're being purposefully obtuse to suit a decision they already made.
You could make some legitimate criticisms about the group not being very organized, and some members acting very very contradicting, but the semantics of the very obvious message are not one of them.
It's the same dimwitted at-face assertion as people who say "National Socialists were leftist and socialist, not fascist. They have socialist in the name!"
skidoos · 6 points · Posted at 15:31:29 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)*
Understandable, but to be fair that was not really the point of my comment. /u/forman98 made an interesting and well thought out comment detailing his opinion as to the motivations and meanings behind BLM to provoke discussion and /u/Sevrek's reply (in typical reddit fashion) was basically "fuck everything you said, because I think that every single person in BLM is a cunt."
All I intended to point out with my reply was the vacuousness of /u/forman98's contribution to what could be an interesting discussion. I'm sure you don't need me to tell you to feel free to imply my motives in doing so all you want, but I believe my criticism still stands.
[deleted] · -3 points · Posted at 18:27:27 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I am so terribly sorry that I wasn't impressed nor enlightened by your juvenile hyperbole.
Idiot
Says the person who responded to a 295-word comment explaining an opinion with "fuck you, they're all cunts" and then gets pissy when (s)he gets called out on it.
Sevrek · -4 points · Posted at 18:30:04 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Sorry didn't mean to rustle your jimmies.
Don't you have some traffic to disrupt or some professors to yell at?
skidoos · 2 points · Posted at 18:31:38 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)*
Don't you have some traffic to disrupt or some professors to yell at?
If you're implying that I'm a member of BLM, I'm not nor have I ever been. I just enjoy pointing out stupid and worthless comments. Maybe we should be friends?
[deleted] · -2 points · Posted at 23:21:27 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Civil rights was important, disenfranchisement was important, lynching of blacks was important, and how did the civil rights movement deal with this? With respectable marches, sit-ins of accountable institutions and non violence, this got people to change their minds and rally around the cause.
Even BLM supporters need to remember that nobody is going to like your cause, no matter how just or cogent, if you act like a prick about it. People aren't going to support a cause if the supporters are violent.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 00:17:42 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Were the black panthers effective? Because when I think back to what I learned they were the douche-bag group that didn't achieve much. Comparing the non-violent with the militant movement it is clear to see who actually created the change we live in today.
The effectiveness of the non-violent movement was because of the militant movement. People were willing to listen to their arguments because they knew the militant movement would only continue to grow until some change had come. The powers that be decided to negotiate on peaceful terms rather than with force
mhblm · 2 points · Posted at 02:52:41 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
That's an interesting perspective, and I think there's some truth in it, but recent events have inclined me to believe that people tend to be more reactionary and focus on the extremes of any movement they disagree with as a way of discrediting them. We get scared and angry, not scared and accepting. Generally, I'm inclined to believe that the Black Panthers probably did more harm than good to the civil rights movement, because they gave a boogeyman for racists to point to, even though goddamn lynchings were happening, and jury nullification was allowing people to literally get away with murdering blacks.
Of course, it's hard to equate now with 50 years ago. In spite of the wealth of information available -- actually probably because of it -- we are more able to seek out information that feeds into our biases rather than challenging us. The industry of web content is built (understandably) on getting us to click links, which means presenting us with stories that we are inclined to agree with. This means more extremism, more straw men, and more attempts to discredit those we don't agree with.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:04:30 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Was that effective in changing America? Because as I look at it it was not, mlk changed minds the bp made people join Islam and regimented them into some sort of militia.
right on point, you could have a good goal in mind but still be bad people. I think a good connection would be to Fallout 4's Railroad. while they want to free synths which is good, they murder innocent people to continue their cause: you murder people just to get sets of cloths, you murder people to set up machines for a crazy guy, and you blow up the Prywden, an air port, and the Instistue, all of which contain innocent people trying to live, just so they could save a few robots.
That's such a reductive and retarded take of it. The reason (s)he's saying BLM were being a huge cunt about it is because of how trashy their organization behaves. I'm in a college town with a heavy BLM presence and they're such scumbags they're hated by blacks and whites alike. Their last 'protest' was an organized temper tantrum where they blocked highways whilst yelling racial slurs at whites and asians, and managed to loot and burn down half the city. There's a reason nobody outside of reddit and academia takes BLM seriously, they're a bunch of cunts who will accomplish nothing with their movement.
Well, when people associate you with Michael Brown and you make no attempt to discourage that association, you're just not going to get anywhere. Sorry, that's life.
I don't really know your awareness of historical contexts, but MLK shut down cities, disabled the bussing systems for years, and marched down highways kind of a lot. If anything BLM is taking tame approaches to civil protests.
If you're going to make a racist joke you could at least try to have it make sense. Bussing is a huge mode of transportation for major cities and is used by all races and ethnicities.
And I'm sorry fellow human beings ask you for basic human rights and equal treatment, that must be hard to take in.
Are you referring to White flight? So I guess you're saying that literally every single white person in the US neither lives in cities, nor has interaction with them. I'll leave it up to you to figure out how ridiculous of a statement that is.
Only poor people ride buses now a days. Suburbs barely even have them for that reason. I would never take public transportation because of the loud ignorant "people".
Tell that to the people who sprayed them with fire hoses. A lot of people thought they were cunts at the time for disrupting the status quo. We just don't think that in retrospect. Hindsight is 20-20.
While I agree with you, you aren't exactly going to convince people on this site.
Sevrek · 0 points · Posted at 18:26:10 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Half the people in BLM haven't even been alive for decades. Stop ruining lives of people who aren't racist and had nothing to do with discrimination 50 years ago
Having loved ones mis-treated/killed by the police which is happening today, not decades ago, isn't ruining people's lives, but blocking traffic and interrupting a study session is? Who's lives are being ruined here?
Having empathy and listening to other people is not a bad thing, despite the popularity of stoicism and boot-strapping that is here on Reddit
Well, I'm putting myself in your shoes. What am I supposed to feel when fellow human beings are begging for change to end corrupt policing practices that are disenfranchising their community?
I'm not saying that we shouldn't listen to people like this. Black people do face specific challenges in the US. The problem that I'm trying to highlight, is that people (especially who are part of groups like blm) seem to have this weird thing where they say, "Obviously we have the most problems, and anyone who has a different outlook, or is even a different group than is being represented is not worth listening to at all, and if they try to have a conversation that in any small way disagrees with the group's narrative, that person is branded a racist and not allowed to participate.
The problem I have with your perspective is that it assumes that this is a new problem. Black communities have been dealing with this for decades and their outcries are always trivialized and justice is rarely carried out appropriately. Think back to Rodney King nearly 25 years ago, and try to imagine all the things that happen that aren't caught on camera. For 25 years you're told, "yes yes but there's more pressing matters"
So like, when? When is this finally going to be addressed?
Fwiw, here's what MLK thought on similar issues
"First, I must confess that over the last few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Council-er or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can't agree with your methods of direct action;" who paternalistically feels he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by the myth of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait until a "more convenient season."
Shallow understanding from people of goodwill is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection."
But the BLM method is so sure that all of their assumptions are correct, that it will not even listen to alternatives. I can't get behind a movement that will not allow discourse. I'm not saying "we should address this later, come back in a few years." I'm saying that there are more issues at play here than the BLM members would like to examine, and that there needs to be some self-examination that says "These people were out of line and don't represent the group" or "This person we held up as a gold standard of injustice wasn't the black and white (no pun intended) situation we thought it was" or "You disagree with the best way to remedy this situation, what would your thoughts be?" There's none of that. No outside thoughts, and no accountability.
5MC · 0 points · Posted at 05:36:50 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
You do know the Rodney King incident isn't what you think it is? It's far more on the side of a Michael Brown event than an Eric Garner one, and spouting it as an example only discredits BLM.
Discredits BLM? They're not proclaiming their undying innocence, it's the issue that the police carry out extra-judicial killings of people with no accountability or punishment. It's a warped viewpoint to think every person killed by the police needs to be as innocent as Rosa Parks or else they deserve it.
It discredits them to ask for investigations and protocols to add transparency to police killings? Go to the BLM website and actually read what they're about because it sounds like you don't know what you're talking about. Reactionary Reddit posts are not the best place to form political views
Sevrek · -1 points · Posted at 20:53:40 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
So what about the black people stuck in traffic that day? Their lives don't matter?
...black people were affected by blm protests, therefore their lives don't matter? Genius, I'll get in contact with Jesse Jackson so we can avoid future embarrassment
Sevrek · 0 points · Posted at 23:05:18 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Good to know you're hard at work doing something because you obviously don't have a job
Also just so you know sarcastic half witted remarks do nothing to prove me wrong so you might try again to explain what stopping black people in traffic is accomplishinf
Prove you wrong? I have no idea what you're even trying to prove, so I showed you my understanding of your logic to see if you wanted to correct me.
What are you trying to prove with the logic that black people are affected by BLM protests?
Sevrek · 1 points · Posted at 15:43:24 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm saying that all BLM members are cunts.
My proof is that they would stop traffic of people who have nothing to do with discrimination even to the point where their protests negatively affect black people.
I mean it's not that hard to understand even for someone who isn't educated
I would say the oppressive policing policies causing death, poverty, and insecurity is wrong. But you have your head so far up your own ass that you think black people are blocking traffic because they hate suburban white people instead of trying to attain the status of a human being and equal treatment in America.
There's so much blatant evidence of this mistreatment so I'm hoping that it's only going over your head because you're young and naive instead of older and purposefully misinformed.
It's way too easy to just dismiss people as crazies and cunts with only a shallow understanding. Every person on this earth has their own autonomy and individual experience which leads them to the decisions they make, so maybe that'll pique your interest into actually listening to the cries of a disenfranchised community instead of just dismissing them as cunts after the first article you read and spicy Reddit memes repeated ad nauseam
Sevrek · 0 points · Posted at 14:46:20 on March 26, 2016 · (Permalink)
You're missing the point so bad but I'm not surprised.
Stopping traffic and ruining the day of hundreds of people isn't going to change anything.
You're seriously beyond ignorant if you truly believe that disrupting the lives of regular citizens is going to have any positive effect on civil rights.
It accomplishes nothing except for extremely bad PR.
They might be right. But regardless, I think they are going about it in the wrong way. I think that antagonizing and inconveniencing the general public just won't gain you support for your cause, even if you are right.
Civil protests are suppose to be disruptive. The only reason they do it is because other forms of outreach are largely ignored. Reddit or other news outlets wouldn't even address the issue if they just sat outside a state house with some signs.
I know it's hard to put into perspective, but these people have been subjugated to terrible policing policies to the point where every death or mistreatment is marginalized and everyone just moves on with no justice served. If someone close to you was killed and everyone just went ¯_(ツ)_/¯ and trivialized the whole situation, there was no investigation, and it's happened frequently in the area around you, wouldn't that upset you?
Oh honey are you honestly going to use the tone argument? Are you honestly going to insist that black people be polite and civil in the face of being murderlized? Honey, you can just fuck the fuck off.
No I agree with your original point. I'm just saying you're a fool for thinking that it will do anything other than make people dislike/ dismiss you. You can continue this rude attitude all you want, it just won't help you anywhere in life.
If you're trying to insinuate that people would otherwise be persuaded were it not for a rude, patronizing tone, then you have a fundamental misunderstanding of the purpose of the tone argument.
All your points are completely valid. I say that in all seriousness, with sincerity.
Counterpoints
Police are in contact with black people more so than other ethnicities because (due to economic disadvantages that black Americans face), black communities tend to be higher crime communities. When you are talking about hundreds of thousands of interactions between police and the public, it bears consideration that interactions going horribly wrong are going to happen/keep happening.
2nd point
If I decided to google black on black, black on white, police on white, white on black, and police on black, how do you all think these statistics would read?
Police are in contact with black people more so than other ethnicities because (due to economic disadvantages that black Americans face), black communities tend to be higher crime communities. When you are talking about hundreds of thousands of interactions between police and the public, it bears consideration that interactions going horribly wrong are going to happen/keep happening.
That is a valid point. A factor that is not taken into effect is how a cop's reaction changes over time due to so many run-ins with criminals that are also black. It seems that this has breed a mistrust for anyone black that fits the some form of the criminal stereotype they have seen. Are the cops more suspicious because some guy is wearing clothes typically associated with the criminals they see, or are they suspicious because some guy has the same skin color as the criminals they typically see?
If I decided to google black on black, black on white, police on white, white on black, and police on black, how do you all think these statistics would read?
They would read however they end up reading, but they would fail to take into account which ones were racially motivated. Simply looking up the broad statistic of black on white crime will not prove anyone's point. You have to dig deeper and look at more factors and variables to determine what really happened. I could google # of white presidents that have declared war vs # of black presidents that have declared war and come to the conclusion that white people love war.
On your last paragraph, racial motivation does not affect how it impacts black lives. The organization is called black lives matter and came in response to the death of a black person. So it seems that they are saying that the killing of black people shows a lack of value from the group killing. So who is the largest demographic killing blacks and therefore showing the least value for blacks....it is other black people. Do you see how this undermines what they started as. If they think black lives matter, their priorities should have obesity, heart disease, and black on black crime WAY above police brutality.
Another point is that police brutality does affect everyone. When they made it about race, they alienated the huge group of people who have been mistreated by police and are not black.
The "black on black crime" talking point isn't relevant. How are black Americans supposed to handle crime in their own communities when the people who are supposed to protect them from said crime, beat and shoot them with impunity? You're really gonna call the cops if there's a higher probability of them making the situation worse?
You really believe there aren't white people who have been unjustly shot and killed by police officers? The media just doesn't cover it like they do if it's a black person.
I'm sure there are cases of white people being unjustly shot by the cops, but where they shot because they are white? That's the distinction everyone who comments AllLiveMatter seems to forget. White people aren't killed simply because they are white. Atleast not as often as black people are.
Yes, white people are killed all the time. But how often is it due to them being white and not some other circumstance?
Can you link to examples where it occurred solely due to race and not other factors that, while not justifying the killing, still are race independent and haven't led to white deaths in similar situations?
Yeah, they are never doing ANYTHING wrong when they get shot. Never breaking laws, acting aggressively towards the police or others. Cops are just riding along, looking for black people to shoot. All the BLM movement is doing is driving a stake further into race relations.
I'm not saying you don't have a point, but the police violence part is pretty indiscriminate between whites and blacks if you account for the overall crime rate of the area.
Just like there's a systematic racism issue, there's also a systematic violence, "shoot first ask questions later" and lack of de-escalation issue.
The problem is the media. There were lots of cases of white people being killed by the police last year as well, but that isn't controversial so it doesn't make headlines. Seriously the media is absolutely fucking shit up in this country.
But were those killings of white people by cops racially motivated? That is the distinction. This isn't an issue of cops being horrible, it's an issue of people being murdered based on the color of their skin.
Is it racially motivated? Are there long standing prejudices that are leading to these situations? If so, we can include them in this conversation. If not, then that is an entirely different topic probably more related to drugs and just general crime and not based in race.
Can we all just agree that "black lives matter" was not the greatest slogan in the world? It's pretty ambiguous and given how short-sighted people can be—they should have seen the backlash coming from a mile away! I'd love to be a fly on the wall when whatever PR team picked this out, because IMO it was the single most debilitating part of the movement.
It's a little hard to get the right message when a group of people use it as an excuse to riot/loot. It had good intentions but the loudest party will always be heard the most and it led to people not getting the right message.
A group of black people holding a bible study in their church are murdered simply because they are black.
This one we definitely do. The killings were motivated by his racism (and insanity), that is a known fact.
The police ones are grey, but it is hard to deny it. Why shoot a guy in the back in broad daylight? He was running away, not threatening anyone's life in that moment. And it was multiple shots, not one. The cop unloaded a few rounds in the guy that was running away from him. That's murder in any other situation. It can be argued that it happened due to the cop's prejudice. He was way more skiddish because the guy filled out some negative black stereotypes in the guy's mind. Why did the guy run? Because he doesn't trust cops due to situations just like the one that was about to unfold. It was 2 scared people. One was scared of the other because, historically, the other was scared of him just because he was black.
ch00d · 0 points · Posted at 18:25:45 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The bible study thing was Dylan Roof murdering a group of black people. BLM is about cops killing black people.
The point isn't that they are consciously prejudiced against, but rather that there is a bias in the results, whether conscious or unconscious
[deleted] · -1 points · Posted at 16:40:55 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Dude all lives matter who gives a fuck about BLM. What about syrian lives or Iraqi lives? Like I give a fuck about hoodlums acting gangster then gettng shot by a cop. When Michael died he played stupid games. He's 19 he should know not to steal. The only ones that are really fucked is like the 40 year old dad who got choked to death. Other than that I don't care if gangsters or hoodlums get killed for being idiots. Play stupid games win stupid prizes.
Did I mention any of those gangsters or even Michael Brown? No.
The only ones that are really fucked is like the 40 year old dad who got choked to death.
Which I mentioned...
[deleted] · -1 points · Posted at 18:05:58 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
But a lot of the BLM is people standing up for the gangsters that died. As well as idiots going into university classes and yelling at people cause they are white which makes them privileged apparently lol
A guy gets choked to death by the cops on the sidewalk for selling cigarettes, with video evidence that he was not resisting. He certainly wasn't resisting enough to be murdered on the sidewalk by someone's bare hands.
They didn't choke him to death. They didn't murder him. He died from cardiac arrest. Yes. Heart attack. The cops didn't try to kill him. It looked more like an unfortunate accident than "police on black" violence. You sound like sensationalist media.
He did resist by the way, by saying no, and not complying with police orders for a few minutes. When cops tried to handcuff him standing, he kept resisting, slapping their hands away and saying don't touch me (it's called resisting arrest). What do you think will happen if the police are trying to handcuff you and you keep slapping their hands away? They'll go "Oh, ok, let's not arrest this criminal then."
The chokehold I believe was illegal, but even when down, he kept resisting at first. Is it strange cops didn't believe when this huge man twice their size that was resisting arrest, started saying he needed help? They thought it was a scheme.
I don't think there was any evidence of racism. A cop used an illegal move on someone selling something illegally, that didn't comply with their orders, and then resisted arrest, might be poor judgement on the cops' part. Unfortunate. The criminal died as a result of the altercation. He didn't die because he was black. He died because he resisted arrest, had a bad heart, and when cops took it to the physical level his heart gave up. Might not have happened if they drew their batons, or firearms, or whatever the correct procedure was. (I rather suffer a chokehold than a gun in my face personally)
[deleted] · -2 points · Posted at 16:55:10 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
If you think there aren't white people being killed just because they're white then you need to open your eyes.
Violence against race exists against every race. It's just way more open to criticism when it happens to a black person because they were the slaves and whatnot. And I'll say it probably DOES happen more, institutionally, to blacks.
The message, while short, was meant to be read as "Black Lives >also< Matter" in comparison to the assumption that only white lives matter. That said, it culminated in a riot... so the effort came undone by some barbarians that were in it for the personal profit.
You're absolutely right, they should just stay quiet whenever they get wrongly killed and have no justice in death. How dare they entertain the notion of their lives mattering, it's almost like they don't know they're black, and therefore don't matter
I want to agree, I really do, but peaceful protests have been happening for years and the problems still exist. And don't pretend that everyone who thinks that black lives matter (and they do, they're human beings too ya know) are all violent rioters, those are just who media outlets are focusing on to dismiss the idea behind black lives mattering. Riots and violence are definitely not the answer here, but it's not like they're happening for no reason
No, right, burning and looting Baltimore totally stopped the police from throwing black people in jail. That makes sense.
How about the BLM "activists" who say we should "give pigs wings"? Because, you know, I think murdering cops is the only clear solution to this problem.
Obviously it fucking won't, but you can't pretend like it wasn't going to happen eventually if black people keep getting wrongfully imprisoned and killed. People lash out when they get mad enough
Maybe black people need to quit gangbanging and killing each other instead of using cops as a scapegoat. Cops are scared of black neighborhoods for a reason. Let's not pretend the black community doesn't have its own very real problems to address.
That's not to say that cops don't literally get away with murder all the time, but to think that only happens to black people is laughable and anything but constructive.
It happens to black people way more than any other race, probably because their scared of black communities. And black people are constantly taking stands against violence in their own communities, you just don't hear about it because it isn't as sensational as "BLM starts giant riot!"
Blacks also commit way more crime than any other race in America, which would definitely lead to more black people being questioned and locked up. Of course profiling is a thing, and the issue is complicated, but blaming literally everything on white people is not the fucking answer.
Members of the organization sure, but that doesn't mean everyone who says black lives matter thinks that way. Too many people hear that and think it's anti white because it's pro black, like everyone has to pick a side
It is anti white. I've never heard so much whining about privilege in my life. Just watch some of that Francesca whatever her name is on MTV talking about how white people shouldn't be allowed to participate in conversations about race. These are mainstream views. BLM has no credibility because they aren't willing to listen to the other side. All they do is shout people down with their crocodile tears of oppression, pretending to be Martin Luther King while ignoring the actual problems in their communities.
Trayvon Martin was a piece of shit. Michael Brown was a piece of shit. Yet, for whatever reason, they are the poster children on the movement. Get real. BLM is a joke.
Don't get me wrong, dude. Zimmerman was also a gigantic piece of shit who should not have been anywhere near a gun. But, really, Trayvon had already gotten away. He doubled back to Zimmerman's truck for the sole purpose of fucking him up.
Pick your fights wisely, because that obese failed-cop whose head you're repeatedly smashing into the pavement might just have a gun. I don't feel bad for Trayvon. He got what was coming.
Somehow I don't think wanting to fight the guy who followed you around with a gun means you deserve to die and have your reputation trashed on tv, but alright. Wasn't a smart thing to do, but the way he was treated after his death was just disgusting. The whole thing should not have been made into the media shitshow that it was
I don't think Trayvon necessarily deserved to die, but he did not adequately assess the risk that comes with smashing someone's head into the pavement in a stand-your-ground state. You know you can kill someone like that, right? It's not like Trayvon was just some innocent kid.
It should not have become what it did. I agree with you, but for apparently different reasons. Trayvon has basically become a martyr to the black community even though he was just another dumb thug who thought he was tough and caught a bullet.
[deleted] · -2 points · Posted at 14:54:49 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
You don't think they're trying? Either way it's hard when people can get off for murdering you and a huge portion of the population finds ways to blame the victim, making it seem like they deserved it. Black culture in America has been fucked over from the start, and the idea of their lives mattering less has been ingrained into society. I agree about peaceful protests, but those have been happening for years and nothing has changed, can you see where the violence and frustration comes from?
It's centuries of purposely keeping black communities poor and uneducated while dismissing them publicly as nothing but violent thugs. Also private prison companies demanding higher numbers of prisoners, basically modern day slavery
So no individual black person can ever be at fault for acting like a violent criminal? It's all society's fault? Are you saying it's impossible to escape the systems in place?
Well when people are already divided by race and made to think that a certain race matters less than others, what's wrong with saying that the lives of that race do matter? It's not like they're saying that black lives matter more or only black lives matter, just that they do matter and people should stop thinking they don't. I think the organization themselves suck dick, but the sentiment of their title I completely agree with.
[deleted] · 23 points · Posted at 13:10:28 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
about point #1, you're ignore the fact that there are more white people than black people to begin with in the U.S., but proportionally black people are shot more often than white people.
The police make up a very small portion of blacks getting killed and in many cases that get outrage it is quite possible that lethal force was necessary, but people decide to riot because they assume all cases are those of racist cops, because they're projecting their own racism onto white cops. No one talks about excessive force if a black cop kills a white guy, or white-white/black-black.
[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 13:48:52 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
But points 2 and 3 are still on point. And black people are killed by other blacks far more than police.
I don't have a source on-hand for this because laziness.
Just because black people kill other black people doesn't make it alright for other people to kill them too. It's not okay when they kill innocents, it's not okay when anyone kill innocents. The whole "well black people kill each other all the time" just seems like a justification
[deleted] · 9 points · Posted at 13:18:29 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
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[deleted] · -5 points · Posted at 13:59:32 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
No, it's an apples and oranges thing and people like you getting confused is running it. If I like apples and support apples, that has nothing to do with the taste of oranges. They're both fruit. Both are good. But in this world the apples have less representation and more discrimination. Most people think apples are based. I still support apples, but now I tell people so apples can become okay to exist. That's just how it works.
[deleted] · -2 points · Posted at 13:03:08 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Aturom · 9 points · Posted at 18:09:28 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
America's infatuation with being in a dystopian forever war state whether it be actual war, the war on terrorism, or the war on drugs. As with most things, I implore people to look where the money is going-this will illuminate people's motivations.
_Sytri_ · 21 points · Posted at 15:08:25 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Don't know if this is world wide but definitely UK wide.
The male top knot. Generally whenever a new trend comes out I can see how people will look at it in 30 years time and most of them have been weird but OK. But when I have to explain to my kids that yes, my generation of trendy men shaved the sides of their heads and then put what was left into a teeny tiny pony tail at the top of their head. I can already see the look of shame in my children's eyes.
Ridiculous.
Jasani · 6 points · Posted at 16:02:53 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Unfortunately it is quite widespread in America too
Zugwat · 1 points · Posted at 19:38:46 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
They call it the "Man Bun" in the US. I didn't know it existed until my sisters asked me if I was trying to be trendy (I've been doing a Top Knot because it's a traditional hairstyle in my tribe).
Counter view: the trend of hating on selfie sticks was the worst trend of 2015. I heard more people complaining about them than I ever saw anyone using one.
[deleted] · 52 points · Posted at 14:59:31 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
If you travel at all to tourist sites they genuinely are everywhere
Is it a bad thing? I've seen them being used. I even own one. People want to be in a picture with the cool thing they are visiting so they bought a selfie stick to show more of the cool things and less of their face. They will look back at that picture and remember the moment fondly. We've all seen a million pictures of famous buildings, and we can even go there and take another picture just like the other million out there. Or, it can be personalized by standing in it and having it as tangible memory.
Don't like seeing it shared on Facebook? Don't get on there, easy.
Think people are stupid for bringing it out into public? Don't be such a grump. No harm is being done to you or anyone else. Let people have fun.
Milain · 15 points · Posted at 15:33:03 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)*
It's a great invention for me. Whenever I travel I'm too shy to ask people to take a picture of us and I don't like to pose infront of a stranger who takes a pic. I won't have to deal
With this in the future
Edit: plus not getting the Camera / smartphone stolen from the kind stranger who agreed to take a pic
[deleted] · 8 points · Posted at 16:26:06 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I don't like to have to hand over my phone to a stranger. My husband is tall enough to take a selfie and get most of a monument in the background with both of us in the foreground but not everyone is so tall. If I was traveling alone I might buy a selfie stick.
Heheas · 3 points · Posted at 18:03:30 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Not only that, they could take a picture that you consider blurry, or you might think your face looks weird in the picture and you don't want to inconvenience them for a long time.
Also if you hold them at the right angle as opposed to straight up in the air (which everyone seems to do for some stupid reason) then the stick isn't even IN the shot.
Heheas · 2 points · Posted at 18:02:17 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I completely agree with you.
Oh, you want to have a picture of your significant other and yourself on your memorable vacation? Too bad, should have brought some friends on your personal vacation. ...Well you could always let a stranger hold your $$$ phone/camera and take your picture and hope that they don't run off with it.
Needless to say, my wife and I went on quite a few vacations and we had pictures of one or the other in front of places that would be memorable for us, but we couldn't get a good picture of the both of us until after we bought a selfie stick.
That being said, we don't always have it out, and we always make sure to collapse it down and put it away when we are done so we aren't walking around waving a giant stick like a blind man who doesn't know up from down.
If you live in a tourist area and half the sidewalk is blocked by someone's phone on a stick while you are just trying to walk, it gets annoying pretty quick. People with selfie sticks tend to be oblivious to how much they are getting in the way of other people
[deleted] · -1 points · Posted at 18:54:40 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
People want to be in a picture with the cool thing they are visiting
This right here is the disconnect.
I don't understand this impulse whatsoever. Why? What makes you look at something and then think "Thats nice, but it would be better if I could also have a masturbatory photo of myself along with it!" I find it vain, narcississtic, and self-absorbed. If I want to remember a place, I'll take a picture of what I saw, not a picture of what someone would have seen if they stood 2 feet away from me and were particularly interested in my dopey grin.
Of course no harm is being done. But its one of those "sign of the times" that puts the cultural divide between generations front and center. It highlights the "Look at me! SHARE LIKE SUBSCRIBE!!" mantra that millennials embody. The selfie stick symbolizes the worst aspects of your generation.
To each his own. It's not that big of a deal. Like I said, we all have access to a million pictures online of mt. Rushmore, but none them contain me and my family unless I take one. It'll either be with a self stick or from a stranger using my camera, either way people are going to be in it with their dopey grins. There is absolutely nothing new about that. Being in the picture of the cool thing isn't new, there is just a tool now that makes it easier. It's not a sign of the times and not all people who use one are narcissistic. I guarantee that if today's camera tech was available in the last century, the same pictures would be taken, so calm down with that dumb millineal bullshit.
Like you said: to each his own. I'm allowed to think you look ridiculously conceited and desperate for attention, and you're allowed to think I'm an idiot asshole for thinking so. Defend it any which way you want, but you're still going to be judged negatively.
It's probably the biggest example of "people are having fun different >:(" of recent years. Who cares? Move on. It's not narcissistic to want a photo of yourself.
Okay so what you have there isn't a problem with selfie sticks. It's with people that are inconsiderate of others.
It's the same with so much stuff reddit likes to bitch about, the thing isn't the problem - it's the person.
If someone pisses you off by being on the phone in the cinema do you take it out pre-emptively on every cellphone user? No, you think "that guy is a tool". The thing isn't the problem the person is. You don't then go on message boards and say "oh you use a cell phone? You're a total prick because one time someone ruined a movie with one".
Did you really just compare selfie sticks to terrorist attacks. Do people actual complain about terrorist attacks? Are the terrorist attacks annoying them, or are they actually kind of terrifying them?
People aren't wrong for complaining, it's just a complete waste of time. It's a stick that people put their cameras on and it seems to cause near violent reactions from people on this site (and a few I know in person). They act like it is a plague and a horrible offense against them.
I actually found that they improve my selfies since I can get a better angle and distance than what my arms can do. I hate how there's an overall trend on hating people who like taking pictures of themselves. It's refreshing to actually feel positive about your looks.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:49:34 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
first time I saw a selfie stick in person was yesterday, it was used to take a picture of the 12-ish international students attending crepe night at our dorm. it's basically the same as getting the person with the longest arms to take the picture, what's the issue??
Counterpoint: you don't live in a tourist area! When I was in Europe last week they were all over in the tourist areas! A good tenth of people had one, more depending on the age and ethnicity of the people.
Why were they obnoxious? A grad school commencement seems like an appropriate place for them. If you're taking a family photo it allows you to take a picture of everyone at once and not have someone left because the needed to take the picture.
When I went to florida in 2014 there were people with narcissticks everywhere.
[deleted] · 83 points · Posted at 14:13:16 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's funny that people will happily hand a total stranger their phone (think about all the shit you keep on your phone) and ask them to take a picture, but they think selfie sticks are stupid.
Because no one has a clunky camera that can stand up on it's own when you set the timer, and everyone wants to be in the picture. Solution is either a really long arm, or the selfie stick.
Or you make that one person you hate take the picture just so they aren't in it.
They're to get a big group in one tiny phone screen. I honestly don't see the problem with selfie sticks. They reach to places arms don't reach, and not only is it really cool, it's also convenient.
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 17:17:52 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Hey I know!! I want lots of people in my picture!! Instead of stretching the fuck out of my arm let me use a selfie stick so I can get all of my family and friends and even that bitch Sharon in my picture!!!
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 20:10:29 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Why? I think they're pretty practical if you want to take a wider shot of something like if you're at a cool site on vacation, or want to take a picture with your friends.
that is seriously true, selfie sticks are just on people's nerves
Kneph · 9 points · Posted at 20:57:49 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The need to know everyone's specially-named sexuality. What the fuck is gender fluid? Pansexual? Why is this a thing?
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 02:24:56 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
gender fluid isn't a sexuality, it's perceiving your gender as fluctuating between male/female and everything in between. Pansexual means being sexually and/or romantically attracted to all genders. It's a thing because it helps people understand themselves better, and enables them to find other people like them, and potential partners.
Can't tell if ???? or ???? but this is my favorite comment on Reddit ever
su5 · 3 points · Posted at 12:35:56 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
What bugs me is in 2014 it seemed like a bad thing to be caught doing, now its super common.
Pahk0 · 1 points · Posted at 16:35:10 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Selfies were ever a super bad thing? In what world? I hate how much of a buzzword "selfie" has become, but it's not like taking a picture of yourself was invented in 2013.
It's pretty amusing watching a girl take selfies in the middle of class. Everyone's taking notes then there's that one girl with her arms stretched up making a duck face into her phone screen.
He's got a lot of people behind him. I'm not afraid of him, I'm afraid of what he turns Americans into.
Manadox · -1 points · Posted at 20:54:37 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
What do you genuinely think he's going to do? The way people talk about him you'd think at the inauguration he's going to slap on a Hitler mustache, slip a swastika arm band, and start seig heiling to the crowd.
The majority of the things I see here all involve social media. Not surprised. At. All.
I think one of the worst trends of 2015 was bandwagoning. Doing something just because everyone else does it doesn't make you any cooler. To me, it removes all sense of individuality and uniqueness while making you look like a tryhard which you are. (if you bandwagon).
I was actually speaking to someone recently about this. It's funny, considering not long ago there were ads being pushed out about "not giving into peer pressure" on the issues of drugs and things of that nature. Yet, why does that logic not apply to the bandwagons of today?
Specifically, I recall one ad pushing the point of "well if everyone else does it, I should too", and why that is a bad mentality to accept. Acceptance is one thing, but it seems the current trend pushes an agenda that is basically "if you're not with us, you're completely against us" and it may garner a bad reputation for someone that doesn't jump on the bandwagon, amongst other things.
Agreed. I find myself feeling ashamed being in tbe kind of society where it's either fit in or be left out. I'm thinking that for someone who doesn't jump on the bandwagon, some may get a bad rep or get ignored and forgotten altogether. The latter comes from personal experience that I really don't know how I got through. Anyways, interesting point that you made.
They probably just don't like funk music in general...
KMFCM · 5 points · Posted at 18:10:49 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
hearing it 20 times a day.
it was fine the first few times, but i had a feeling by the 3rd time that if it became the "song of the summer", I would be very sick of it by the time summer was over.
(oh, but the trumpets ripped straight from "jam" by Michael Jackson)
Everything in it's ripped off. Oops Upside Your Head, Shack Up - it's just the hooks from other people's records bolted together and presented as something new.
Now if you don't immediately agree transgenders, gay marriage and eating the booty like groceries are the greatest thing ever, you're immediately slammed as a knuckle-dragging neanderthal.
Whatever happened to giving people a chance to adapt? Bruce/Caitlyn getting tagged woman of the year is really force-feeding the issue.
I don't think that's a recent trend. In the 70s you got shamed if you were against racial integration and women working outside the home, in the 90s you got shamed if you were against legalizing gay sex, etc.
Well, trans people have been around for a long time, and gay people since recorded history. (Trans people probably just as long, just less well recorded) It's pretty unfair to ask these groups of oppressed people to "wait for people to adapt"; they've literally been waiting for millennia. When we give people time to adapt it just paves the way for more oppression and laws like the one just passed in North Carolina. Sorry if you don't like being called a bigot, but the only real way to avoid that is to stop being one.
Ozwaldo · 12 points · Posted at 15:42:46 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
What a weird stance to take. The worst trend of 2015 in your book was that people who are resistant to progressive views aren't treated well? You don't like trans-gendered people and you think it sucks to be shamed for it?
I mean think about that for a second man, you're upset that you're being shamed... for not liking trans-gendered people? (Hint: What do you think has been happening to them for the longest time...)
Seriously, as a trans person I'm just trying to live my life in a way that makes me happy (as opposed to how I felt extreme depression before transitioning). If I'm going about my business not affecting your life and you have a problem with it, you should feel shame, if you express that problem people should shame you.
Hey if that's how you get happy, then get happy. More power to ya. I would only disagree in one sense, if OP didn't have any exposure to trans people. Often the unknown can be discomforting. Doesn't make him horrible, just means there is some ignorance. Like you said as long as he's keeping his discomfort to himself, it's at least a little better.
I don't think he was complaining about people like you, I'm really glad you're not depressed anymore.
But there are people who shove their sexuality into everyone elses' faces and when they get called out on the fact that they're being annoying or forcing their opinion on everyone else, they call them intolerant, even if they are tolerant of their sexuality/sex change/whatever, just not of all the bullshit around it.
Loodvig · 15 points · Posted at 16:25:45 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
He's not saying that he hates transgender and that he shouldn't be hated for it, he's saying that he shouldn't be looked down upon immediately for disagreeing that transgender is the greatest thing ever.
Pretty much what is being said is those of us who are not part of the LGBTQIAP+ community don't want to be screamed at for being whatever we are. Sectors of the Internet spend their lives picking fights or insulting straight people. You know what?
It is terrible how transgender, LGBT, etcetera, people were/are treated. That does not give them the right to attack people who are doing nothing to them and have not done anything to them besides exist as something that offends them.
Cool, it's still a weird stance that he shouldn't be looked down on for disliking trans-gendered people. Like great, what a terrible plight, not being accepted for your lack of acceptance. It's not like they've had to struggle with anything...
he's saying that he shouldn't be looked down upon immediately for disagreeing that transgender is the greatest thing ever.
Read the comments man. It's not about not liking it. It could be about not understanding it. Just because something makes you uncomfortable doesn't make you a bad person. It means there's a lack of experience, or possibly only bad experiences.
To flip the script for an example, think about this. Slaves brought to North America most likely had only met white people that put them into captivity. Having only known those white people, they probably hated white people. It would be completely understandable.
OP never said he'll hate trans-gendered people forever! He just said he doesn't think they're the greatest thing ever. As long as he's not being an asshole to the folks he mentioned, and is just uncomfortable about it in his own head, then who the fuck cares.
If he's going out and voicing bigoted opinions that's one thing. His comment didn't suggest as such.
Edit: Also one of his things he didn't think was "the greatest thing ever" was eating ass. Me myself I'm all for it, but I completely understand people being uncomfortable about it and not liking or agreeing with it.
You're recrafting what he actually said. He said holding any sort of traditional views is automatically considered shaming. Even if the extent of your views stays within your head. There's a difference between disagreeing and discriminating, correct? Having traditional views on social issues is perfectly acceptable. It's when you start mistreating those 'untraditional' people that it becomes a problem.
Having traditional views on social issues is perfectly acceptable.
The issue is that this easily bleeds over into "deciding to make uninformed declarations about someone else's life". If I say "that person's Christian? They probably don't let their kids think for themselves, I wish they would stop going to church" then that would make me an ignorant asshole. If someone "doesn't like gay marriage" or doesn't think gay people should have kids then they're being an ignorant asshole. It doesn't become any more acceptable to have sharp opinions on a stranger's life because some piece of it has been labeled a "social issue". Even if I never outright complain about my Christian neighbour, forming opinions on them based on false hypotheticals is still doing something wrong.
Some opinions are shaming. Their entire content is to say that doing X or being Y is worse than otherwise. When person A is informed that person B looks down on their life, they tend to be somewhat upset. Is any of that unusual? If you find out that I secretly think you're an asshole over something innocuous, should you not think any less of me? If I said I thought black people were inherently stupid I'd be downvoted to hell, even if I prefaced it with "I never say this out loud". What makes this different?
derp_08 · -1 points · Posted at 00:57:14 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
You bring up very good points, and just to clarify, I am not defending traditional viewpoints for the sake of them being traditional. I am merely saying that in today's environment, expressing ANY traditional viewpoint will automatically get you labeled as an 'x shamer'. It doesn't matter how nuanced your viewpoint is, you're a shamer.
I personally don't agree with homosexuality. However I'm not going to go out on the streets and protest gay weddings or try to stop gay couples from adopting. Hell I'm not even going to think negative thoughts about the person based on his/her sexuality. But I'm not going to agree with it. But some people would call me a shamer because of my views. That's not correct, and hopefully you can see the problem with that line of thinking can't you?
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:13:16 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
This is the only argument "against" homosexuality that I don't understand at all. What's there to agree exactly?
"I don't agree with people being taller than 6'4"". Like, what? lol
Like, veganism would never be a lifestyle option for me. Is it like that?
It goes against my religion. I'm not saying I hate homosexuals or anything, I'm saying it's a sin. But we're all sinners and if I decide to judge them for that I'd be a hypocrite.
Ozwaldo · -2 points · Posted at 17:32:32 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
We're talking about worst trends, and he said "Shaming." I read that as him being shamed for having those traditional views.
derp_08 · 4 points · Posted at 17:40:50 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)*
I kind of agree though. It's a cheap way of shutting down the opposing viewpoint if their viewpoint is automatically labeled as "shaming". How are you going to listen to the other side if you think they are shaming?
[deleted] · 9 points · Posted at 16:24:02 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
This is what people refer to as the "regressive left." We are tolerant and accepting of all people, except those that disagree with us. Remember, even assholes have just as much right to exist as you and me.
I very much advocate the rights of the LBGT community, but in a way I get what the post is saying. I think we've gone a step too far with needing to be accepted. To the point where not being overwhelmingly positive about homosexuality or trans culture is getting people lashed out at. I've witnessed that kind of animosity toward people who weren't harming anyone in any way. They still get labeled as hateful bigots. I don't see how treating others the way we demand not to be treated helps the cause at all.
Respectfully, I think that here is where you started to veer off. There are certainly many hate-filled people towards transgendered people but I don't think that being "resistant towards progressive ideas" is always personal.
From my perspective, the narrative from the LGBT is that all this is extremely normal, not a big deal, should just be accepted without question and anything less is unreasonable. They need to understand that for many people, this isn't normal and doesn't make sense and it's not a personal thing. I have no issue with transgendered people on a personal level and zero interest in trying to tell them how to live their own lives. However, I am not obligated to affirm what they are doing or believe it is normal and that's not personal; it's based mostly on what I believe to be a logical thought process. I'm not convinced it's normal and there's a lot of scientific study going on that's either inconclusive or in favor of it being a mental disorder. There are plenty of studies showing that post-op, transgender individuals report greater satisfaction in their lives but over the long term, surgery has little affect on the suicide rate. We're supposed to hear "I'm a woman in a man's body" and just go "Oh, okay". No science. No explanation. How does that work? Is it a woman's soul? A woman's brain? See, there's no substantive and quantifiable evidence to support these claims, it's all just how they "feel", but plenty of people "feel" things in this world that are out of touch with reality, and we help them, not perpetuate their dysfunction.
From my perspective, our culture is a politically-correct "yes man" sending people to be mutilated, many of which still go on to kill themselves. That breaks my heart. Clearly, whatever internal struggles they're having aren't being fixed and I'm willing to be labeled a bigot or a hater in order to say "Hey, can't we step back a minute and think about this?" I consider transgendered people fellow human beings and I happen to not agree with some of their beliefs. Isn't that true of all people? But just because we don't agree doesn't mean we can't love each other. I just think that from the vocal LGBT community, their version of love is nothing less than complete and total affirmation and that's something that I can't give. So I just hope you understand that not everyone who isn't jumping on the bandwagon right away is doing it out of hate.
Yeah that's totally respectable. I'm a straight white male trapped in the body of a straight white male, so it's something I have absolutely no understanding of. I feel like it's pretty much none of my business as long as they aren't hurting anyone, I don't even really have any judgement to pass on them either way.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 16:46:15 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
SHE RAN OVER A DOOD AND GOT WOMAN OF THE YEAR WHAT A FUCKING WOMBLES
For what it's worth (and I say this as a lesbian), I think a lot of people jump right to the instant celebration/glorification not because the issue actually matters to them personally, but because they think being seen as being accepting makes them a good person. It's not just LGBT issues, either, I've seen the same attitude pop up in all sorts of situations.
Don't let people make you feel bad for not being perfect at being generous, sympathetic, and understanding at all times. It's okay to need time to adjust to thing, or not understand, or be weirded out. It's part of being human.
I've seen it to a degree with not buying into the whole HAES movement. No, I don't care what you say, no doctor is shaming you for your weight. They are trying to do their job of keeping you healthy, and diabetes, high blood pressure, and weighing as much as some livestock are the opposite of that.
Exactly. I mean, I am so sorry that I was born straight, cisgender, whatever. People yell at me for being privileged. Do you want me to apologize for being born while I'm at it?
Someone went so far as to say EVERY person should be at least transgender, just because.... They should?
Exactly. I mean, I am so sorry that I was born straight, cisgender, whatever. People yell at me for being privileged. Do you want me to apologize for being born while I'm at it?
Someone went so far as to say EVERY person should be at least transgender, just because.... They should?
Yeah, um, I smoked cigarettes for 15 years. I managed to quit cold turkey when I was pregnant, but other than that, I've been around either a half pack or full pack a day smoker. For 15 years.
The winter before last, I started vaping. I've had a few mishaps with having a cigarette or two, mostly if I'm out drinking, but for the most part I haven't smoked since the end of 2014.
I quit vaping about a month ago. I crave nothing, I can walk up stairs without feeling out of breath, I run anywhere from 5-10 miles a day, I don't have this phlegmy cough, I don't stink, and I'm not huddled outside during inclement weather trying to get a fix.
Vaping can stay. Sorry if you don't like it, but it's entirely too helpful.
The people who actually use it to quit smoking aren't the ones that people complain about, the people who never smoked but have $300 rigs just so they can blow clouds in everyone's faces are the ones people complain about.
I dont hate vaping, I hate some people who cape though. My wife had a friend come over and she vapes and did it inside. I told her to go outside and she wanted to argue saying its just water vapors or some shit. That's not the point. The point is I dont come to your house and spit my chewing tobacco on your floor. Hell I dont even like to chew tobacco if I'm in other peoples house unless they also chew in the house. The people who think that just because its not a cigarette they can do it indoors or in stores just because its "not smoke" bother me.
I don't fuck get this. I just don't. Why can't people just ask "Hey, is it cool if I vape in here?" and just accept the fucking answer? I'm lucky that the people who live with me love the way it smells so I can blow my clouds of black cherry custard fucking surprise, but my buddy hates it so I don't do it in his house.
I especially hate it at restaurants/bars. I actually heard someone say "it used to be legal for people to smoke cigarettes here so its okay and this isn't as bad for others around" when asked if they could stop. I wanted to tell them that so was beating your wife, enslaving people, and public lynching.
As lame as it sounds, the bar I frequent solved the issue by having a "vape night". It's cool. Local shops come out and you can try shit that they have, get some beers with your friends, and just chill. The whole point of the night is to accommodate those people and it's one night a week.
It's also fucking gigantic so it's still fairly easy to stay away from vape when you're inside.
I dont have a problem with having a designated night or something along those lines. But if I want to take my wife to a bar for dinner and some drinks I dont want smoke or "vape" clouds around us
My wife kind of tried to de-escalate things and I ended up just going to work on something in the barn. I dont care that its water vapors or whatever, it still smells
You don't have to justify to me, friend. If you don't want something in your house, that's entirely your right. For example, there will never be a cactus allowed in my house, because I hate them.
Funny cactus story. I was pulling some weeds around some flowers at this place I used to work. I was maybe 16. I reached to pull the weeds and what did I grab? A fucking catus. The prickers were deep and everywhere. I was pissed. Who knew cactus grew in Michigan? It is way to cold. I also hate cactus plants and will not allow them into my house unless they are the friendly type. So I do not blame you for your anti cactus law.
It infuriates me when people say "it's just water vapor" because it's not even close to being just water vapor. It's an aerosol of polypropylene glycol, vegetable glycerin, and smells you might not want to smell. It's like the perfume lady spraying shit in your face. Nobody likes that.
I'm not a smoker, but I am a pothead. Vaping is such a world of difference from actually burning your material, I love the fact that I can actually breathe a bit better now and not be constantly coughing up huge chunks of phlegm.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:57:43 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
You're missing the point of what they are saying. Countless people who didn't already smoke started vaping and became addicted to nicotine, including many teenagers who started doing it because it was 'cool.'
My roommate recently stopped smoking by switching to vape. He doesn't even use nicotine in his juice. His vape was broken for a day, so he went to go smoke and couldn't do it anymore. When you're used to fruity sweetness when you smoke, it makes actual smoking seem disgusting.
Ozwaldo · -6 points · Posted at 15:40:08 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Doesn't even use nicotine? Fuck is that shit bro, you gotta get that Churrio flavored juice. VAPE NASHE BITCH
[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 16:53:20 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I vape, outside, and use the wind to make sure no one gets hit by my clouds. I vape in my home office, and only vape in peoples houses if they say it is okay, and even then I do it and blow it out a window, or just go outside.
The amount of cloud chuckers that suck their douche flutes hurt those who use vaping as an alternative to cigarettes and eventually to cut themselves off nicotine. Which is what I and many others are doing.
Look, I completely understand that vaping is a safer, healthier and less offensive alternative to smoking cigarettes. I think your comments are spot on and you represent a group of people who benefit from the technology. Plus, you see the humour in the whole thing. Have a cloudy upvote my nameless, faceless friend.
Hey as a fellow vaper that agrees with /u/Golden_Rain_On_Me whole-heartedly, thank you for recognizing the he's not trying to show-off or be rude or anything of that nature. You wouldn't believe how many times I've typed out a comment that was well thought out IMO and made valid points (again IMO) only to be responded to as if I was butt-hurt with, "We get it. You vape, Bro."
People often don't like seeing they're wrong, or don't like discussing things in a civil manner.
Cheers! I thought I had it all figured out once. Then I graduated from kindergarten and realized I am a speck on a speck on a speck. My view of the world is small and I appreciate every opinion.
I am not a fan of seeing people in large crowds chucking clouds, or when I go to a club to see someone blowing clouds for all to smells, and it is usually some creamy- unpleasant smelling flavor, that probably tastes good but smells horrible.
I have respect for those who are conscious of their surroundings.
I call respectful people those who vape from a vaporizer, and those who are dicks about douche flute suckers.
My last cigarette was February 22. I bought a vape rig to help with the nicotine. I am also aware of my surroundings, and I try not to blow huge clouds at people. My battery is only 20v, so it's not like I can anyway. It's just called courtesy.
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 22:43:36 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's been around for years as a tool for people to quit cigarettes. Recently it's become a fad for people who don't have a nicotine addiction but want to blow huge clouds like ass hats.
Sevrek · 130 points · Posted at 14:25:16 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yeah people stopping cigarettes is a horrible trend /s
I see like 1 person a month who is vaping and people on Reddit make it seem like theyre the only person they know who doesn't
To add to this, I know four people at my work who vape. They just do it. They don't bring it up in conversation, they don't endlessly talk about it, as reddit would have you believe.
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 19:42:44 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Well it happened. I'm 39 and started going out of touch so I googled into the vape thing.
Apparently "modding their rig" means the exact same thing as when pc users say it. They modify a device to suit their needs.
I can't find why modifying and personalizing your gear is suddenly a douche move though, what am I missing?
You aren't missing much. There's just as subsection of vapers who are just about the image that is vaping. I even hate the word "vaping" but that's what it's called, so whatever.
Realistically, most people are using it to do something other than smoke cigarettes or because it can be cheaper.
Maybe you don't spend much time on a college campus, or maybe people at my campus were just big into vaping. But I know a lot of people who do vape. One of my coworkers (who is about to retire) vapes in the office. It's everywhere if you look for it.
We had guys using chewing tobacco in class. Sometimes leaving behind their nasty ass spit bottles. You would think someone could go an hour without using tobacco.
When it was relatively new (5-6 years ago), I would see kiosks in the mall selling them with the ads that you can use them indoors, since it's water vapor. Some people probably took that to heart and fail to realize that it's up to the discretion of the people in charge of where you are.
dwild · 1 points · Posted at 18:11:32 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I see at least a dozen on my transit to work in the morning.
EDIT: Not that there's anything wrong with it. I prefer people that vape than people that smoke by a long shot.
just go to a car meet/show. i'm going to a car show next month that has a vaping competition...like wtf does that even consist of, the only reason i'll go near it at the show is to figure out what the fuck it is.
As a person who vapes to get away from cigs. Its one giant cringe fest of people with extremely unsafe coils on unsafe mods trying to see "Who can blow the biggest cloud bro!?"
Its part of the culture that gave all of us such a bad image.
Yea but that's what I like...I just hate the tools that hopped on the trend. I've been driving around with no ground clearance and flush wheels for 10 years now.
ch00d · 0 points · Posted at 18:27:21 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Vaping instead of smoking = good
Vaping because it is cool = bad
I know several people that never were smokers, but started vaping for no damn reason.
Sevrek · 1 points · Posted at 18:29:19 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Or you could just let people do what they want
Not sure why you need to have an opinion on others smoking habits
ch00d · 1 points · Posted at 18:37:23 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I don't have an opinion on it. I'm saying it's bad as in it's less healthy than not smoking at all.
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 16:45:05 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I think literally 90% of my friends that smoked immediately swapped to vaping, I only know one who didn't because he hated the taste and one who starting vaping, because she enjoys the sensation but has 0% nicotine in hers.
Hell, that means 90% increase of my friends are gonna live longer and I'm happy about that. Only thing I have against vaping is when you go somewhere and literally EVERYONE inside is vaping, creating a humid atmosphere and making it a little hard to breathe. But otherwise I really like the idea of it.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 03:11:15 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yeah, I asked about that and he said he'd tried about five or six that were locally and easily available for him both here at university and back home in Romania. Didn't like any and didn't want to be stuck in a situation where he'd have to wait for a few days for the oil to be delivered, so he's stuck to cigarettes for now.
besides a bunch of douchebags that like to blow big clouds in public its actually a very very good thing. I smoked from age 14 to 29 and tried to quit multiple times. I started vaping and straight away quit cigs. I have vaped for almost 2 years now and haven't touched a single cig and the thought disgusts me. I feel 100 times healthier, can taste better and i dont stink. I really enjoy it and have got into making my own e-juice which is a hobby in itself. I feel like it could also help people struggling with their weight as you can vape tasty sweet juices which give you no calories and prevent yourself from eating sweet snacks.
Just because some douchbags make it look bad doesn't mean thats the whole story. Vaping will save 1000s of lives and needs to be embraced in the right way.
Education, education, education
jub672 · 3 points · Posted at 19:39:00 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
How many people became addicted to nicotine in 2015?
Do you mean people who started vaping, people who started smoking cigarettes, or both?
Are you assuming that if vaping didn't exist nobody would have started smoking cigarettes in 2015?
Are you assuming that none of the people who did start vaping would have started smoking cigarettes instead if vaping was not available?
People seem to forget that people are still taking up smoking cigarettes. Whilst I personally would not recommend vaping or cigarettes to somebody who is not already a smoker, if somebody is determined to try one I'd recommend vaping over cigarettes every time.
How many people quit smoking and started vaping?
Not enough. It's about 2.6 million in the UK so far where it is considered a good thing by our health authorities compared to cigarettes.
We can get into all the specifics between the similarities to some of the flavorings in vaping juice and analogs, that and the nicotine is pretty much the only simalarity. After that we find that cigs have much more of the bad flavoring chemicals in them, not to mention you are inhaling smoke, and oxidized chemicals (which are usually much much much worse than non oxidized), and vaping you are inhaling a vapor of Polypropylene Glycol, Vegetable glycerin, some nicotine, and the vaporized flavors (which are not oxidized through combustion.)
It isn't inherently healthy, but when you are a former pack a day smoker, it is much better, and helps you avoid getting agitated from no nicotine, and allows you to safely step down.
If you are respectful about it, it doesn't really affect those around you, and doesn't leave an unpleasant smell on you like smoking.
See, this is the thing people miss. No shit it isn't healthy. I'm still heating something up to inhale it, that's never going to be good, but it's healthier than setting plants on fire and inhaling that.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:07:18 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'll admit that I had never smoked before getting a vape, but now I'm definitely addicted to the nicotine. I don't mind though, gives me something to do between breaks at work, driving in the car, or really anything.
But I can tell you I do know A LOT of people who have used them to cut down or completely cut cigarettes out of their lives.
I can also tell you I fucking hate kids my age always bragging about their MAD CLOUDS BRO and getting wayyyyy too into ecigs, to the point where 95% of what they talk about is ecigs. Fuck those kids.
Page 31 onwards is "Use of e-cigarettes among young people". You can draw your own conclusions from the report as it covers a lot of data.
But one thing that people seem to neglect when discussing kids and e-cigs is that cigarettes still exist. People sometimes talk about the young person that is vaping as if that young person would never have tried cigarettes. To make up some numbers, if in 2010 2 out 10 kids started smoking and in 2015 1 in 10 started smoking and 1 in 10 started vaping that's still a better outcome for me as the cigarettes are more harmful.
Use of EC was very closely linked with smoking status. Among never smokers, 0.3% used EC monthly or more often, compared with 10.0% of ever smokers and 19.1% of current smokers. The majority of EC users had tried tobacco cigarettes first (Table 2)
I know that they've helped a ton of people quit smoking, so that's great. Its the people who's whole identity is vaping that are annoying. But to be fair, that is true of anyone who makes their whole identity based on one thing.
APock · 1 points · Posted at 08:54:51 on March 28, 2016 · (Permalink)
hen you're used to fruity sweetness when you smoke, it makes actual smoking seem disgusting.
Ugh, people going on about it, smug dicks opening up vaping shops and going through their overpriced kit, smoggy clouds of cherry wafting everywhere. Great, people are quitting cigarettes and sucking on this instead. Give it time and it will become a trend in itself, they can be far more potent, and will get taxed to the eyeballs anyway. Then you are just waiting for some side effect to be found out and people are screwed.
[deleted] · -4 points · Posted at 18:04:33 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
ITT people who missed the first point. There are tons of people who started vaping (I go to high school, I see it first hand) who never would've gotten addicted to cigarettes, but they're definitely addicted to vaping.
The people who pick up vaping are the exact demographic that would pick up smoking. They're the people who like to experiment and try things that might be "wrong" and carry a risk. They most likely would have taken up smoking if vapes weren't a thing
People commenting something among the lines of "natural selection at work" on every single fucking video of someone being stupid. No one thinks your funny or witty for copying that, so fucking stop it.
In Texas, it was everyone posting pics of them or their family in a field of bluebonnets. This has been going on for years and years but really blew up last year and its continuing into this year. It reminds of the Ice Bucket Challenge. "Everyone is doing it, so I need to too".
Your mom, also all those that were anti vaccinations parents, their children are either dying or dead cause viruses and disease kill, what a surprise. Well at least it will help get rid of stupid ppl, but poor kids to have those parents and having your mind twisted like that.
I'll probably get down voted to oblivion, but here goes:
1) stenciled on Dracula eyebrows meant to look, "powerful" or, something. I see this mostly on the extremely young (under 25 set). I predict one day they will look back and wonder what the heck they were thinking.
2) along those same lines, dying your hair gray. It is a very, very, very rare bird that this looks good on. Hope you're one of them. Another look to regret later.
If you're a girl who can pull off white hair, though, it's straight FIRE and you shouldn't change it. We all know that Black Cat is Spidey's hottest girlfriend.
There was a time in 2015 where lots of dudes I knew were suddenly, like, "feminist allies", and would constantly tweet / post stuff calling other dudes "shitlords" and whatnot, and it was just really strange to me. Its like they were doing it for positive attention from women or to feel better than everyone else and the whole thing I found really cringely.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 14:34:37 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Websites that adblock doesn't work on so you have to inspect element so you can delete the nodes. Its the only way to look at some websites. There are some that give you a few minutes to look, there are some that demand you subscribe to their magazine. I just delete that part and read it anyway.
Cellphone noise pollution: having a conversation in public via speaker phone, or subjecting people in a public place to your music through shitty tinny speakers.
The media using counterfeit questions to solicit traffic on its website through the comments section: "Mass murderer gets 40 years in prison, do you think he deserves it?" Basically asking simple minded people questions with obvious answers.
All these half-assed early access Survival Crafting MMO Permadeath Open clones. Some of them are good, but why the hell are they staying in early access for 4+ years? Release a damn product already!
"Introducing CraftSurvivalCraft, a Survival Game where you Craft shit and survive using crafted shit against some random alien/mutant/wildlife/horror threat! Early access $15. Will be released in 2020."
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 19:56:49 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Super low quality jpeg ghetto memes on facebook. There are pictures of pure text in blurry ass low quality jpeg.
I'm wary of the Making a Murderer type documentary. Yes, I have extreme bias, as its my hometown and I know a lot of people in it. Some people over reacted IMO. Two sides to every story.
MAN BUNS. NO. JUST, NO.
Specifically the undercut manbun. Pterodactyl egg shaped looking hair-do that so many celebrities get. (Sam Papper) UGH. I hate it.
But it's honestly not. Most of it is advocating for equality in the judicial sector and debunking fallacies of third-wave feminist arguments, using government and independent sources. Some do it as a joke, but a lot of it is striving for improvement in the way males are treated societally and judicially.
Specifically in 2015 I noticed a trend towards everything I wanted to read being in video form. I'd see an interesting headline on CNN, for instance, and it links to a video with no supporting text. So I'm wondering, is this a cultural trend towards general illiteracy, or is it truly easier to plan, record, edit, and upload a video than it is to just write 500-750 words about it?
The fact that it can actually be called a "trend" is absolutely disgusting to me. Why isn't there Belgian flags on everyone's profile now? Why wasn't there support showed for Turkey and Beiruit (two places that were attacked on the same day as France) on facebook? The fact that many people haven't done that same 'benign' action makes me think that the national flag profile pic was just a sick fashion trend for likes or that France is the only country in the world. One or the other.
Okay scroll to the top of the page and click on the link that says "What were the worst trends of 2015?" This will take you to a page where people have submitted their idea of the worst trends of 2015. Other people have voted these ideas up or down within the thread. I agree with the voting for the most part, so take your pick of anything voted higher than yours.
(Also, take note of the fact that my sarcastic reply to your idea currently has almost 3 times as many upvotes, indicating that the majority of people agree with me that your idea is certainly not the worst trend of 2015.)
I don't use reddit religiously but i know how to post a comment. I'm guessing that was sarcastic also then? I contributed to you having more upvotes as I've upvoted every response from you thus far. I'm just happy to converse. You on the other hand seem somewhate spiteful and after already agreeing with me that my post was a 'sick' trend! The fact that you havent answered the question I asked of you makes me think that it still is the worst trend. Prove me wrong before falling back on upvotes from other people who can't argue properly.
Dude if you need me to arbitrarily espouse some other trend worse than people posting pictures on their facebook, then whatever, you win. It's the worst.
I'm not in it to win anything/ have more upvotes. I'm just curious as to what others think. Currently I have no idea what you think though because you're agreeing and simultaneously disagreeing with me. I'll definitely take the win though. Every other post I've read on this thread (not all of them by the way) have either been truely benign (e.g John Cena, selfie sticks, song references) or one's which i would not consider to be a trend (like racism, islamophobia etc), I feel like my suggestion is sound. I was only asking for you to present your thoughts on the worst trend. excuse me.
Obsessiveness when it come to complaining about celebrities. Kanye West is one that comes to mind, people always say they hear about him so much but their complaining is how I hear about the guy. It seems like people don't realize that celebs act dumb for the publicity.
I mean it strengthens the culture of the region, for example Japanese culture is very unique and plays a very strong role in Japan, thanks in part to nationalism. I think that this could be good for America because it would promote unity amongst America and her people, and would give us a more unique culture.
I support nationalist ideas all over the world for the same reasons.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 01:01:17 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
What kind of things would you be referring to when you mention culture with respect to Japan? What Japanese cultural traits are due to their nationalism?
When we were originally referring to nationalism, I assume you meant preventing immigration of people from other countries in order to forge a homogenised identity?
From how you have described Japan, I assume by culture you are referring to is by its common meaning of 'the customs, arts, social institutions, and achievements of a particular nation, people, or other social group.'
In such a case, do you not think the uniqueness of Japanese culture has more to do with its history as opposed to the present? In that in a globalised and connected world, you cannot develop a particularly unique culture because ideas and information can be spread so easily?
Also, from my point of view, the richness of American culture is in part due to Irish, Italian and other european immigrants as well as the diversity of people living across regions of the United States (such as the deep south) which makes it rich.
The uniqueness of most cultures is to do with their history and traditions. Nationalism would not develop a culture so much as it would preserve it, and while a conmected world will expose us to different cultures that's not a bad thing at all, being aware of and open to other cultures is different from adopting them. The most important aspects of a nation's culture in my opinion are traditions (such as holidays and rituals) and social traditions, being proud of your nations accomplishments and history is also a big part of nationalism.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 09:30:14 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)*
From being on the other side of the pond to United States, our perspective of you guys is already a country which celebrates its traditions as well as being proud of your accomplishments.
Would you not think that culture is preserved with or without being nationalistic, and the differences only lie in the kinds of things (which forms culture) that would be preserved?
I think Japanese customs, cultural norms and social traditions appear as unique as they do because they are so different from Western culture. Japanese culture does appear less unique against a backdrop of Korean culture and Chinese culture.
From here in the UK, it doesn't appear nationalism would be able to unite America since there are so many divisions ranging from religious, racial, regional, political and so on which appear to be divisory.
You generally can not look back at history and attribute events to single causes. You can't deny that strong nationalism was one of the hallmarks of Nazi Germany, essentially a catalyst to WWII, and one of the root causes of the Holocaust. You have shown you have at least a high-school education on world history. That's great, but don't rebuke others with information that doesn't fit your narrow view of history.
I went to a presentation yesterday and all of the presenters introduced themselves with their names followed by "my pronouns are she, her and hers." I didn't even know this was a thing and if not for 4 extra points on my final grade for attending, I would have walked right then.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:26:33 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)*
Even worse though, there are those who don't say anything and then get pissed at you for unknowingly using the incorrect pronoun. There was an instant while I was participating in High School Mock Trial, and all of our team made use of female pronouns for someone who identifies male, and then -he- got salty about it, complaining whenever possible.
veetack · -4 points · Posted at 14:41:04 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
You're probably going to get downvoted to hell for this, but you're right. And you're not right because people shouldn't be courteous to one another. You're right because in 2015 it seemed that it was the popular thing to find ANYTHING at all offensive. Everyone seems to want some sort of special status, or wants to give a reason why saying even the most mundane thing is "problematic." It's not showing signs of stopping, but it certainly needs to, because it's fucking retarded.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 00:32:47 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
College students wasting everyone's time by demanding that the world be this unicorns and sparkle ponies mythical safe space where no one makes them feel in the slightest bit uncomfortable.
They need to get out of their dorms and talk to old people about real macro-agressions that actually happened so all their tut tutting and fussing about people disagreeing with them online can be put in perspective.
John Cena. Why does that one has to appear everywhere? "You can't see him" I go like:"Why can't we just comment about the actual post?" I'm at the point where I'm not even checking facebook comments.
Fucking Minions. I don't get the appeal at all. Any adult I see sporting anything Minion related by choice (i.e: not their kids sippy cup or something, which I also find tacky) I just assume you are tacky, completely void of creativity, lack a decent sense of humor, and are incapable of thinking above a toddler level.
People carelessly sharing every video they see on Facebook so every time I get on there it's just a bunch of random videos I don't give a shit about or videos I already saw on reddit a week before
Facebook should just get rid of the share button or stop autoplaying every video in my feed
glyix · 2 points · Posted at 16:55:55 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The whole "organic" trend. If you want to eat a healthy, more well balanced diet; great. But don't advertise it to everybody. It seems to me that every other woman is all about the 100% all natural locally grown organic gluten free raw vegan yoga/crossfit lifestyle. That shit is so annoying, keep it to yourself
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 20:51:37 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Being open minded about things is good. However, it is important to make sure that in the process of being open minded that your brain does not physically fall out of your skull.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 02:38:00 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Bernie Sanders for president / rich white kids being self proclaimed "socialists" while typing on macbooks and sipping Starbucks lattes.
Nah i disagree. Skinny jeans look good if they're not skin tight. Baggy jeans just look awful
[deleted] · 10 points · Posted at 12:43:53 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
If you've got any sizeable leg muscle they always look uncomfortable and ill fitting, and if they do fit you you're just advertising the fact you've got very skinny legs. I don't get it.
So were a lot of words in the dictionary before they became part of everyday nomenclature... Personally it all reminds me of newspeak but I'm just paranoid...
The news media referring to any picture that wasn't taken with a DSLR as a "selfie", even if it doesn't have a person in it. I heard my local weather station refer to a viewer-submitted picture of fucking clouds as a "selfie-style photo".
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:03:49 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Caitlyn Jenner
Tubnub · 1 points · Posted at 16:06:54 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Vines/Snapchat. People making snaps of random people on the street, the guy in the window at McDonald's, holding their phone directly in a lead singers face during a performance (saw that one personally). I don't understand their incessant need to constantly document the most benign and irrelevant activities. Not realizing they have the attention spans of goldfish because they never watch anything longer than 5 minutes. It's sad, I don't think any of the sci fi and dystopian writers foresaw a world filled with so many truly apathetic people.
The new overly simplified website style. How will I ever find the info I'm looking for? My only option seems to be to click on random unidentified buttons with non-standardized symbols, which take me to equally useless pages. But it doesn't matter - because the info I'm looking for is no longer there to navigate to anyway. Annoying! Your web site is a waste of time!
The posts on Facebook like: "I left a nail gun on the floor and my child shot himself in the foot. Warning to all the people out there about how dangerous these items are". This however is just an on going trend
The repost situation on Reddit has hit an all-time high. I cannot remember a single day in the last year or so where the front page has not been littered with at least a dozen reposts. And not things that were posted once a year ago, no, we are talking about reposts of posts from the previous day or even that day. Reposts of gifs older that Reddit, or shit that you see on a weekly or biweekly biases and the lazy mods don't do shit about.
Slide-out menus on websites. Not sure exactly what they're called, but it's beyond annoying when I'm on a website and it has a bar on top that slides out when you hover your mouse over it. Half the time they won't slide back either.
Once is funny enough. The Internet and people I know are capable of turning something that was funny just once into a putrid waterfall of never ending shit.
"What are those?" was pretty bad. I saw it once and thought "That's pretty goofy." then I saw more references to that. And more. And more. And people at school were shouting "What are those?".
"Deez Nuts". I watched the original video. Not very funny. I mean I guess it's the way he says "These nuts" but Vine had a bunch of posts on it. So awful.
"John Cena" is probably the worst. The Internet made a once funny video into a big coagulated bowl of suicide cancer. I watched the video, I laughed. Then I saw it become a trend, vines were posting this like mad and some fucknuggets on here posted it several times, gaining massive amounts of upvotes. As painful as it is to hear someone yell "AND HIS NAME IS JOHN CENA", it hurts even more when I hear some dipshit YELL the trumpet sound effect, "DO DO DOOT DOO!"... Eat shit and go prolapse yourself
Terrorism, western fascism starting to reimerge and Islamophobia
Masoo2 · 1 points · Posted at 20:29:06 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)*
Reaction channels on YouTube
No, not the FineBros, but guys like h3h3, Leafy, (modern) Pyrocynical, etc...
I still don't understand why people watch them. They seem so much more "cancerous" than the videos (pranks, for example) they are reacting to.
Also, I really dislike the sudden trend of hating fake pranks. So what if they are fake? The vast majority of movies are fake, as are large percentage of books. Sure, some pranksters might have taken it a bit too far, but that's just cherrypicking a few extreme examples out of the thousands of prank videos on YouTube. That same claim could be said about any community, yet the internet is only getting mad about pranks.
Media worthy cool event happens. I go to YouTube to watch said event. The first 10 videos are just amateur TMZ type reporters talking about the event and never showing said event at all. INFURIATING!
• Don't judge me challenge, more like "Show how much of a superficial cunt you are Challenge"
• Silentó and Whipping, seriously, the guy has no talent at all and the dance is fucking stupid.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:08:55 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Not really a trend, but I joined Imgur and Reddit last year, and my friends all didn't and they would show me pictures on iFunny. I would always be like: "yep, seen it, seen it. That one's been on Imgur for 5 years, seen it, seen it."
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:38:25 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I would say the use of the term "savage", but by how the term it's used, it can often be a good indicator of people you don't like..... especially in school..
You get ad revenue on your page and then on the video itself. Also bonus of it's on youtube. I hate them, I just don't click on those sites I recognize to do this.
This still goes on to this day, but it seems that the trend kicked up last year. When shitty 'memes' are used, people will use that infuriating laughing-crying emoji. I don't know why, but I fucking hate that emoji so fucking much.
I never understood the "Straight Outta" meme. I understand that it was a very successful marketing tool but basically it was people putting their hometowns. Nobody thinks your "Straight Outta Manhattan, KS" is a clever profile pic, sorry.
You know society and especially people who spend most of their life pandering on social media have really become inbred when they need an acronym for kill yourself.
Bomber jackets. And the style of clothing people who wear bomber jackets wear. I never seen anyone wearing a bomber jacket who doesn't look like an asshole
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:50:33 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Nobody cares what color the fucking dress is!
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:50:57 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
For more clarity, I teach in a middle school, and the amount of time I hear things like "lebron James, Pearsss, 21, ect.." or that crap drives me crazy
"Yaaaaaas" has been a thing for a couple years now, but I feel like it really spread a lot in 2015. It's occasionally funny or fitting, but mostly it sounds silly as fuck.
"Disruptors". We get it, you have a great app and you're going to get a Kickstarter going, raise 3 million dollars for your product launch, "disrupt" the whole industry and leave a trail of dead century-old companies in your wake. And you know what's going to happen after that? You're gonna sell the beautiful thing you, your best buddy and his nephew who knows how to code hastily built in your basement to one of those century-old companies for a half a billion dollars because they can't afford to compete with people who don't care if they make a profit and because that's the new American dream. Congratulations. You disrupted.
Growing societal apathy and a disgusting level of myopic self-absorption culminating from social media imbalance, narrow mindedness and a total lack of compassion and empathy for our fellow human beings.
All of those damn Buzzfeed videos/Buzzfeed copycat videos.
"14 struggles __________ people know too well." "10 reasons why _________ is the best."
It's just a bunch of videos trying to relate to everyone on the planet, in order to get views. They have videos about short, tall, skinny, fat, Jewish, Christian, big boobed, small boobed people. It's ridiculous.
Every webpage is now "20 reasons why X did X" instead of being a normal article. Even worse the motherfuckers thought it would be better to have each sentence on it's own page
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 13:51:39 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
The whole LGBTQXYA.... Whatever trend. I'm a guy. I identify as male. I am white. I will always be that way. I want to stay that way.
Now stop telling me I should identify as something different.
Note: Yes, I know the LGBT community has been around for years, and I'm okay with them. Just stop saying that everyone has to identify as something different from their actual gender.
KeFFFF · 1 points · Posted at 16:31:25 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I hate that back in the day when you saw something funny/weird happening and you wanted to film it you did it traditionally holding your recording device with the lens end of it pointing at the happening.
For some reason people find it necessary to do this half selfie video where half of the picture is the face of the author doing stupid faces like telling "you dumb fucks don't know how to react to this weird shit so I'm gonna cover half of the footage with my ugly expressions"
oh, and I HATE selfies. if you want to look like a complete retard, do selfies. in public. and 100 of them in a row. I remember when taking a picture of yourself was looked as you were the "forever alone" guy.
Not just 2015,
Guys taking selfies. Or as many photos of themselves as teenage girls. And mirror selfies. I don't want to see your phone/dslr in the mirror f*ckwit
People taking a Vine, posting it on Tumblr with an awful caption (with gratuitous emotes), then recording the whole thing as a separate video and posting it to Facebook.
Black Lives Matter. It was little more than an excuse for entitled black college kids to ruin events and stage small riots and feel justified in doing so. Rejecting "all lives matter" shows what they were really about: demanding race based special treatment.
Related: the phrase "unarmed black man" used to describe every dangerous thug who was shot dead while attempting to kill or menace. As if somebody needs a firearm to be dangerous, or brandishing a replica handgun makes it okay.
How can you say that while also knowing about all the videos of police unlawfully killing black people..?
I know of one. The cop in South Carolina who was videotaped shooting the guy in the back and then setting up the scene to make it appear to have been justified.
That's one. And that guy is rotting in prison now, probably for the rest of his life. As he ought to be.
What about Tamir Rice?
You point a gun at a cop, you get shot. Everybody knows that. When I was 12, I knew that. My friends all knew that. Everybody knows that. When I was a kid, we played with toy guns. We NEVER made like they were the real thing by waving them around at strangers.
This kid wanted to come off as a bad dude, waving his replica gun around at passers-by in the park, and sure enough the cops got called. He reached for his "gun" and he got shot. I'm supposed to be mad at the cops? Why, because they didn't wait to get shot at first in order to verify that the boy was in possession of a real weapon? Nah. It's like they say: play stupid games, win stupid prizes. I have exactly zero sympathy for little Tamir Rice.
A shining example of willful ignorance. I don't know why it's so hard for people to admit that the police mess up, it's a rediculously hard job, and you think they are somehow immune to criticism. You'd rather blame a 12 year old boy who had a toy gun than the police who shot him head. Wtf dude.
Here is a list of unarmed black men that have been killed by police officers, very easy to find and investigate if you actually gave a damn. You're telling me that in every single one of those cases the police acted justifiably...?
Do you think if I swing at a police officer the police officer has the right to just shoot me dead, no trial, no consequences...?
You asked about videos. I didn't say the police were immune to criticism. I gave you a specific example of one who was 100% wrong.
Tamir Rice was complicit in his own demise. Why are you so anxious to absolve him of any responsibility for his own actions? Are you trying to say that black people are so incapable of reason that they have to be tended to and looked after, that they can't be held to the same expectations as everybody else? That responsibility must always lie somewhere else, that blacks are always the victims? That's a pretty damned racist view. Why are you focusing on the statistically minuscule occurrence of white-on-black killing while ignoring the prevalence of black-on-black killing?
Get a grip on reality, son.
Oh, and by the way, Michael Brown was another one who was to blame for his own death. He wasn't a martyr, he was a thug and a criminal who got shot trying to take the gun away from a cop. Good riddance to bad rubbish.
Okay let's get this straight. Tamir Rice got the cops called on him and the caller told the dispatcher that the gun was probably fake and he was a kid. Secondly, the police shot him within 2 seconds of arriving on scene.
You really think that Tamir Rice deserved to die? He had it coming? He was complicit in his own death...? The stuff you're saying is just compassionless and sickening. If this was your son do you think he still had it coming?
This just seems like the most obvious case of police neglegence and you still won't budge one inch.
Do I think he had it coming? Do I think he was complicit in his own death? Yes and yes.
As for two seconds, how long does it take to point a gun at somebody and kill them? How long does it take to put your hands in the air? It's not a game. Waving replica guns around at strangers is not a game. When the cops show up it's not a game.
What if it were my own son? It wouldn't happen, because my son--like me, like my friends when I was 12--knows better. Play with fire, get burned.
However, if, in some moment of colossal stupidity, my boy DID lose his fucking mind and start playing pretend public menace and ended up getting shot by the cops, YES I would still be saying the same things. I'd be saying them with tears in my eyes, but WHO the deceased is doesn't change the FACTS of the incident.
I'm not lacking in compassion. I save it for when it is appropriate.
Two seconds literally isn't enough time to resonably assess the situation. It's not enough time to ask him to put it down. It's not enough time to say put your hands up.
They never tried to deescilate the situation, they just opened fire.
Take them and then think about the malitia members who took over the federal building in Oregon with guns. They painstakingly did everything they could to not escalate the situation and the people were in there for a month!
White malitia members get a month to stand down, Tamir Rice gets 2 seconds. How the fuck is that fair?
The federal building in Oregon should have been stormed and those jokers shot dead. The FBI was fearful of creating martyrs out of the occupiers. They were afraid of the aftermath given that, among certain populations, Ruby Ridge, Idaho; Waco, Texas; and, yes, Ferguson, Missouri have become symbols of a trigger-happy, overzealous government. While I agree that police response has to be reasonable, the kid gloves treatment that was afforded the Oregon occupiers was way too lenient.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:02:57 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
hoverboards
the Facebook videos that have the video inside an image with a giant caption above and below it
corporations using emojis on social media
- geek chic still existing
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 16:27:02 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
what is geek chic? like fedora bros?
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:33:01 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Geek chic is "in 2005 I called you a stupid fat nerd for playing Magic the Gathering but now I have 7 different comic book t shirts, comic book memorabilia and instantly love anything that is 8bit, comic, gaming, or anything remotely related to any of those things"
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 16:37:22 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
If that's what you're talking about, "Geek chic" took off in the early 2000s with the rise of Web 2.0. Comics becoming popular is its own thing and I kind of attribute that to Christopher Nolan's Batman tbh
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 16:42:22 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
An interesting take, as I feel it is far more tied to the Marvel cinematic universe, staring in late 2000s with Iron Man
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 16:46:02 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Batman Begins came out sooner, and I feel like it had more universal appeal. Iron Man was certainly popular and it jump started the insanely popular MCU but Batman movies have always been known as cheesy easy money makers and I think Nolan played into that while also classing the genre up into something even people who don't know Batman could watch. By the time Iron Man came out, liking Batman was already "cool".
I'm voting for him, but every time I hear "FEEL THE BEEEEEERN" it makes me fucking cringe.
I was sent three bumper stickers by his campaign before I got one that didn't say that on it, so it took that long to have one that was acceptable to put on my car.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 14:39:19 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Omg had to look at your post history to confirm. But I thought you were a chick named Holly that went to the treatment center I just got out of. She fucked with flakka and krok and that just mind fucked me for a minute.
But alas, you're not who I thought. And to answer your question, yes. I'm talking about krokodil.
Vine, I thought people sould realize it is for morons but they don't. What quality content can you put there in 6 seconds? None, so people make money by screaming "WHAT ARE THOOOSE" or some stupid shit in a funny voice, then repest it literally everywhere else until a new one comes up.
Edit: since I'm getting down voted for this, maybe I should explain a bit. I'm not talking about things that are actually offensive. More of the whole: "I like the color blue" That's offensive, blue triggers me. My dad wore blue the day he died. Blue stands for cops, you're offensive.
[deleted] · -6 points · Posted at 14:37:06 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
SJWing
jonas83 · -1 points · Posted at 17:10:40 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
College safe spaces, hands down the worst trend of all time. FUCK SAFE SPACES, nothing makes me want to spit on people more than seeing this shit on campus
Ravinac · -3 points · Posted at 22:38:36 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's basically a space were people can retreat to and not have their ideas challenged. There are gendered safe spaces, colored safe spaces, trans safe spaces. The only people not permitted to have a safe space are white males, because apparently the world is their safe space.
I almost hate to tell you this, but not quite so I will do it anyways. Yes the regressive leftists have started setting up safe spaces. Now not all colleges officially endorse them, but they are usually tolerated, as long as they don't become a problem.
Exactly; that's an extension of everyone finding something to be offended about instead of seeing that Black lives matter is about equality, not an attack on white people.
Was "Coming out live on YouTube" a thing in 2015? If it was, will 2025 be about, "Mom... Dad.................. I'm straight."
Tears. Laughter. We still love you. Happily ever after.
tta2013 · -1 points · Posted at 19:05:18 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Un-embossing every logo so it looks flat and "clean". Motherfucker, it doesn't look clean; it looks bland and half-assed as hell. I like big, bold logos with a lot of detail and a 3 dimensional look.
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 19:08:10 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
its not new by any means. but the media has gotten really bad with wording things just right to spread misinformation and have gotten exponentially more bias
the skinny jean trend, though i am not sure if it started earlier than 2015 it is really annoying. seeing someone with a seven hundred dollar or more device in there back pocket and then sitting on it and wondering why i broke.
President Obama was the worst trend of 2015... And 2nd pkace goes to the woman in Kentucky kr wherever who went to jail for refusing to approve gay marriage licenses.
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icarusbird · 5431 points · Posted at 15:52:48 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Specifically in 2015 I noticed a trend towards everything I wanted to read being in video form. I'd see an interesting headline on CNN, for instance, and it links to a video with no supporting text. So I'm wondering, is this a cultural trend towards general illiteracy, or is it truly easier to plan, record, edit, and upload a video than it is to just write 500-750 words about it?
BackInAsulon · 792 points · Posted at 17:06:58 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Sometimes I'm on my phone on the bus or something without earbuds how to I watch without being an ass? Just write a damn article.
useless_Adviceguy · 249 points · Posted at 18:49:27 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Extremely annoying when i want to read the news in class and i have to search new sources because there is no text, lets start a crusade against that BS
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 03:27:10 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
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anandy1 · 2 points · Posted at 03:29:52 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
No
fff8e7cosmic · 1 points · Posted at 04:46:08 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I recommend AP and New York Times. Particularly NYT's email briefings.
dakane328 · 12 points · Posted at 20:03:14 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Or if I'm already listening to music and don't want to pause it to watch the video. Or if I don't want to waste data.
dibblah · 3 points · Posted at 21:04:54 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
So many auto play videos these days. My data disappears so quickly.
TheNumberMuncher · 1 points · Posted at 05:09:50 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Plus I don't wanna use my goddamn data.
SlothOfDoom · 281 points · Posted at 18:59:02 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Fucking right. Game guides are the worst now. Googling something about a game will present you with dozens and dozens of "guides" that just like to 20 minute videos of people fucking around in the game. Just tell me "Go over there and click the thing" I don't need to see you fucking do it.
[deleted] · 101 points · Posted at 00:34:13 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
To add onto this, I hate when I actually do need a video walk through for a game and some asshat titles his video as a walk through but it's really his Let's Play with his shitty commentary and he fucks around and only gets to the objective after 20 minutes of shit.
LionGhost · 7 points · Posted at 06:22:36 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Or when you finally find a walk through of what you need and the person playing actually has no clue how do it. So you watch 5 minutes of useless video of them trying to figure it out. Like, edit that shit to the part where you actually know what you're doing and where to go so I don't have to watch you fuck around trying to figure it out. Drives me mad.
NicolasMage69 · 3 points · Posted at 06:10:20 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
This has been happening to me a lot recently. The sheer volume of shitty lets play channels take over your search for anything even remotely valuable. Just recently I looked up a guide for subnautica and I literally could not find anything besides the wiki because my search was so swamped with fucking lets plays.
Amp3r · 2 points · Posted at 23:27:47 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
It is because of the way YouTube monetizes their videos now. People are paid based on how long someone watches for rather than just views.
So they are incentivised to have long rambling shit videos rather than one that gets to the point
[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 04:03:48 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
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SlothOfDoom · 1 points · Posted at 13:11:59 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Right? And edit out your pathetically long load times if you play on a potato. 20 minutes of video with 5 minutes of loading is sad.
cogginsmatt · 2 points · Posted at 04:55:04 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I can't stand watching videos like that because the typical creator says "um" at least every other word
Eurynom0s · 1 points · Posted at 04:12:21 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
On the flip side a lot of guides are bad at describing things. I'd rather just see it at that point.
mrkushie · 1 points · Posted at 13:28:05 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I dunno, this is one case where I generally prefer video. I feel like most of the text guides I run across are really terribly written. Like "Then veer right when you see the tree that looks slightly different." Bitch, I am in a forest full of trees, you really expect me to look at every single one?
SlothOfDoom · 2 points · Posted at 16:40:30 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
For some directions, sure. But if the question is "Why won't this character talk to me?" and the answer is "You need to do Quest Of Talking in City of Quests first." then I really don't need a 20 minute video of that. I don't need to see you walk to the City of Quests and do stupid shit along the way, then do the fucking quest, then walk back to the first character and click on it and say "Look, that was easy!"
Na3s · 1 points · Posted at 03:27:11 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
What games are like the one thing where a video guide is helpful?!
mondayschild · 2214 points · Posted at 17:01:03 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm with you. I loathe video; give me a transcript.
MischeviousCat · 729 points · Posted at 18:00:56 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Especially tutorials!
juicius · 241 points · Posted at 19:04:48 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
But I have this music, and I think subscribing would be super convenient, and hey, I have a logo. And it moves! By the way, here are some hashtags.
MischeviousCat · 13 points · Posted at 19:37:52 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I didn't even have a YouTube account, I made one just to subscribe!!!
I figured, haha, hey, I liked your tutorial on how to clean a .357, so I'd want to know about your tutorial on how to make soap as soon as it came out!!
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:09:46 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Well I can kind of understand a video about cleaning a gun, but a picture guide would be more efficient.
corylew · 8 points · Posted at 04:55:37 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)*
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Tacorgasmic · 2 points · Posted at 05:22:37 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
This is so accurate that is annoying.
LtFoxy · 7 points · Posted at 02:25:22 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
2 minute tutorial video, 30 seconds intro with the name of the channel flying around pulsing to the sound of a techno song
Phayzon · 5 points · Posted at 01:24:27 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Fuck everything about this word and what it stands for.
Loliepopp79 · 2 points · Posted at 03:46:43 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Fucking hashtags! Especially on Facebook. #thesethingsarestupid #justdont
TheNumberMuncher · 1 points · Posted at 05:12:02 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I hate when they spend five minutes at the beginning talking to their subscribers before they get into the tutorial. I'm not watching this video because you made it, dipshit. I searched a topic and this video came up first. I'm not subscribing to watch you do other shit that I don't need to learn.
Tupptupp_XD · 17 points · Posted at 19:41:16 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Pictures and captions. Not walls of text.
CougarAries · 9 points · Posted at 20:26:10 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yes! I'm usually looking for a very specific feature within a tutorial, like where to access a specific menu or how to change a setting. If it's a transcript, I can CTRL+F and find the specific action I'm looking for. If it's video, I have to hunt through the video and listen to hear if the narrator is getting anywhere to the function I'm looking for help with.
It's even worse if I'm in an environment with other people and I don't have headphones on me. Then I just deafly click through the video hoping I catch the moment he shows how something is do.
jooes · 4 points · Posted at 21:40:29 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
"Today I'm going to show you how to do (blank). But first I wanna thank all my subscribers, I just hit 1000 subscribers. I never thought I'd get this far and get that many, so I'm gonna do a giveaway soon so be sure to keep your eyes open for that. And just an update on what I did in my last video, blah blah blah... Okay, now let's do the tutorial!"
It's like they don't realize that the vast majority of people who are watching their video tutorials are really only there through a google search. Nobody cares about their last video or their next video or what they had for dinner or none of that shit.
I can forgive crappy intros and terrible music (To a certain point, anyway), but that kind of pointless irrelevant crap just makes no sense to me. It adds absolutely nothing to the tutorial, nobody out there cares about that information at all.
matt1125_1125 · 3 points · Posted at 18:49:10 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
100% cannot agree more.
MischeviousCat · 2 points · Posted at 19:00:39 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Though the visualization of what you're doing can be nice, it's always riddled with opinion.
dragonfyre173 · 3 points · Posted at 19:08:20 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The only time I've ever seen someone get a Tutorial right is Primitive Technologies. Too many tutorials are riddled with worthless fluff and bad intros, but he dives right in and wastes no time showing how something is done.
solestri · 3 points · Posted at 23:06:24 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's surprisingly how much more informative it is when there isn't dialogue.
dragonfyre173 · 3 points · Posted at 23:33:10 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Part of it, I feel, it's because the school system ingrains into our writing style that more words = more informative from a very young age. While this is true to a degree, you can generally get your point across with much less talking.
In other words, why use more word when less do trick?
KippaxStreet1880 · 2 points · Posted at 02:01:11 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Because I stared blankly at your sentence for 2 minutes wondering what trick less word does
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:11:12 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Because of arbitrary word count requirements? Because sometimes a single paragraph makes it look like the site is broken or you didn't try.
WhitMage9001 · 2 points · Posted at 19:29:11 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The guy who does all that shit on his friend's property using hunter-gatherer techniques? I don't think those are 'tutorials' and more like straight-out entertainment
dragonfyre173 · 1 points · Posted at 19:50:32 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I suppose so, but he stated in the description of one of his videos that his inspiration for the style of it was because of how badly tutorials are run.
MischeviousCat · 1 points · Posted at 19:38:12 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I forgot of those!!
sammysfw · 3 points · Posted at 21:35:43 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Oh I know. I hate when someone tries to make me sit through a 10 minute Youtube video for something they could have just told me with a couple pictures and bullet points.
DerangedDesperado · 2 points · Posted at 20:31:25 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Like wHen they are recording them typing out the instructions?
Johnboyofsj · 1 points · Posted at 19:44:17 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
So many times this past year I have gone to look up a tutorial and there are 100 videos on it but no written tutorials specific enough that I can find.
Smitten_the_Kitten · 1 points · Posted at 20:21:25 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Right?! Trying to do Photosho tutorials at work without speakers... Just step by step!
Skepsis93 · 1 points · Posted at 21:12:24 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I prefer tutorials in video form. But articles in text.
crazymonkeyfish · 1 points · Posted at 22:00:48 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Those I want a video, pictures, and text.
irthewalrus · 1 points · Posted at 22:03:49 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I took an astro imaging course in college and we used this software for analyzing spectra called Rspec. No Manual only videos. I had some experience using astronomical software before so I didn't need to start at square one but whenever I wasn't sure how to do something in the software instead of opening a PDF and doing a search for a solution I had to sit through a 15-20 video. Also the guy pronounced pixel wicked funny he would emphasize the second syllable so it sounded like pixEL. Fuck video manuals.
solestri · 1 points · Posted at 23:00:38 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I hate video tutorials with the fiery passion of a thousand suns. They spend so much time dicking around, and all I really need is help with two steps somewhere near the middle. Not to mention that text/image tutorials make it easy to come back and reference stuff as you're doing the task, without you having to take notes on it.
Commodorez · 1 points · Posted at 23:09:58 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Every time I need a tutorial to do something on my computer, without fail, the tutorials will only be in video form, which are at least ten minutes long. Video starts, hentai wallpaper. Cue "let the bodies hit the floor." Time to pull up notepad and type at a brisk 13 words per minute...
SuTvVoO · 1 points · Posted at 23:40:21 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I like tutorials in video form. Most tutorials are in English while my OS is in German. It's easier to see what I have to do than trying to find the right option in a different language. Sometimes the translation is different than what I thought.
MischeviousCat · 1 points · Posted at 01:07:45 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
This makes sense, but, what if it was a step-by-step guide, with pictures and captions?
I like how I'm and to work at my own pace.
SuTvVoO · 1 points · Posted at 01:15:00 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
That works too, but I have no problem pausing the video.
Keep in mind that this only applies to proper tutorial videos, short and to the point. Videos that have a 30 second intro and then a story about the posters day for another 2 minutes can burn in a fire.
Blargmode · 1 points · Posted at 00:16:14 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Video tutorials are both the best and the worst. If made right and targeting the right thing, they can be great. E.g. Unreal engine's lecture-like blueprint tutorials are great. They are planned ahead and scripted, and well executed without a bunch of bogus shit around them.
Then you have the incredibly bad kind, like adding a stroke in Photoshop. You literally just double click on the layer and select the stroke tab. Done. But then there's people like this.
Brief my ass it's 10 fucking minutes long and he doesn't show what I described above until 2 minutes into the video.
dryerlintcompelsyou · 1 points · Posted at 00:47:15 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
And then there's the Youtube videos that are just 5 minutes of Windows Movie Maker text. No pictures, no film. Each "slide" contains 10 words and is on screen for 20 seconds.
SirBensalot · 1 points · Posted at 01:08:19 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I prefer a lot of tutorials like building things and doing computer tasks to just be one long, unedited video. That way you can just follow along and do as exactly as they do. When it's in text form or an edited video they sometimes skip the simple steps, but not everyone thinks to do the simple things.
greedcrow · 1 points · Posted at 01:30:58 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Actually tutorials i disagree with. Seeing examples of what im supposed to be doing helps me enormously
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 02:05:16 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Tutorials, where a 30 second read of text can stretch into a 10 minute instruction video
T_RENT · 1 points · Posted at 02:11:24 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
The only thing worse than a video tutorial is one without CC or a voice in general.. Just silence ☺🔫
tastemyrainbowbaby · 1 points · Posted at 05:56:09 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I've just started using CAD programs in my engineering class, and I didn't take it last year so I'm behind most people and it the most goddamn annoying thing when everything is in video form. Seriously I just want to know where stuff is in the UI I don't need a fucking 5 minute video.
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 21:41:00 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Seriously? Video tutorials are the best thing to happen to the internet after the internet! They're so easily consumable, and make demonstrations easier. Can you demonstrate with text? Sure, but it's very difficult. I don't understand why you wouldn't choose a video over a lump of vague text.
MischeviousCat · 1 points · Posted at 01:05:16 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
People process information different.
For me, reading how to do something from start to finish allows me to make a blueprint, of sorts, in my mind. I understand it.
Watching a video is like a tour guide; I only see what they want, what they think is important.
8132134558914 · 1 points · Posted at 01:19:39 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
When I look up a tutorial on how to do things usually I'm looking for one specific part of that tutorial and don't need it in full. Instead of being able to quickly get to the part I want with text, I have to listen to the narrator blather on with some introductory statements and jump around through the video a bit before I can find the relevant part.
It's no ideal for me, and while I understand that people process information differently I wish there was more of a balance between video and text.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 02:43:38 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
That's why I skip around the video until I get where I want. Then again, it's good to watch the entire tutorial, because at the same time you can pick up on new information that may be helpful to you.
8132134558914 · 1 points · Posted at 03:02:59 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
As I mentioned before I skip around the video too, but that still takes significantly longer than going through text to find the part I want.
Often when I'm looking up a tutorial the rest of the video is irrelevant to me and the only reason I chose it in the first place is there was no text option available.
If I want to hunker down and digest a bit of information like that I will expressly search for a video tutorial version of whatever thing I'm trying to do. But this trend of having a video tutorial for everything, even things that can be explained more quickly in text, is a big pain in the ass and I'll be happy to see it go.
FlexGunship · 3 points · Posted at 19:26:20 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Transcript!
<waits for the next line of the cheer>
joshuaoha · 3 points · Posted at 01:41:19 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
To each their own. But a link should clearly say if it's a video.
DocGerbill · 3 points · Posted at 09:12:30 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Dude, we should totally make an app to analyze the video and print you a transcript.
SometimesSheGoes · 1 points · Posted at 14:34:21 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
mondayschild · 1 points · Posted at 19:01:50 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Lady dude, but sure. :)
DocGerbill · 2 points · Posted at 09:32:03 on March 29, 2016 · (Permalink)
Dudette :D
Fem_philosoph · 2 points · Posted at 19:39:32 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I recently discovered TED talks has transcripts, it is wonderful
winch25 · 2 points · Posted at 20:32:32 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I agree. I can read a transcript at work, but I sure can't be watching videos.
NoLongerInPurgatory · 2 points · Posted at 20:34:06 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
*a TLDR; of a transcript
EditorialComplex · 2 points · Posted at 23:18:58 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's so annoying when I'm having a discussion/argument online and they link me to a video. Like... no, I don't want to spend 15 minutes listening to some unwashed guy explaining why anime subtitles are the hot human rights issue of our time. Just make the argument yourself ffs.
theskyissobluetoday · 2 points · Posted at 02:29:59 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Could be a hypocrite for saying this because I'm a film maker, but SAME.
Cruxion · 2 points · Posted at 04:32:19 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I love video, but I'd like a transcript considering data caps and American euro internet speeds.
SourPatchAdult · 1 points · Posted at 13:31:13 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I used to love CheatCC guides back in the good ol' GTA: San Andreas days.
8bitslime · 49 points · Posted at 17:14:09 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I only like video articles when I'm home, but most people read the news on their phones in public. What the hell are they thinking!
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 01:58:27 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Even at home, I don't like video articles.
sarahkarney · 7 points · Posted at 19:11:30 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
As a digital marketer, I think it's likely because videos and images are significantly more likely to be shared and viewed than text stories on social media, according to multiple trend reports I've seen. Agreed it's super annoying though.
KJ_jk · 2 points · Posted at 05:50:13 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
As a reporter, I find it way more difficult to pack all the relevant information while making it interesting in to 1-2 minutes.
But you're right. My newspaper is doing it because statistics show people click on videos more than stories, and share videos more as well. When we do companion videos and stories, the videos have more hits, for the most part.
reggie_007 · 1 points · Posted at 09:43:07 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
And pre-roll video is more expensive than banners.
rangemaster · 7 points · Posted at 17:38:32 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Exactly, I'm in public without head phones, I'm not watching a video, just give me an article.
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 18:33:37 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Videos are great for reviews but terrible for news. They also eat up a ton of data compared to just loading some text.
sezmour · 5 points · Posted at 18:27:20 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
This has got to stop.
The_Juggler17 · 5 points · Posted at 18:49:24 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I see a lot of tech support answers in the form of an instructional video instead of an article.
Maybe I'm just looking for a single command line or some buried directory, and I could see that in just 3 seconds in an article. Sometimes they're explaining a very simple process, but they take 10 damn minutes to walk through it!
Fonzirelli · 6 points · Posted at 18:52:35 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I think people just don't want to read anymore. Not only do I see it with news articles like you say, but I can't tell you how many times I will send a detailed email at work, only for the person to come to me later and ask me what I said...like...did you fucking read it? It is very clear what I said.
Hell it's the very foundation behind the term "tl;dr" which we see on Reddit all the time.
ncurry18 · 4 points · Posted at 19:17:59 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Glad I'm not the only one who hates this.
guinnesslab · 3 points · Posted at 17:18:11 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Even my phone bill is now in video form!
ProudestMonk3y · 3 points · Posted at 18:55:08 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
This annoys me as well. Especially when the video remains the same on any given news site while the headline changes.
Some Internet providers are also starting to get rid of unlimited usage. 500-1000 word articles here and there vs 30-60 second clips makes a huge difference.
g_pelly · 3 points · Posted at 19:11:11 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's the worst because I can browse online at work, but I can't play videos because the sound would give me away and it would get me in trouble.
Even worse are the ads/videos that play automatically when you click the link.
Fuck that shit.
apologeticPalpatine · 3 points · Posted at 19:20:53 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm with you on this one, this is getting annoying. This is especially true for tutorials. I'd much rather have a text version with pictures so I can look at steps individually rather than have to constantly search a video
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 19:29:47 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's bullshit. Or a quick lesson on doing something in excel? Just write the fucking formula you asshole.. Dont need a five minute slow talking video. (They're just doing this to monetize)
weezermc78 · 2 points · Posted at 17:50:00 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Writing it in this case would be so much easier. 500 words is like half of a page in Word
Tridian · 2 points · Posted at 18:03:43 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's not about the one article. It's about the 50 other videos that people will watch after that one because it's easy. People are more likely to binge watch than binge read which means more page views and more ad revenue.
They're not targeting people looking for a specific story, they're looking for people like my mother, who uses the news sites like we do reddit.
ScottyC33 · 2 points · Posted at 18:20:29 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
If you already have a 24 hour news channel, it is indeed easier to just edit an existing snippet from your 24 hour show and throw a headline onto it, than type out 500-750 words and edit. Probably get more ad revenue from a forced video ad than sidebar ads.
Tiver · 2 points · Posted at 18:57:29 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
What really pisses me off is when there is supporting text, but the video auto plays. Or the worst, when it starts playing audio matching the text, and I can't find any controls to shut it off.
SweetGerberaDaisy · 2 points · Posted at 20:22:49 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Ugh I'm Deaf and they don't even add CC/subtitles on. So guess I have to find another source for majority of the content that is just video.
SirMeowMeowMittens · 2 points · Posted at 04:30:37 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I thought I was alone!
KJ_jk · 2 points · Posted at 05:41:17 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
As someone in newspaper, we are being told by higher ups in the national company that no one wants to read the story. That we get more clicks on video than on stories. That video is the market we need to be aiming for.
It's all part of incorporating social media as a replacement for a print product. Washington Post has had a hell of a drop in print subscribers, but made up for it in online readership. That's why all those news sites that used to be free are now charging. Their website is now their main product.
So they think the next logical step in posting to social media is making 1-2 minute videos instead of 60-100 picas of text. And cutting down the length of stories, or at least breaking them up into shorter, 30 pica length bites.
gorface · 3 points · Posted at 19:08:37 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's more lucrative for the media company (CNN) to sell a video ad that rolls before a video than a display ad that's shown on the same page as an article.
Cellvaunt · 1 points · Posted at 19:21:35 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
/u/Icarusbird, The video ad is worth far far more then the banner ad text format would have. I'm 99% sure that is where this trend is coming from.
q4norm · 1 points · Posted at 19:22:24 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I couldn't agree more. However, if you really want to know why this happened, the answer is, of course, money. Revenue from video ads > revenue from static image ads. On high traffic sites, it's an order of magnitude of difference. Thus the push to make everything video.
a_perfect_disguise · 1 points · Posted at 19:41:08 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
CNN is the buzzfeed of cable news. Go elsewhere.
Invisible-for-now · 1 points · Posted at 19:58:25 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
This this 100x! I work in a quiet building and sometimes will take a stress break and look at my phone, I'm afraid to click on links because the stupid video breaks the silence.
Mod645 · 1 points · Posted at 20:04:54 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Video content gets you better paid.
MitoCringo · 1 points · Posted at 20:24:27 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Especially with lists! "IGN's top ten video games of 2015"... links to a five minute video....
joecb91 · 1 points · Posted at 20:24:33 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
If I end up clicking on something where it is just a video, I go back and try to find a version of the story that is only in text.
I can normally read through the article faster than I can watch the video too.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:28:22 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The worst I've seen is a tutorial video for Bosh IP cameras web REST API.
1) Your API is horrible 2) I want a 50 page doc, not a 3 minutes video!
DerangedDesperado · 1 points · Posted at 20:32:20 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
For me, it's that it's quicker to read than to watch :-\
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:32:45 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Its because some asshole thinks that videos are more "engaging content" and would keep you on the site for longer
WilhelmScreams · 1 points · Posted at 20:33:16 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm with you, but this trend has been going on a long time. I had a post from 2009 complaining about this same thing (with CNN specifically called out).
rivzz · 1 points · Posted at 20:35:00 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I do like reading better. I wouldnt mind video if i didnt have to watch a 30 second to 1 minute ad for a clip thats 15 seconds long.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:37:19 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I think it's just people playing with toys. They can do videos, so they thing they should. I deal with this a lot at work (content dev) - people are always asking for videos, even though no one watches videos, particularly over 30 seconds or so
osound · 1 points · Posted at 20:37:52 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It just has to do with ad revenue being much more substantial in video than text.
thatgerhard · 1 points · Posted at 20:47:05 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
videos are are easier to consume than articles, that's the base idea
ThatLaggyNoob · 1 points · Posted at 20:49:48 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'd rather not have to listen to someone blather on for a couple minutes when I can through an article in a small fraction of the time.
arsenalthom · 1 points · Posted at 20:58:19 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Shrinking attention spans
emphram · 1 points · Posted at 20:59:54 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It stems from the fact that people are more likely to watch a video (even though it takes considerable more effort to make one) than they are to properly read an article.
urixl · 1 points · Posted at 21:01:59 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Count me in
tweakytree1989 · 1 points · Posted at 21:04:26 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I hate video articles, I just want to read them Damn it
MeadFromHell · 1 points · Posted at 21:07:29 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)*
Yeah as someone who's hard of hearing, I hate it when there's only a video! Background noise drowns out all the speech, so unless it has subtitles (which is pretty much never) I have no idea what's going on. Would much rather read an article.
Cloak77 · 1 points · Posted at 21:09:32 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
JKnews has built their channel on this.
Yanksuck73 · 1 points · Posted at 21:25:55 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
And even worse, when the video starts playing without actually clicking play. Huge uptick of autoplay videos in 2015.
TCnup · 1 points · Posted at 21:31:29 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I hate this. Deaf people get left out, especially if the video isn't captioned. Blind people may miss visual content that is key for understanding the video. If you absolutely must have a video, at least have a good transcription. But other than that, text would do just as well (with a screen reader for blind people who prefer them).
Accessibility is important, unfortunately most people don't realize this.
Ruval · 1 points · Posted at 21:36:04 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I really hate this trend for video games. I get stuck on one part. I'd rather just read how to get past this thing, likely a stupid button I didn't see. But no some fucking 14yo you tuber wants me to watch his 26 minute video.
LionAround2012 · 1 points · Posted at 21:36:54 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
As a deaf person, I hate this so much. They either have no captioning, or the they use some shit auto-captioning program that gets 90% of the words wrong.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:40:09 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I agree and I hate the slideshows also. Just give me a list and be done with it.
sob6610 · 1 points · Posted at 22:14:14 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yep. I can usually read something a lot faster and understand more than when watching a video. Of course there are benefits to both in different situations but i would most often prefer to read. Maybe its because they can make more money from a video ad?
screaming_for_memes · 1 points · Posted at 22:32:48 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Exactly, this is ridiculous when I want to learn more when I have to mute.
PoliticalLava · 1 points · Posted at 22:38:33 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Everything's an argument is a really good book portraying the short attention spans of people now adays. We can't sit still, like all of us have ADHD. We can't read an article, we need a video to keep our attention.
JulioCesarSalad · 1 points · Posted at 22:44:27 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm a reporter and it really is easier to upload a video than to write an article about it.
Why? Because I need to do the video anyway, it's television. Also because I only have 1:10 for my story its considerable shorter than a full article. Just as an example my story Sunday, which was two minutes long (pretty damn long for television) is only 336 words INCLUDING the anchor scripts. so yes, it is a whole lot easier to upload he video than it is to write an article about it.
That said, if I didn't include a web version of my story every time I uploaded something I would be called out on it and told to upload an article along with my video. And we're talking about a local ABC station in a town ranked the 92nd market in the country, not a national news agency.
TwoFsNoE · 1 points · Posted at 22:46:23 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's much easier to disguise a crap story that has no content if you put it in video format. Much easier to identify garbage if you're reading it.
N1H1L · 1 points · Posted at 22:55:26 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Copyright too. Your watermark/corporate logo will be on the video, but text can always be copied and pasted fast without the creator ever being attributed.
ploz · 1 points · Posted at 23:09:56 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The main reason is that video ads pay more than traditional banners and video ads spending increased considerably in the last couple years...
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:14:25 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I hate that. I want to read a news article not watch a video about it. I don't even bother at that point.
FuffyKitty · 1 points · Posted at 23:19:47 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Especially since I'm on the phone all day for work! My eyes are free but my ears are busy.
fire_king · 1 points · Posted at 23:21:28 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I agree that I prefer reading written text, but it is easier film and edit video than write words.
kateefab · 1 points · Posted at 23:26:32 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
This is why I didn't like Upworthy because there were too many videos and those take too much time.
flamingboard · 1 points · Posted at 23:27:45 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I went to an article on NBC news and literally 3 videos started playing simultaneously with sound automatically. Fuck that trash.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:54:09 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
They make more forcing you to watch a video ad than they do not forcing you to watch a video ad.
antondjamoos · 1 points · Posted at 19:36:47 on March 28, 2016 · (Permalink)
Hey is that true?
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:57:45 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
No, it's because they can force you to watch a commercial before the video loads.
Chaosritter · 1 points · Posted at 23:59:00 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Worst part is that everything's autoplay now, which is particulary nasty when you got a data plan.
However, there's a browser extension called Flashblock that blocks all Flash elements (including video players) and requires you to click on something to unblock it. Add exceptions for streaming sites and you're golden.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 00:27:48 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Welcome to 10 years ago
CSMom74 · 1 points · Posted at 00:27:52 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I don't like it because I'm currently to broke to afford unlimited data, so I can't watch any of the videos or I hit my cap. I don't get to see the new story. Why can't they put the video at the top and the story in writing at the bottom?
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 00:28:47 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I get all stabby and fisty now when I see those stupid 30 - 60 second "simple recipe" videos that show how to make something like a flourless torte. In reality, that shit takes a couple of hours and a fair number of burnt batches. I have to wonder how much food gets wasted because of these videos.
ElolvastamEzt · 1 points · Posted at 00:34:51 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
This one sucks. Most of my browsing time happens at work, in coffee/lunch shops, on the train, or somewhere I don't want the sound on, and don't want earbuds or headphones on.
Also, I read fast. I'd rather skim at article quickly and move on, than have to get the info at the video maker's pace.
sucks_at_usernames · 1 points · Posted at 00:38:44 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
What I learned when I studied journalism is that people don't read large amounts of text online. They do however read small amounts (Twitter) and video. Studies show that's true so they have a basis for doing it but I think there should be both text and video so if you want to read it you can.
jackgrandal · 1 points · Posted at 00:39:54 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I've noticed this at work too. I'm pretty new so a lot of people like to show me where to learn more about web technologies. I've noticed a strong affinity to tutorial videos instead of articles. It's like that's all they get their information from is videos
MashTestDummy · 1 points · Posted at 00:40:28 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Its a real pain in the ass when 90% of your news reading is done in lectures
Gvxhnbxdjj2456 · 1 points · Posted at 00:48:53 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
You can charge more on the pre-roll ads on it, and inflate the engagement metrics.
ricovargas · 1 points · Posted at 01:00:15 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I used to love IGN for the articles on reviews, and stuff. Now its all videos and i hate it. Id rather read a review then watch a video
aj42kl453k · 1 points · Posted at 01:04:15 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Videos seem more authentic and real. Anyone can write a wall of text claiming bullshit, but being filmed is more substance.
ronbdavis2 · 1 points · Posted at 01:04:22 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Online ad revenue is significantly higher for (pre/post-roll) video ads than banner ads within text articles.
TheHeroicOnion · 1 points · Posted at 01:08:08 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
And on reddit, everything I wanted to watch being in gif that won't load form.
solarlexus · 1 points · Posted at 01:10:05 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Even more annoying is when an article is segmented into a slideshow.
thatguypeng · 1 points · Posted at 01:11:42 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Firemen says hi.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 01:23:40 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I love to multitask, I don't even think it's that bizarre to listen to music/TV while reading the news anymore. I can't stand when I have to pause whatever I'm trying to listen to, so I can listen to something that would have been so much easier to read anyways.
Worse yet, programming tutorials/information that's in audio form. For fucks sake, programming is literally the epitome of something that is written out, I don't want to listen to you babble on, just type the shit out. If I'm supposed to believe you're a component enough coder that I would want to learn from you, you can probably type faster than you can speak anyways.
legs · 1 points · Posted at 01:25:18 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I wrote a letter to CNN about this. I asked them to have a little picture of a tv or video by a headline to denote that is wasn't text. They did it! Was it just me? Doubt it. But now I can skip over all the videos.
-dwight_k_shrute- · 1 points · Posted at 01:27:52 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Frickin Tech Insider. See a sick title and wanna check it out but it's in video form. I don't got that kinda time
Mattsatterfield1 · 1 points · Posted at 01:52:34 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Illiteracy? ...what does that word even mean?
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 01:55:40 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I can't watch a video while doing other things, either. It's super inconvenient.
Gylth · 1 points · Posted at 02:15:22 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Video ads pay more.
niceguybigjess · 1 points · Posted at 02:17:46 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
There were marketing reports going around telling everyone that users prefer video and they took it too far.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 02:39:50 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
That's exactly right! And the saddest thing here is that we are jonesing for 500 words...that's three fucking paragraphs. When did people stop reading?
sk11ng · 1 points · Posted at 02:41:16 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I've thought the exact same thing!
BobDylan530 · 1 points · Posted at 02:41:42 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I think it's that those are usually clips from their news channel, so it's no extra work to just post them online, whereas writing text would be extra work.
jeffneruda · 1 points · Posted at 02:47:09 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I am a filmmaker and I can't stand this.
noone111111 · 1 points · Posted at 02:57:07 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
This! This is a trend in the last couple years with major US garbage news networks like CNN and Foxnews.
Quality news sites like Bloomberg, BBC, Reuters, etc still offer actual articles to read. Some are augmented by related video, but the article still exists in written form.
Grolagro · 1 points · Posted at 03:14:57 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I mean, they still have to write a script...
sleeping_lessons_ · 1 points · Posted at 03:15:40 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
If the link turns into a video, I immediately exit the link. Fuck that.
thagthebarbarian · 1 points · Posted at 03:19:16 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's horrible if you're trying to find instructions to do something auto repair related. Watching a guy do something is so tone consuming and you can't just refer to that section in the video when you're trying to actually perform the repair
smb510 · 1 points · Posted at 03:26:41 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Advertisers are willing to pay a lot more for a video ad than a display ad on a page of text, so content creators are much more inclined to make videos.
trump_did_nineeleven · 1 points · Posted at 03:28:42 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
When I was writing one of my essays I stumbled across a website that had interviews in video form then a transcript of them. It was heaven.
imafarttrustme · 1 points · Posted at 03:36:48 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
And they always fucking auto play...
iamaluckydog · 1 points · Posted at 03:38:29 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I don't think computers have much problem piecing together 750 words.
Gatorsurfer · 1 points · Posted at 04:47:24 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I feel like that's been a thing for years now though
JediGuyB · 1 points · Posted at 04:48:34 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
If I had a dollar for every time my thought process was, "This sounds interesting, I think I'll take a look- and it's a video. No thanks."
octanemembrane · 2911 points · Posted at 13:56:23 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Most of the things that were called The blah blah challenge. Like seriously, a don't judge me challenge? How pretentious can you actually be.
Clambulance1 · 745 points · Posted at 16:34:16 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Don't judge my uglyness, even though I CAN FUCKING RUB IT OFF
podboi · 183 points · Posted at 19:41:48 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
You can actually feel the insecurity through the screen, attractive people feeling the need to do this shit, SMH
[deleted] · 33 points · Posted at 20:21:37 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's funny too because without their constant need for hair product and make up they would be just as average looking as the next person.
podboi · 19 points · Posted at 20:40:28 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Some of them you have to agree tho, make up or no make up, they look like greek godesses, yet are still that insecure its kinda sad...
[deleted] · 16 points · Posted at 20:44:56 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Their internal beauty is no-exsitent though and that is what matters most.
[deleted] · 28 points · Posted at 20:57:30 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
This is something my mom would say to me.
[deleted] · 26 points · Posted at 20:58:25 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Hi son
[deleted] · 8 points · Posted at 01:16:40 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Hey it's me, ur mother
LordSocky · 5 points · Posted at 02:17:04 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
What a coincidence, you're here, and so are the legions of people that have fucked you
Small world, right?
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 03:51:45 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I thought you died.
podboi · 4 points · Posted at 21:39:03 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I agree but I we don't really know, I know people who are beautiful both inside and out but are still insecure, although I can't imagine them doing that shit, so you're probably right...
[deleted] · 8 points · Posted at 21:42:20 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Those type of insecure people that are good both inside and out tend to be the most introverted and tend to ignore their insecurities when around others just so they don't make it all about them. You should always give those people a great big hug and tell them they are beautiful always.
podboi · 6 points · Posted at 21:54:33 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)*
Yeah I did more than just hug her (100% wholesome), I dated her... This will turn into a dramatic reply.
I lost her though, I guess my support and love did erase her insecurities, so she does not need me anymore, it sucks, just happened a little over a month ago... Tho I do not consider her to be one of the "good on the outside, bad on the inside" even after that she is still a great girl, I just still don't understand what happened really...
Skiddoosh · 3 points · Posted at 00:08:39 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Chin up, man. It's hard to believe, but most of the time when relationships end it was for the best. I think when the breakup isn't so new you'll come to feel that way.
podboi · 2 points · Posted at 00:54:19 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yeah, I'm battling with some insecurities now because of it, no closure unfortunately, my mind keeps on racing with negative shit, hopefully after some more tie it'll pass too...
Skiddoosh · 2 points · Posted at 00:57:37 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'd you don't mind my asking, how long has it been?
podboi · 2 points · Posted at 01:06:05 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I said it on one of my replies, a little over a month ago, the monday before valentines weekend actually, talk about timing being a bitch...
Skiddoosh · 2 points · Posted at 01:42:13 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
No, not at all. People heal at different pieces and that's nothing to be ashamed of. That really is very recent, anyhow. I wouldn't expect you to be over it by now. I think you'll feel better with tinge. In the meantime if you need someone to talk to, pm me.
podboi · 2 points · Posted at 01:51:11 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yeah, Thanks, you're not the first to offer a listen to my story actually, third to be precise, I was pleasantly surprised people on reddit would be this kind to a broken idiot like me, thanks again but I kinda don't want to relive, remember, and narrate what happened to me for a third time, its emotionally draining, I don't have tears anymore to be honest, again thanks kind stranger...
I kind of actually feel you have been in a similar situation? The two other people who offered to listen were, and I reckon you are too, I'm extending the same kindness, if you are, I'm open to listen to you too...
Skiddoosh · 1 points · Posted at 03:22:53 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I appreciate the offer for a listening ear, but I actually don't have a similar situation. I have a lot going on in my life that causes me strife, though, so I can easily empathize easily when I can tell someone is hurting.
podboi · 2 points · Posted at 03:31:42 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'll have a crack at that then, whats happening? Shoot me a PM...
Skiddoosh · 2 points · Posted at 03:36:56 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Will do.
[deleted] · 25 points · Posted at 20:58:41 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)*
I just looked this up and I actually have all of the exaggerated features they draw on their faces: acne, clown lips (from eczema and allergies), glasses, and a unibrow.
Classic.
edit: and the moles! shit
Skiddoosh · 12 points · Posted at 00:09:37 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Aren't you so glad for the don't judge me challenge for promoting acceptance of your features?
[deleted] · 10 points · Posted at 02:00:37 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm very thankful they remembered the stereotypes of 1980s movies.
serg06 · 1 points · Posted at 21:01:24 on March 27, 2016 · (Permalink)
I think it started off as "don't judge ugly people" but turned into "don't judge me on days I don't wear makeup"
Nomulite · 1179 points · Posted at 15:15:32 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's just a bunch of pretty people making fun of ugly people yet somehow trying to convince everyone it was some type of progressive movement.
themuuule · 363 points · Posted at 16:43:54 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Thanks Papa Klein
NSA-RAPID-RESPONSE · 48 points · Posted at 22:24:48 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'M ETHANBRADBERRY!
[deleted] · 17 points · Posted at 22:23:31 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Don't Judge (GONE SEXUUALLLL)
[deleted] · 19 points · Posted at 22:18:24 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Papa bless
AllGloryToSatan · 10 points · Posted at 02:35:20 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
1 🙏 = 1 papa bless
🙏🙏🙏🙏 papa bless
[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 02:49:58 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Beau's in the house!
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 01:21:34 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
/r/h3h3productions is leaking
Lanceaway · 2 points · Posted at 03:49:40 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's always leaking, reddit loves that shit.
bcr76 · 9 points · Posted at 04:27:59 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Hell yeah we do. Vape Nation
LINK_DISTRIBUTOR · -25 points · Posted at 22:51:31 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
H3h3 wow so original autism sound hehehehe nice meme 10/10
ZEN797 · 20 points · Posted at 23:54:59 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Looks like someone needs a sodie pop
stangold_ · 17 points · Posted at 00:53:35 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Bet you aren't even part of VapeNation (tm)
[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 04:05:43 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
vape naasssssshhhhhheee
bcr76 · 3 points · Posted at 04:28:13 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Go Green
MagicalWeirdo · 29 points · Posted at 18:09:05 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Just a free pass to be a jerk.
poopthrowhitler · -41 points · Posted at 18:17:59 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Wait what. How is something like the ice bucket challenge have anything to do with attractiveness? Your comment sounds horribly bitter
6kami · 27 points · Posted at 18:20:47 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I think they were talking about the "Don't Judge" challenge.
Wiitard · 12 points · Posted at 18:21:00 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
No, it was that thing where kids would put a bunch of makeup on to look ugly, then through video editing "rub" it off and they look like their normal selves.
mcm743 · 6 points · Posted at 00:47:37 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Don't worry poopthrowhitler, I had no idea what they were talking about either.
poopthrowhitler · 3 points · Posted at 00:52:49 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
yea I'm feeling pretty silly right now
MrEnderGhast · 345 points · Posted at 15:54:24 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It was very annoying when one of the people I know wanted to do the ALS ice bucket challenge.
And she didn't even know what ALS was.
password_is_asdfghj · 613 points · Posted at 16:24:59 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
But that did successfully raise a lot of money and awareness for ALS
fratzcatsfw · 307 points · Posted at 17:04:57 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Wait, that was for ALS? I thought it was for climate change awareness. Well shit.
moonsidian · 309 points · Posted at 19:18:31 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
That makes sense, as the dumping of ice everywhere would lower temperatures worldwide.
TheGiik · 299 points · Posted at 19:49:10 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
you'd do great in /r/shittyaskscience
ensurge · 16 points · Posted at 20:01:53 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
if everybody in the world just left their fridge door open for an hour a day, the temperatures would drop and our ice bergs would be as big as ever
EvilDonuts6 · 5 points · Posted at 20:42:40 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
how big is ever?
passwordisaardvark · 4 points · Posted at 22:03:15 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
glaciers in the great lakes and shit
EvilDonuts6 · 3 points · Posted at 23:51:39 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
wow das big
Dre_PhD · 1 points · Posted at 00:31:02 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
glaciers carvin' out valleys and lakes and shit
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 00:51:33 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Asking the fucking important questions here.
MrMastodon · 1 points · Posted at 08:05:51 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Zaltor the Magnificent told me to do this. It hasn't been working.
JayGold · 3 points · Posted at 00:01:47 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Thus solving the problem once and for all.
MSI_fiend · 2 points · Posted at 03:06:28 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
This made me laugh very hard
fff8e7cosmic · 1 points · Posted at 04:47:01 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Just drop a giant ice cube into the ocean.
Crumps_brother · 1 points · Posted at 07:44:35 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Like building more wind farms. Those giant turbines make I nice cool breeze.
jcskarambit · 142 points · Posted at 17:29:45 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I don't care if you're being sarcastic.
It's legitimately funny.
fratzcatsfw · 11 points · Posted at 19:26:24 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yes! Finally, someone got my humor on reddit.
jigglehiggins · -24 points · Posted at 17:39:47 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
doesn't upvote
ankensam · 5 points · Posted at 18:29:30 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I think there was a second I've bucket challenge that was for climate change it's just that no one cared.
Rockonfoo · 5 points · Posted at 18:14:45 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yeah American Sign Language has never been more prevalent
daats_end · 1 points · Posted at 18:29:43 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
👌✌👉👋☝👍👎👊!
fireork12 · 5 points · Posted at 18:31:29 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
ಠ╭╮ಠ 👆
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 17:34:35 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
A funding campaign that was annually overfunded anyway.
Iancredible56 · 1 points · Posted at 00:11:14 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Good. Fuck ALS
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 03:27:32 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
If she didn't know what it was, can you really call it awareness?
moonra_zk · 1 points · Posted at 05:08:23 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Hmm, what is ALS?
Chewbacca_007 · -3 points · Posted at 17:29:21 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
How? None of the things I saw provided any information on donating on anything, no links or suggested charities or anything.
I guess celebrities might have donated. They have people to find that info for them.
OOH_WEBBY · 5 points · Posted at 18:03:49 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
http://time.com/money/4000583/ice-bucket-challenge-money-donations/
columbus8myhw · 2 points · Posted at 20:29:04 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
You could probably just Google "How do I donate for ALS"
-DisobedientAvocado- · 0 points · Posted at 19:24:50 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Many people "pledged" but never paid. These are mostly teenagers. Also one kid died attempting to use a tractor as the bucket.
_signal · 0 points · Posted at 21:02:33 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
For the company*. They took a huge percentage
password_is_asdfghj · 3 points · Posted at 22:03:41 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Supposedly the foundation is actually rated really well.
http://qz.com/257753/why-nobody-should-be-upset-that-als-foundation-only-spends-27-of-donations-on-research/
Kittehsgalore · 0 points · Posted at 00:38:18 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Is it really raising awareness if people don't even know what ALS is?
k-wagon · -4 points · Posted at 17:23:16 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
And now it's cured!
GhostAndGrace · 134 points · Posted at 17:14:52 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Uh... this is a perfect example of why this campaign worked.
ttchoubs · 14 points · Posted at 19:15:41 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yeah it was clever. They played to people's narcissism and desire to to do cool "wacky" internet trends for views and likes to raise a lot of money for a good cause
Killboypowerhed · 3 points · Posted at 20:18:30 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yep. I'd never heard of ALS but I did it and donated.
DirtyDan257 · 6 points · Posted at 22:24:58 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's more commonly referred to as Lou Gehrig's disease if you've heard of that.
lizbia · 6 points · Posted at 01:01:37 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Or motor neurone disease in the UK.
DirtyDan257 · 3 points · Posted at 01:02:45 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yea, I had a feeling it might not be referred to as that outside the United States.
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 03:28:59 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm a cynical asshole who shit on everyone who I knew did it.
chequilla · -13 points · Posted at 18:30:22 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Not really, because I'd bet that most people still don't know what ALS is, what it stands for, or why there was a challenge.....only that there was one.
Coldbeam · 9 points · Posted at 00:20:11 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Does that matter since it raised a bunch of money for research on it?
GhostAndGrace · 11 points · Posted at 00:36:01 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
"Oh, I guess u/chequilla BETS that most people don't know what ALS is. Guess those four hundred and forty MILLION views for our international, celebrity endorsed, highly recreated awareness campaign that raised heaps of money and is literally the subject of a thread u/chequilla is commenting on a year later DIDN'T WORK. Shut it down boys."
therealradriley · 6 points · Posted at 17:14:24 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
And she does now...hence the reason for the ice bucket challenge.
The_dog_says · 14 points · Posted at 16:58:01 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I got to see the girl I had a crush on in a bikini, so I'm not gonna complain.
Wiitard · 5 points · Posted at 18:22:24 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
MyMan.gif
TheHornyToothbrush · 1 points · Posted at 19:54:41 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Oh god this.
ScroopDoops · 3 points · Posted at 17:04:30 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Seems to me like the ice bucket challenge did its job, in terms of her now being aware of the disease. Maybe she looked it up and is now aware of how horrible it is.
Ice bucket challenge did a lot of good and spread a lot of knowledge about a debilitating condition
BerryGuns · 3 points · Posted at 19:14:07 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
That was for an actual good cause and raised a tonne of awareness. Pretty poor example
goldenrobotdick · 3 points · Posted at 20:44:34 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
That was sooo 2014
ThePittsburgher · 2 points · Posted at 17:03:44 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Most of the people I was friends with never donated money to ALS. Just a trending thing to do.
Not_A_Unique_Name · 2 points · Posted at 16:48:57 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Some people just threw buckets of ice on themself without even mentioning ALS.
Btw the challenge was either do the ice bucket thing or donate. Now im all for raising awareness but because it became so viral the ALS part became meaningless.
Eddie_Hitler · 5 points · Posted at 21:05:01 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
ALS deserves more awareness because not only is it devastating and totally untreatable, it's also pretty rare. A lot of people just don't know about it.
Here in the UK just 1 in 100 000 people will get it in some form, while the lion's share of that small number will be men over the age of 50. I know a retired general practitioner with 37 years of experience and literally countless patients. He reckons he only saw maybe 150 cases of motor neurone disease in his entire career.
Contrast that to the 1 in 3 for cancer of some kind.
Not_A_Unique_Name · 1 points · Posted at 08:43:06 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I agree with everything you said but I think that eventually ALS becamse just the name of this challenge because people didn't looked up what it meant.
LeizyLuned · 1 points · Posted at 21:25:29 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Here in Portugal the challenge spread in the most stupid way ever: it wasn't about ALS anymore, it was about paying someone for dinner. So, if I was challenged by a friend, I'd have to do the challenge, or else I'd have to pay dinner for that friend.
Then, I could challenge someone else who then would have to pay me dinner if they didn't do it.
I never understood how this happened, but no one doing it here had any clue about ALS and its relation to the ice bucket challenge.
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 23:38:18 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I made a habit of asking people if they knew what it was just to embarrass the hell out of them. If you're willing to dump a bucket of ice water over your head then maybe you'd be willing to do a cursory google search to find out what ALS stands for....maybe skim the wikipedia article.
MrKurteous · 13 points · Posted at 17:15:56 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Could someone explain this in greater detail? I googled it a bit, but I can't see how it started out as an anti-body shaming movement and ended up resulting in videos like this one.
Cryzgnik · 24 points · Posted at 17:40:12 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
In those challenge videos, people would make themselves look ugly, through make up smeared over their faces, ugly clothes, etc.
Then they would remove all of the stuff that makes them look ugly and would turn out to be an (arguably) attractive person.
The point was meant to be that you shouldn't judge people based on their looks, i.e. a "don't judge me" type of thing... when it was just attractive people seeking attention. Actual ugly people can't just take off their ugly - the people in those "challenge" videos were judging entirely on their appearances.
MrKurteous · 5 points · Posted at 20:03:50 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
That's feels like a very odd evolution of it... Thanks a lot for clarifying!
pizzaforthewin · 2 points · Posted at 17:43:57 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
People, most of the time Really good looking, would make their face look ugly then make the screen go black and boom they're back to their good looking self.
Avenged_Seven_Muse · 7 points · Posted at 16:49:30 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I absolutely HATED that challenge. Watching people full of themselves show off is not a damn challenge, it's a way to prove that they are pieces of human garbage.
MCHammer666 · 5 points · Posted at 21:56:55 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Like "Feeding the homeless" challenge. Why in the fuck does that need to be a challenge?!? How about you just do it and not make some big showing of it.
M3nt0R · 2 points · Posted at 03:41:35 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Because making a show of it makes a lot of people want to do it. Sure the motivation is narcissistic, but the result is more people were fed than otherwise.
Those that don't make a show of it do it anyway, and those seeking that attention do it too.
_coyotes_ · 3 points · Posted at 20:03:42 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
ALS Ice Bucket Challenge raised awareness and money.
Cinnamon Challenge was stupid but at least it was a challenge that wasn't an easy task.
Don't Judge Me Challenge: You can wipe the shit off your face, you are stupid and if you did that challenge, frig yourself.
I'd also like to include the worst trend of all time: "Put Em In A Coffin" which may have come out in 2016. It involves a person jumping on top of something in the form of a coffin. Many Vines have been made of people jumping on shit in department stores causing a mess and then sprinting out of the stores. People also do it on car hoods, people building sand castles and other things. If you do this, you are a prick and I hope if anyone sees you doing this, you get the shit beaten out of you. There have already been arrests made for people that do this.
Kryhavok · 2 points · Posted at 18:01:47 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
My work did this with a pie-in-the-face challenge to raise money for the charity we support, because after you got pied and donated your $10 you could nominate 3 people to get pied and donate their $10. They weren't hitting their fundraising goals, so it turned into a peer-pressure fundraising drive. Drove me nuts and I completely dodged it.
DrLeprechaun · 2 points · Posted at 00:09:54 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I always thought it was about pointing out your insecurities (a la if you're insecure about the bags under your eyes you make them more extreme) through extremities then wiping them away or something like that
UberCupcake · 4 points · Posted at 19:18:15 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Kylie Jenner Lip Challenge XD
beardedheathen · 1 points · Posted at 19:01:48 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Wow I somehow missed that one.
floppybunbun · 1 points · Posted at 21:28:22 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I see the 100 day happy challenge on Facebook. Them posting pictures of something that makes them happy usually something shit like a movie or a picture of them smiling because they got a new dress. So stupid. Screw your 100 days of happy.
Joald · 1 points · Posted at 22:14:53 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The Paradox Challenge: don't complete any challenges
screaming_for_memes · 1 points · Posted at 22:34:23 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
There are two "challenges". The edgy teenager ones and the general social media populance one.
Both are equally as stupid. WOWEE LOOK AT ME I CAN LIGHT MYSELF ON FIRE
Star_Tropic · 1 points · Posted at 23:16:26 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
They really all tend to be someone eating something. There's this really over weight YouTuber that does it and just eats things. Someone needs to just tell him "hey man you're an American.. Eat what ever you want because you don't need an excuse"
Melly94 · 1 points · Posted at 04:42:28 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Oh god, the Kylie Jenner challenge!
Zoklett · 1 points · Posted at 05:52:24 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Never heard of it, just googled it, omfg that is so cringey... So you made yourself ugly to get people to judge you so you could show them that deep down you're actually a beautiful girl with flawless hair and makeup? That'll show all those people who make fun of or rather don't want to date ACTUALLY UNATTRACTIVE PEOPLE. Wtf. Who thought that was a clever idea?
saxxy_assassin · 0 points · Posted at 15:49:34 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
you mean segways without handles?
weezermc78 · -1 points · Posted at 17:41:37 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The Ethan Bradbury challenge
NewToSociety · 802 points · Posted at 15:43:27 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I may be the only one this bothers, but I am already sick of dramas where every fucking character whispers every fucking line of dialogue. I'm looking at you, True Detective season 2.
zhuguli_icewater · 535 points · Posted at 19:55:41 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Every movie I watch.
I heavily rely on subtitles now.
Ghotimonger · 117 points · Posted at 21:19:59 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
WHY. This is a known issue for everyone, why do they keep mixing it like that? For theatre wow-factor?
Last_Gallifreyan · 93 points · Posted at 22:12:24 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It seems like modern sound editing as a whole is pretty bad. Most shows I watch seem really intent on drowning out the dialogue with music (Doctor Who is a really big offender of this), or just making certain things too quiet. I honestly have no idea how people get paid to make such awful sound mixing.
[deleted] · 24 points · Posted at 01:19:59 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I now have subtitles on as a default just so I can understand everything. It has gotten pretty fucking ridiculous.
HEMATOSPERMIA-MAN · 15 points · Posted at 03:30:49 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
its probably the director/sound guy mistaking volume contrast for "drama", ie. "we're gonna build this shit up real quiet like and then SHITS GONNA HIT THE FAN AND BLOW PEOPLES MINDS". but they go overboard and it just ends up annoying people.
buster2Xk · 4 points · Posted at 06:29:18 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Interestingly this is only Doctor Who in the US. The UK version of the show does not have this issue. So someone decides to take the original BBC footage and fuck the sound completely before sending it over to the States to be aired there. And yeah, Doctor Who really is the worst offender of this. Not just the huge difference between dialogue and other sound, but the fact that the soundtrack often drowns out the dialogue entirely.
Last_Gallifreyan · 2 points · Posted at 15:23:58 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I guess it's cause we're dumb Americans who need everything to be loud and in-your-face or else we'll lose interest?
Amp3r · 2 points · Posted at 23:29:52 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)*
They mix it for a 5.1 stereo system where all the dialogue goes through the centre speaker. Most TV's don't adjust it properly so the dialogue track gets blended in too quietly.
This is what I have been told by people who do mastering at least.
Atmelton · 2 points · Posted at 03:37:16 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Here is an ELI5 from last year that explains why the effect occurs
PaulTheGhost · 1 points · Posted at 05:50:36 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Most speakers that people hear movies on at home are often tiny (tv speakers, laptop speakers, headphones, etc) and they don't have the dynamic range to properly give the volume for both quiet and loud sounds. If anything, it's the DAC and equipment manufacturers not engineering for the way films are mixed. Watch an action movie on a receiver with late night mode, apartment mode, or high dynamic range mode. It compresses the low parts so they are as loud as the high parts.
not---a---bot · 1 points · Posted at 07:33:16 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
The issue is your tv/speaker system. Modern sounds mixers use 5.1 surround channel speakers or something higher. Your tv system probably uses 2.0 channel speakers unless you have a home theater with surround sound installed.
When you have 5.1 audio but you only have 2.0 speakers, your tv rebalances the audio but generally does a poor job of blending the channels together which gets you loud explosions and quiet whispers.
death_awaits_there · 1 points · Posted at 13:24:32 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Maybe modern sound mixers should mix for the sound system people actually have, not what modern sound mixers think they should have.
[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 22:34:53 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
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M3nt0R · 3 points · Posted at 03:43:45 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Because you hear it in your inner voice synchronized with the actual sound.
steelandblood · 2 points · Posted at 23:48:17 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
They do this with music, too. Quiet dialogue, then extremely loud music out of nowhere for a montage.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 02:19:40 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
ditto.
The problem is multipled because I have neighbours.
If I lived in a bubble would I'd just pump up the volume so I can hear both the talking and explosions (like in cinemas), but in the real world if I turn up the volume loud enough to hear the dialogue, it will PISS OFF my neighbours during the explosions
forever_clever · 1 points · Posted at 03:22:21 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
If you're my neighbor, I love you, man.
lorchard · 1 points · Posted at 02:16:44 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I can't remember which Quentin Tarantino movie it was, but he nailed this with his music.
AmArschAlter · 25 points · Posted at 19:04:00 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Reason nr. 1 I don't watch american series in english without subtitles, together with strong accents (fuck the walking dead, man). If they only could speak as clear as the synchronizing voice actors... :(
cmckone · 11 points · Posted at 20:57:16 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
yet any action scene is louder than a fucking deep purple concert
LobsterThief · 3 points · Posted at 03:33:15 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's like lens flairs for our ears.
theycallmecrabclaws · 3 points · Posted at 11:26:46 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Just assume it's Rick making a speech in a gravelly voice saying, "it doesn't have to be like this!"
notstephanie · 11 points · Posted at 19:45:45 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Thank you! This is why I can't get into all the shows everyone raves about. I have to turn the volume way up to hear dialogue and then turn it way down if no one is talking so I don't have a heart attack.
llcooljessie · 6 points · Posted at 20:50:42 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Everything was a secret!
Lyndsrarr · 6 points · Posted at 22:28:26 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Especially if you watch on a platform that has commercials. The sound is just prefect to where you can hear the show and BAM commercial that boats your ears off.
StopThePresses · 1 points · Posted at 01:18:33 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Didn't congress pass a law a couple years ago that was supposed to make that illegal?
M3nt0R · 2 points · Posted at 03:45:36 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
The commercials are at the proper volume. The shows are too, except the voice tracks. Explosions are still loud.
RootsRocksnRuts · 1 points · Posted at 06:42:14 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I think the way it works is commercials cannot be louder than the show. So the companies make the entire duration of the commercial the same volume as the loudest part of the show.
UniverseBomb · 4 points · Posted at 21:27:02 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's like they expect everyone to have a 5.1 surround system. You know what's worse? Because of how cheap built-in tv speakers are now, these shows sound better on old rear projection TVs.
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 02:21:13 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
tangentally related- youtube compilation videos where they don't normalise the volume before editing the clips together .
FlamingWings · 6 points · Posted at 02:49:20 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
seriously hate when any actor whispers lines. i know it is supposed to seem real, but I need to fucking here what you are saying
VelvetDreamers · 5 points · Posted at 21:09:50 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I now exclusively watch tv shows and movies with subtitles for this very reason. The inconsistency is so aggravating that I'm tired of using the remote to fluctuate whispers and mumbles in between crowds screaming, bombs, gunshot and fucking Dragon shrieking in Game of thrones.
jacksclevername · 4 points · Posted at 20:59:11 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
You made it through Season 2? You deserve a trophy.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:57:34 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
After that season I was just really sad for everyone involved.
DayMan4334 · 0 points · Posted at 22:05:28 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I sort of did (made a deal with my SO), good lord that was some of the worst tv I've ever seen
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 21:29:44 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yeah, that season was shit tbh
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 00:33:18 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Season 1 was one of my favourite seasons of any show i've watched. Maybe my favourite. Season 2 made me sad. (however many episodes I managed to get through before giving up.)
Jo-dan · 2 points · Posted at 05:37:47 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Use this VLC setting to fix the quiet dialogue. https://www.reddit.com/r/LifeProTips/comments/1me06t/lpt_if_a_movie_is_too_low_during_dialogues_use/
SatanicCatVideo · 2 points · Posted at 09:29:44 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Philippine soap operas have people yell everything
legendofhilda · 1 points · Posted at 23:28:47 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I wish it was just dramas. It seems like at least half the shows I watch do this shit. It was bad enough when just the commercial's volume varied wildly, now that crap happens in the show?? Bullshit.
Unheroic_ · 1 points · Posted at 23:34:47 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I don't really have that issue due to using headphones while watching that sort of series, but I definitely have a lot of trouble with heavily accented speech in english. I simply can't understand what Mads Mikkelsen and the entire Walking Dead cast is saying without subtitles. It annoys me so much.
DarkhorseRodeo · 1 points · Posted at 23:55:14 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
And this is why my wife has not watched all of "Drive". Tried to watch it at home and Gosling whispers half the dialogue followed by an excessively loud shotgun blast.
No thanks.
BlazedDonut420 · 1 points · Posted at 00:21:16 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
And then you turn it up, and a gunshot blasts your eardrums.
StarWarsPlusDrWho · 1 points · Posted at 04:25:32 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Like Bellatrix Lestrange from Harry Potter.
the_master_of_memes · 1 points · Posted at 04:36:27 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
24 was bad at it. Pretty much every single line Jack Bauer had, he would whisper it. That or he'd just yell "DAMMIT!"
DreaG · 1 points · Posted at 04:55:33 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
That was a weak follow up to season 1. I really hope the series survives it. Sigh...
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:14:48 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Why do people hate of True Detective season 2 so much? yeah the low levels for dialogue was not great, but I still think the show was good.
NewToSociety · 1 points · Posted at 05:15:55 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
You are wrong
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 05:47:43 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Why?
If you say 'it wasn't like the first season' you are a fucking idiot and that is the point, but if you have a real reason why it was 'bad' please explain; also 'just because' isn't an answer either.
NewToSociety · 1 points · Posted at 15:33:51 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Boy you sound like you're in a mood to listen.
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 19:37:21 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's more that people say the second season is not as good as the first season, but never provide real proof; I was just making sure you aren't going to use factless opinion to try and show that it's a bad season.
NewToSociety · 0 points · Posted at 21:13:03 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm sure fucking glad I have you fact checking my opinion. I'm thrilled to have such a highly respected member of the critical community demanding more of me and my opinion about whispering on TV, and how it makes dialogue unintelligible. Now let me waste my time proving to you that I am entitled to my opinion because you were nice enough to call me a "fucking idiot."
Season 1 was tight as a drum. There were two main characters trying to find one guy. That was the arc. It was so simple it allowed the investigation to take place over decades. The characters changed, they were dynamic. They had personal lives and histories that could be explored in depth, without sacrificing the depth of the investigation they participated in. It ended with the main characters discovering that what they were investigating was massive, and possibly worldwide, and far too much for them take down. They are at peace with that though, and ride off into the sunset.
Season 2 starts with four main characters, each played by major celebrities, all four of whom are at very different points in their career, so you know off the bat that the power dynamic behind the scenes is fucked to pieces. So two episodes in and the whole thing is a murky mess. Four characters are too many, and the mystery itself is weird and hard to follow. Somebody is doing shady land deals for a highway, but he died but the land deal is going forward, maybe because Russians, and Vince Vaughn (in the most out-of-place role of his life) is getting screwed so his friend, a cop who murdered somebody a long time ago, goes to talk to a mayor who is obviously dirty and drunk, but incredibly unhelpful, he doesn't actually do anything throughout the entire series, so we wonder why he is even involved, but his kids are wierdos too, and hes rich, so that guy doesn't help. So theres a lady cop, (Played by the most respected, but the least bankable of the actors, so they try way too hard to give her "challenging" things to do) who was in a relationship with somebody at work, or maybe it was everybody, and they ask her for help, but she keeps getting distracted by her family, a dad who is a priest and a sister who is a sex worker and she just preaches at them and never really connects to the crime so Colin Farrell (the most bankable and, therefore, powerful star) has to take matters into his own hands to deal with this mysterious dead pervert, because he died for some reason, and was found by a motorcycle cop (the least respected actor, so they give him like two character traits to play with, one of them being 'gay').... See what I mean? Its confusing, not mysterious and scatterbrained, instead of focused. And this is just the first two episodes. Then, they do something awesome. They kill the most powerful actor. The guy whose character was overpowering the most respected character and suggesting using her as a whore, cramping the growth of the most out-of-place actor by preventing him from using their common connections, and filling the masculine role that should belong to the least respected actor. Maybe this will give the other three characters a chance to grow? Maybe it will help simplify the plot. Oh wait, hes not dead? So, later, when other characters start to die, I won't be able to take it seriously? Great. Well, he got killed by a shadowy birdman in a den of sin... Maybe it will tie into season one's Carcosa theme. It was supposed to be nation wide. Nope. Just some kid who is tangentially related? Who is the villian? Will they stop whispering so I can try to figure this out?
Episode 10 rolls around and they are still introducing bad guys and I seriously can't keep up. But if it's "facts" you want, here is the President of Programming over at HBO apologizing for season 2, personally.
But, really, when I think about it, I hate it "just because", asswipe.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:24:07 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)*
See, there you go, you provided evidence that is actually relevant. Thank you for not being the usual "just because".
Also, if you think that season 1 is about one guy, you need to rewatch it, it's about multiple people, a child sex-ring and corruption. Did you forget about the pastor that was let go in the end of the first season? Also, did you forget that the main villain was working with other people?
The second season is weaker, but by all means there is justification for the issue of constant villain introduction; they are dealing with organized crime.
Also, the article you linked places blame on the network itself, not on the show. That speaks volumes.
NewToSociety · 1 points · Posted at 22:10:39 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yellow King. One bad guy. Focus.
And it blames the network for the show being bad.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:19:08 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yellow King=main bad guy. The pastor was actively covering for and participating in the sex ring. Just because the Yellow King is the 'leader' doesn't mean that their aren't others. There is a conversation between Rustin and Martin after they kill the Yellow King about how their job isn't actually done, but it will have to do.
NewToSociety · 1 points · Posted at 00:07:38 on March 26, 2016 · (Permalink)
That's not the point. I'm not talking about the Yellow Kings role in a real functioning sex ring. I mean, in the second episode of season 1 they start hunting the Yellow King. Then they spend nine episode hunting him down and killing him. That's setup, focus and payoff. What was the objective in Season 2?
SirRogers · 1 points · Posted at 05:24:56 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Somewhat related: sitcoms where its like the characters are trying to speak as fast as auctioneers or something. I don't know if they think its somehow funnier, but I can't imagine why it would be.
llama_laughter · 1 points · Posted at 07:31:10 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
As someone who works weekend overnights and would like to watch tv or a movie before going to bed at 9am, this is literally the worst. I tend to just watch HGTV because I can turn the volume down and still get all the visuals since all the shows I want to watch is going to have a mix of action/whisper scenes.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 09:51:24 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
On a similar note, different shows on Netflix seem to have completely different volumes.
demonicdrummerboy · 1 points · Posted at 10:52:24 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Walking dead too
ChuushaHime · 1 points · Posted at 14:58:08 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I hate in movies and tv how acting with inflection and feeling seems to have taken the backburner to this low-volume near-monotone. When used well it can convey a solemn or serious feel but if every line of dialogue is spoken like this regardless of context it's so annoying.
taewooky · 1 points · Posted at 02:06:55 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Most disappointing thing in 2015
xxnekochan666xx · 966 points · Posted at 15:37:04 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The Kylie Jenner lip challenge. I'm not gonna blame her for it since she never encouraged it but it was really messed up. There were injuries ranging from broken blood vessels to the glass people were using breaking and splitting their lip open.
Papa_Hemingway_ · 494 points · Posted at 18:40:24 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
That's almost as hilarious as the dumbasses setting themselves on fire
lalorobot · 35 points · Posted at 20:18:47 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Explain please
long_live_rattlehead · 86 points · Posted at 20:26:37 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The "challenge" was to pour nail polish remover on yourself and light it. Most people did it in the shower or by a pool, so it wasnt fatal.
DSdavidDS · 72 points · Posted at 20:58:59 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Are people really that dumb? Who puts fuel on themselves and lights it as a "challenge"?
TheManlyBanana · 26 points · Posted at 22:11:12 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Stunt people
russman0996 · 18 points · Posted at 22:59:27 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
WHO'S READY FOR A BIG ASS STUNT?!?!?!?
xxnekochan666xx · 17 points · Posted at 23:23:13 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's just a stunt bro
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 06:42:53 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
GONE SEXUAL!!!!
palenerd · 7 points · Posted at 02:05:07 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Some fuels will leave enough water when they burn that you will be protected. A friend of mine did it with acetone (nail polish remover) a few years ago; said the water protection worked but that the acetone burned too hot to be comfortable.
PM_ME_BAKED_ZITI · 2 points · Posted at 03:58:05 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Hand sanitizer is better for this, the water and gel part help keep your skin cool, and iirc the alcohol burns at a lower temp
101311092015 · 2 points · Posted at 17:16:00 on March 26, 2016 · (Permalink)
yup and chemist here, DONT FUCK WITH ACETONE!
slnz · 1 points · Posted at 22:00:17 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yes, yes they are. They really are that dumb.
SchmexyNinja · 1 points · Posted at 05:40:29 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Darwin award winners
Kii_and_lock · 1 points · Posted at 07:31:41 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Same idiots that did that ice-salt "challenge" and end up with a patch of frostbite, I imagine.
ObscureUserName0 · 1 points · Posted at 11:52:33 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
People who are mentally challenged I assume.
[deleted] · 18 points · Posted at 20:38:39 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
They could have done the gene pool a favor by just going directly with the jump off a cliff challenge.
chronicallyfailed · 11 points · Posted at 21:37:40 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
SWISS EUTHANASIA CLINIC CHALLENGE 2016
xVale · 1 points · Posted at 00:50:38 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
"Most people"
Monaroob · 1 points · Posted at 20:43:03 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
"most" Hahaha
TheUltimateTeigu · 7 points · Posted at 20:25:43 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Some other challenge. You could probably Google "set yourself on fire challenge" and find it yourself.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 21:05:40 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's called the Fire Challenge, IIRC. You basically put some flammable substance on you and light it. People's hair and stuff caught on fire, it wasn't a good time.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 21:45:24 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I remember recently (this year) some guy lit his arms on fire and did a flaming dab before putting it out
Grumpy_Bump · 5 points · Posted at 20:37:00 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Or the drink bleach challenge kid on youtube
Ryutohara · 2 points · Posted at 23:38:48 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
What?
REB3LxSOUL · 2 points · Posted at 03:29:41 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Or the cut for Bieber shit that happened a few years back
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:53:16 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
wat
turdmogrol · 1 points · Posted at 18:05:44 on March 28, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yeah, I think natural selection is pretty funny.
Mgamerz · 16 points · Posted at 22:57:21 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I bruised my mouth as a kid doing that like 20 years ago. Does this make me a hipster?
EveryGoodUNWasTaken · 45 points · Posted at 18:26:43 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
What?
xxnekochan666xx · 77 points · Posted at 18:55:59 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Kylie Jenner got lip injections, people tried to replicate her big lips by sucking on shot glasses. It either made their lips look ridiculously big, broke their blood vessels, or cut their lips.
http://images.lifeandstylemag.com/uploads/images/file/15227/lips3.png?fit=crop&w=680
http://images.thehollywoodgossip.com/iu/s--IAhlm1KI--/t_full/f_auto,fl_lossy,q_75/v1429644784/kylie-jenner-lip-challenge-gone-wrong.jpg
http://cdn.scahw.com.au/cdn-1d07bcb3e2712b0/ImageVaultFiles/id_342830/cf_3/lips-2-website-main-628-image-with-credit-1-.jpg
HaroldSax · 29 points · Posted at 21:36:57 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Dear God that second one. 942 nopes.
Eurynom0s · 4 points · Posted at 04:14:13 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Why not 943?
Regendorf · 5 points · Posted at 05:13:05 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
We have to draw a line somewhere.
xeothought · 1 points · Posted at 06:07:09 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I agree. It was getting out of hand.
amateursexoffender · 5 points · Posted at 19:33:31 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm pretty sure she told reporters she sucks on bottle caps or something to deny injections.
Upallnight56789 · 31 points · Posted at 20:11:04 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
No, she didn't. She actively discouraged people from doing it. It was only named after her because she had huge lips
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 06:45:27 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
She actually admitted to having lip fillers. So she definitely didn't endorse sucking on shot glasses.
InfiniteBlink · -5 points · Posted at 20:39:28 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Its a sure fire way to spot stupid narcissistic women though...
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 19:00:14 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I second this inquiry.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 06:42:23 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I actually have a lip pump that does bruise your lips for the first time using it/if you don't use it for a while. However, it does work decently when used properly. That said, this is not the same thing as sucking on a damn shot glass...which can break, and shatter shards of glass everywhere including in your mouth.
Kylie even admitted that she had surgical intervention in her lips. Why are people trying to get a look that can only be achieved through a doctor and their needle full of Juvaderm?!
Drkshadow92 · 3 points · Posted at 18:27:46 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Ohhhhh! You mean 'have lips like a black person' challenge? Been going 24 years strong in that one...
TheHeroicOnion · 4 points · Posted at 01:12:30 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
They deserve it.
Melly94 · 2 points · Posted at 04:45:34 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's ridiculous how all these kids thought they could get the same look from suctioning something to their lips when it's obvious Kylie has had work done.
mollypop94 · 1 points · Posted at 22:04:31 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Oh no, I love it. I love watching stupid people getting hurt.
DramaOnDisplay · -27 points · Posted at 18:42:44 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
FIFY
eiddieeid · 23 points · Posted at 19:14:07 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
She can do stupid stuff, but in comparison to the other stunts her family pulls, she isn't too too aggravating. And she has the yams
lolotron · 3 points · Posted at 21:23:15 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yams?
anthonyterms · 26 points · Posted at 21:34:05 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The yam is the power that be
lolotron · 8 points · Posted at 23:18:45 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I completely understand now
Upallnight56789 · 17 points · Posted at 20:11:38 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
DAE the Kardashians are literally Hitler
theafonis · 2 points · Posted at 00:57:46 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
What does DAE mean? keep seeing all over reddit today
LeKrizz · 5 points · Posted at 01:02:57 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I thought it meant "Does anybody else", but I'm not quite sure about that anymore seeing how people use it lately...
karmapuhlease · 3 points · Posted at 03:51:00 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yes, it does. People use it to say things like "DOES ANYONE ELSE SHARE THIS OPINION THAT WE'RE ALL CIRCLEJERKING ABOUT?"
hushzone · 9 points · Posted at 19:17:49 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
So edgy
TheHornyToothbrush · -6 points · Posted at 19:56:43 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Well she's hot.
paradoxicalme · 3603 points · Posted at 12:57:41 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Not just clickbait, but the fucking awful clickbait websites that are coated in ads, the clickbait is a slideshow, the arrow to go to the next slide is buried in a sea of ads, and halfway through the slideshow they redirect you to some other shitty slideshow.
They're basically cancer in a website.
Rush_nj · 753 points · Posted at 13:52:28 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The worst is when you go to click the arrow and the ad that was slow to load suddenly pops up just as you were about to move on so you end up clicking that instead.
heisenfgt · 415 points · Posted at 16:05:17 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
That's 100% on purpose.
feartrich · 6 points · Posted at 01:48:37 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
You're gonna bounce from the link immediately. That's money down the drain.
If I were running ads and I saw a site pulling this on purpose, I would not be happy.
I_FAP_TO_TURKEYS · 3 points · Posted at 02:08:39 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
These are usually Pay Per Impression ads. They pay like $3.50 for every 1000 impressions, so they basically are gonna pay anyways. If one of these impressions gets a customer, then that's like instant profit.
If it was Pay Per Click then it likely wouldn't be shared on popular websites since most people don't click ads, the website will earn more per Impression that they make. This only works if the website is popular. If the website isn't popular then the advertiser will pay every time someone clicks.
Jidesia · 221 points · Posted at 15:35:32 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Might not have been a coincidence. Some of them are made to pop up only when you move your mouse after a set idle time or hover over a set spot.
PimpNinjaMan · 24 points · Posted at 19:28:54 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yup. In my (very brief) tenure as a web developer I had an assignment to implement a javascript window that didn't pop up until after something on the page had already been clicked. We designed websites for car dealerships so there was a lot of stuff to click, and some old-school ad-blockers would only work on the first page load. It was basically set up so that if you clicked the "next" button on a slideshow of a car, the pop up ad would appear over the slideshow, making many users think the ad was part of the slideshow.
I felt like I was working for Satan.
Cynepkokc · 9 points · Posted at 20:28:31 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Well.. you were. That is malicious as fuck. Ad companies are the worst.
wrathfulgrapes · 2 points · Posted at 17:40:22 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I heard from a friend that, uh, porn websites are the worst at this shit. Especially mobile sites.
17michela · 4 points · Posted at 23:45:23 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Those ads on porn sites that redirect you to essentially rule 34 are the worst. Nobody wants to see that shit.
Steveytsejam · 1 points · Posted at 17:59:25 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
That's just evil
IrenaeusGSaintonge · 1 points · Posted at 18:36:24 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I hate the ones that have a full page ad pop up as I move my mouse to close the window. That's just transparently desperate.
Dioxycyclone · 1 points · Posted at 22:26:19 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Motherfuckers.
shivabitch · 2 points · Posted at 17:21:27 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I give websites 3 chances to not do that. Then after that I never visit them again on purpose. This shit is irritating as fuck.
ElolvastamEzt · 2 points · Posted at 18:45:22 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Sometimes it's a loading issue, but most often it's script that makes the page jump or the elements move at a mouseover command. Shitheads.
WilhelmScreams · 1 points · Posted at 20:35:07 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The worst is when the arrow is actually a disguised ad and the real arrow is smaller.
whyiseverynam · 1 points · Posted at 23:30:18 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I seethe when it happens, it's so unnecessary.
Comin_Up_Thrillho · 1 points · Posted at 01:48:31 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Even Gmail does that shit now. It's the worst.
Sir_Giraffe161 · 1 points · Posted at 02:08:03 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
And as you keep clicking, the pages load slower. And slower. And Slower.
Jacosion · 1 points · Posted at 03:17:40 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I hate youtube for this. I try and click on a video and suddenly I'm watching a car commercial.
Monaroob · 1 points · Posted at 11:54:19 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Looking at you Youtube....
David920 · 1 points · Posted at 14:14:45 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Mobile YouTube does this shit too. You go to click on the first video but an ad comes up in place of it knocking the first video down.
BrutalSaint · 137 points · Posted at 14:03:00 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
That isn't a trend of 2015, it's been going on for years.
shakmbakm · 2 points · Posted at 19:27:41 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
You are probably right, it seems like people have just started noticing though. Be careful the ads will adapt.
needsmoresteel · 1 points · Posted at 21:56:05 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The trend I seemed to notice most in 2015 was the close button getting smaller or otherwise harder to see by making it close to the same color as the background.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:47:01 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yeah but south park made an episode about it in 2015 meaning its valid
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 03:24:32 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Decades, even. 😞
Maryann182 · 49 points · Posted at 13:48:49 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)*
and if you accidentally click on one of the adds they make it so much effort for you to get back to where you are reading.
It's extra horrible when you read it on your phone.
EDIT: I meant to say read it* not reddit.
rangemaster · 3 points · Posted at 17:32:28 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
On redditisfun for android when you follow a link you can use the back button to go back even when the browser won't let you.
akpenguin · 2 points · Posted at 22:38:49 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
what bothers (only a tiny bit) me with doing that is the back button sends me back to reddit, not the page i wanted to get back to.
but then i realize that if a website is going to do that shit, it's not worth my time to look at, and i move on
rangemaster · 2 points · Posted at 22:41:02 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Hmm. For me it just sends me back to the comment that had the link in the first place.
akpenguin · 1 points · Posted at 00:26:43 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yeah, that's what I meant by "back to Reddit". Should have been clearer.
InRealLifeImQuiteBig · 1 points · Posted at 17:26:10 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Alien blue is strangely ad free....
AlissaAppeltjes · 1 points · Posted at 21:13:53 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I have a Windows Phone and I use Baconit. I don't even have ads.
pdmcmahon · 6 points · Posted at 15:48:13 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Sometimes, I actually do want to see the "top 20 whatevers", but trying to do so on a mobile device is a lesson in frustration. Each of them is on a new page, and it's littered with ads which make the entire mobile experience about as fun as pooping without using your hands.
FlyinPurplePartyPony · 6 points · Posted at 17:27:00 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
You poop with your hands?
pdmcmahon · 2 points · Posted at 17:27:58 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
You don't?
FlyinPurplePartyPony · 3 points · Posted at 17:53:26 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)*
No, I prefer to use my butthole.
pdmcmahon · 2 points · Posted at 18:14:48 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
What a weirdo!
FlyinPurplePartyPony · 2 points · Posted at 18:33:43 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Speak for yourself, handpooper.
pdmcmahon · 2 points · Posted at 18:54:05 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I have eight fingers and two thumbs at my disposal, you have a single hairy butthole. Who has the advantage now?
FlyinPurplePartyPony · 2 points · Posted at 18:56:12 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Well, firstly, a butthole is actually a hole. I shudder to thing of how poop emerges from you.
pdmcmahon · 3 points · Posted at 18:57:19 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Usually out of my mouth, if you ask my friends, co-workers, family, etc.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 14:11:21 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Add to this that apparently Facebook's algorithm thinks these are by far the most worthy things to show up in my news feed.
Isord · 3 points · Posted at 14:30:12 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
If a slideshow is involved, I'm out. Fuck slideshows.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 16:27:59 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I was on fivethirtyeight.com a week ago, which is a political and sports statistical analysis website. It's owned by ESPN. Well, there was some article on there by the "food writer" for fivethirtyeight. WTF is a food writer doing on there? Anyways, it was just a two page freaking article about some rice maker that she loves and how it changed her life. It was a fucking ad.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 18:09:32 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's all stolen content with 8 pages to show 8 images. It's ridiculous.
macphile · 2 points · Posted at 18:22:22 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Less bothersome but common and annoying: "Wait, don't go!" pop-ups. I was looking at a page yesterday and had that message come up when I went to look at another tab. I wasn't even closing their window. I wanted the information on that window. But as soon as my pointer moved towards the navigation, it put up a shitty message that I then had to close.
hadriker · 2 points · Posted at 19:35:29 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
My favorites are the ones that take askreddit threads and turn them into click bait articles. I see them all the time.
Drizen · 1 points · Posted at 23:14:31 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
or any reddit thread for that matter. /r/TIFU and /r/PSBattles are other good ones they like to use.
MistaGav · 1 points · Posted at 14:33:03 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Not just that, but the clickbait slideshow is usually screengrabs from a video which you then have to click to the very end to find the actual video itself.
skelebone · 1 points · Posted at 14:36:24 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Embedded ads in pages or mobile articles that automatically shunt you to the download page for an app on Google Play.
nomnomnompizza · 1 points · Posted at 16:22:52 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I hate when it's actually a list that seems interesting. I swear 90% of those sites are all ran by one company.
Drizen · 1 points · Posted at 23:15:58 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I reckon they are too. They all have the same layout and ads. I don't bother looking at them anymore either
Inthe_shadows · 1 points · Posted at 16:29:27 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I love south parks take on this
PhillyWick · 1 points · Posted at 16:34:26 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
If you're still seeing ads on the internet in 2015, you're doing it wrong.
jigglehiggins · 1 points · Posted at 17:40:58 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Or a Destiny PowerPoint
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:26:47 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The finale of season 19 of south park shows this so well
moonsidian · 1 points · Posted at 19:19:24 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I concur; yet I will still click on them.
manawesome326 · 1 points · Posted at 19:34:38 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Even worse when the entire thing is in comic sans.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:38:00 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I don't know anybody who doesn't actually use an adblocker.
Ihavenofriendzzz · 1 points · Posted at 20:45:12 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Has anyone ever bought something because of one of those websites? "No! Not the ad, the arrow! Fuck this website! Let me just see the slideshow. Why is it taking so long to load! Oh, well since I accidentally clicked on this ad I might as well order this useless thing." No, it just makes me angry.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:50:54 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I followed one of those sites once out of curiosity, but it just seemed to lead to an endless thing of more clickbait bullcrap links. What is the endgame for those sites?
tomolone · 1 points · Posted at 21:17:24 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Ads? What are those? /s
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:44:27 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
You'll be happy to know Hulk Hogan just gave an atomic leg drop to the big bad corporation that controlled most of those websites
Merax75 · 1 points · Posted at 23:11:38 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Even worse when you're on mobile. Why can't I scroll this article? Oh, you wanted to load a fucking video ad right in the middle of it...
TexasWithADollarsign · 1 points · Posted at 23:34:14 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Also: Slideshows that say they're 10 slides long, but the 10th one is an ad or a prompt to see a different slideshow.
lovelywhale · 1 points · Posted at 01:40:00 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
So what did we learn? Adblock
DaMoff · 1 points · Posted at 02:37:42 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
The scrolling ads are what kill me, halfway down the fucking page every time.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 02:57:15 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
This has been going on since before 2015
transanethole · 1 points · Posted at 03:44:07 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
adblock?????
Aerik · 1 points · Posted at 03:56:22 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm sick of people calling things cancer.
stop it you unoriginal hiveminded twits
He_Went_2_Jared · 1 points · Posted at 04:06:04 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Someone should make a google chrome add-on that blocks out this shit. Like if you see a site you could flag it and everybody would find out or some shit idk
tuvix_was_murdered · 1 points · Posted at 05:01:47 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
So basically every site that Takei links to. Yeah, I said it.
VanillaDong · 1 points · Posted at 07:02:57 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I guess you've never had cancer.
DocGerbill · 1 points · Posted at 09:27:06 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
AdBlocker plus and Ghostly get rid of most of these, I don't even get the fucking reddit silly moos ads anymore
darkcustom · 0 points · Posted at 15:17:24 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
People still don't use ad blockers?
witch-finder · 1 points · Posted at 15:47:03 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Phones generally don't have ad blockers.
tbriz · 701 points · Posted at 19:56:19 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Everything being a "hack":
Ten easy hacks to brushing your teeth! 1. Use toothpaste with fluoride. 2...
HidingHarmony · 64 points · Posted at 22:10:28 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
WHAT'S NUMBER 2!?
Eurynom0s · 34 points · Posted at 04:16:07 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I don't know but DOCTORS DON'T WANT YOU TO KNOW ABOUT IT
lousy_beatnik · 5 points · Posted at 16:29:12 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
"DENTISTS HATE HIM!"
practicing_vaxxer · 7 points · Posted at 23:05:26 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Um, nothing to do with your toothbrush, I hope...?
LobsterThief · 5 points · Posted at 03:45:13 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Floss.
ProffAwesome · 4 points · Posted at 05:27:05 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Number 2 will blow your mind!
CSMom74 · 15 points · Posted at 00:36:00 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I refuse to click on sites that use the word hack instead of "tip" like that.
MountainsOfDick · 9 points · Posted at 01:23:31 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Whites girls on snapchat "hacking" their friends phone by picking it up and taking a picture on their story.
[deleted] · 11 points · Posted at 01:56:31 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Now I want to make an app that recognizes the word "hack" upon submission on any app. If hack is used incorrectly you have to sit through an hour of black screen with fast-flowing green text to confirm you want to submit the post.
crazed3raser · 6 points · Posted at 02:51:41 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
"Hacking" your friend's facebook = posting "I like boys" when they are away from the comp.
firesmacker · 2 points · Posted at 03:13:18 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Ah, yes, the "hackers without hats," as I call them.
jef4490 · 4 points · Posted at 23:14:56 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
"Number 9 changes everything..."
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 00:39:25 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Number 9 will BLOW your mind...
TheNewGuyNickD · 2 points · Posted at 16:37:28 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I hate life hacks that make life unnecessarily harder. "Life hack: build your own sponges"
Aplayer12345 · 1 points · Posted at 06:57:10 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
1337 h4x0r 553375
Hairy_The_Spider · 1451 points · Posted at 16:02:46 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The "Don't Judge Me Challenge".
Basically a bunch of pretty people try to look as horrendous as possible then suddenly "transform" into super good looking people (which they all are).
I don't understand the point. It's called the "Don't Judge Me Challenge" but basically you're just judging people on their appearance.
Besides, actual ugly people can't participate at all since they don't get to transform.
Here's a compilation: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2VDLPiEdp74
Daver2442 · 938 points · Posted at 18:08:54 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
So glad this is the first I'm hearing of this.
iLiektoReeditReedit · 228 points · Posted at 20:39:40 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I was just about to say how proud of my facebook friends I am.
meme_teen · 7 points · Posted at 03:32:49 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
You probably have ugly facebook friends.
[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 23:30:23 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Apart from feeling like a pedophile at work, I had to shut it down after the first idiot in the video went full duckface. Jesus Christ, my blood pressure after this...
KnightInDulledArmor · 2 points · Posted at 02:38:08 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm with you on that one.
-WPD- · 2 points · Posted at 02:48:07 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
It just seems like somebody went to /r/PrettyGirlsUglyFaces and made it a "challenge"
[deleted] · -11 points · Posted at 23:54:54 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Welcome to the generation that will eventually be doing our taxes, administering our medication, and providing us with top quality childcare. Fuck me.
Daver2442 · 9 points · Posted at 00:02:00 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm part of that generation. Check this out if you actually feel that way. We've got some idiots sure, but every 'generation' does.
[deleted] · -5 points · Posted at 00:09:17 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Thank's for posting this. I was there. I was one of those kids that the adults would wonder about, if I would ever "get it right"... But to be fair to your generation (and I'm only 31 so only slightly older than you, I'm assuming), it's the culture that's been created by my parents, and us, in producing the outcome we see in your generation. The consumption, "individuality", vapidity, entitlement.... We have to take credit for it. It was not bred out of nothing.
TheMonsterVotary · 8 points · Posted at 01:54:02 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
The generation you're making fun of spans from 1980 to 1999. You're in that generation of "idiots"
theafonis · 0 points · Posted at 00:52:46 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Wow you sound crotchety
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 13:27:54 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I am :/
RobHalfordRapedLars · 5 points · Posted at 01:09:15 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
You sound dumb.
OneAndAHalfNuts · 534 points · Posted at 20:39:33 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
As awful as that is, the first fat kid to take his shirt off and start dancing cracked me up.
ShitlordiusPrime · 77 points · Posted at 00:35:37 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
The girl with the fries that switched to burger was pretty funny, too.
[deleted] · 30 points · Posted at 23:34:14 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)*
Yeah, I also liked the guy with the short curly hair who suddenly had long straight shiny hair, but otherhwise looked exactly the same. It's as if the person who put together that youtube video couldn't tell who was really into the trend and who was making a joke video? I only got about 3 minutes in and there were 2 or 3 that made me laugh, but most were kind of disgusting. Like, "Oh! there are face pimples on my face! Wait, now I have clear skin and I'm hot!" wtf...
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 04:07:46 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Link for the lazy
OneAndAHalfNuts · 2 points · Posted at 04:10:39 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Is that the same one that is linked directly above? Who is this lazy?
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 04:49:38 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
My link goes directly to the part that you were describing. It's a six second clip in a ten minute video.
MrRandomSuperhero · 1 points · Posted at 01:19:30 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
That right there is some actual 'Don't judge'-challenge.
half_pasta_ · 1 points · Posted at 04:13:44 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
had me laughin 2
Enghiskhan · 1 points · Posted at 04:29:52 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Agreed, that was brilliant.
bluetux · 1 points · Posted at 05:59:20 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
the girls' right after that I thought was pretty funny
SirAlexH · 1 points · Posted at 21:16:41 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Which one is that?
Lawl0MG · 10 points · Posted at 21:28:52 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's about a minute into the video, it's pretty funny honestly.
sofakingcheezee · 33 points · Posted at 21:37:58 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
That one was hilarious. The girl who kept smacking the camera was kinda funny too.
But the first guy one... I've never wanted to smack someone in the face so hard so those two.
GoChangeYourHuggies · 572 points · Posted at 17:39:22 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The stupid faces they make are what pisses me off the most. It makes me want to slap the shit out of them.
armorandsword · 263 points · Posted at 21:01:58 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Wow the ones with the guys are sickening
laddergoat89 · 185 points · Posted at 21:28:50 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I very rarely find 'cringe' stuff that bad or uncomfortable to watch.
But this shit...
DrPac · 1 points · Posted at 01:27:41 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
/r/cringe
Get started.
Larjersig18 · 1 points · Posted at 03:36:14 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
/r/cringe/top
Now we're cooking.
DrPac · 1 points · Posted at 03:37:33 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
aw yea
Larjersig18 · 2 points · Posted at 03:43:46 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Hell no is more of the spirit in this particular case.
Roses88 · 3 points · Posted at 02:46:55 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I literally wanted to rip out the tongue of the guy in pink at the beginning
SHIT_DOWN_MY_PEEHOLE · 1 points · Posted at 04:35:59 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
My brothers and everyone I know would slap me and call me a tool
alblaster · 1 points · Posted at 06:53:09 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
yeah when they go their good looking selves they almost all look like Beiber. Is that a thing now?
screwyouthatswhy_ · 0 points · Posted at 23:16:44 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
What guys? All I saw was bitches.
fullchaos40 · 1 points · Posted at 06:19:01 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
The word you're looking for is fuckboys.
speedyspaghetti · 0 points · Posted at 04:07:35 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Is that was masculinity is today? Plucked eyebrows, stupid hair, earrings, and looking like you're squinting into the core of the sun?
mollypop94 · 132 points · Posted at 22:03:21 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The ones with the guys are the worst. Don't get me wrong, girls pouting in that way is sickening, but the teenage boys in those shitty videos...
They do this weird thing where they squint, lower their head and raise their eyebrows whilst biting their lip. Why.
spryte333 · 59 points · Posted at 02:05:24 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
So this basically? http://imgur.com/gallery/vSCy0zd (ignore the imgur title here)
atree496 · 3 points · Posted at 09:35:32 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Holy shit that is so accurate
jeffzhang69 · 10 points · Posted at 03:18:37 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
They're pretentious retards. That's why.
andyswanson · 2 points · Posted at 03:32:04 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Nailed it.
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 04:04:31 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
And they rub their face. Creepies
TallyMay · 9 points · Posted at 22:39:53 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Athough you made some details incorrect, that's the way model's pose for camera to look maximal0ly good looking. What is that they're going for.
staphinflection · 11 points · Posted at 23:03:33 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Constipation
TheMatterWithYouRock · 5 points · Posted at 04:38:25 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's the new Blue Steel
[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 01:55:10 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
[deleted]
gajenn · 3 points · Posted at 05:55:38 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I think they learn it from that Bieber fellow!
ReallySampy · 2 points · Posted at 07:02:09 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Sex
ghostpoopftw · 2 points · Posted at 09:24:29 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's so hot right now
iaccidentallyawesome · 1 points · Posted at 04:52:26 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I actually found them quite hot. So they must be doing sth right
DramaOnDisplay · 11 points · Posted at 18:41:48 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Shut up! This could totally lead to a full time gig making stupid faces at the camera!
SonOfZaknafein · 5 points · Posted at 23:21:54 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
No shit. The sticking the tongue out thing makes me mad the most.
GoChangeYourHuggies · 1 points · Posted at 12:49:10 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
And the way the guys rub up on their face like they've got facial hair or something.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 06:39:20 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm going to give them the benefit of the doubt and suggest that maybe they all have a horrendously long mutant worm eyelash stuck in their eye and that's why they're blinking furiously like that in their "beautiful" segment.
Sterling_Archer_ISIS · 196 points · Posted at 19:14:51 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm so confused by this. Actually, I think the people who are doing this are the ones confused. This is absolutely stupid. From what I can tell, the point is supposed to be that "you shouldn't judge people" however everyone then basically goes way out of there way to make themselves look as much like what "society/media" says is attractive, and therefore reinforcing the idea that humans judge each other based on looks. Either this is a complete failure, or it was intended to be making fun of unattractive people, with attractive people using their ability to look good to rub it in unattractive faces. I'm going to guess it's the former and then just became an excuse for people to draw attention to themselves. Either way guess what humans judge each other, and some people are attractive other people aren't, some people judge only on looks and some people don't. Ugly or Attractive we all can have happy or miserable lives and it is mainly on yourself, not others to which of those your life is.
DPTrumann · 18 points · Posted at 01:32:10 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)*
the stupid thing is, it started off with a video of a woman (I think she was famous for doing makeup tutorials on youtube) who wanted to make a point about how without makeup, she's not as physically attractive as many of her fans think she is, so she made a video of herself with and without makeup, revealing the fact that her skin was pale, greasy and she had bad acne. it seemed like a good thing to do.
then , the vinetard fuckheads picked up the idea, but somehow made the complete opposite go viral. they made hundreds of videos of themselves wearing makeup to make themselves look ugly (stuff like drawing on monobrows and fake acne) and then jumpcut to themselves looking attractive, which completely misses the point of the original video by a fucking lightyear.
insane_troll_logic · 6 points · Posted at 03:26:08 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
See, now that actually makes sense (the opposite thing). Man, kids are dumb and shallow.
logos__ · 16 points · Posted at 20:04:29 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Exactly. They've lived in bubble of beauty their entire lives, which has caused them to reverse cause and effect in their thinking, making giant asses out of themselves on youtube.
franks_and_newts · 12 points · Posted at 22:02:28 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It probably has to do with all of them being like 14 years old too. Makes me not want to have kids just to watch them grow up in the generation of social media 24/7. It's quite sad.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:00:24 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Move to a remote island
Hoody956 · 1 points · Posted at 23:48:45 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I hear an ugly person being jealous!!! jk
logos__ · 4 points · Posted at 00:02:13 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Not that I am ugly, but I have other things in my favor besides my looks ;)
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 17:03:53 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's like those idiotic videos where some girl paints a unibrow on herself, wears ill-fitting clothes and asks for a guys number after saying how much she loves to play D&D. To be polite, the guy will say "no thanks" or "I have a girlfriend" or something along those lines. The same girl comes back later all glammed up and possibly in a bikini, asks for his number and he gives it to her. Then she reveals shes the same girl as before and he shouldn't judge people/he should give more people a chance. It's so stupid because she went out of her way to come off as unattractive. She's just trying to demonize what all humans would do when they aren't attracted so someone.
EveryGoodUNWasTaken · 109 points · Posted at 18:25:41 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
"Look at me! I have to actually try to be ugly but I'm actually attractive (and insecure)!"
Austin58 · -3 points · Posted at 01:11:09 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I doubt they're insecure though.
[deleted] · 30 points · Posted at 22:19:50 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The best ones are the parodies.
Girl with burger is killin it.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 06:35:00 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
That girl was the only one that I was remotely jealous of. Sure the other girls were beautiful, however I'm very drunk rn with no food in my apt. That burger and fries were...I can't even find the words. Holy shit I'm fucking hungry.
TinzIsTinz · 13 points · Posted at 20:55:16 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm so glad I got out of high school just before Youtube and Facebook took off. This is some impossibly dumb shit.
gussyhomedog · 20 points · Posted at 21:13:11 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
OK the fat guy was actually kinda funny
[deleted] · 14 points · Posted at 20:51:16 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
These are the most narcissistic people I have ever seen... It actually makes me quite angry that this was a thing.
Greatlordchinchin · 7 points · Posted at 20:32:40 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The best one is like 50 seconds in
boxjohn · 1 points · Posted at 23:28:36 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Even that is really hackneyed "omg the fat guy can laugh at himself" stuff.
[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 20:40:58 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
God, that video is tragic.
8bitslime · 11 points · Posted at 17:15:57 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
If they wore the 10lbs of makeup like these kids, the ugly people could do it too. I'm convinced everyone who does it if ugly and insecure.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 06:36:40 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
With the power of makeup, you can basically make it look like you've had plastic surgery. You can contour literally any facial feature with enough skill.
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 20:41:06 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I can't remember the last time I felt such murderous intent.
simmonsg · 4 points · Posted at 21:00:43 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
That compilation was funny as fuck though.
rexo12 · 5 points · Posted at 22:29:21 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
i *think* the idea was to show that ugly people can look good if they change their style or something.
but it sure as hell didn't turn out that way, just a clusterfuck of attention whores.
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 21:05:51 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I've never heard of this but it makes me cringe. Incredibly vain, foolish people. Maybe they are cool, who knows...but I wouldn't associate with any of these people
laddergoat89 · 3 points · Posted at 21:31:28 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
This video makes me extremely uncomfortable.
nostalgicpanda · 3 points · Posted at 22:13:47 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Why are most people listening to that cheerleader song? >_>
bcr76 · 6 points · Posted at 19:20:16 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
h3h3 Productions introduced me to that cancerous trend.
___ALIVEPUDDLE___ · 19 points · Posted at 19:37:33 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
What the fuck is this gay shit?
Stanalli · 13 points · Posted at 19:50:04 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I've never seen any of these before but holy shit it makes me uncomfortable.
zebraslap · 1 points · Posted at 09:37:07 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yet it generates 90 mill views and 99% likes
sebotonin · 5 points · Posted at 22:19:17 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I saw a girl kissing a guy, no gay kisses though
namesflory · 6 points · Posted at 20:51:06 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
This needs to be posted /r/cringe
goshuk · 2 points · Posted at 21:18:17 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
glad that i was out of the loop on this one
Noisetorm_ · 1 points · Posted at 22:42:25 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The guy at 0:45 is the best
Bachzag · 1 points · Posted at 22:57:11 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I don't know, this one was fucking gold : https://youtu.be/2VDLPiEdp74?t=46
staphinflection · 1 points · Posted at 22:58:26 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Holy shit that fourth one made me lose it
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:01:44 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Holy shit. I didnt know this was a thing before you posted it. Fuck that. What a bunch of assholes.
hysilvinia · 1 points · Posted at 23:04:58 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The way those boys touch their own faces and stick their tongues out? What the hell. Gag.
smhmines · 1 points · Posted at 23:19:30 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I went to high school with the guy at 0:44........
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:20:09 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I mean, the one at 0:45 is fucking gold though.
allo12 · 1 points · Posted at 23:36:51 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Kids just want to have fun.
somethingclever1924 · 1 points · Posted at 23:50:37 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Why the FUCK did I just watch almost 12 minutes of that shit?
Though I did really find the parodies funny.
Lightning_Saix · 1 points · Posted at 23:54:47 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I expected it to be it to be more convincing, not people with markers and lotion on their face posing in the camera.
MrLeeman123 · 1 points · Posted at 23:58:51 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
There were guys that did this seriously... I'm uncomfortable with what passes as masculine these days.
Snizzledizzlemcfizzl · 1 points · Posted at 00:00:49 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Some of those were pretty funny, especially the one with the pug
isntthatashame · 1 points · Posted at 00:14:37 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Wtf did I just watch? My brain hurts now. I actually feel dumber.
Baggabones88 · 1 points · Posted at 00:17:07 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Jesus, I never heard of this before. This is pure narcissism.
baddoggg · 1 points · Posted at 00:21:03 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Almost made it through the first girl when i was overcome by road rage, and I'm not driving.
jimanri · 1 points · Posted at 00:21:55 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Im pretty pissed off. why the fuck do they all wear glasses? Are you saying im ugly motherfucker?
Lee20000 · 1 points · Posted at 00:35:14 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
These videos just remind me of how shitty it felt to be in highschool and jealous of the popular attractive kids shudders
LoliProtector · 1 points · Posted at 00:52:02 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Damn, the chick at 2 mins is hot as!
But seriously, how did I never hear of this shit? It's exactly the type of shit my Facebook friends would pull
witchrist · 1 points · Posted at 00:56:04 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
why the fuck do people constantly take vertical videos? drives me insane. TURN THE PHONE
DingJones · 1 points · Posted at 01:08:45 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I tries watching that shit twice. Furthest I got was the third person. Uggh. I judged hard.
Supergeckodude · 1 points · Posted at 01:22:00 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Literally 90% of all the guys in that looked like Justin Bieber, and not in a good way
JothamInGotham · 1 points · Posted at 01:40:34 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Your last sentence is gold
teddyruxpinstarship · 1 points · Posted at 01:48:35 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Wait, so glasses make you unattractive? Shit.
adubs_509 · 1 points · Posted at 02:07:50 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Did anyone else get a super rapey vibe from all the dudes? What's with the lip biting and weird face rubbing. It's not sexy males, it's creepy, please stop. You're like..12.
Shishakli · 1 points · Posted at 02:12:06 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
So... You're telling me narcissism is the worst trend of 2015?
Can't argue with that ...
Mr_The_Sam · 1 points · Posted at 02:13:25 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Most of these just look like really low-budget acne cream commercials.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 02:14:33 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Wow, I'm angry after watching that
dogandlionlover · 1 points · Posted at 02:15:20 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I like the ones where it's reversed. Like, someone wearing makeup and stuff and then transforming so they don't have any makeup on.
mopsarethebomb · 1 points · Posted at 02:19:03 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yeah I've never heard of any of this shit, it seems insane. No lie though that guy with all the hair was... Goodness.
BigStereotype · 1 points · Posted at 02:36:59 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
The fat kid cracked me up though.
killerpoopguy · 1 points · Posted at 02:55:16 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Half of those were just dots on their face.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 03:31:02 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
BUT THIS GUY!
sdingle100 · 1 points · Posted at 03:55:49 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
The fact that you had to explain that in detail and no one had heard of it makes me think it's not really a trend.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 03:57:32 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
WHY do they all rub lotion on their face??????? Cruel world what is this
everysinglebear · 1 points · Posted at 04:09:01 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Gonna be honest here, it hurts to see people use makeup to mimic acne in their "ugly" half of their video.
RATDUCKS · 1 points · Posted at 04:18:03 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I did not know this Was a thing.
StarWarsPlusDrWho · 1 points · Posted at 04:19:59 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Bouncing off of this, another annoying trend was people who said "don't judge me" when they didn't want to be held accountable for weird or dumb behavior.
imperial_ruler · 1 points · Posted at 04:46:44 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
As someone relatively close to the age of the people in this video, I'm absolutely disgusted. This was so ridiculously narcissistic, and felt like an unnecessary call to attention. 10:02 was great, though..
pasta755 · 1 points · Posted at 05:14:14 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Wow fuck this narcissistic bullshit
twodadshuggin · 1 points · Posted at 05:14:57 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
What's most annoying about this "challenge" is that they are all the same type of teenager.
bluetux · 1 points · Posted at 05:58:41 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I won't lie, I laughed at some of those
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 07:29:47 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
It actually hurts, but at least ugly people capitalized on the idea and made some funny jokes out of it.
motherofamouse · 1 points · Posted at 08:50:23 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Just a lot of people fuck it up. The orginal idea was post a video of you without make-up and with make-up. Then it went to the extreme, like this.
stingrayaffIiction · 1 points · Posted at 14:31:55 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
This was so fucking hard to watch. Seeing the guys and girls so full of themselves, making googley eyes at themselves in the camera, so narcissistic it's unbelievable.
hhhnnnnnggggggg · 1 points · Posted at 18:40:01 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Most of these are just funny..
echjul · 1 points · Posted at 20:21:02 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
What the actual fuck did I just see!!??
Maybe it's meant to be "Don't judge me because I'm a stupid attention working fuck hole"
Fryes · -1 points · Posted at 20:20:07 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Some of those were really funny. Calling it a "don't judge me challenge" was pretty stupid and vain but it was interesting watching the transformation for some of them to be honest.
fluerdeleigh · 5 points · Posted at 20:50:51 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The one girl who didn't transform and just kept hitting the camera made me giggle. That's about as much of that as I could take. I only made it that long thinking that somehow if I watched enough of them the point of the whole thing would become apparent....
Fryes · 3 points · Posted at 21:23:52 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The fat dude shaking his man boobs had me Dying.
jalif · 847 points · Posted at 14:40:58 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Only 3% of people get this maths question correct!
1+15/3=???
Or other simple maths question.
InfiniteBlink · 225 points · Posted at 20:49:49 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Always the dumbest people I know who post that shit. It's almost like for a moment, they had the thought that "hmm.. I may not be the brightest bulb in the bunch", then they take a basic math/iq quiz to alleviate that worry. "Pheew, I knew I was smart all along".
[deleted] · 35 points · Posted at 00:17:17 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)*
Meanwhile I'm over here knowing the answer and then my other brain kicks in and says "what if you're wrong, are you sure? SAY NOTHING EVER JUST IN CASE!"
DingJones · 3 points · Posted at 01:10:58 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
They always say that they scored in the top 3%.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 01:40:27 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I will explain to you thineself's lack of knowledge that I, myself, am one of the amazingly gifted third percentile, although I do not hold great belief that you will understand what I mean with my wonderfully gifted words.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 01:43:13 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm in the top 3% who understands what you mean.
maryyahalom · 1 points · Posted at 02:41:21 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
this is so accurate.
idrinkamp · 380 points · Posted at 18:07:11 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
order of operations for days
zooper26 · 26 points · Posted at 23:04:59 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
PEMDAS bitches
i_hump_cats · 28 points · Posted at 23:24:04 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
BEDMAS fucking commoner
PM_ME_UR_GoT_THEORY · 6 points · Posted at 00:34:47 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
BIDMAS, anyone?
I_Find_This_Humerus_ · 8 points · Posted at 01:26:17 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's BODMAS you dirty heathens.
Qwertycwer · 2 points · Posted at 03:50:39 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Sounds like Christmas but Santa's handing out bodies
stickyfingers10 · 1 points · Posted at 04:16:32 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
ODAMA'S
will_holmes · 1 points · Posted at 14:16:19 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
thanks
kaelan_gibson · 1 points · Posted at 01:00:45 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yes, I'll excuse your dope ass swag.
DhroovP · 5 points · Posted at 01:25:27 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Oh, I thought 15/3 was a fraction.
I_FAP_TO_TURKEYS · 11 points · Posted at 02:09:54 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Then you get 18/3, which is still the answer
DhroovP · 3 points · Posted at 02:10:27 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Whoa, you're right. Cool
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 04:24:03 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Fractions are just division waiting to happen
Insanelopez · 8 points · Posted at 23:30:43 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Please excuse my dope-ass swag
Asentro76 · 1 points · Posted at 03:14:40 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Ayy PEMDAS
Beaunes · 1 points · Posted at 04:23:13 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
w/e either way it's just a rounding error, we'll make it to 10.
mtcdrummer14 · 1 points · Posted at 07:30:23 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Please excuse my dope ass swag
NosyEnthusiast6 · 1 points · Posted at 19:43:52 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
PEMDIssin these motherfuckers
zomglazerspewpew · 0 points · Posted at 21:20:31 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Please excuse my dear aunt sally she limps from left to right.
Anarchkitty · 3 points · Posted at 23:53:31 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
And then arguments about whether MD and AS in PEMDAS are actually ordered or not (I have learned they are not).
mandalorkael · 48 points · Posted at 20:53:13 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
What I hate more is the number of people who get them wrong and tell others that they are then wrong...
[deleted] · 12 points · Posted at 05:44:13 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Saw one the other day and someone posted "It's a matter of opinion on how you solve it, so there is more than one correct answer."
Ummm, no, there are set rules on how you solve an equation.
SadGhoster87 · 6 points · Posted at 04:15:41 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
YOU DONT USE PEDMAS BECAUS THERE IS NO PARENTHES
Tinkyxwinky · 2 points · Posted at 06:04:09 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)*
M8 wot?
Bibibis · 1 points · Posted at 09:41:09 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
/s
lordoftheshadows · -7 points · Posted at 05:08:04 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
What I hate is people who say there is a right answer. Mathematically no one gives a shit. It's just shitty notation that's pretty ambiguous (some of the times, sometimes there isn't any ambiguity) and people can interpret it differently.
Uyersuyer · 1 points · Posted at 16:39:40 on March 26, 2016 · (Permalink)
You're an idiot.
TheKrazyR · 353 points · Posted at 14:47:04 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
6?
Cheesedoodlerrrr · 503 points · Posted at 23:10:59 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Congratulations. You've passed 4th grade math.
apopheny · 9 points · Posted at 00:15:58 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Nice, now we can please excuse my dear Aunt Sally.
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 01:59:31 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Please execute my dear Aunt Sally.
AlaskanWolf · 3 points · Posted at 01:34:29 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yes we can, because she thinks that Purple Eggplants Make Delicious Afternoon Snacks.
Mattsatterfield1 · 3 points · Posted at 01:59:29 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I hear the pass rate is only 3%.
DTGG · 2 points · Posted at 01:55:09 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's the little things in life, man.
bigterribleawful · 1 points · Posted at 04:14:00 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Certificate's still on the fridge.
poastertoaster · -3 points · Posted at 02:18:03 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Were you in remedial math in 4th grade?
slimmtl · 7 points · Posted at 23:17:51 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Incorrect, the math question is:
1+15/3=??
NatasEvoli · 7 points · Posted at 23:39:33 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
No, it's ???. It clearly says it right there in the formula.
silly_vasily · 3 points · Posted at 00:37:54 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
666 the number of the beast
Crumps_brother · 2 points · Posted at 08:03:30 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
668 is the neighbour of the beast
PM_ME_POTOOS · 1 points · Posted at 00:23:59 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yep
yusbarrett · 1 points · Posted at 00:26:18 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Sadly enough, you see people who say 5.3 or sometimes stupid answers 17, I don't know how they manage to get it so wrong
DukeofWellington123 · 1 points · Posted at 01:10:07 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I thought 1 + 15/3 would be able to be interpreted either as (1+15)/3 or as 1+(15/3)?
yusbarrett · 1 points · Posted at 01:13:11 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
The correct answer is 6, but somehow people manage to get those simple math questions wrong.
DukeofWellington123 · 3 points · Posted at 01:25:37 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Coming up with 17 is a bit daft (I'm not quite sure how someone would get it even if they tried), but getting 5.33 is understandable, assuming they interpreted it as 1 + 15 = 16, 16/3 = 5.33, rather than 15/3 = 5, 1+ 5 = 6. Although, then again, it's an incorrect order of operation.
yusbarrett · 1 points · Posted at 01:50:40 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
17 was a random number I came up with, the point I try to make is that every time I see this math questions someone ALWAYS comes with a messed up answer that I have no idea how they got there.
Monochronos · 1 points · Posted at 05:17:54 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
How can it be 6? Am I stupid for thinking it was 5 R 1?
Yes, yes I am.
RogueRaven17 · 1 points · Posted at 22:53:39 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yup!
ass2ass · -5 points · Posted at 23:45:38 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I think it's actually 5 1/3
Kendo16 · -1 points · Posted at 04:46:48 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
No,not a whole number. It'd be 5.3 with a repeating 3.
TheKrazyR · 3 points · Posted at 05:09:31 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
You divide before you add. If we were doing it your way it would be (1+15)/3.
Kendo16 · 2 points · Posted at 05:20:41 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I forgot. And now I know my place.
TheKrazyR · 2 points · Posted at 05:26:21 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Smarter every day.
HangOnSloopay · 9 points · Posted at 04:09:35 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
1+15/3=???
1+5 = ???
6 = ???
6 = 3?
2 = ?
DavyAsgard · 1 points · Posted at 09:54:23 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Wouldnt \? then be the cube root of 6?
nmkd · 14 points · Posted at 20:25:52 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Still best bait on /b/ (and other places)
Stacia_Asuna · 2 points · Posted at 04:43:57 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I always respond with this.
Whitegard · 18 points · Posted at 21:11:41 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Saw one that made me furious when i figured out the trick, and it was just that, a trick, a dirty trick.
Went something like this:
3+3+3+3
3+3+3+3
3+3+3+3
Simple, yes? No, it's a trick. Notice how there are no +'s after each line, so really it's like this
3+3+3+33+3+3+33+3+3+3
Worst part was that people on my facebook feed were fighting with each other over this.
jalif · 8 points · Posted at 23:17:17 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Definitely 12 12 12
metallikoh · 1 points · Posted at 23:16:17 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
You smaht you loyal
markrevival · 4 points · Posted at 21:52:14 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
This has been around since MySpace days at least. Certainly on 4 Chan and the ign vesti too. Thousands of replies arguing, trolls trolling trolls. In the time before reddit "implied parenthesis" was a meme.
imanauthority · 5 points · Posted at 23:57:21 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
3!
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 03:21:33 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Well, you're not wrong.
TheMightyWaffle · 3 points · Posted at 22:52:05 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I learned what pedmas means atlest, I knew the swedish version of it but never knew it was called pedmas!
2x3+2x3 = ????
iabmob · 2 points · Posted at 04:30:13 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
ITZ OBV 24 LEL PPL R SO DUMB I SWER
jalif · 1 points · Posted at 23:16:40 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
BIMDAS What is the Swedish version?
NotSoSuperNerd · 2 points · Posted at 04:11:58 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's pretty much the math version of https://xkcd.com/169/ where people don't seem to realize the concept of "ambiguity", and that the order of operations they were taught in grade school is completely arbitrary. There is no deep mathematical significance to saying that 1+15/3 should be interpreted as 1+(15/3) and not (1+15)/3.
sammysfw · 4 points · Posted at 22:14:35 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The worst part is most people do in fact get those wrong.
thomowen20 · 3 points · Posted at 19:20:58 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Sex
columbus8myhw · 2 points · Posted at 21:34:13 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Sax
Ghotimonger · 0 points · Posted at 21:36:55 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Sux
moarupvotespls · 1 points · Posted at 21:52:20 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Sox
AtheistJezuz · 1 points · Posted at 22:32:35 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
You mean math?
spectrumero · 1 points · Posted at 23:24:04 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I just grouse on these facebook threads that if we all used RPN then these stupid quizzes would just never have been a thing.
crazed3raser · 1 points · Posted at 02:46:39 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
And you get people who can't do order of operations in the comments. Half of people took 2nd grade math and correctly said 6, the other have are like 16/3 right guise?
Makes me want to kill myself
fff8e7cosmic · 1 points · Posted at 04:48:18 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
PEMDAS
yellowplastic · 1 points · Posted at 05:05:38 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
PEMDAS motherfuckers
Jo-dan · 1 points · Posted at 05:42:21 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
The worst is people who get it wrong and then say, "Oh it can be interpreted in different ways" No it can't, this isn't a literature class.
PMmeabouturday · 1 points · Posted at 07:45:45 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
while annoying, I remember seeing those in like 2008
Lenel_Devel · 1 points · Posted at 09:37:21 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I had a guy in my extension maths class tell me "the order of operations is subjective". I don't think he'll last.
Creme_de_la_cream · 1 points · Posted at 11:54:48 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Obviously 5,33.
Sendrummazing · 1 points · Posted at 01:17:08 on March 27, 2016 · (Permalink)
5.33
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 00:34:17 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
why do people say "maths"? It sounds like you're really foreign. It's like saying "shrimps" or "cattles".
btw the ans is 6
shlongkong · -5 points · Posted at 21:15:58 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
16/3 right?
Right?
whiteflagwaiver · 8 points · Posted at 22:08:27 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Sarcasm?
shlongkong · -18 points · Posted at 22:16:34 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Autism?
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 02:54:09 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
[deleted]
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 04:06:47 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Holy fuck alert the media! Vaccines dont cause autism, 3rd grade math does.
Pengyvan · 0 points · Posted at 22:38:37 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
4
exbaddeathgod · 0 points · Posted at 22:39:03 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Only 0% will get this correct!
6*3/2*4
AngrySloth2001 · 0 points · Posted at 00:58:28 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I got it wrong...
apologeticPalpatine · 1505 points · Posted at 13:33:46 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Making everyday objects "smart". Smart bottles are the dumbest fucking invention ever and the fact that people actually buy them is just baffling
catsNcunts · 1142 points · Posted at 16:43:27 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I had a dream the other night about orange juice cartons with touch screens. In the dream I used the technology to display a dick pic on my family's orange juice. Naturally.
KMFDM781 · 270 points · Posted at 17:07:54 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
That's the obvious primary use of that technology
Haggy27 · 1 points · Posted at 05:02:04 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Gotta assert your dominance
lout_zoo · 17 points · Posted at 20:57:22 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
You are a seer and a prophet.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 21:13:13 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I had a dream that a hamburger was eating me!
NotTheSysadmin · 4 points · Posted at 01:16:50 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
You dreamed about Rand McNally too?
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 02:10:34 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Anybody could miss it. All tucked away down there.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 01:34:50 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
[deleted]
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 02:17:45 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
That is correct.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 22:54:51 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)*
Last night I had a dream Hillary Clinton raped me. It wasn't so bad, I think she does kegels.
You guys think I'm joking don't you.
Stacia_Asuna · 2 points · Posted at 04:46:35 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Why not early morning rickroll?
Nightslash360 · 1 points · Posted at 23:00:39 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Plot twist: it was what was inside the carton
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:42:18 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
White juice.
noodlemandan · 1 points · Posted at 23:54:36 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
If it was a mill carton, you could've used the picture of your dick as a method to tell them you're transgender.
"Have you seen this dick? Neither has /u/catsNcunts for the last few months."
crashing_this_thread · 1 points · Posted at 02:58:27 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Was it missing?
TZMarker · 1 points · Posted at 22:15:31 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
The thing is to put the dick pic in the carton when your brother is drinking it in the morning straight out of the fucking carton.
[deleted] · -7 points · Posted at 20:33:55 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
that didn't happen
catsNcunts · 4 points · Posted at 20:37:55 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Ok....
NatalieIsFreezing · 1 points · Posted at 08:16:03 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Liar
Tinfoilpain · 968 points · Posted at 19:07:10 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
to quote /r/showerthoughs
[deleted] · 92 points · Posted at 20:28:55 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Both of those products are good, though
thegreekone2 · 129 points · Posted at 20:46:40 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
One let's you carry thousands of books at once and the other helps you to stop something that is literally killing you.
[deleted] · 35 points · Posted at 20:51:54 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yep, not everything new is stupid
Aetyrno · 20 points · Posted at 22:28:05 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
To be fair, some people go the other way with e-cigs. Never smoked in their life but vaping is so cooooool, man. Check out my clouuuddssss. /s
It'll be real interesting to see how it goes after a few more years of research go into what that vaporized propylene glycol actually does to lungs.
schlafentzug · 4 points · Posted at 01:16:18 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)*
I found vaping to be really unsatisfying compared to actual smoking. I'm sure that not having a smoker's cough and being able to run more than 500m without wheezing and feeling as though you need to vomit would be lovely, among other things. But lighting a cigarette, then smoking it, maybe having someone come up and ask for one and starting a conversation... Vaping just doesn't give me that. I wish vaping did it for me, but it doesn't.
I too can't wait to see a study on the long term effects of vaping. I want to go into research after I finish my degree and to conduct/participate in one of those studies would be even better. Maybe it would convince me to quit myself.
EDIT: Forgot to mention that vaping makes you look like "that person" which is never a good look. It's just... cringe.
[deleted] · 8 points · Posted at 01:26:19 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
yeah. vaping is not as good, but it's better than cancer.
Aetyrno · 3 points · Posted at 01:27:15 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Well it could still be cancer, it's just not DEFINITELY cancer.
Tinfoilpain · 4 points · Posted at 02:16:15 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Or it might be lupus
bdog73 · 2 points · Posted at 05:28:15 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's never lupus.
Aetyrno · 2 points · Posted at 06:26:10 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Except when it's lupus!
roidie · 1 points · Posted at 07:46:23 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
There's 3 distinctly different types of vaping. Mouth to Lung (eg: Innokin Endura T18 and T22), which replicates the tight draw of a cig and is normally used with 12-18mg nicotine. Then there's sub ohm tanks (eg: Aspire clieto) which gives a fuller 'hit' but feels less like a ciggi and is normally used with 6mg nic or less. Then there's drippers, which are for lack of a better term, a super sub ohm (eg: Kanger drip box) used with 3mg or less nic. People who start vaping tend to only really find one of the those 3 satisfies them enough to have it replace smoking. Mouth to lung (MtL) seems to be the most popular for quitting ciggi's. PG/VG (the 2 base ingredients, all juices list their ratio's of each) can have a huge difference too. VG is smoother and gives bigger clouds but smokers prefer high PG as it irritates the throat and gives that throat hit similar to ciggi's (it's also the base ingredient in asthma inhalers, so nothing nto worry about health wise). Sub ohming and dripping works better with high VG.
This complicated set of vaping types can make quitting ciggi's difficult, but it's really worth spending the money on each type to find what works for you. In the end that money is small change compared to what ciggi's will cost your long term health. I find that I still smoke, but vaping has replaced 9/10 of my cigarette's.
[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 22:59:06 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Same thing it does in asthma inhalers probably
Aetyrno · 11 points · Posted at 23:16:42 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Wasn't aware it was used in inhalers. A quick google search actually doesn't turn up anything for "propylene glycol asthma" or "propylene glycol inhaler" that isn't talking about e-cigs. Regardless, inhalers don't use a heated coil to vaporize what they're delivering, they use pressure through a nozzle which has a net cooling effect. It's not necessarily comparable.
Worth noting I don't have a problem with e-cigs or e-cig users that aren't complete turds about it. In my state, they're treated just like any other smoke product regarding where you can use them. Still get some people that think it's OK to puff on it wherever they want because it's "just propylene glycol."
I just realize it's not well studied, just like it's not well studied exactly what long term effects occasional hookah tobacco use will have, despite what my city seems to think...
[deleted] · 12 points · Posted at 23:31:56 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I was wrong it's in nebulizers not inhalers. My bad
turnips8424 · 1 points · Posted at 14:21:10 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
seriously, like I have seen people puffing these things in my school library... Like god damn dude have some respect for the people around you those things smell/are nasty to most people
thegreekone2 · 1 points · Posted at 22:45:00 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
PG right now is my only concern with them. Most people I know try to stay below 30% pg, myself included.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:14:56 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Apparently there's juice for asthma treatment or something like that.
ILIEKDEERS · 2 points · Posted at 22:29:41 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Eh, I think the statistic is like 2/3 of vape smokers still smoke cigarettes.
I myself used one pretty successfully, until my 90 dollar investment broke and I had to work a double. Now I smoke cigs again. -_-
just_leavingthishere · 7 points · Posted at 23:13:40 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Just try again, I vaped for a year while slowly stepping down nicotine. 3 months ago I went to 0 nic and last week I just stopped using my vape completely. That's after 10 years of smoking reds.
NoJoyInMudville · 2 points · Posted at 03:28:48 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
That sounds almost exactly like what I did! Started a year ago, and finally stopped entirely a couple weeks ago.
just_leavingthishere · 2 points · Posted at 09:06:12 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Keep it up! We can do it! I have to say, the nice part is not having cravings anymore.
sirlost · 3 points · Posted at 22:56:06 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I successfully quit with a vape 2 years ago. Christmas time 2014 I remembered I was poor, it stressed me out, I got drunk and smoked. I've been a smoker again for over a year now. :(
derpkoikoi · 6 points · Posted at 03:34:20 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Better than 2 years a smoker, I encourage you to try quitting again.
Pokiarchy · 1 points · Posted at 08:03:24 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Get one of those 6 dollar disposables or even the vuse isn't too bad for a temporary solution. A lot of the vape communities would happily send you one of their old units to keep you from smoking too.
juxtaposition21 · 1 points · Posted at 23:39:41 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Except e cigarettes will definitely still kill you
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 01:26:52 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
oh yeah? Let's see some proof
juxtaposition21 · 1 points · Posted at 01:27:49 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2015/12/chemical-flavorings-found-in-e-cigarettes-linked-to-lung-disease/
avocado_whore · 1 points · Posted at 23:16:53 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Who knows what diseases will present themselves after 20 years of e-cigarette use.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 01:26:38 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
willing to bet it'll be less than inhaling burning chemical laden plant matter
FuguofAnotherWorld · 2 points · Posted at 01:35:10 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Don't really care. 95%+ less shit going into the lungs means whatever it is has a fantastic chance of being way less severe and common.
greedcrow · 2 points · Posted at 01:46:32 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Probably nothing as bad as real smokes
[deleted] · 11 points · Posted at 21:15:32 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Well, it is from /r/showerthoughs.
apologeticPalpatine · 5 points · Posted at 19:16:36 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I love this
jackgrandal · 3 points · Posted at 00:43:43 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's like we solved the instantaneous data problem but not the energy problem. That's what I have the smart couch for, a bunch of micro usbs dangling off my couch in certain places ready to use (all I have are androids)
OnnaJReverT · 2 points · Posted at 12:45:09 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
the sub has a typo and mis still a real thing...
Katyperrystwinsister · 2 points · Posted at 23:30:47 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I literally scrolled through that sub for 7 minutes before I realize what it was. FUCK YOU!!!
AsHighAsTonyTheTiger · 1 points · Posted at 15:00:33 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
/r/showerthoughts you mean
zwirlo · 1 points · Posted at 01:41:43 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
That shower though
KrishaCZ · 118 points · Posted at 14:13:51 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
https://twitter.com/internetofshit
jusmar · 42 points · Posted at 16:35:47 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The internet of things will be the end of security and privacy.
ManWhoKilledHitler · 11 points · Posted at 18:05:40 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
You just know that manufacturers won't bother with anything as inconvenient as firmware or security updates.
"Your fridge might get hacked and boil all your food before bursting into flames but fuck you because it's more than 6 months old so we don't support that model anymore."
jusmar · 8 points · Posted at 18:21:36 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Forced updates to Fridge OS 10, now with integrated spam adware and in app purchases.
Because we want to make you goddamn fridge "Better".
solarspeed · 3 points · Posted at 18:41:07 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Custom firmware for a door knob, how does that sound? With all the latest security patches. Some functionality might not work due to OEM not releasing proprietary driver blob.
FigMcLargeHuge · 1 points · Posted at 21:41:13 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Like that ship didn't already sail.
jusmar · 1 points · Posted at 21:56:23 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
They're doing laps in the harbor, pushing people on board.
I can't control my fridge from my thermostat via my watch so shit hasn't hit the fan yet.
apologeticPalpatine · 3 points · Posted at 20:15:19 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
An umbrella, seriously???!?
ThatguyMalone · 2 points · Posted at 18:57:16 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
This twitter account is actually golden
mnclad · 6 points · Posted at 19:17:26 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Had to look up what a smart bottle is, and I would agree. Smart bottles are stupid
mulduvar2 · 5 points · Posted at 18:51:58 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Ah good. The average consumer is getting fed up with smart. Now is the time for my campaign for neo appliances. Neo stove! Turn on and off your oven from an app on your phone. Neo fridge! Lock and unlock your fridge to keep out midnight snackers. Built in camera lets you monitor the condition of your cheeses, or let's you know how many beers your SO has been drinking. Neo washing machine! Your dryer will now call and leave voicemails when it's finished. No more wrinkly clothes! Neo TV. Controlled by an app on your phone via Wi-Fi! Neo coffee maker. Your alarm clock is now synchronized with your coffee maker!
Neo line appliances change the way you see the future from the past presently!
mikey-way · 2 points · Posted at 22:05:06 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Neopets will finally make a comeback
solestri · 1 points · Posted at 23:16:42 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It'll give the current user base even more things to whine about. Goodie!
majesticjg · 78 points · Posted at 16:36:23 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
First it was "i" everything when the iPod hit it big. Then somehow we got "e" everything from email to ecommerce.
Now it's "Smart."
PhattBudz · 232 points · Posted at 17:13:09 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
But email came before the iPod...
majesticjg · 26 points · Posted at 17:16:01 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I don't make the rules, man.
ncocca · 25 points · Posted at 17:49:09 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Haha, I think he's right though. I'm pretty sure the e- craze came before the i- craze.
igotitforfree · 8 points · Posted at 21:13:54 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
But I thought the rule was I before e!
Vawqer · 1 points · Posted at 23:13:01 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Except after y. And you know what year starts with? Y. Therefore if if came after a year it can be e before I. That's the part you forgot.
brycedriesenga · 3 points · Posted at 20:52:33 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm still waiting for the r- craze.
ncocca · 3 points · Posted at 21:51:39 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
That's what Reddit is. r/askreddit, r/funny...
brycedriesenga · 3 points · Posted at 22:02:00 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Shit, you're right.
Five_bucks · 2 points · Posted at 21:46:21 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Before that things were x- something
AnatAndy · 1 points · Posted at 20:58:47 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
And I definitely remember way back when, like 2003, when Nokia would throw an 'i' on the end of their model names. It stood for 'intelligent'.
JustHach · 1 points · Posted at 00:50:31 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Im pretty sure the rule is I before E, except after C:
Starionn · 1 points · Posted at 01:59:17 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Except after what, except after what?! Why are you mocking me with that grin?!
roboninja · 4 points · Posted at 19:21:15 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
You also should not write history with that recollection.
majesticjg · 4 points · Posted at 19:27:45 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
You're just mad because Hitler killed Napoleon. Not my fault.
Disgruntled_Old_Trot · 2 points · Posted at 22:15:25 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Napoleon shot first!
PhattBudz · 1 points · Posted at 17:31:13 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Tru tru tru
jigglehiggins · 1 points · Posted at 17:47:28 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Shut up you aren't supposed to say that
Tinfoil_Haberdashery · 1 points · Posted at 17:55:51 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
And the eMac came before the iMac, which led to the iPod...
khat96 · 3 points · Posted at 17:32:37 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
There was also the whole "dot com" thing that happened for a while. Though I vaguely remember several "e-blank" things that happened before iPods and whatnot, but I may be wrong cause I was in middle school or so when that happened.
KatzFirepaw · 2 points · Posted at 18:01:51 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Pretty sure e was before i...
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 23:47:15 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
i before e, except after c. Duh.
KatzFirepaw · 1 points · Posted at 00:14:10 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Knew someone was gonna do that
Eurynom0s · 1 points · Posted at 04:15:21 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Except when it's not.
Wright4000 · 2 points · Posted at 18:40:02 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I always thought that there should be a website called E-jaculate.
Seafroggys · 2 points · Posted at 18:43:27 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
no, the e trend came first. That was mid/late 90's. Then X was everything over the millenium, then i everything was mid 00's.
RadiantPumpkin · 1 points · Posted at 03:34:43 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
The "e" came before the "I". Obviously the next trend is gonna have everything starting with o
Robert_Abooey · 1 points · Posted at 03:59:51 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Everything was "e" before it was "i".
Eurynom0s · 1 points · Posted at 04:15:36 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
iSmart
josh_the_misanthrope · 4 points · Posted at 15:27:36 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
And ironic.
akafamilyfunny · 6 points · Posted at 17:01:29 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)*
It's like raaaaaaaaaaaeeeaaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin on your wedding day!
josh_the_misanthrope · 4 points · Posted at 17:02:42 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yes yes, I know.
darkcustom · 5 points · Posted at 15:34:03 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)*
They are pretty great for backpacking. Much lighter than Nalgene bottles and more durable than bladders. Plus they are easy to put in the side pouches of backpacks. Can get two in each side. Now for every day use and only drinking that water then I agree.
Edit: I am thinking of something completely different. Disregard.
the_dayman · 13 points · Posted at 16:24:24 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I think he's specifically referring to the ones that need to be charged and light up when you need to drink/tell you how much water you drink.
darkcustom · 9 points · Posted at 16:51:07 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Never heard of that. TIL. I agree that is pretty stupid.
God_Damnit_Nappa · 3 points · Posted at 20:21:41 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
That's an actual thing? Wtf. That's retarded.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 21:58:59 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
every 10 dollars spent on that could have bought some baby born with hiv their medication
motherfucker every single one of those bottles is like 2 dead babies
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 01:15:01 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
TIL not to just take a drink when I'm fucking thirsty but rather when some poorly written AI tells me instead.
Helium_3 · 2 points · Posted at 20:41:02 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Smart Water has been Smart Water for a long time now.
Eddie_Hitler · 2 points · Posted at 21:10:50 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Similarly, the "Internet of Things" and "smart home".
It's mostly pointless and gimmicky, not to mention you see security flaws that were considered old news in the year 2000 - not even kidding. I work in information security and you would facepalm at some of the penetration test findings in brand new kit.
Nobody needs to be able to operate their dishwasher over the internet - it can't load or unload itself and leaving it running unattended is a serious fire hazard. Nobody needs a fridge that warns you things are running out or going off - you just need to open the door and fucking look. Want your heating to be running when you get home from work? Basic timer units have existed since the 1960s.
Neveezy · 2 points · Posted at 21:39:56 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Didn't know those existed. I immediately thought of this.
insultant_ · 2 points · Posted at 02:57:11 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I was joking about this with a friend and said he wanted someone to invent a chair that senses you gaining weight and then shames you everytime you sit down. If it senses weight loss, it compliments you and posts to Facebook about your "progress."
slimey_frog · 2 points · Posted at 04:27:04 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
no way these are real, your fucking with me
googles
what the actual fuck?
Brexinga · 3 points · Posted at 15:23:01 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I have to agree with you. Every thing that is new have the word Smart in front of it. It's like the companies are telling us, here dumb people buy smart thing to feel smart
MWolman1981 · 1 points · Posted at 16:45:57 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Smart Water, son of bitch.
ssbssbssb · 1 points · Posted at 17:47:19 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It hasn't even started yet :/
KCbizzy · 1 points · Posted at 18:05:19 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I feel like this has been a trend for years now. I can not stand it. Before "smart" it was "xtreme" because my deodorant and value meal need to be XTREEEEEME
dankchunkybutt · 1 points · Posted at 19:40:10 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I didnt even know this was a thing until right now. That is the most unnecessary use of technology. Do you have to keep your water bottle charged?
apologeticPalpatine · 1 points · Posted at 19:42:37 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I would think so yes
waIIfIower · 1 points · Posted at 19:40:34 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I agree but I've still got a bottle of smartwater on my desk.
apologeticPalpatine · 1 points · Posted at 19:42:15 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The one that beeps to remind you that you need to drink?
waIIfIower · 1 points · Posted at 19:56:21 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Lol no. Just a regular bottle of water.
JetpackBatman · 1 points · Posted at 19:59:55 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
No, you don't understand. They're not dumb, they're smart. It's in the name. Idiot
apologeticPalpatine · 1 points · Posted at 20:14:06 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I bet you sent that message from your idiot phone, you idiotass!
mcrxlover5 · 1 points · Posted at 21:39:47 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I actually really like the idea of a smart water bottle that keeps track. I'm super spacey and definitely don't drink enough water. Something that reminds me would honestly be helpful. I will agree the smart trend is crazy
zimonw · 1 points · Posted at 22:10:23 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I had never heard of it so I had to google it, I'm tilting 180 degrees atm.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:39:11 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
And if I hear "the internet of things" one more time I'm going to lose it.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 01:32:42 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
If I had a smart fridge that could tell me what I could make with the stuff inside it, that'd be cool. But I don't need an electronic notepad.
apologeticPalpatine · 1 points · Posted at 02:42:08 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
That would actually be kind of neat. The problem is that a lot of the "smart" stuff out there is just gimmicky and people still fall for it
clamnit · 1 points · Posted at 01:37:09 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-sMCYe2Xm0
Wow
Naaram · 1 points · Posted at 03:17:41 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
The "smartest" the things are, the dumbs we will be.
HEMATOSPERMIA-MAN · 1 points · Posted at 03:39:01 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
it's because the "Internet of Things" is hitting it's peak in the technology hype cycle right now, and everyone is trying to come up with some new thing that will make tons of money. The problem is that because everyone is making "smart" stuff, they all have to try to make something new, which inevitably leads to gimmicky shit products.
OG_Hash · 1 points · Posted at 08:52:47 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Smart water generally costs as much as other bottled water in the same size. You're just salty a marketing scheme you probably couldn't devise worked.
apologeticPalpatine · 1 points · Posted at 22:27:44 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
And where did I say anything about smart water?
soldiercross · 1 points · Posted at 13:48:50 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
What the fuck is a smart bottle?
XeroMotivation · 1 points · Posted at 16:10:10 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Had a guy pitch his smart bottles to me recently. Connects to your phone via Bluetooth and tells you when to drink water. Also functions as a speaker. Sounds quality was nice, though.
ncocca · 8 points · Posted at 17:51:12 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
We already have something that tells us when we need to drink though. It's called thirst.
ManWhoKilledHitler · 6 points · Posted at 18:06:12 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Is that an RSS feed? Do I need an app to receive notifications?
XeroMotivation · 2 points · Posted at 22:10:50 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
That's exactly what I told him hahaha
Killboypowerhed · 1 points · Posted at 20:20:36 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Why the fuck would I need a bottle to tell me if I'm thirsty? Have we become that dependant on technology?
XeroMotivation · 1 points · Posted at 22:10:32 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It was the dumbest shit I'd seen in some time.
throwawaysoftwareguy · -1 points · Posted at 20:04:53 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
People bitch about smart devices all the time... I've come to just take it as jealousy.
I love my house's devices and how they interact.
I get home and my lights are already on and my thermostat has already got the house to the temp I want. My security system knows I'm there and disarms.
I leave the house and my security system is armed. My lights turn off. If it's night, my outside lights turn on. My thermostat goes into away mode automatically.
If there's a fire or carbon monoxide event, I know immediately. If any outside access door or window is opened, I know immediately. If someone breaks in, I know immediately AND have a video clip. Full video from all angles is already saved locally and backed up remotely.
So I'll take these smart devices over having to turn off all my inside lights, make sure the outside lights are on, make sure I remembered to close the garage, make sure I remembered to arm my security system, make sure I remembered to lock my front door, make sure I turned the heat off, etc.
Added convenience isn't a sin.
apologeticPalpatine · 1 points · Posted at 20:12:15 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I get that, but we're talking about bottles that beep to remind you that you need to drink. There's a difference between added convenience and unnecessary gimmick
throwawaysoftwareguy · 1 points · Posted at 20:30:48 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yeah. I agree there's really stupid "smart" devices that put "smart" in the name to try to latch on to the trend.
The GOOD smart devices though are great. Starting to feel like Bill freakin' Gates when I come home :P
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:11:06 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I feel like that's kind of a pointless luxury. I feel like our standard of living is already extravagant enough and that as a society we should be funnelling these kind of resources into fixing a lot of long standing social issues rather than making our lives marginally more convenient.
I don't really look at automatic lights the way I look at putting in-app purchases on your fridge, but I still feel some vague frustration over how sci-fi we as a civilization are capable of getting while completely refusing to do anything about all of the people living in squalor.
[deleted] · 5261 points · Posted at 12:24:00 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
"The worst trends of 2015. Number 7 will blow your mind."
I fucking hate clickbaits. In my country even news media is picking up on it, and going on facebook has become a source of rage for me. I'd quit facebook if it weren't for some of the friends that I still care.
[deleted] · 1183 points · Posted at 12:54:22 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
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akirartist · 542 points · Posted at 13:16:42 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
"What the forecast for today will blow you away!" 60°F with no wind and a fire warning.
darksnake99 · 349 points · Posted at 13:40:07 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
How will it blow me away if there is no wind?
BenLindsay · 212 points · Posted at 14:19:25 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Whoosh
Nomulite · 570 points · Posted at 15:08:33 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Huh, so there is wind.
SwenKa · 8 points · Posted at 20:01:00 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Fucking weather guy never gets it right, am I right boys?
BenLindsay · 1 points · Posted at 15:10:28 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
He lines 'em up, and he knocks 'em down
Priamosish · -1 points · Posted at 22:01:01 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Blowing harder than OP's mom.
JoXand · 3 points · Posted at 15:48:10 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
THERE'S NO FUCKING WIND /u/BenLindsay. HOW CAN THERE BE A FUCKING WHOOSH WITHOUT ANY FUCKING WIND?
Monochronos · 1 points · Posted at 05:28:04 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
But how do you really feel?
Extra-Extra · 3 points · Posted at 18:24:38 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
This is the most underrated "Whoosh" of all time.
Shugbug1986 · 1 points · Posted at 09:51:30 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Did you just woosh a dad joke?
snowbirdmike · 2 points · Posted at 18:08:59 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
See #6.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 14:20:18 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Well 60Fand a fire warning is pretty strange
akirartist · 1 points · Posted at 15:25:59 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yeah, I don't know how it's possible.
odie4evr · 2 points · Posted at 20:34:42 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
There will be once I drop my mixtape.
hbgoddard · 1 points · Posted at 22:57:04 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Uh huh
fizyplankton · 194 points · Posted at 14:30:24 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)*
God I fucking hate weather.com. If it's doing anything other than asking for a zip code or showing me the weather, it's doing something horribly wrong
By the way, does anyone know of a non shitty, yet accurate, weather website?
EDIT: y'all are amazing. I just want y'all to know I'm gonna save every last one of these
IICVX · 120 points · Posted at 15:57:45 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)*
Just google
weather <area of interest>and Google will give you the seven day temperature, precipitation and wind forecast.drewbster · 7 points · Posted at 16:15:37 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Seriously, Google will tell you just about everything you could want to know about local things like that
FishyNik6 · 1 points · Posted at 17:25:57 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yo moma Dubai
Doesnt work :(
drewbster · 2 points · Posted at 17:53:20 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Worked for me, tell yours I said hi. It's been years since we last met...
Grammarnazi_bot · 2 points · Posted at 20:40:16 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Or just become a Mage who can predict the future.
Desertman123 · 1 points · Posted at 17:29:12 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Also the built in weather app in Windows 10 works well
I_FAP_TO_TURKEYS · 1 points · Posted at 02:20:16 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I literally just Google 'weather' and it knows where I live and tells me everything. Plus it's a shitload faster than any other app I've used or website. Hell, even when I have to type it in and type my town and state name out its faster than the other apps!
Kii_and_lock · 1 points · Posted at 07:33:51 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yup. Hell you can even have it give you a scroll dealie to see the forecasted weather down to the hour. Very useful.
mobilehobo · 205 points · Posted at 14:58:33 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
wunderground.com
PriusPilot7 · 6 points · Posted at 21:14:45 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yep. I went from Weather.com to Wunderground.com as well. Same company, but Wunderground is centered around data and has much less advertising. Their app is pretty nifty too.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 03:34:29 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I have mixed feelings about the recent update. I like that chance of precipitation is overlaid on temperature, but it feels so bloated now. 😞
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 19:56:35 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
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mobilehobo · 3 points · Posted at 19:59:19 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's still not as bad as weather channel. No click bait and adblock takes care of the rest.
tretnine · 5 points · Posted at 23:01:43 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Wunderground and ublock = a weather only site.
I quit using weather.com a couple of years back when I read the headline (front page of the site): Thousands dead on the East Coast. Holy shit, right? THOUSANDS! Hurricane? Tsunami? No! After reading the article it was about the next 10 or 100 years of deaths caused by weather. Fuck that, and fuck you, Weather.com.
quicksilver991 · 10 points · Posted at 19:00:35 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
No thanks, I prefer to stay away from terrorist websites.
daats_end · 1 points · Posted at 18:26:37 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
One of the few sites I actually pay for.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:01:16 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Owned by TWC
DemiseofReality · 1 points · Posted at 23:12:23 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I've been using wunderground since the late 90's and I'm only 25! I'm a weather nut and have always loved their content. But yes, the Weather Channel is cringeworthy these days.
AidanA128 · 1 points · Posted at 02:33:33 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
THIS!!!!!
[deleted] · 226 points · Posted at 15:01:40 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
weather.gov
Every weather service just regurgitates NOAA and NWS reports. Just get them straight from the source.
It's slightly less user-friendly, and they don't have super flashy graphics, but it's 100x better.
he_who_melts_the_rod · 4 points · Posted at 17:29:41 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Plus all the other information you can get from NOAA vs every other weather news source. Hell the text reports that go with the color coded maps are pretty awesome to read.
PriusPilot7 · 3 points · Posted at 21:17:18 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Sounds like Wunderground could be your jam as well, if you would like a cleaner interface. You can flip between NWS data and their own data modeled off of people's personal weather stations that they crowd source. Pretty cool, you can drill down into the individual weather station's data as well.
[deleted] · -1 points · Posted at 21:35:52 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Oh I love wunderground, if only for the reference to 1960s civil disobedience.
PriusPilot7 · 1 points · Posted at 22:22:15 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Wow, just looked that up, I had no idea it was named after anything.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:28:47 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yeah. The Weather Underground were assholes, to say the least. But it was a chaotic time.
karmapuhlease · 1 points · Posted at 04:02:18 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
TIL that domestic terrorism = "civil disobedience" now
The_Goose_II · 2 points · Posted at 17:50:13 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Type 'weather' into Google search on ANY device and it gives you all the details you need.
7-day, humidity, precipitation, hourly, etc.
aezart · 3 points · Posted at 00:52:41 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
My neighbor gets phishing websites trying to get her to buy virus removal services when she searches for weather on yahoo.
The_Goose_II · 2 points · Posted at 04:10:18 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Hence why I only trust Google.
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 17:53:20 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It gives you a nice forecast, but it's hardly "all the details". There's no maps. I much prefer looking at barometric pressure and radar/satellite maps than the simple forecast.
The_Goose_II · 2 points · Posted at 17:58:58 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Sure, but I'd think most people just need a quick glance haha
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:40:25 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
This, and the NWS Storm Prediction Center page. Love the reporting and data you can get there.
crazilackey · 1 points · Posted at 03:14:18 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Your username is a lie!
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 03:35:30 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I love their tropical storm maps.
ragbagger · 1 points · Posted at 04:23:48 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Weather.gov
Accept no regurgitators. My favorite thing to read are the discussions during hurricane season. There's one forecaster you can tell has a very dry sense of humor. Little things slip through from time to time. I think his name is Bivens, Blevens.... Something like that.
aubska · 3 points · Posted at 16:50:57 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
http://forecast.io
Im_Bro_Tits · 5 points · Posted at 15:37:05 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Accuweather.com
NateTheJointMan · 2 points · Posted at 17:24:27 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Accuweather.com
Riot207 · 2 points · Posted at 18:12:41 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
New England got pounded by snow in 2015 (February was the biggest month for snow fall in NE) we had so many storms last year they started naming the damn storms like hurricanes..
Weather.com is like, "Winter Storm Juno kills millions, Maybe"
People in NE are like, "weather.com chill out, and tell Winter Storm Juno to bring some more Alan's Coffee Brandy we're all out and it's quite the trip into town for more."
eedna · 2 points · Posted at 19:19:35 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I used the weather channel app on my phone until it gave me a notification on Halloween asking if there were ghosts in my forecast. Now I don't have a weather app on my phone.
manawesome326 · 2 points · Posted at 19:34:07 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Bom.gov.au, but only in Australia.
KingWormKilroy · 2 points · Posted at 20:38:10 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
WeatherSpark
if you're into graphs
TorchedPanda · 2 points · Posted at 16:33:42 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I like http://www.accuweather.com
furrogate · 1 points · Posted at 16:34:46 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
This, but an iPhone app. Weather.com's app sends me clickbait PUSH NOTIFICATIONS. Wtf @ that.
hugglesthemerciless · 1 points · Posted at 17:45:12 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
theweathernetwork.com
DontClimbTheStairs · 1 points · Posted at 17:53:18 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I use weather.gov
anderc26 · 1 points · Posted at 18:12:01 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Download Weather Kitty for your phone. Kittens, not clickbait.
Fonzirelli · 1 points · Posted at 18:48:42 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
You should use weather.gov instead. Similar name and easy to remember, but it's run by NOAA so it's actual weather and radar and not sensationalist bullshit.
matt1125_1125 · 1 points · Posted at 18:51:03 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Doge weather is the best. They even have an app.
http://www.dogeweather.com/
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:59:14 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
dogeweather.com
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:33:15 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Thefuckingweather.com
Stig2011 · 1 points · Posted at 19:58:22 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yr.no!
It's a Norwegian site with an English version. Got the weather for everywhere and it's run by our state broadcaster, so there's no ads.
Atreyisx · 1 points · Posted at 20:54:15 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
NOAA.gov
SilverSkywalkerSaber · 1 points · Posted at 21:16:56 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
accuweather.com is the bomb too. I usually pair up wunderground and accuweather when looking at forecasts.
kvn9765 · 1 points · Posted at 21:56:01 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
porn.com
SirBensalot · 1 points · Posted at 01:05:20 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
But I like reading those... :(
ChicagoShadow · 1 points · Posted at 01:25:15 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Forecast.io is lovely
Dubbx · 1 points · Posted at 04:13:30 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
If you have windows 10 just use that. It's actually a really good weather app imo
kill_lilah · 1 points · Posted at 09:03:26 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
AccuWeather is good!
DahliaStorm · 1 points · Posted at 09:14:52 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
BBC does weather for all over the world.
iz24 · 1 points · Posted at 16:59:17 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Not sure if it's still around but I used to rely on thefuckingweather
botulizard · 43 points · Posted at 14:14:49 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Have you seen their Facebook page? They post these videos about weather events that have fake play buttons which redirect to the site.
emr1028 · 177 points · Posted at 13:37:21 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Weather.gov
Thank me later.
jetblackcrow · 319 points · Posted at 14:10:21 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's later. Thank you.
because_monstah · 3 points · Posted at 14:29:24 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's a trick weathermen don't want you to know !
IICVX · 0 points · Posted at 15:56:30 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
You're welcome, Later.
urixl · 0 points · Posted at 21:04:23 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Hi, Later, I'm dad.
ChernobylChild · 0 points · Posted at 16:57:50 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Dad? Get off Reddit!
TheRealDickPoncho · -1 points · Posted at 15:30:45 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
both comments an hour ago, somethings fishy here
3brithil · 2 points · Posted at 15:25:28 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I usually use yr.no, it's a norwegian website and even though I live in germany it is the most accurate weather website I've used, not sure how good the us info is though.
chuby1tubby · 2 points · Posted at 20:06:10 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Wow, thank you!!!
PressureChief · 1 points · Posted at 15:53:20 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Weatherspark is my favorite.
life_is_ball · 1 points · Posted at 19:36:25 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Actually, you could thank me now, go ahead. Or thank me later, I know what I said.
Tenshik · 1 points · Posted at 20:40:27 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
No hourly function iirc which is basically why I still use weather.com I like to know when it'll get warmer for my bike rides. Knowing it'll be 70 today doesn't really help me when its 46 right now but will start warming up at 2pm.
skwacky · 1 points · Posted at 04:28:26 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I think you're missing something. It has current weather, as well as hourly with some pretty fancy graphs. Here are the hourly forecasts for my hometown.
Pilots use this site because it is best for the most accurate current weather information.
ScreamQueen4U · 1 points · Posted at 21:57:13 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
A lot of the purples and tans look alike. Don't know if I should be looking out for a fire or special statement.
machenise · 1 points · Posted at 01:40:11 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
thefuckingweather.com
Thank me later.
corylew · 1 points · Posted at 04:45:49 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Okay, I will not thank you right now.
WhyWouldHeLie · 1 points · Posted at 16:20:21 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Use weather.gov instead! Government operated, so no ads, and probably way more accurate. Doesn't look as pretty tho, but the new weather channel layout is pretty shitty imo
andrewq · 1 points · Posted at 16:55:40 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It was a sad day when they bought weather underground, the clean simple app changed to an ad ridden worthless piece of garbage.
I_AM_AVOIDING_WORK · 1 points · Posted at 17:00:58 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yes! Even naming winter storms is a form of clickbait.
Seriously. If the temperature wasnt under ~32 degrees, are we going to name every rain system? Because that is all snow is, rain that is falling in an area where the temperature is less~32 degrees.
weezermc78 · 1 points · Posted at 17:36:05 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm deeply saddened by weather.com's change into buzzfeed
Booty_Poppin · 1 points · Posted at 17:40:49 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
As someone who lives in an area prone to tornados this is a huge problem for me. After the April 2011 tornados I'm a little more jumpy around the siren. Now the weather channel reports,"We're at an 8 on our tornado scale today! Call your loved ones cause it's all gonna end today." I get my weather else where.
aterrorcatsandwich · 1 points · Posted at 18:16:22 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Did they just change it from last year? Because what I'm looking at is all weather related news with headlines, and when I check my zip code, it actually gives me weather.
GoGoGadge7 · 1 points · Posted at 18:42:57 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Weather.com should just be called Apocalypse.com
That home page is fucking ridiculous every day.
sheepcat87 · 1 points · Posted at 19:36:23 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I mean, to be fair, what if there ARE ten things you can do to prevent drowning? How does a headline convey that information without being several paragraphs long?
Sometimes there's click bait (You wont believe what happened next!) and sometimes there's just "Hey there's not enough space to list all this so click here to see a bunch of ways to avoid dying"
Which makes a lot of sense. . .
FredRogersAMA · 1 points · Posted at 19:49:45 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I hate weather.com. That is the busiest looking website I've ever seen.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:06:47 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The Weather Channel has a show called Fat Guys in the Woods. They're credibility has been on life support for some time now.
God_Damnit_Nappa · 1 points · Posted at 20:12:09 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
"So and so just shocked the internet by doing this!"
YOU'RE THE FUCKING WEATHER CHANNEL. I just want to know if it's going to rain tomorrow or not.
jseego · 1 points · Posted at 20:30:10 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
There was a great interview on NPR with the head of the Weather Channel, where he talked about their new media strategy as you describe it, basically saying that this is what they have to compete with now, and they felt like they had no choice.
Quixilver05 · 1 points · Posted at 22:49:23 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
If number six is so good then why isn't it number one?
ChubbyMonkeyX · 1 points · Posted at 01:59:31 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Sparknotes, too.
halfdeadmoon · 1 points · Posted at 02:42:01 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Igloo Building Cat Will Leave You In Tears
MissFunkyH · 1 points · Posted at 14:26:48 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Omg! I have started a Word doc where I copy/paste every stupid sentences like these. It's getting ridiculous
JSA17 · 239 points · Posted at 12:39:32 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
CNN is just covered in clickbait titles. It's extremely irritating.
emr1028 · 443 points · Posted at 13:37:40 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)*
Stop reading CNN.
Instead read:
Economist.com
Nytimes.com
Wsj.com
Thank me later.
LazyBuhdaBelly · 881 points · Posted at 14:11:25 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Three Websites You Didnt Know Were Better Than CNN, Number 3 Will Shock You
AsidRayne · 4 points · Posted at 15:50:44 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
by cnn.com, of course.
fencerman · 3 points · Posted at 15:06:57 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
"Reporters HATE them."
y_u_u_nzm · 4 points · Posted at 15:26:09 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
"See it before it gets BANNED"
ChubbyMonkeyX · 2 points · Posted at 02:00:42 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Wsj.com is SJW out of order so I guess I was a tiny bit shocked.
Hogwartsreject1912 · 2 points · Posted at 21:36:05 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Number 3 did shock me. Usually I hate anything Wall Street so.
3brithil · 2 points · Posted at 15:26:15 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
FTFY
ClutchCinnabon · 1 points · Posted at 17:50:12 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
literally every other website on earth?
Coldbeam · 1 points · Posted at 00:28:58 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I can think of a few that are worse...
ClutchCinnabon · 1 points · Posted at 02:21:56 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
like?
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 03:00:19 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Fox News
ClutchCinnabon · -1 points · Posted at 03:14:07 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
nah.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 03:24:15 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
You kidding me? Fox News is horribly biased and poorly written. CNN is pretty bad, but it's nothing on Fox News.
ClutchCinnabon · 2 points · Posted at 04:00:35 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Weeeelll.... NBC news.
PriusPilot7 · 1 points · Posted at 21:17:56 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
This could be a bot...
Royal-Ninja · 1 points · Posted at 02:41:22 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
is #3 Reddit?
BobDylan530 · 1 points · Posted at 02:46:09 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
3 did shock me, WSJ is crap
BrutalWarPig · 2 points · Posted at 04:06:03 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Makes good kindling
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 03:36:29 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Goatse?
goalstopper28 · 0 points · Posted at 20:29:07 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Eh, not shocked that Wsj.com is better than CNN.
Azara1th · 62 points · Posted at 14:42:43 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
WSJ is paid only for most of the good articles, and stay out of the opinion section if you don't want a Fox News lite experience (Murdock's influence shows there a lot).
emr1028 · 12 points · Posted at 14:44:02 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
WSJ is a great news source, but the opinion section is where intelligence goes to die.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 15:07:27 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Checkout Yahoo news comments.
[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 15:43:17 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Well, by then, it's already been dead and buried and is starting to smell
sonicjr · 7 points · Posted at 20:28:15 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I quite like their opinion section, yes it's sort of an echo-chamber for the right but it's not like the NY Times is any different in that regard for the left. Most articles follow some sort of internal logic and reason rather than devolving into emotion and mudslinging like Breitbart or Huffpost. I think it's pretty great for educating oneself on points of view that deviate from the vast majority of the MSM.
karmapuhlease · 1 points · Posted at 04:14:32 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yeah, conservatives are dumb, amirite?!
There's an enormous difference between the WSJ editorials and something like Drudge Report or Breitbart.
Trosso · 1 points · Posted at 16:58:42 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
aka the comments on the vast majority of /r/politics and /r/SandersForPresident
Drachefly · -2 points · Posted at 17:43:35 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
You think /r/SandersForPresident is a lot like the WSJ opinion section? I haven't checked them out, but it just seems unlikely.
arimill · 33 points · Posted at 15:08:55 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
So much this. The Economist always has the best, most level headed analysis with a nice worldly perspective on most matters.
josh_the_misanthrope · 6 points · Posted at 15:22:50 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Seconded, they really have their shit together. I can't even tell if they're a slant, they appear to be quite centrist.
arimill · 14 points · Posted at 15:55:17 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)*
I believe they've stated they're social liberals and somewhat fiscal conservatives. But they're typically really good at calling out both sides when they slip up. But this "slant" is pretty reasonable. They called for drug decriminalization (and legalization?) as well as gay marriage rights something like a decade before even liberal newspapers did. So while they do have a slant, it generally seems very reasonable to me.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 00:36:03 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
They've always seemed fairly left wing to me, for the past few years their support of right wing fiscal policy has started to erode.
Hiphopopotamus5782 · 4 points · Posted at 19:57:10 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
This sounds like an incredibly reasonable viewpoint to have
arimill · 1 points · Posted at 20:27:14 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
At least, I think so. That's why I read them.
emr1028 · 4 points · Posted at 15:52:12 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
They are open about their liberal bias, but overall they're a great source and their analysis is usually spot on.
karmapuhlease · 1 points · Posted at 04:13:28 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
"Liberal" in a classical sense though - they're fiscally conservative, socially liberal, heavily pro-Western, and with an active (mostly interventionist) foreign policy view.
GavinZac · 1 points · Posted at 01:53:54 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
It definitely has a 'pro-US, anti-China' bias in the wider world, but that much is to be expected.
macroaggression1 · -1 points · Posted at 18:04:06 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
They are pro us and UK and anti China
arimill · 3 points · Posted at 18:26:50 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)*
I always see them write about the China slowdown with a negative tone. And not just because it affects the West but because they just care about their growth in and of itself. However they are hard on China when it comes to currency manipulation, human rights and environment.
macroaggression1 · 2 points · Posted at 06:25:29 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Currency manipulation is such a joke. When the US does QE that manipulates the currency. When the ECB does NIRP/ZIRP that manipulates the currency. If there were a country that didn't manipulate its currency after the US went full QE crazy post 2008 their currency would be extremely strong and their export sector would die.
Here's a story about Switzerland and its attempts at "currency manipulation" (not having an absurdly strong Franc) http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-03-24/swiss-national-bank-admits-it-spent-470-billion-currency-manipulation-2010
arimill · 1 points · Posted at 06:32:19 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
QE isn't currency manipulation though. It's pumping US dollars into the US economy for US stimulus. There may be inflation and that might potentially lead to a slight devaluation of the currency but the effects are minuscule compared to what China does which is selling other countries currency reserves on the forex market with the aim of devaluation of the Yuan. Saying that QE is even remotely close to this clear attempt at devaluation is simply dishonest.
macroaggression1 · 1 points · Posted at 07:01:58 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Not true. Take a look at what happened to the dollar relative to other currencies after US implemented Q.E.
Also
http://www.cnbc.com/2014/04/14/currency-manipulation-the-ecb-finally-said-itcommentary.html
And let me be clear, the US has the best propaganda in the world.
arimill · 1 points · Posted at 07:24:28 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yeah, I looked into it and there's no correlation:
CADxUSD
EUROxUSD
GBPxUSD
I'm getting the feeling that you don't actually know how QE or currency manipulation works/actually are.
Sevrek · 103 points · Posted at 14:18:16 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Nytimes is pretty shitty lately
[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 16:39:05 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
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weezermc78 · 6 points · Posted at 17:36:43 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Anywhere else you don't want gay weddings shoved into?
CookieTheSlayer · 4 points · Posted at 00:08:17 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Well, I wouldnt want gay weddings on my news source either. I dont hate gays, but I do love news and if the news is filled with gay weddings, then its not actually news
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 12:36:21 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
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CookieTheSlayer · 2 points · Posted at 12:37:44 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Well, I'd rather they would. Why does it matter if someone you dont know is getting married? It is not important, neither your business
dangerbird2 · 3 points · Posted at 00:29:21 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
An anti-gay rant riddled with homoerotic undertones? Color me shocked!
buddythebear · 25 points · Posted at 17:16:35 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
"pretty shitty" = they wrote an article or two about Bernie Sanders that I didn't like.
ExtremelyLongButtock · 2 points · Posted at 04:14:20 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
They wanna be known as "the paper of record" but they go around telling people that guacamole has peas in it.
Sevrek · 4 points · Posted at 18:23:01 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Well I voted for Hillary so I guess that throws that theory out the window.
It's a biased source and you're ignorant to think otherwise
buddythebear · 3 points · Posted at 18:28:48 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Of course it's biased. Every news source is.
When you say that it has been shitty lately, you should provide some actual examples that go beyond mere cherry picking. They publish hundreds of articles every day, if you go to the NYT looking for something that you think is shitty, you can find it... while ignoring all of the other great work they do.
Sevrek · -4 points · Posted at 18:30:45 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Not every news source is as biased as nytimes
buddythebear · 12 points · Posted at 18:38:02 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
And there are plenty of other news sources that are way more biased than the New York Times. So what. The NYT is a massive institution that publishes the writings of thousands of people who all have their own personal views. Saying it's biased as a conversation-stopper is silly.
solarlexus · 2 points · Posted at 01:18:43 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Nah, I've been saying this for years. The quality of writing has steadily declined as new lifestyle columns have been creeping out the news and analysis, pushing some image of being young and hip. I don't need to buy a paper to read someone interviewing their best friends about alternative parenthood or a personal essay on relationships by an undergrad.
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 02:04:46 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
That doesnt mean the quality of the writing has gone down. It just means you dont like what the paper has been reporting on as much lately.
solarlexus · 6 points · Posted at 02:24:07 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
They were separate points, the link was that a lot of writers seem young and inexperienced. Idk I see some sentences that are really awkward.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 02:35:29 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Ah I understand now. Fair enough
Star_Tropic · 3 points · Posted at 23:13:41 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The NYT apparently has ties to Clinton and so much of the news tends to just be political pro Hillary stuff.
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 18:43:28 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
NYTimes has been pretty shitty since they started trying to get rid of math education in public schools.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 02:06:06 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Huh? Any substance to this claim?
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 05:21:02 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm exaggerating for effect, but in 2011 and 2012 in november, they had these two articles about how Americans are bad at teaching math, so we should get rid of required advanced math.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:50:07 on March 29, 2016 · (Permalink)
Btw, just remembered the article that I was thinking of.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/08/opinion/sunday/who-says-math-has-to-be-boring.html
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:57:50 on March 29, 2016 · (Permalink)
Thanks dude
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 15:00:44 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Lately?
emr1028 · -1 points · Posted at 14:18:44 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It really isn't.
Chewbacca_007 · 5 points · Posted at 17:25:22 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Making up evidence of encryption used in the Paris attacks is pretty shitty to me...
Sevrek · 13 points · Posted at 14:22:17 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It really is
phosphorus29 · -2 points · Posted at 14:44:43 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It really isn't.
AnnieNonmouse · 6 points · Posted at 14:52:27 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Now kiss.
GoTzMaDsKiTTLez · 1 points · Posted at 14:52:13 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It really is?
hugglesthemerciless · 3 points · Posted at 19:25:47 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It really is
ArcticTerrapin · 1 points · Posted at 16:39:10 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
and it's not exactly the most unbiased source
gallantBlackKnight · 1 points · Posted at 20:23:28 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The New York Slimes hasn't been good for a while.
[deleted] · -2 points · Posted at 00:34:35 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
What do you mean? They're one of the few sources of quality journalism nowadays- just because they printed something you don't agree with doesn't mean that they've necessarily gone downhill. Just to add on to that list, the BBC is still excellent, as is Al Jazeera (remember, go to BBC News rather than the BBC website)
Sevrek · 1 points · Posted at 15:44:31 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Just because they print things you agree with doesn't mean it's good journalism either
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:23:33 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
That's true, and I recognise that many publications listed do have a left wing bias, something that I probably don't notice too much because they tend to fall in line with my own political views. Maybe it's my own bias speaking, but outside of a few well regarded publications like the Wall Street Journal, I haven't really been able to find anything on the right with the same level of coverage and investigative journalism compared to liberal media outlets. I think people all across the political spectrum can recognise that the best democracy is an informed one, but all too often that's easier said than done.
Kodiak01 · 2 points · Posted at 14:22:35 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I actually find myself reading news/opinion sites I disagree with more often just because they are still making an actual attempt at proper writing/reporting, without the clickbait.
emr1028 · 3 points · Posted at 14:23:39 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's good to read things that you disagree with, not good to keep yourself in a bubble.
Kodiak01 · 4 points · Posted at 14:25:46 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I always read things I disagree with, then make my own choices. For example, in my newsreader I have Daily Beast and The Blaze sitting right next to each other, and both get read daily.
If something comes along that challenges my views and forces me to take an honest look, I welcome it.
emr1028 · 2 points · Posted at 14:27:25 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
See, the thing with The Blaze though, is that it's just not a good source. I always say that people should read things that they disagree with, but I don't think that this necessarily has to include low quality news sources. I think that looking at high quality sources that disagree with each other are generally a better way to go about it.
Gajeel_ · 1 points · Posted at 17:05:44 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
What do you think of Donald Trump?
Kodiak01 · -1 points · Posted at 18:18:57 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)*
If it were up to me, Herman Cain would have run again... or never dropped out the last time. Coming into the election, I had no specific favorite although I did give points to Fiorina in the foreign policy arena based on her experience on the CIA's External Advisory Board.
Running through some of the other candidates:
Kasich: Actually to the left of Democrats on many subjects. His immigration stance in particular is a complete non-starter for me.
Cruz: Touted himself as an outsider yet worked in the Bush administration and even met his wife there. Speaking of his wife, she's interjecting herself way too much in the campaign, pulling out the "We" moniker several times, such as saying "This is why we are running for President". A Hillary 2.0 in the making.
Rubio: A younger McCain with better functioning arms and a worse functioning brain. The moment he stooped to insults, showing his true colors, he no longer was a viable candidate for me.
Sanders: What you get when you throw Granny Warren and Howard Dean in a blender. Has crazy eyes, but generally like his stance on 2nd Amendment issues. A small part of me keeps expecting him to pull off his face like a mask, a giant boot popping up showing that he is actually Vermin Supreme in disguise, and that we might actually get our free ponies!
Clinton: Patraeus got sent up the river for a tiny fraction of what she did, and did so many times more brazenly. If she couldn't figure out what was classified with her own email, what makes anyone think she can be trusted to do the same in the Oval Office?
and finally, Trump: Brash delivery can be extremely offputting, equal chance of rubbing other world leaders the wrong way, or restoring the perception of a backbone to the country. Even though he says things in an inflammatory way, hindsight and history have actually proven him right in several areas. These include the recent Brussels attacks that he predicted back in January and his "Wall with a big door" commentary actually having the force of both law and history (other Presidents have done it in the past). While I don't like how he says things, the core thoughts and ideas are ones that need to be spoken. I like that he has stated the desire to keep us out of Middle Eastern conflicts, that we should leave them to just keep blowing each other up as they have done for centuries, as long as it doesn't threaten the US in any way. That being said, he is Putin-lite in some thoughts and mannerisms.
I voted for Trump. The final choice was not made until just before I cast the vote, when the realization came that both sides are ganging up on him because he wants to upset the system... a system the rest of them are already a part of and attached to the hip with, financially and otherwise; a system that everyone claims to want to fix, but only so far as to allowing themselves to benefit from it. The most telling part was realizing that Cruz and Kasich were no longer asking people to vote FOR them, but rather AGAINST Trump. They have dropped any pretense of trying to convince voters of the positives for voting for them other than "They aren't Trump." -- Zero substance.
As for a brokered convention: If Trump is anywhere close to the number of delegates needed and they pull the rug out to stuff an Establishment player in the game, you will not only see riot on the convention floor, you will see a large enough portion of Trump voters staying home in November, all but handing the election to the Democrats.
This primary has long since stopped doing what is best for the people by putting forward the most viable and most popular candidate, instead becoming a power-play to maintain the power status-quo of a group of entrenched lifelong politicians.
Edit: Someone just PMd me asking how I categorize my political views. I am relatively Conservative to Austrian on most fiscal issues, a Constitutionalist/Originalist in the area of enforcing our founding documents, Moderate-Liberal to Libertarian on the majority of social issues (drugs, abortion, etc.)
Edit 2: My view on Trump and the other candidates was just echoed by none other than Salon (another place I regularly read but not always agree with):
http://www.salon.com/2016/03/24/camille_paglia_this_is_why_trumps_winning_and_why_i_wont_vote_for_hillary/
The writer goes on to lambaste all the other Republican candidates, and I can't say I disagree with much of anything she wrote.
Gajeel_ · 1 points · Posted at 20:48:04 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
That was a very good read and you seem to be incredibly reasonable and open minded. The media and the political establishment are making it very hard to have any opinion other than "Donald Trump is a pick your favorite insult". Not a perfect candidate, but the only one that is a true outsider, and that's becoming clearer by the day.
larrymoencurly · 1 points · Posted at 14:39:21 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
ALdaily.com has links to lots of the better articles and news sources.
SoundsGoodChief · 1 points · Posted at 15:50:12 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
What do you read then?
emr1028 · 1 points · Posted at 15:51:19 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I was saying, read economist, WSJ, Nytimes, just not CNN.
mebeblb4 · 1 points · Posted at 16:12:51 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Why do you feel the need to put this at the end of all your posts
LT_JOHN_RICO · 1 points · Posted at 16:40:49 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
No, www.foxnews.com is far better
ThePittsburgher · 1 points · Posted at 17:04:40 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
What do you read?
emr1028 · 1 points · Posted at 17:05:12 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Economist.com
Nytimes.com
Wsj.com
hugglesthemerciless · 1 points · Posted at 17:47:37 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Fuck the NY Times, they invent evidence where there is none to push their agenda
bear-user · 1 points · Posted at 18:27:39 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
thanks
Tarcanus · 1 points · Posted at 18:53:48 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The only times I've tried to read a nytimes article, my browser nearly shit itself from the horrible, abhorrent, ad-stuffed mess that is the NYTimes website.
Mranze · 1 points · Posted at 19:18:30 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
yeah I really have appreciated the WSJ as it's super helpful and usually not too biased.
jseego · 1 points · Posted at 20:31:24 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Also news.BBC.co.uk
FreeFallFormation · 1 points · Posted at 20:37:37 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
BBC reported on the San Bernardino before CNN did and I honestly feel like that's messed up.
L1FTED · 1 points · Posted at 20:40:57 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I like reuters too.
syllvos · 1 points · Posted at 20:41:01 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'd personally add npr.org in there as well.
urixl · 1 points · Posted at 21:06:58 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's later. Thank you.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:25:18 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
All good news sources, but the Financial Times is a better WSJ IMO.
Latifire · 1 points · Posted at 21:38:33 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Can I thank you now?
I_knowa_guy · 1 points · Posted at 21:49:11 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's later. Thank you.
needsmoresteel · 1 points · Posted at 21:57:51 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
WSJ: You've read 8 of your 10 free articles of the month. As it's only the second of the month. And I'm browsing the news from something like News360.
inthelittleforest · 1 points · Posted at 22:12:29 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's later. Thank you.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:37:37 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
tagged as 'the news hero reddit needs'
Skiddoosh · 1 points · Posted at 00:14:15 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
You say "thank me later" a lot.
KamaCosby · 1 points · Posted at 02:01:49 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
NPR!
Sherpsmurps · 1 points · Posted at 04:14:14 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
BASED
corylew · 1 points · Posted at 04:47:11 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Okay, I will not thank you right now.
physrick · 1 points · Posted at 07:23:16 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Washingtonpost.com
songofmyown · 1 points · Posted at 11:13:32 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
LOL at any of those sources being better than CNN
It is all the same garbage propagated by morons.
felixjmorgan · 1 points · Posted at 12:18:02 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
New Yorker bro, their work is the shit
firedrake242 · 1 points · Posted at 16:19:21 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
www.rt.com
kataskopo · 1 points · Posted at 17:47:23 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Just be mindful that it's run by the Russian government, kinda like Al-Jazeera is run by the Saudis (?). I guess they are OK, just remember that.
spmahn · 0 points · Posted at 15:43:43 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
You missed Foxnews.com
thishitisgettingold · 0 points · Posted at 17:21:26 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
or just read /r/news
I just go through that sub every few hours and see whats in "rising" section.
after CNN started installing pop-ups in the white space on either side of the page. I stopped going there.
FrOzenOrange1414 · 2 points · Posted at 20:41:20 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's geared for average Joe Schmoe. The same guy who would make payments on a ten year old car from a buy-here-pay-here lot, or who would spend half their tax return on lottery tickets. They have to pander to the dumbest of the dumb.
bergie321 · 2 points · Posted at 22:19:00 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
BREAKING NEWS ALERT!!!!!
That plane is still missing.
Antinous · 1 points · Posted at 17:06:13 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
CNN's "This Week in 30 Photos" is actually really neat though.
CrimsonKing1989 · 110 points · Posted at 13:02:23 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I work at a regional newspaper in Scotland and we've started putting our web stories out like this and it does my fucking tits in. It's the worst shit.
nhem_jak · 30 points · Posted at 17:29:28 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
There is no way that I will not be using this later.
CrimsonKing1989 · 2 points · Posted at 17:50:22 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
You are most welcome.
mlnjd · 2 points · Posted at 02:30:30 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I too would like to see these tits later.
[deleted] · 9 points · Posted at 13:59:49 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
But it's effective none the less
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 14:12:23 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It makes people click the links therefore increase ad revenue, sure, but it does nothing to improve the quality of the newspaper itself.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 15:17:05 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
But they aren't actual spammy ads, they are ads for the articles, once you click it you aren't brought to some random adfly link.
CrimsonKing1989 · 1 points · Posted at 15:35:03 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Undeniably so, it just feels cheap to me.
Chewbacca_007 · 1 points · Posted at 17:27:24 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I liked them better when it was only in magazine covers
cragglerock93 · 2 points · Posted at 03:24:10 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Oooh, which one?
CrimsonKing1989 · 1 points · Posted at 18:43:12 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Just a wee shitey one :P
Trosso · -7 points · Posted at 17:00:10 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
do you wear a skirt like a real fanny?
CrimsonKing1989 · 6 points · Posted at 17:50:02 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I am indeed descended from a long line of fannies.
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 20:16:04 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
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Axnalux · 2 points · Posted at 22:17:27 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Aww Fanny yer just like yer daddy...
andremeda · 43 points · Posted at 12:58:14 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Thank goodness for those amazing people who will read through that bullshit clickbait for you and leave a comment on the Facebook post summarising ~5 min of clickbait bullshit in a few sweet, short, sharp sentences.
710cap · 4 points · Posted at 15:01:25 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
There's a page on Facebook called DeClicked that does that, too
mega_potato · 2 points · Posted at 15:53:02 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
"Saved you a click"
schwagle · 1 points · Posted at 16:13:41 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)*
Da real MVPs
ShitlordiusPrime · 1 points · Posted at 00:39:31 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Or the heavy ad filled ones where they post screens ad free
MajorAcer · 1 points · Posted at 00:02:01 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
What journalism was originally meant to be lol.
Renegade31 · 28 points · Posted at 14:53:23 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I took a social media management class as my final credits for school. One of the requirements was that we had to do weekly blog posts linking an article pertaining to what we were learning that week. The instructor literally told us that we had to make clickbaity headlines for the link, like "you'll never believe #4!!". I died on the inside every time I had to do it
[deleted] · 14 points · Posted at 14:11:08 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Clickbait might be a relatively new word, but the concept is as old as media.
a_broken_zat · 5 points · Posted at 16:17:57 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
"Come to the market to see clay pots from all around the region. This new design straight from Rome will shock a Spartan!"
Otto_Maller · 1 points · Posted at 17:04:48 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
1940s "X-tree, X-tree, read all about it...man bites dog...git yer paypah here..."
1980s Reports made of a man biting a dog, more after the break...
2010s What a Florida man did to a dog will shock you...plus 10 spring break infections you didn't know you could get
hot_exhaust · 4 points · Posted at 16:39:27 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Clickbaits prey on the unintelligent, gossip-happy bottom feeders who have nothing better to do than read up on the 'juiciest new stories' that are typically either untrue or mundane facts.
What annoys you most about clickbaits?
You won't BELIEVE number 9!
Makes me so mad I can't even think.
hakuna_tamata · 3 points · Posted at 15:56:51 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
To add to that, slideshow articles. Go to hell About.com
rangemaster · 3 points · Posted at 17:29:40 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Broadcast news was always like this.
"Here's a tidbit about a story you want to hear about, more at 11"
At the very end of the broadcast after you've watched the rest of it.
TrustTheGeneGenie · 2 points · Posted at 14:19:04 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Number 7 never blows my mind.
Imperatorian · 2 points · Posted at 15:13:30 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Same in my country. Luckily there's a facebook group with like a 100 000 followers that tells the content of the clickbait article shortly and also awards weekly diplomas to the worst offenders. Some news outlets have promised to make changes because of this.
Fluffeh_Mtg_Kitteh · 2 points · Posted at 15:58:39 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Don't lie; You'd quit facebook if it was as simple as "quitting" or "deleting" your account...
Instead it takes 5 separate pages, numerous links, ect ect just to delete it; And after all that, your account is still available to bring back at the simple click of a single link sent to your email...
a_broken_zat · 1 points · Posted at 16:19:25 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Are you sure youre sure?
Is that your final answer?
puppyhugs- · 2 points · Posted at 14:29:29 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Fuckin Cracked.com amiright
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:13:26 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I had to delete the Cracked app because after one update it would start redirecting me to car insurance ads. Total bullshit.
puppyhugs- · 1 points · Posted at 16:11:17 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I used to read the website like every day then all the ads crashed my browser and there titles actually became cheap click bait
drawingdead0 · 1 points · Posted at 15:01:45 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
That's been around for a few years though, it's not really a 2015 thing.
spoonerhouse · 1 points · Posted at 15:41:17 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Unfollow everyone except for the few friends that you still care about. Trust me, it'll improve your FB experience tremendously. I actually unfollow literally everyone and everything. I only keep FB around for messaging, event planning, and 1 secret group that I have with all of my friends.
annoyingone · 1 points · Posted at 15:56:01 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
And that those "top 10" are on 10 difference pages with about 40 adds on each page. I wont click past page 1.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:46:46 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
You might be surprised at how easy it is to keep in touch with those friends without fb...I had to get rids of it too cuz I was always geating pissed off going on it ..
lukeyf88 · 1 points · Posted at 16:49:23 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Everything is click bait, the worst is Recruitment Agencies.
Nah.
alandel2001 · 1 points · Posted at 17:45:42 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm a lot happier now that I've deleted all but about 50 dear friends and about 10 liked pages. It was taking up too much time before.
strokesfan91 · 1 points · Posted at 18:20:13 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
in all fairness, this wasnt exclusive to 2015.
pinkpussylips · 1 points · Posted at 18:20:20 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I say it was worse in 2014.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:34:08 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
What are you talking about? I learned 20 ways to get past clickbait!
DHiltz · 1 points · Posted at 18:37:38 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Something Buzzfeed is doing right now, not necessarily in 2015, is how they start a lot of articles with "Everyone is freaking out about..."
Flight714 · 1 points · Posted at 18:47:51 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Great plan: Every time you see a clickbait article or picture shared, take note of which friend shared/liked it, and immediately remove them from your friends list.
After a few weeks, Facebook actually becomes kinda decent (although it's still obviously an appalling spying machine).
go2kejdz · 1 points · Posted at 19:04:54 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
[SHOCKING] Someone did something! [MEMES]
Half of Polish news after semi-important events like huge football matches
dramboxf · 1 points · Posted at 19:28:09 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Local TV news started the basic concept years ago. Comedians in the 90s were doing bits about it:
"Something in your house may be killing you," they say at the top of the news. "And we'll tell you what it is after sports and weather!"
FredRogersAMA · 1 points · Posted at 19:48:49 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Not sure of your country, but I feel like in the US News Media has always basically been click bait.
Is the food you are currently feeding your child poisonous? Find out at 11
geirbiscohn · 1 points · Posted at 19:55:53 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Clickbait was one thing, lists that you had to click through were another. Now they've combined the two into actual stories, with clickbait titles, that you have to CLICK THROUGH WITH ONE FUCKING SENTENCE PER PAGE. It's so infuriating.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:05:07 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
i have not been on facebook since 2010.
gallantBlackKnight · 1 points · Posted at 20:22:35 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The news getting into it is why I don't trust CNN anymore. That and breaking news includes anything that has to do with politics.
Doile · 1 points · Posted at 20:31:38 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Just stop scrolling the news feed on Facebook and you're fine. Stopped doing that 1 year ago, best decision of my life.
DelicateChickenKnee · 1 points · Posted at 20:54:15 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I know it's pathetic, but overuse of the word Adorable. Every fucking thing with big eyes, fur, or the incapacity of wiping away its own shit is described as Adorable in the title.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:12:42 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
If you use FB on a browser, look up FB Purity. Will get rid of many of the frustrations.
GuardianOfTriangles · 1 points · Posted at 21:35:12 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Block any site that does this. That's what I did on facebook. After a month, I rarely see it. Nowadays I never see it
screaming_for_memes · 1 points · Posted at 22:37:33 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
And honestly, that's why I avoid getting into social media in the first place.
victoryohone · 1 points · Posted at 23:16:38 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I've quit fbook since August and it has been liberating. I was so sick of bullshit posts and pictures of shit I didn't care about. Your real friends will stick around and find ways to keep in touch. It is harder to organize events and such but I use evite and whatsapp now. Keeping friends was my final worry about quitting, but just put your account dormant at first and you can always hop back on to track down someone's email if need be.
MrNeverPullOut · 1 points · Posted at 23:24:24 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I read that as "chick bait"
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:56:00 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Agree
Tunaluna · 1 points · Posted at 00:38:27 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Why not ask for their phone numbers or email? I got rid of Facebook a year ago and never even think about it.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 00:55:24 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Thanks Cracked.com
DingJones · 1 points · Posted at 01:12:44 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
"This will blow your mind" is directed at the small-minded. Tiny explosions everywhere...
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 01:30:06 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Just don't browse it and use their messenger app. I uninstalled Facebook on my phone because it was a battery drainer but it's genuinely the best thing I've done besides regardless of my battery life improvement. I've kept the messenger app for the group chats my friends and I have and I don't sit in bed and scroll through a never ending Facebook time line in bed at night any more. Nor do I see all the shit that is on Facebook.
I still sit through the never ending reddit and twitter though.
ZJonas96 · 1 points · Posted at 05:09:35 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Always does Jackie D always sets me up for a rough night
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:29:12 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
The local news websites are doing it here too (U.S.)
Crumps_brother · 1 points · Posted at 07:39:29 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I seen one today that said "15 Celebrities You Didn't Know We're Dead. Number 7 Will Shock You." The picture was of Jennifer Lawrence who is as far as I know, not dead, and a huge celebrity so I wouldn't be finding out about her death from a bullshit click bait ad, and thus not shocked.
evan164 · 1 points · Posted at 12:43:02 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
But what if number 7 will blow my mind!? I need to know
Prettyflyforwiseguy · 1 points · Posted at 12:48:18 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
'Clickhole' satirises this kind of journalism brilliantly.
__JeRM · 1 points · Posted at 14:32:25 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
If you use facebook on your phone/tablet, then delete it and only use facebook messenger.
I haven't looked back.
kenmcfa · 1 points · Posted at 15:45:31 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
And most of them are directly ripped from reddit threads like this one. I hope they pick this up!
Nicky4Pin · 1 points · Posted at 15:48:27 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I deleted my facebook for this reason. Only thing I miss is a few of the groups I was part of, otherwise I'm enjoying it.
papercutpete · 1 points · Posted at 17:23:49 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Reddit should come up with their own Facebook....with cats and Bernie's
GoBigArgoHome · 0 points · Posted at 16:44:26 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
This
universal32 · 907 points · Posted at 12:40:49 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
That social media trend of setting yourself on fire and seeing how fast you can put it out is quite an awful trend. On the other hand though, let natural selection do its thing.
sassosaurus · 465 points · Posted at 15:39:30 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Wait...what?! That was a thing??
Tinfoilpain · 85 points · Posted at 19:13:33 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yeah, the new facebook IQ test.
KnightInDulledArmor · 4 points · Posted at 02:42:27 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Weeds out the weak ones.
Jmanrocks · 6 points · Posted at 21:45:06 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The Fire Challenge.
TheNumberMuncher · 3 points · Posted at 05:16:33 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
The gas bucket challenge
wait_whaaattt · -5 points · Posted at 21:45:00 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I don't know. Ask someone else.
iliketosnuggle · 189 points · Posted at 14:31:10 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I dunno, these were the only "challenges" that I actually enjoyed watching. Who doesn't want to watch the idiots burn?
[deleted] · 160 points · Posted at 16:29:57 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)*
I was annoyed when it was in articles and on the news telling people to stop lighting themselves on fire. No. Please. Let people dumb enough to light themselves on fire light themselves on fire please
Randydandy69 · 8 points · Posted at 19:38:57 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The problem is, they might accidentally set other things on Fire
hhhnnnnnggggggg · 1 points · Posted at 18:50:11 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
My only issue is these people probably aren't the type to be able to pay hospital bills and so everyone else has to pay for them.
Illogical_Blox · -3 points · Posted at 16:48:01 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Why would you want to intentionally cause suffering and incur a financial cost?
plasticsheeting · 9 points · Posted at 18:49:42 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Being ok with people choosing to burn themselves isn't intentionally causing suffering ...
-Avatar-Korra- · 5 points · Posted at 19:34:24 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
He had bad wording for sure and even the wrong sentiment. Although I still think it's kind of bad that somebody is fine and rather encouraging towards the self inflicted injury of others.
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 21:12:25 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I don't think /u/iliketosnuggle is encouraging it, he just doesn't have a problem if people want to be dumbasses and risk their lives like that. And, to be honest, I don't either.
bregolad · 3 points · Posted at 18:55:12 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Exactly. We used to have to arrange that shit ourselves, and usually keep it a secret - it was a right bother. Now the undesirables just do it to themselves!
logos__ · 2 points · Posted at 20:01:35 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I just want to quote this because of how true it is.
Eurynom0s · 1 points · Posted at 04:16:37 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Darwin awards
ZeMoose · -4 points · Posted at 17:57:32 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
me.
beaverlyknight · 3 points · Posted at 16:13:32 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Can you say "Darwin Award"? This should be encouraged! All the positives of eugenics with none of the moral conundrums. Burn on brothers, you're doing your part to improve the human genepool.
[deleted] · 10 points · Posted at 16:12:10 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I support this product and/or service.
God_Damnit_Nappa · 2 points · Posted at 20:23:20 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
That was an actual trend? TIL humanity's stupidity truly is limitless. Or people really enthusiastic about recreating Vietnam War protests.
clockwork_coder · 1 points · Posted at 17:38:46 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
That actually sounds like a good thing, letting the herd thin itself out.
Tinfoil_Haberdashery · 1 points · Posted at 17:58:07 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Shit, my friends and I were doing this back in 2006. If only we'd been able to monetize it...
The_Leaderman · 1 points · Posted at 18:19:33 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Don't forget the condom challenge. That killed a few folks as well.
Helium_3 · 1 points · Posted at 20:43:51 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
if you cover yourself in accelerant and put it out before it burns any of your actual skin, you'll be fine.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 00:17:46 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Links please? I've had a rough couple of years and a video of some idiot setting himself alight might make me temporarily happy.
SkillfulBasher · 1 points · Posted at 02:07:55 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
links pls??
fff8e7cosmic · 1 points · Posted at 04:50:12 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I would do that.
But more because I have mental health issues and also honestly just want to know what being on fire would feel like.
GrayOctopus · 1 points · Posted at 05:41:13 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Don't wanna sound like an ass but I actually hope one of those idiots gets serverly burned.
DocGerbill · 1 points · Posted at 09:29:28 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Is there any way we can convince them to do this with gasoline?
Shugbug1986 · 1 points · Posted at 10:03:22 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
This reminds me of a friend of mine in highschool who would borrow my body spray, spray it on the crotch of his jeans, and light the spot on fire, and quickly put it out. But he did this a few years ago. I'd like to believe he inspired whoever started the trend.
OGNoireButt · 1 points · Posted at 04:34:47 on March 26, 2016 · (Permalink)
This was my favourite challenge to watch. It's amazing what people would do for clicks on their shit videos!
thatswhatshesaidxx · -1 points · Posted at 20:51:39 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Well....people are dying from the Bullet Proof Vest Challenge, so yeah - Darwinism
This sounds like a joke. It is not a joke.
heyitsmeurdad · -2 points · Posted at 15:13:05 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)*
¯\(ツ)/¯
TorinoCobra070 · 2415 points · Posted at 12:14:04 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Terrorism was pretty trendy last year. I'll go with that.
ace0fskulls · 552 points · Posted at 12:20:34 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Looks like it a trend that won't go away for a while
🎙️ AnyReview · 220 points · Posted at 12:31:07 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
sad true :(
heyitsmeurdad · 132 points · Posted at 15:07:45 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)*
¯\(ツ)/¯
fireork12 · 3 points · Posted at 18:28:20 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
You forgot these: _ _
heyitsmeurdad · 15 points · Posted at 19:53:01 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I domt have shoulder you cis scum
yoshibestfan · 1 points · Posted at 06:50:07 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Dude, your arms are a little short ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
LucklessRouge · 1 points · Posted at 15:16:54 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
You forgot this \
heyitsmeurdad · 3 points · Posted at 15:20:10 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Fuck.
Evil_Disco_Marmot · 5 points · Posted at 17:31:53 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
heyitsmeurdad · 1 points · Posted at 15:20:54 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I actually have it there, it just doesn't show up in the source added it in now tho
are_you_nucking_futs · 1 points · Posted at 23:04:27 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Actually not true, numbers have been pretty steady.
darth_stroyer · 1 points · Posted at 22:07:17 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
That sounds like an /r/indianpeoplefacebook
Terroism · 2 points · Posted at 19:56:27 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I ain't leaving boy
Nothing_Gazes_Back · 2 points · Posted at 21:36:24 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It'll get better if we invite them for a sleepover. They just feel left out.
geared4war · 2 points · Posted at 21:41:12 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
"10 Ways To Suicide Bomb: No 6 Will Blow You Away!"
ssbssbssb · 2 points · Posted at 17:46:34 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It really blew up.
Sportsfan_69 · 2 points · Posted at 22:43:12 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
People aren't singing kumbaya loud enough. The terrorists are unaware that we do not enjoy them blowing us up. If we sing louder, they will hear us, and peace will come to the world
WhyWouldHeLie · 1 points · Posted at 16:45:43 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Over it
logos__ · 1 points · Posted at 19:55:58 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's kind of a problem that solves itself, as most of its exponents are blowing themselves up.
Deliphin · 1 points · Posted at 02:18:49 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
But at least it's not as dangerous as the toddlers with guns killing people trend.
brickmack · 1 points · Posted at 02:20:43 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Well, it is effective.
Nice job Fox, CNN, etc. You did this.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 03:37:23 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
You might say it's really blowing up.
birchwood829 · 1 points · Posted at 12:38:55 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
We need to BUILD A WALL against terrorism!
UpvoteForPancakes · 1 points · Posted at 12:48:45 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Uhhh, yeah, it's lasted hundreds and hundreds of years already.
GreySummer · 4 points · Posted at 17:57:56 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Living in Brussels. I agree :-(
Melly94 · -1 points · Posted at 04:46:48 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Stay safe!
bergie321 · 5 points · Posted at 22:20:34 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It is [Insert Current Year], aren't we over blowing each other up over different versions of 2000 year old books?
cogsandspigots · 6 points · Posted at 15:54:09 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's kinda been trendy since the 90s
TouchDownBurrito · 3 points · Posted at 22:39:26 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It was a big trend in the 70s too.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 01:05:31 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
MASSIVE trend in the 1100's
cogsandspigots · 1 points · Posted at 02:36:38 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Don't forget the 400s
TheSlimyDog · 2 points · Posted at 19:11:58 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Not nearly as bad as clickbait though /s
Melly94 · 1 points · Posted at 04:47:38 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Also American mass shootings. It felt like there was one every month almost.
jaking2017 · 1 points · Posted at 07:44:12 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yea, that really blew up last year imsosorry
iamoz · 1 points · Posted at 23:34:54 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Fuck that shit. Fuck em all. I'm glad atleast most of the time they kill themselves too. Fuck them.
Bau5_Sau5 · -1 points · Posted at 04:21:56 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
We can thank the American media for that
Terrorist attack ? HEY EVERYONE TERRORIST ATTACK HAPPENING ! HEY ! STOP WHAT YOU ARE DOING AND GIVE ALL YOUR ATTENTION TO THESE CRAZY ATTENTION SEEKERS. THIS IS THE MOST EFFICIENT WAY OF GETTING NEWS TO YOU. STAY TUNED FOR THE LOREAL AD RIGHT AFTER THE EXPLOSION
abeastlyplayer · 0 points · Posted at 03:02:43 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yeah, it just kinda blew up.
ExpatJundi · 0 points · Posted at 03:08:13 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yeah it really blew up last year.
[deleted] · -2 points · Posted at 19:58:37 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
War is kind of what we do as a species though.
[deleted] · -5 points · Posted at 15:13:18 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
But school shootings are stopping or not as big
hudshmote · 7 points · Posted at 16:48:54 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Well they are definitely on a downward trend so you're not completely wrong. They aren't stopping though.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 02:28:00 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Terrorism is also on a downward trend in the long-run. Was much higher in the 70s/80s and has been declining ever since.
rjolly · 1 points · Posted at 18:45:14 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Not really. Worse is that there is actually a clear solution to that
LRedditor15 · -1 points · Posted at 23:11:02 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The way you phrased that sounded like there were hipsters blowing up buildings and stuff.
superchillcoolguy · -8 points · Posted at 19:47:44 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Not as trendy as I'd like it to be ;)
LobsterThief · 2 points · Posted at 03:41:56 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
You seem neither chill, cool, nor super. I'm not even sure you're a guy.
cardinalyams · 1154 points · Posted at 13:33:04 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
who's watching in 2016
fucking hate that shit
weezermc78 · 363 points · Posted at 17:46:29 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Or the "Le wrong generation" shit posts on anything music older than 1995
ilovetrees420 · 122 points · Posted at 18:25:30 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
i appreciate the optimism and hate to break it to you but it seems to have become "le wrong generation" shit posts on any music older than 2005
[deleted] · 82 points · Posted at 18:58:20 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
People these days don't appreciate great music like in the old days.
Click like if you still listen to:
Linkin Park
Spice Girls
Limp Bizkit
Backstreet Boys
Crazy Town
cmckone · 35 points · Posted at 20:51:32 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
"classic rock"
[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 20:59:31 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)*
[deleted]
cmckone · 7 points · Posted at 21:03:36 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
you mean you haven't heard all the big grunge hits? lucky dog
Heroshade · 3 points · Posted at 01:34:53 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I think Kryptonite might be the newest one I hear on a regular basis.
passwordisaardvark · 2 points · Posted at 23:02:44 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'd say early 90s Guns N' Roses makes it sometimes
WildxYak · 1 points · Posted at 23:53:50 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Thats kind of a dribble over from the 80s in my book
CaptainTeo · 1 points · Posted at 00:53:21 on March 26, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm a rock radio presenter and I'm kind of twitching at this because of how many times I've had to redefine "classic rock". In the end, I just decided "screw it" and started playing music from whenever.
juxtaposition21 · 1 points · Posted at 23:43:33 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I almost just threw my fucking phone. I'm so mad at your joke. You very well executed joke. Fuck you.
denarii · 5 points · Posted at 02:55:15 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
They said it as a joke, but I've actually heard damn kids calling the music I listened to as a teenager in the late 90's as "classic rock". They need to get off my fucking lawn.
Harudera · 5 points · Posted at 00:02:43 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Over reactions like this are also pretty annoying.
juxtaposition21 · -1 points · Posted at 00:10:16 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Comments noting overreaction are annoying too
MechanicalTurkish · 3 points · Posted at 01:01:40 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
me too thanks
[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 20:58:27 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Lou Bega
ZephyrWarrior · 3 points · Posted at 00:45:09 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
When I was an angsty middle schooler.
Never did.
Never did.
Never did.
Never did.
How am I doing?
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 11:07:43 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Identical to me actually.
brother_of_menelaus · 2 points · Posted at 17:02:52 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Come my lady, come come my lady...you're my butterfly, sugar, baby
Such poetry
sammysfw · 8 points · Posted at 22:26:46 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
We were saying that same shit back in the 90's when we discovered Led Zepplin and Jimi Hendrix. in 20 years, kids are going to think they're le wrong generation because they discover the good music from this decade. What they don't realize is that it's always 90% garbage in every era. Yeah, we had Nirvanah and Pearl Jam, but there were also boy bands, novelty songs, third string grunge bands and other assorted crap that dominated the charts most of the time.
echjul · 1 points · Posted at 20:54:39 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
That's because 90s pop is unbeatable!
chokingonlego · 32 points · Posted at 21:38:33 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
30 years in the future, some teenage girl is going to be crying on her bed wearing vintage uggs listening to One Direction sobbing about how nobody understands her and all the good music came from the 2010.
munromae · 8 points · Posted at 23:37:16 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
That hurt to read
chokingonlego · 6 points · Posted at 23:49:00 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Imagine in 50 years, at weddings all the old couples with hip replacements and old times clothes dancing enthusiastically to classics like "The Wobble", the Nae Nae, and What Does The Fox Say. While their grandkids are saying WTF as they listen to techno-grindcore-soft-pop, or whatever the kids of the 2060s will listen to.
whogetsthebanana · 2 points · Posted at 01:05:04 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm in several Mardi Gras krewes that have existed for over 50 years, and they're kind of like sororities/fraternities where you never graduate. The 50-85 year olds FUCKING LOVE THE WOBBLE. We do it at every single ball, Christmas party and event throughout the year. When I bring friends who don't know who to do it, the lady I ask to teach them is 70. She's the best at it, adds her own stank.
NoJoyInMudville · 2 points · Posted at 03:37:06 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I guess I'm old now or something, what the hell is The Wobble?
SosX · 1 points · Posted at 02:22:14 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
More like Arcade Fire or some shit like that LeWrong Generation usually doesn't like pop right?
roguealex · 2 points · Posted at 03:58:21 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Nah, they really like the or 80's synth pop.
Freege · 3 points · Posted at 20:47:56 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I fucking hate this shit so much. I get that its supposed to be sarcastic, and that they're just referring to the Filthy Frank video, but its getting ridiculous. Seriously, I see more comments now than I did prior to this stupid Filthy Frank video circlejerk.
Its identical to how people complain about Vegans on reddit.
PopTartTimeMachine · 2 points · Posted at 18:20:55 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
You'd like this:
https://youtu.be/JcmylxQ0ma4
KSPReptile · 1 points · Posted at 21:39:18 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
My throat hurts just listening to him. He is right though.
666666t · 1 points · Posted at 21:28:00 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
i feel like you would enjoy /r/wronggeneration
Letty_Whiterock · 1 points · Posted at 02:05:19 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Here's what I'm gonna do. If I see a comment like that on something by, say, the beatles, I'm gonna say "Why are you listening to this newfangled devil music?" and then tell them they should listen to Mozart or something.
asappringles · 1 points · Posted at 03:25:48 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
/r/lewronggeneration
Eurynom0s · 1 points · Posted at 04:18:07 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm just too dooty a skeltal for my generation
weezermc78 · 1 points · Posted at 12:22:47 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Dooting about my generation
because_monstah · 111 points · Posted at 14:26:18 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
'cuz it was 2015 and seeing that some lived in the future back then made you feel left out?
[deleted] · 17 points · Posted at 22:07:08 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
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Who Reading This Comment in 2016 ?
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muhaski · 9 points · Posted at 16:28:35 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I have no clue what this is.
DeMitcher · 18 points · Posted at 17:43:34 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Every top comment on a YouTube video starting January
fuckallkindsofducks · 4 points · Posted at 22:43:38 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
This fucking shit!!
I'm just skipping through a YouTube playlist of music (rip grooveshark) when I come across a really cool music video w and want to discuss it / read other people's thoughts. I scroll down to the comments section and it's 100% of meaningless shitposts like this.
bigyug13 · 3 points · Posted at 20:25:34 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I don't even understand it, fucking anyone who sees the comment is watching it in 2016.
DanceWithTheDevil_ · 3 points · Posted at 19:19:09 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Upvote if you're reading this in 2015!!
Eddie_Hitler · 1 points · Posted at 21:14:37 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Posted one minute after midnight, no less.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 00:13:35 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
pretty sure that shit has been going on ever since Youtube got past its first year
OnyxMelon · 1 points · Posted at 01:02:34 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
That isn't a 2015 trend, it's a 2005 trend that hasn't gone away.
gordocheeseman · 1 points · Posted at 01:17:21 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Commented on song that is 1 year old.
joes_nipples · 1 points · Posted at 13:19:52 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Only time it made me laugh was on some Beethoven video, someone posted "who's watching in 1900?"
JdoesDDR · 1 points · Posted at 15:32:04 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
L
[deleted] · 461 points · Posted at 16:32:33 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Open letters posted on the internet. Holy crapola, those just seem so pretentious. Also people screenshotting their own twitter rant and posting it.
[deleted] · 165 points · Posted at 20:14:45 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)*
"An open letter to the random man on the subway that keeps staring at my child with a disability"
[deleted] · 54 points · Posted at 20:40:48 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
literally as soon as i read this, i scrolled down on facebook and saw "an open letter to the person who still uses the r-word"
git-fucked · 7 points · Posted at 21:26:37 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The r word?
columbus8myhw · 15 points · Posted at 21:33:47 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Retard.
git-fucked · 21 points · Posted at 21:43:06 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Is it really that offensive that people have to call it that?
columbus8myhw · 14 points · Posted at 23:46:54 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's 'cause mental retardation is an actual mental condition, so people don't want it to be used as an insult.
Imagine that the person you're ridiculing actually was retarded in the clinical sense. You'd be suggesting that their condition, which is out of their control, is something to be ridiculed about. That would be pretty offensive.
ZephyrWarrior · 8 points · Posted at 00:47:13 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Fair enough. Like most offensive slurs it sometimes comes up between friends who know it's not meant as a malicious attack. It's the people who call random people racist, sexist, etc slurs in public that are the assclowns.
PirateInTheory · 21 points · Posted at 02:31:43 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I happen to be an assclown and this triggered me
ZephyrWarrior · 1 points · Posted at 03:41:35 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Is your nose shaped like bright red buttocks?
PirateInTheory · 1 points · Posted at 06:56:08 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
That's a filthy stereotype and I refuse to have my kind slandered like this.
ZephyrWarrior · 1 points · Posted at 09:18:47 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Are you sure you aren't an ass pirate (in theory)? Most pirates are after the booty after all.
thafredator · 4 points · Posted at 02:17:21 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I understand where you are coming from, but we regularly make fun of people for being unintelligent. We refer to people as dumb or idiots in jest all the time. Mental retardation is the clinical condition of having a low iq, and it feels like a natural extension of hyperbole to use the term. In the colloquial use its a fairly in line with what someone is trying to say about a person or action. Now obviously, it would be incredibly rude and mean-spirited to make fun of a person who actually has such a condition, much as it is mean-spirited to make fun of someone's appearance or anything else thats out of their control. But people aren't going to quit calling each other stupid, fat, short, old or ugly just because some people actually are.
Eurynom0s · 1 points · Posted at 04:20:56 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
The implication, to me, is that you're telling someone that they're acting in a way that is only excusable if you truly can't help it, with a clear implication that they can and should cut it out.
GhostBear53 · 1 points · Posted at 08:00:04 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
But also:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOBoKxEcVAA
electricrimson · 1 points · Posted at 03:17:20 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Kind of like being short, bald, ugly...
Do we need to start censoring those, too?
columbus8myhw · 0 points · Posted at 03:44:14 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Why are you using "short" as an insult?
DannyPrefect23 · 3 points · Posted at 12:53:49 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Edward Elric has a bone to pick with anyone who doesn't find calling someone short an insult.
electricrimson · 2 points · Posted at 04:17:22 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
You mean why are people using "short" as an insult? Good question. Probably to feel superior. Kind of like when they call other people stupid.. or retarded.
BigStereotype · 1 points · Posted at 03:05:24 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I for sure would never call someone developmentally disabled a regard. I do yell it at retards on the highway though. Bear in mind that I'm kind of a dick.
columbus8myhw · 0 points · Posted at 03:43:37 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
How do you know that the people you're yelling at on the highway don't have an actual intellectual disability?
BigStereotype · 3 points · Posted at 03:44:20 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's a chance I'm willing to take.
POISONAWARD · 4 points · Posted at 22:55:15 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I think it's reasonable to be offended by it, but it isn't as bad as other slurs, IMO
mhblm · 2 points · Posted at 02:59:30 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
If you're using it as a put-down, I don't see a way to really defend it.
"That's retarded" was in my vocabulary until I started working with people who had actual mental disabilities. I saw how hard their lives were, how much they wanted to be independent, and how they knew they never could be. Frustrations that they were unable to voice. The hopelessness of having to dismiss relatively simple ideas that are too complicated for them to grasp, even when everyone else gets it. Having to take everything on faith because they simply don't understand what's going on.
Their lives are hard enough, they really don't need me using their condition as a put-down for things I don't agree with.
BigStereotype · 5 points · Posted at 03:06:20 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Nobody calls developmentally disabled people retarded anymore though.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 04:28:31 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Rumpelstiltskin
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 03:37:58 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
That's fucking retarded.
CSMom74 · 8 points · Posted at 00:32:45 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yeah I see it a lot. "dear guy in Starbucks that bumped into me"
You have a private page. He can't see it. We don't want to see it. You should have said something to him when you had the chance.
Metatron58 · 1 points · Posted at 01:20:52 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
well those potatoes are not going to count themselves.
nickburgess · 8 points · Posted at 21:00:27 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
odyssey.com or something like that seems to hire every singe college freshman in a sorority to write these. I know people who have written them and I'm quite frankly ashamed of it sometimes. Stuff like "an open letter to my parents" or "an open letter to my ex boyfriend" seemed super popular.
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 22:41:18 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I knew a kid who wrote bullshit of this caliber for the college news rag. He always thought he was "telling it like it is" but really it was him being a snarky asshole while taking passive-aggressive potshots at other students. He graduated easily being the most hated person on campus and his last column was him trying to pass off the his three year career of being an unlikable shit as some masterful trolling. I think he ended up getting punched by some drunk kid on graduation week.
the3hrd · 1 points · Posted at 23:38:06 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
There was one (on that website I think) that was titled "an open letter to white people" at my school
Eddie_Hitler · 3 points · Posted at 21:15:18 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
They're always written in an alarmingly intelligent and snarky fashion not befitting the author, almost as if it's staged.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:35:25 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)*
If they seem too well composed for the poster, it's because they are using a form letter and just inserting their name where appropriate, EG: I, (insert name here), do not formally or otherwise consent to Facebook using my personal information for xyz etcetera.
Eddie_Hitler · 1 points · Posted at 01:48:41 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's also so obvious when they've had help or it's been written on their behalf for extra impact.
For example, some of the near-Shakespearean victim impact statements you hear in court apparently from young teenage rape victims etc. Sorry, but I was 15 once, and can tell you here and now even the smartest 15 year olds can't write or talk like that. Clearly been drafted by their parents or lawyer.
SirRogers · 2 points · Posted at 05:28:37 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Glad I'm not the only one annoyed by the open letters. I saw one that was addressed to the writer's hometown. Not the people of the town. The actual geographic location. Since the town can't read, I can only assume it is so people will think the writer is sooo deep and sensitive.
TheHornedGod · 2 points · Posted at 02:22:54 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
This is the reason I had to leave /r/MorbidReality. Too many "I'm so deep" screenshots from social media rants between teenagers.
fff8e7cosmic · 1 points · Posted at 04:52:18 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's honestly just a more structured and less "oh fuck you all, fuck all of you" version of /r/rant
meeeghanp7 · 939 points · Posted at 14:26:31 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The don't judge me challenge. People would mess their hair up, put black paint on their teeth, unibrows, fake zits, etc. Then put their hand up to the camera lens, pull it away (editing obviously) and they'd be making "sexy" kissy, winky faces with ten pounds of makeup on. Probably the most self absorbed thing I have ever seen.
blooheeler · 283 points · Posted at 17:26:20 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I have never heard of this. Also, I am so glad viral shit wasn't quite popular yet when I was in middle and high school…
fireork12 · 14 points · Posted at 18:38:43 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
A YouTuber named I Hate Everything made a video about it, good watch, highly suggest it
MistaFotso · 2 points · Posted at 01:27:20 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
So did h3h3, good watch there too.
But so are all of their videos.
(/u/h3h3productions, /r/h3h3productions)
DrPac · 3 points · Posted at 01:31:50 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Wow /u/MistaFotso, great job, keep it up, proud of you.
Sorry.
fireork12 · 1 points · Posted at 01:31:28 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'll wait for the Leafy circlejerk to die down
pokemonmaster14 · 1 points · Posted at 04:14:50 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I wish that shit never would have started tbh. H3's vid just felt so... unnecessary. Like I don't think he was in the right place to talk shit about Leafy. I'm with Pyrocynical, and more or less agree with what he had to say about it.
fireork12 · 2 points · Posted at 04:17:34 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Definitely, I don't watch Pyro that much recently (due to the clickbait), but he was right to wish to call it off, due to the intense hate, and to keep that video under wraps
Cobbleking32486 · 1 points · Posted at 02:42:20 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
duuuuuh plant.
IrenaeusGSaintonge · 4 points · Posted at 18:45:09 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Sure it was. You just didn't post it on the internet.
blooheeler · 2 points · Posted at 19:02:42 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
That's what I meant. I just worded it poorly. I'm glad the internet didn't enshrine my stupid.
IrenaeusGSaintonge · 4 points · Posted at 19:20:23 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm slowly trying to deal with the horrifying reality of the Facebook posts I made in grade 10, which was like... 2006, 2007? Trying to delete a couple months' worth of posts per week. But it's slow going, because just looking at it again makes me cringe right into my grave. I just keep telling myself, "it could have been worse....."
blooheeler · 5 points · Posted at 19:21:25 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm so glad my myspace is somewhere in dead internet land.
solestri · 3 points · Posted at 23:23:37 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Back in my day, we had LiveJournal and we LIKED IT.
IrenaeusGSaintonge · 2 points · Posted at 19:29:58 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yeah, luckily I avoided that one. I would have been in junior high I think, so that would have been devastating.
blooheeler · 6 points · Posted at 19:37:26 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Oh. It was. I do find it interesting that the "myspace pose" is now called the "selfie."
IrenaeusGSaintonge · 2 points · Posted at 19:40:56 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Really, the only consolation for us is "everyone did it, so hopefully they don't give me too much shit if they remember when I did."
hhhnnnnnggggggg · 3 points · Posted at 19:41:21 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm glad I used LiveJournal. No one knows my screen name!
jcskarambit · 62 points · Posted at 17:34:07 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I feel happy now having heard of that until now.
Otherwise I might have stabbed someone.
KnightInDulledArmor · 3 points · Posted at 02:41:37 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Should I get the time machine?
InsecureNeeson · 8 points · Posted at 21:14:18 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Just watched a compilation of them on youtube. Wow.
Most of them seem incredibly pretentious for obvious reasons but the ones with the dudes were some of the most hardcore cringe things i've ever seen. And I'm pretty well versed in internetting
ErlendJ · 12 points · Posted at 18:00:43 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Holy shit that was some top grade 1st class pathetic bullshit.
bigtuck54 · 3 points · Posted at 21:04:42 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I hadn't seen this before so I just looked it up, and why do all the guys have the same stupid hair cut and why are they all like 14. Vine is the worst
EpicNoob991 · 5 points · Posted at 17:52:35 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Couple guys i know did this on snapchat, no editing. Was impressive
psychicfork013 · 2 points · Posted at 18:22:20 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Shit, really glad I completely missed that one.
sumsum98 · 2 points · Posted at 22:20:21 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yeah, it was stupid. If you wanted to spred awareness of how society makes norms about what's sexy or ugly... why would you follow these norms in the same fucking video? Jesus.
tsdav · 1 points · Posted at 19:01:17 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Never heard of it. Looked it up. I'm leaving this thread now. Going to go read a book.
notstephanie · 1 points · Posted at 19:38:56 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I have read what this is a dozen times, I've seen it in action, and I still don't get the point.
logos__ · 3 points · Posted at 20:00:55 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Pretty people want more attention than they already get
postalrat · -13 points · Posted at 18:19:31 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Your doing a lot of work describing a trend no one has heard about.
Donkster · 542 points · Posted at 15:01:37 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I've always had a slightly rage for facebook memes or super old reposts on facebook but this whole "TAG A FRIEND WHO" with with black bars and fucking emojis takes the cake.
[deleted] · 129 points · Posted at 18:30:08 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I specifically hate those baby pictures with "1 like=1 prayer" or something like that.
ElitePoogie · 15 points · Posted at 20:41:57 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I started blocking everyone who did "1like = 1prayer" shit when they started using dead kids
whogetsthebanana · 2 points · Posted at 01:09:25 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
wait... photos of dead kids? please tell me the kids weren't dead in the photos.
ElitePoogie · 4 points · Posted at 01:20:13 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
They legit put a pic of two dead little girls with the caption, "she is sick, 1 like = 1 prayer." And that's the first one I saw before blocking began.
I took a screenshot if anyone for whatever reason want me to I can upload to imgur and share link. (Took it to show my friend who didn't believe me) fair warning it is extremely NSFL even if its fake.
whogetsthebanana · 2 points · Posted at 01:23:53 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
i'll pass! My mom's friend put a bunch of photos up of their still-born grandson who had been born for hours and it was enough for me for one lifetime.
My husband's aunt posts the WEIRDEST shit, a video of bodies being cremated, photos of people found in death positions like a guy who died on a boat lost at sea. Just shit I didn't need to see.
ElitePoogie · 1 points · Posted at 01:34:07 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yea, don't blame you it was awful seeing on my feed. And that sounds awful. :/
KingAdeto · 1 points · Posted at 03:39:18 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
hmu fam
ElitePoogie · 1 points · Posted at 07:02:50 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Again NSFL
http://imgur.com/6rIO67G
chaosgirlalive · 1 points · Posted at 18:54:55 on March 28, 2016 · (Permalink)
What in the actual fuck.
ElitePoogie · 1 points · Posted at 20:11:09 on March 28, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yup not the only one that guys posted either reported it both times I saw but blocked the person commenting amen on them so idk if anything happened
Bardy_ · 1 points · Posted at 16:50:54 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Let's just look at the comments of this picture of a decapitated baby and-
what why
ElitePoogie · 1 points · Posted at 20:43:05 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's absolutely disgusting behavior, and most of the people doing it are grown adults.
CSMom74 · 4 points · Posted at 00:31:09 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Keep scrolling = selfish. Hate it. I'm not selfish. I'm just not a Facebook sheep.
nmkd · 3 points · Posted at 20:23:25 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
1 like = 1 ipod
Xdd
Loliepopp79 · 3 points · Posted at 04:12:11 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
"I bet I won't even get one share" Fucking bullshit
Eurynom0s · 1 points · Posted at 04:17:12 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
1 updoot = 1 calcium
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:42:25 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
https://twitchemotes.com/emote/_BabyRage_
ghostpoopftw · 1 points · Posted at 09:29:55 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Unfortunately that's more of a 2012-2015 thing :/
was-not-me · 1 points · Posted at 12:29:29 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Must be an American thing
Kiiid · 8 points · Posted at 19:38:35 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Those pictures with emojis with improper grammar and the image so covered in artifacts you have to wonder how many format conversions it went through to get to that point.
Eurynom0s · 1 points · Posted at 04:17:30 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
💀💩L
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 19:14:36 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I've noticed that these things have resurfaced these past few weeks...
sumsum98 · 5 points · Posted at 22:23:33 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Holy shit all the tag a friend pictures. Why? Just why?
fuckallkindsofducks · 3 points · Posted at 22:44:35 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
My favourite one reads :
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 21:21:10 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm trying to rid my fb of them. It's like whacka-mole, for every one I get another pops up.
TREYdanger · 2 points · Posted at 19:16:04 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I can't believe this doesn't have a bagillion upvotes. It seems like that is all my Facebook news feed is! I always thought that maybe just all of my Facebook friends are mindless fuckwads, but then I see that every one of the reposts or idiot dummy videos has over 1m views and I get really sad
Donkster · 2 points · Posted at 19:33:03 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The sad thing about this is if I would actually block all those things my friends liked I would probably have nothing left on my feed...
TREYdanger · 3 points · Posted at 19:44:08 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I used to hop on daily to see what my friends and family were up to, but now going on is just a waste of time so I usually don't get in unless I have a notification. It's pretty damn sad.
NoJoyInMudville · 1 points · Posted at 03:32:49 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I have no idea what this is, could someone post an example? I'm super confused.
TREYdanger · 1 points · Posted at 15:09:42 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
https://imgur.com/oqcOExD is one example, they're literally all over my news feed. They have them for videos, pictures, or just text each one dumber than the other.
jennimr · 2 points · Posted at 03:35:26 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
You forgot all the zodiac sign ones.... "squad who slay: Pisces, Aquarius, Leo Squad who ugly: Virgo, Aries, Taurus" and all those bullshit ones... like what does any of that have to do with a zodiac sign?
joes_nipples · 2 points · Posted at 13:20:33 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Fucking SoFlo is the cancer of Facebook.
Donkster · 1 points · Posted at 15:42:25 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I think SoFlo is the cancer of pretty much everything...
CapThunder · 1 points · Posted at 21:20:04 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I immediately unfollow anyone who does this as well as the prayer shit and clickbait articles
turtlemouse · 71 points · Posted at 20:11:44 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
GO HOME BUZZFEED.
petsthecatbackwards · 5 points · Posted at 03:32:13 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Buzzfeed has no home.
They had to sell it to pay the legal bills.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 02:29:48 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I constantly get addicted to watchmojo videos. Pretty sure half of them start as askreddit threads
iprefertau · 865 points · Posted at 12:19:14 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
sofloantonio
[deleted] · 610 points · Posted at 12:56:40 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
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[deleted] · 563 points · Posted at 13:05:16 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
THIS IS TOTALLY ME WHEN I'M (Insert basic task/activity) 😂😂😂👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻😎😎😎😎❤️
ryand25 · 464 points · Posted at 13:26:54 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
THIS IS TOTALLY ME WHEN IM one of the 300 Spartans in the battle of Thermopylae 😂😂👌👌
Flacid_Fun69 · 20 points · Posted at 15:45:01 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
But then I realize I'm all good cuz I have thousands of men from other city-states to back me up
BigStereotype · 2 points · Posted at 02:48:36 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
1000 acadians do not great reinforcements make.
XxDoongleRulesxX · 6 points · Posted at 20:47:48 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Hahaha truuuuuuuuuuuu 😂😂😂😂😂😂👌👍😂
mackavicious · 5 points · Posted at 15:59:59 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
That does not follow the pattern, as that is hardly a basic task or activity.
ryand25 · 11 points · Posted at 17:32:10 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
For you
leenard · 13 points · Posted at 17:11:32 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm not gunna lie, this is totally me when IMETHANBRADBERRY
Aplayer12345 · 2 points · Posted at 06:59:04 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Watch out, we got a bradberry over here.
asj29 · 4 points · Posted at 17:58:48 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I WONT LIE, I WATCHED THIS 17 TIMES 😁
Kamelontti · 2 points · Posted at 19:00:09 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
When im ETHAN BRADBERRY
wttk · 127 points · Posted at 13:23:21 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Not gonna lie, this is totally me when I don't know who someone is
coldmtndew · 21 points · Posted at 13:27:45 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Good. Don't look into it and you will be better off.
ShrineyFez · 21 points · Posted at 15:42:29 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
He's a little cunt basket that puts a quick clip of him saying " This is SO me when (insert task/activity)" then puts up someone else's video without crediting them so he can get tons of views with clickbait-y titles and shit while the original person who made the video that soflo ripped off gets diddly squat. h3h3productions did a great video on it that I recommend you watch
ZypherMyth · 31 points · Posted at 14:03:29 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Look up the h3h3 videos on him if you have a weird sense of humor
[deleted] · 18 points · Posted at 17:32:19 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Is h3h3 Reddits hero or something? Dude seems to constantly be mentioned or on the front page.
ZypherMyth · 5 points · Posted at 17:48:43 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Well, his recent video calling out another Youtube channel with a similar format got the to front page recently. I recognized him from being the weird guy in some of Jontron's recent videos so I decided to check him out.
He's definitely a strange guy but I find him hilarious. Also he's been calling out people on their BS recently like SofloAntonio or Leafy (the video that got to the front page) and actually getting a response.
The SofloAntonio series of videos is pretty satisfying to watch since h3h3 rips him apart after the guy and his business tries to attack him poorly. The Video Game Attorney (who is an actual attorney) also came to help him and give him advice when they were threatening to sue him for defamation.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:07:59 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Ahh alrighty thanks.
Xboxben · -8 points · Posted at 19:10:30 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I boycott that shit . Come up with a better name and its not productions you make youtube videos for christ sake not multimillion dollar movies
MrMiste · 4 points · Posted at 03:56:34 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
So i guess you're an Xbox, XboxBen?
[deleted] · -4 points · Posted at 15:11:54 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
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Ozwaldo · 6 points · Posted at 15:24:20 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
you're a bitch leafy
rube · 3 points · Posted at 17:12:35 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Ignorance of idiotic things is one of the benefits of getting older.
Bardy_ · 1 points · Posted at 16:54:03 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Ok, I was going to throw you a link to the stuff I've seen him post on Facebook etc, but wow... His Youtube channel is the embodiment of cancer.
It IS the "[NEW 2015] Best pranks of 2018 [IN THE SEXUAL] [GONE HOOD] [DEATHS] [ARRESTS] [NUCLEAR HOLOCAUST] [MUST SEE]" channel, and I didn't even know that beforehand.
SpookyDissonance · -1 points · Posted at 07:46:38 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yeah we get it you're old.
MrSeanicles · 11 points · Posted at 16:06:06 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
sofloantonio please respond Praise Jesus Dibble.
definetelytrue · 20 points · Posted at 15:18:59 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
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definetelytrue · 1 points · Posted at 05:11:26 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Thanks I forgot. Papa bless.
PatrioticImgurian · 4 points · Posted at 16:30:24 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
REALLY
RupertTheDestroyer · 3 points · Posted at 21:55:31 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
We're all playing checkers
Blendstar · 3 points · Posted at 01:40:32 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I actually have his Facebook account blocked so I don't have to see his videos people share
jonnytremor · 6 points · Posted at 17:50:20 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Check out h3h3 productions if you hate soflo
alexesver · 2 points · Posted at 02:01:10 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Dude is a douche. Doesn't he rip others people content too? I know he's gotten hella defensive when other YouTubers have called him out
TheRealTravisClous · 5 points · Posted at 18:45:17 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
😂😂😂 This is totally me when I roast Ethan Klein 😂😂😂 🙏🙏🙏 I've been playing chess while everyone else has been playing checkers 🔥🔥🔥👌👌👊
ruhbuhjuh · 2 points · Posted at 19:31:35 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
He's one of my favourite goofsters and gaffsters
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 16:43:54 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
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iprefertau · 2 points · Posted at 17:19:00 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
no they are not
mr_____awesomeqwerty · 2 points · Posted at 17:44:14 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Gone sexual
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 18:40:40 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
GONE SEXUAL
Cobbleking32486 · 1 points · Posted at 02:46:52 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
southern florida + san antonio?
Jah-Eazy · 1 points · Posted at 08:06:07 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
And he's still getting away with reposting content on his Facebook
joes_nipples · 1 points · Posted at 13:20:54 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm Ethan Bradberry
soomuchcoffee · 1314 points · Posted at 13:37:50 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
A six year old whipped and neigh-neigh'd me while standing in front of my swing set.
THECapedCaper · 713 points · Posted at 14:31:14 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I can't believe I had to go down this far to see this. Fuck this song, fuck Silento, and fuck everyone under 22 and over 40 for making this possible.
SMT_YHVH · 437 points · Posted at 16:30:45 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)*
"Silento sounds like the kid who keeps nagging his mom to watch him dive into the pool and the mother wishes that he would hit his head and drown." - Buckley
eiddieeid · 13 points · Posted at 19:17:44 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
You forgot the "who she wishes would just hit his head and drown" part
smsirekcut · 9 points · Posted at 23:37:16 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Buckley keeps me sane
M27saw · 1 points · Posted at 05:54:00 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Watch me mom cmon, mom watch me.
Bardy_ · 1 points · Posted at 17:01:18 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Source. It's worth watching the entire thing (and the rest of Buckley's videos), but the link jumps to the song we're looking for.
yoshibestfan · 0 points · Posted at 06:59:20 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
ADoseOfBuckley <3
c1202 · 72 points · Posted at 17:00:18 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
YOU ALREADY KNOW WHO IT IS
mconnor92 · 11 points · Posted at 20:35:31 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)*
NO I LITERALLY DON'T, WELL AT LEAST UNTIL YOUR SHITTY SONG BLEW UP
earthDF · 4 points · Posted at 01:31:24 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
BUT IM STILL GOING TO SAY MY OWN NAME 3 TIMES BECAUSE IM WORRIED YOU MIGHT NOT ACTUALLY KNOW
Husky127 · 3 points · Posted at 19:51:02 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
THE START TO EVERY SONG EVER
SMT_YHVH · 3 points · Posted at 20:17:16 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It doesn't help that he says his name three times in a row.
Astteroth · 3 points · Posted at 21:26:08 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Ugh! The instant I hear that line my radio station changes.
BuryTheHealer · 6 points · Posted at 18:36:52 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
"You already know who it is!"
No, I don't. Who the hell are you?
Kablaow · 2 points · Posted at 01:52:23 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Silento! Silento!
SMT_YHVH · 3 points · Posted at 02:20:15 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
-Silento 20 Years Later-
Watch me live in this box, box, box, box, box.
Avoidingsnail · 13 points · Posted at 16:41:52 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm 20 and had no part in this. Dont you put that evil on me....
edgeblackbelt · 4 points · Posted at 18:30:44 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yes! 23! Just made the cut!
Davadam27 · 5 points · Posted at 19:01:37 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Meh. I'm 30. The song was catchy as fuck for being strictly instructional. I found it was in my head way more times than I'm comfortable admitting.
Doesn't make it a good song, just means it made money.
InfiniteBlink · 2 points · Posted at 20:47:02 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
kinda of an odd perversion of the macarena. Young preteens loved it and old people loved it. Drunk people loved it too i guess.
Statoke · 1 points · Posted at 22:17:24 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
What is wrong with people? Its a fucking dance song, never liked a dance song before? Jeez.
joecb91 · 1 points · Posted at 20:39:06 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Sucks less than Soulja boy at least.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:59:47 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Silento should have remained silent
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:14:52 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm over 40, but I have no idea what you guys are talking about.
Ozwaldo · 54 points · Posted at 15:31:59 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
shoulda busted out the harlem shake
Kitehammer · 9 points · Posted at 17:24:18 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Difference is Baauer has good music aside from Harlem Shake.
redditbabe_ · 2 points · Posted at 18:49:29 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yeah Bauuer is great. One Touch is an amazing song.
DubACreator · 1 points · Posted at 22:38:53 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
In case you didn't know, he just put out another EP a few days ago called Aa. Fucking awesome.
General_Wartz · 1 points · Posted at 17:43:41 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Away from the kid obviously.
BaconisComing · 0 points · Posted at 00:17:52 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
That's not the Harlem shake. Puff daddy and Ma$e did the Harlem shake back in the 90s.
brickmack · 3 points · Posted at 02:27:45 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
No they didn't. It was invented by Filthy Frank in 2013. You might be thinking of the OTHER dance named the Harlem Shake, which came from the early 1980s, but has no relation beyond the name
resting_parrot · 125 points · Posted at 15:48:41 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
What does this even mean?
soomuchcoffee · 71 points · Posted at 15:49:53 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It was a song that got popular last year. Warning - tremendous shit pile.
[deleted] · 17 points · Posted at 19:11:48 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
There's one of these every year,I remember the scourge of the Macarena all too well!
irthewalrus · 14 points · Posted at 22:07:04 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Hey the Macarena was from the 90s so it's not shit. /s
ElolvastamEzt · 5 points · Posted at 00:19:18 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
It was such a hit with kids and families, but it's about a girl who cheats on her boyfriend with two guys. Hey Macarena!
mrgmzc · 22 points · Posted at 16:32:25 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Da fuck did I just watch?
ManWhoKilledHitler · 18 points · Posted at 18:09:29 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
A surprisingly successful attempt at pop that somehow fails to be particularly memorable or work as a good dance tune, and this is from someone who loves trashy pop.
soomuchcoffee · 30 points · Posted at 16:33:13 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
WATCH ME! WATCH ME!
/kills self
strange_fauna · 4 points · Posted at 18:40:40 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Holy fuck, the comments. The fucking comments. Dear God.
hgeyer99 · 3 points · Posted at 19:33:54 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I went into that video having only heard the song on the radio before I changed the stations, or at sporting events where I can't turn it off.
I thought it was a woman the whole time, but now that I have seen part of the video I am not sure if that is a man or a woman.
[deleted] · 12 points · Posted at 20:41:18 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I don't see why there is such hate for this particular song. It's an easy to follow dance with a catchy beat, just like any other popular dance song.
[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 23:08:26 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I think that if it didn't just consist of literally spelling out the names of the dance move you are supposed to be doing at that moment, even a pretentious jerkwad as me could find it borderline enjoyable/not too annoying.
The Macarena, The Ketchup song or even Tunak Tunak Tun at the very least had some sort of narrative going on.
This 'Watch me'-song doesn't even try.
Even a Belgian children's show about gnomes did it better.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 22:58:28 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Exactly!! I don't see people up in arms over the cha cha slide
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 23:37:50 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I quite liked it. Its like a modern version of the twist or the Charleston. Dancing is good. Fuck you reddit
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 19:28:11 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)*
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[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 21:53:05 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yo, check this out, its a Wu-Tang vs Beatles mix. Wu-Tang lyrics, Beatles beats. Trust it is one of the best mixes, it works so well.
http://www.datpiff.com/Wu-Tang-Vs-The-Beatles-Enter-The-Magical-Mystery-Chamber-mixtape.185441.html
Ghotimonger · 1 points · Posted at 21:31:58 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
This is the most obnoxious thing I've seen/heard in ages
snerdie · 1 points · Posted at 01:12:03 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
What the HELL did I just watch...
granthubbell · 1 points · Posted at 13:53:08 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I just heard that for the first time right now and I have to say, that song was a constant dissappointment for me. Each new dance move the man listed it sounded like he was about to go in on a rap verse (or some sort of verse) right? I watched the whole goddamn thing and that song is literally just him listing dance moves. Bullshit
WildxYak · -1 points · Posted at 23:51:31 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
TIL that the stanky leg is from the same song as the whip and neigh-neigh
dgrace97 · 19 points · Posted at 16:42:47 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's spelled nae-nae. A neigh-neigh is when a bourse does it. It is also apparently done to imitate a character from Martin.
soomuchcoffee · 39 points · Posted at 16:51:05 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Tell me more about this bourse.
dgrace97 · 20 points · Posted at 17:10:03 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
That is actually a 2016 fad of horribly misspelling farm animals.
soomuchcoffee · 7 points · Posted at 18:25:08 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
What a time to be alive.
Shockworth · 2 points · Posted at 13:51:45 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
This murkey
Ryllynaow · 1 points · Posted at 05:00:41 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
How did you mess up thé spelling of horse that badly?
dgrace97 · 2 points · Posted at 15:53:34 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I really wish I knëw
Ryllynaow · 2 points · Posted at 16:45:28 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Mysteries ever åbound, don't they?
weezermc78 · 4 points · Posted at 17:46:51 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The fuck does that even mean?
colonspiders4u · 10 points · Posted at 15:49:32 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Ditto. Almost punched my 7 year old nephew in the goddamn mouth
zoeisabitch · 10 points · Posted at 16:15:44 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Let's not forget about "the dab" which is just as shitty, if not worse.
lukenog · 2 points · Posted at 20:48:19 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Nah man the dab is a movement. S/o to Skippah Da Flippah
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 20:08:22 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Nah the dab is cool. The whip and nay nay are fucking horrible now but I like the dab cause it's easy to look good doing.....unless your somehow soooo white and rhythmless you can't put your fucking face in your elbow on beat lol
zoeisabitch · 2 points · Posted at 20:10:31 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Haha, I only see young kids doing it so thats probably why I am against it.
pheesh_man · 2 points · Posted at 20:53:15 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Young kids and awkward old white people
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:22:46 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I used to get annoyed by people like you but as I get older I'm starting to completely understand hahaha
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 19:25:22 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
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killerpoopguy · 1 points · Posted at 02:45:38 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Please be joking.
freezerae · 6 points · Posted at 17:15:07 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's nae nae, not neigh neigh.
RuuTyutin · 16 points · Posted at 18:24:52 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Thanks freezereigh
belgianbadger · 1 points · Posted at 19:12:23 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Maybe she's into horse riding?
RockoXBelvidere · 1 points · Posted at 19:35:34 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
How the fuck does this have over 750million views and I'm only now finding out about this bullshit.
Dre_not_a_Dr · 1 points · Posted at 14:43:57 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Because youre old
RockoXBelvidere · 1 points · Posted at 14:45:44 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm 21....
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:20:09 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I CANT FUCKING STAND THAT SONG AND STUPID FUCKING WHIP. LIKE JESUS FUCKING CHRIST IN A BOTTLE I CANT STAND IT.
WMDTHEALMIGHTY · 1 points · Posted at 00:18:55 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
That's a paddlin
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 00:30:49 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's only cute if they're under five years old. Otherwise, they need to move on to the stankyleg.
xGhost_ · 1 points · Posted at 00:31:47 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
mouthyhousewife · 1 points · Posted at 01:22:33 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
You said neigh neigh. I just snorted. I thought it was nay nay. Like shanaynay from the jecks.
DrPac · 1 points · Posted at 01:34:59 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
They deserve to get fucking whipped.
stopbeingsocow · 1 points · Posted at 02:35:04 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I thought she whipped you and then neighed for a little bir
FlamingWings · 1 points · Posted at 02:45:04 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
can I get more context
Royal-Ninja · 1 points · Posted at 02:45:31 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Nickelodeon made a fucking commercial for themselves with a custom version of that song that uses their show's characters.
bijouxette · 1 points · Posted at 03:44:29 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
A student at my school once said to me, "Miss bijouxette! Let me see you whip! Let me see you neigh neigh!"
I looked at him with a straight face and said, "seeing as i am neither Indiana Jones or a horse... You shall NOT see me whip. Nor shall you see me neigh-neigh."
speedyspaghetti · 1 points · Posted at 04:14:06 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Looking for this one. At the suburban high school I teach at there was not a day during which a scrawny white kid didn't try to "whip" after doing some menial task. The "whipping" after sharpening a pencil got old really fast.
Sabimaruxxx · 1 points · Posted at 04:42:24 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
You watch me whip, watch me nay nay. As a teacher, I found it annoying. Now it's funny.
LusoAustralian · 1 points · Posted at 13:14:50 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Who cares, it's just a dance?
ErwinElephant · 0 points · Posted at 19:37:30 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I work with kids and they begged me to do this with them. I said, "I'm not doing that." With a blank face and walked away.
doittuit · 0 points · Posted at 22:27:55 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Any artist who has to repeatedly say their own name in a song shouldn't be an artist. Any idiot can repeat a few words. Fucking hell, some of those I dont think are even words
[deleted] · 1847 points · Posted at 12:26:16 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Broken or unfinished games being released.
Qurse · 649 points · Posted at 14:01:03 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Just pay the extra $50 on top of the $60 game for a season pass where the future content isn't even announced yet.
HighAssBear · 229 points · Posted at 15:56:14 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Sorry! We decided not to release anything this season, but if you want you can pre enroll in the next seasons pass for only $80! If you wait until next season to buy your pass you'll be paying $100
Qurse · 4 points · Posted at 15:58:12 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Exactly, how is this allowed? Why do we fall for it?
DrQuint · 34 points · Posted at 16:25:56 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Well, I don't. Speak for yourselves.
... That's pretty much the mentality all of you idiots falling for it should learn. It'd stop happening if you didn't buy any form of day 1 DLC and unrealized products whatsoever, EVER. It's just basic marketing.
crespoh69 · 9 points · Posted at 16:44:34 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I feel like this somehow gave birth to kickstarter. Same formula right?
C-C-X-V-I · 3 points · Posted at 17:12:17 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yup. Especially considering that kickstarters aren't liable to complete what they said
Ganongeek · 1 points · Posted at 05:38:23 on March 28, 2016 · (Permalink)*
Thank god WAKFU Kickstarter worked out....
Vaneshi · 3 points · Posted at 19:11:06 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Pretty much, although at least Kickstarter doesn't take your money until the kickstarter has both finished and met its funding goal. It also has SOME protection not a lot but some.
Buying a season pass before you know what the DLC even is... its actually riskier than backing something on kickstarter these days.
chequilla · -3 points · Posted at 18:20:19 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Is this a serious question? Because what they stated was obviously satire and has never happened.
Montigue · 2 points · Posted at 16:20:03 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Well I feel this is okay if they rethink their season pass and expand it or realize they are making the DLC larger than originally planned. Those studios need to make money somehow and if they deliver real expansions for a finished game I am willing to pay a bit extra for their content.
Example: Dying Light
Misty_Chaos · 14 points · Posted at 16:56:04 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Another good recent example of this is Fallout 4, at least they were honest when they said they weren't sure what they'd be making as DLC when they first released the season pass.
A few months later when they did finally announce DLC details, they said there was more content being made than entipated so they're jacking up the price of the season pass but then gave people 2 weeks to buy the season pass at original price before it went up.
It was genius actually, a LOT of people ( me included ) who were on the bench about the season pass snapped it up because we finally had something to go by and we all wanted to pay as little as possible!
The Arkham Knight Season Pass however, can eat a bag of dicks. Still got a foul taste in my mouth from that.
Montigue · 4 points · Posted at 17:13:16 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Well I would have used them as an example but only the first DLC just came out on Tuesday
eyememine · 2 points · Posted at 03:19:22 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
That's the only game I've ever pre ordered and bought the season pass for because I'm a huge Fallout fan. I did get the game for $40 and the season pass for $30 so really it's only $10 more than the original game price
MagicalWeirdo · 1 points · Posted at 18:07:57 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I never even heard of this before now... Good to know to not do this. Thank you!
Gyroscope13 · 1 points · Posted at 22:12:10 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
A FUCKING LEGO GAME has a season pass now. It's gone too far.
I_FAP_TO_TURKEYS · 1 points · Posted at 02:35:48 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
The last Lego game I played was 100% free
[deleted] · 10 points · Posted at 15:41:56 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)*
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Qurse · 4 points · Posted at 15:50:30 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Nein Nub didnt even want to play as Nein Nub.
chequilla · 2 points · Posted at 18:20:57 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
While he may not be 'iconic', pretty much everyone agrees so far that he's been an awesome addition.
Qurse · 2 points · Posted at 20:25:44 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
His skills are definitely great - but they could have put them on anyone.
But he's a good underdog character overall though.
chequilla · 3 points · Posted at 21:07:56 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Plus he makes sense given that two of the maps were on Sullust
StyrofoamTuph · 2 points · Posted at 21:57:11 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Looking at you Star Wars Battlefront.
the_straw09 · 1 points · Posted at 17:54:02 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Still the only game where i see this work and actually be worth the money is Battlefield with their premium membership.
coldenigma · 1 points · Posted at 20:49:30 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
And then pay $60...for the Complete Edition! Which has everything on it!
Ohmouthclogger · 1 points · Posted at 02:13:09 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I always see the comments like this, but something to consider is games themselves haven't gone up in price in years, they've been $60 for a long time. That being said, consider how the production price of games have jumped; with more people working on them to get them out faster, and the cost of everything now it costs the company a whole lot more. But everyone would be absolutely outraged if the base price also scaled, $120 for a game seems ridiculous when stated like that. But the company needs to make money somehow.
[deleted] · -4 points · Posted at 14:07:55 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Fallout 4's season pass was much cheaper than that. Unless you're referring to Battlefront, where they told you exactly how many maps, game modes, heroes and gear was included in the season pass before you bought it.
BadAtMostThings · 23 points · Posted at 14:26:30 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
There are more than two games he could be referring to.
For instance, most of them.
Qurse · 6 points · Posted at 14:31:41 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
This guy forgot, only Sith deal in absolutes.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:07:53 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
And yet nobody has given an example where this has happened.
BadAtMostThings · 1 points · Posted at 00:16:06 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Well, it's more like $20 - $50, but you really don't have to look hard for a game that pissed people off with it's dlc policies.
heyitsmeurdad · 6 points · Posted at 15:08:28 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Now it is that price though. It got raised at the start of March
naughty_ottsel · 4 points · Posted at 15:56:53 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
To be fair, they did give some warning for it and when you added it all up, the three pieces of content that was announced added up to just over the original price and under what the total price will probably be (if) when they announce the additional DLC was promised.
[deleted] · -2 points · Posted at 15:56:49 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
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[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 16:12:09 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
But they announced what the DLC was and then gave you two weeks to buy the season pass before the price went up, giving a reasonable explanation as to why the price went up.
[deleted] · -1 points · Posted at 16:14:37 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
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[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 16:19:50 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
https://bethesda.net/#en/events/game.../2016/02/16/77
TL;DR: They initially planned three DLC packs, so the season pass price was for those.
The price increase was because they decided to make more DLC than their initial plans, but they honoured the original season pass by upgrading people who already purchased to include these additional DLCs (rather than making a second season pass or releasing DLC outside the season pass, like Borderlands 2).
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 16:21:28 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Huh, TIL. Thanks for sharing.
tuvix_was_murdered · 0 points · Posted at 05:04:42 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Maybe you should play less games and be an adult human.
yankeefoxtrot · -1 points · Posted at 15:51:14 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Dat interest free loan for developers doe....
Wet_Pidgeon · 157 points · Posted at 15:54:46 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
To add to this: steam greenlight is a huge problem. In concept it's wonderful to help independent developers get their big project started. In practice someone can write up a generic UE4 environment, build a rudimentary gathering system and allow you to place buildings and BOOM you've got a massively multiplayer sandbox game that is raking in $50 for early access.
Aypse · 17 points · Posted at 19:36:19 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
And if people purchase this BS, it is their own fault for not doing any research into it. "Don't believe everything you read" has been an internet meme since the 28k AOL days. If someone goes out and spends $50 for a green light game based on a paragraph and a few screenshots....well it's a learning lesson earned cheaply. It isn't a problem with greenlight or early access, it's a common sense problem.
Wet_Pidgeon · 5 points · Posted at 19:51:39 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The problem is that it is very easy to skew the review ratings if your game by flooding the comments with paid positive reviews. If that goes south you can always re-release the game under a different name to get rid of the reviews and still a pretty good bit of money.
Besides someone has to be the first person to buy the game, otherwise you're not going to find any reviews of the game. The problem with the greenlight format is that it's very hard to figure out whether the game is actually terrible in the first few hours or whether it's just a game that has promise but needs a bit of polish. By the time you figure out that you have a genuinely bad game you're past your refund window for steam.
Yes, as an individual I can prevent being burned by this process by being cynical and never buying anything until I've watched gameplay videos on youtube. However this isn't going to help alleviate the wave of bad games I have to wade through to find hidden gems. It also isn't going to help everyone since someone's eventually got to buy the game first.
The problem is the greenlight system itself. It needs a lot of work, some moderation, and higher standards or Steam is going to start losing money on the program from the huge amount of resources they are going to have to pour into their Customer Service giving refunds for every 4/5 games they sell on Greenlight.
ARandomBob · 1 points · Posted at 22:26:39 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Steam, costumer service. Lol.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 02:48:01 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Too much work. Just buy UnitZ from asset store and sell it as completely new game.
Eurynom0s · 1 points · Posted at 04:21:58 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I feel like Valve has set things up so that it's pretty clear that you're taking a risk with your money. New devs need cash flow somehow or another and it's certainly a better model for achieving that than kickstarters.
manawesome326 · 1 points · Posted at 19:43:07 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yes, that does happen, but lots of well-known indie developers blaze straight through greenlight. It's designed to keep the crap out, and it works. Mostly.
Wet_Pidgeon · 8 points · Posted at 20:00:39 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm not trying to be rude but almost all of the games I've gotten as early access/greenlight are still in development. Rust, Ark, DayZ, RoboCraft. Not all of of them are duds, but Rust and DayZ have been in development for almost 3 years.
I realize that I need to be wary of Survival Sandbox games now, but my point is that I had to learn by playing the games which isn't in the interest of the consumer IMO.
I feel like the success stories can be counted on one hand, and that these offenders of cash and grab stories like are much more prevalent.
TheRileyss · 1 points · Posted at 23:15:23 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
There are a lot of other games that are only in early access for a few months and then release that just fly under the radar
Streetfoldsfive · 105 points · Posted at 14:47:53 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I thought 2015 was a pretty great year for games. 2014 sounds like what your describing.
c_dawg7 · 29 points · Posted at 15:35:47 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Halo: MCC. Never forget how 343 ripped off the entire Xbox community and then eventually gave up trying to fix it.
japad12 · 2 points · Posted at 16:06:52 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
i really liked mcc.
dirtyjew123 · -1 points · Posted at 16:55:24 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I did as well and I don't understand the hate it gets either.
Triangullum · 8 points · Posted at 17:02:35 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I understand the hate it got. The game was absolutely unplayable for the first month or so.
Don't get me wrong here, I had literally no problems with my launch day MCC but just because I didn't have problems doesn't mean there weren't any.
dirtyjew123 · 2 points · Posted at 17:04:25 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I guess it helps that I didn't get it until later. What problems did it have?
Triangullum · 3 points · Posted at 17:08:51 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It was nearly impossible to get your friends all in the same lobby to even start searching for matchmaking and assuming you actually found a match after about an hour it would kick half the party and put them in a random game without you and your game would be 7v1 instead of 4v4.
And then if the servers didn't crash your game probably wouldn't count because of the lag at the end anyway.
That's why if you buy it now there are literal 10s of gigabytes of patches to download.
Keep in mind I was EXTREMELY lucky to not have any of these issues and the worst glitch I ran into was 2v6 and 3v5 games. But I have friends who to this day have never finished a game of public matchmaking.
arhanv · 12 points · Posted at 18:19:59 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
2015 did in even worse, bigger ways, but in less quantity.
Example: Star Wars motherfucking Battlefront
constantvariables · -9 points · Posted at 18:29:23 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)*
Battlefront is a blast and the recent DLC is awesome.
Edit: ooooo the salt.
duffyproject · 3 points · Posted at 04:37:05 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
battlefront isn't a blast, it's a pew pew pew pew
constantvariables · -1 points · Posted at 04:41:41 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I like you
duffyproject · 3 points · Posted at 04:44:20 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I love you
constantvariables · -1 points · Posted at 05:04:16 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Dude, I didn't even say I was in like with you.
BZI · 20 points · Posted at 15:40:39 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It gave us Rocket League
Chasegold19 · 10 points · Posted at 16:54:49 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
All hail rocket league
[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 15:50:28 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Battlefront...
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 20:32:45 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Jesus christ, I've never been so disappointed with a game. It got to the point where it couldn't find a match... on a Friday night. Fml
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 20:38:45 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I've never had that problem, but yeah, for being the third installment of a series it sucked BALLS. Especially when one and two were literally some of the best games I've ever played.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 20:42:09 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yupppppp, this release has lost all credibility with Dice for me. It quite literally was an unfinished game, wasn't patched properly and had some major bugs/over powered things that weren't addressed. I get it EA is shit yet Dice can suck a dick too.
Good_ApoIIo · 2 points · Posted at 19:14:17 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It was, there's more great games than ever. There's also more shitty forever alpha games as well. Overall as long as you're a discerning consumer, gaming is at one of its heights.
iLiektoReeditReedit · 1 points · Posted at 20:56:00 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm just getting into gaming and my only regret is that I don't have more money to buy all the games and equipment. In my opinion, the gaming community doesn't really understand value or when their hobby has become some sort of an addiction..
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:56:02 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yeah what screams dlc to me is destiny if you didnt get their season pass yoh would be paying like triple what it is now and the game is almost unplayable if you dont have any of the dlc
DoctorWaluigiTime · 1 points · Posted at 22:57:12 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
This thread in a nutshell, basically.
SouthWindThrowaway · 1 points · Posted at 17:41:05 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
2015 brought Life is Strange, Fallout 4, and Rocket League. Not a bad year.
18aidanme · 0 points · Posted at 18:17:22 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Life is strange is kindof shit, the Dialogue is horrible ("Sad face", "Go fuck your selfie", "Beeeyatch" Non Ironically, "Amazeballs") seemed like the video game equivalent to Oscar bait.
lumberjawsh · 3 points · Posted at 19:01:02 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
My 17 year old sister loved this game. I got 5 minutes in and turned it off. Your entire game is based around listening to dialogue, don't make the shitty millennial high schoolers so terrible to listen to.
chequilla · -2 points · Posted at 18:22:37 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I've never even heard of this game, but if even half of what you've said is true, it sounds like the worst game of all time.
18aidanme · 0 points · Posted at 18:27:58 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Go watch a playthrough of it, Half of the ones I listed are in the first episode, hell "Sad face" is in the first five minutes.
KastaBortAvUppenbar · 2 points · Posted at 22:53:18 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The first episode is also the one that happens to be full of high school drama, I thought it was really annoying.
The other episodes got a lot better, though.
grendus · 1 points · Posted at 16:06:32 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Both years had both great and shit games. 2015 had some fantastic games, but it also had its fair share of games that released broken and were barely fixed (coughArkhamKnightcough)
treefroog · 1 points · Posted at 19:40:23 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yeah 2015 was solid with things like KSP, Rocket League, Witcher III, Fallout 4 (meh), and Metal Gear
Helium_3 · 3 points · Posted at 20:38:03 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
KSP has been great long before 2015.
treefroog · 1 points · Posted at 14:24:31 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I just listed it because of its official release
lasersandwich · 2 points · Posted at 14:21:33 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
MGSV is not a good a example. It's a great game, but was definitely unfinished.
Mr_Goodknight · 33 points · Posted at 15:03:18 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's almost as if people shouldn't buy games on day one
Pahk0 · 25 points · Posted at 16:26:37 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I think their complaint is that this is even an issue in the first place. There shouldn't be a reason not to buy games on day 1.
Mr_Goodknight · 4 points · Posted at 16:42:48 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Oh I understand that games should be working by day 1, but with the current trend the way it is no one should even think about buying a game day 1
chequilla · -1 points · Posted at 18:27:11 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Except there isn't. The problem isn't that developers or publishers are fucking us, the problem is that people don't do their research, then bitch about how they made a bad decision.
I've bought plenty of games on day one (even ones reddit told me I'm supposed to hate!) that I haven't regretted. The difference is, I've read the previews, watched the gameplay trailers, played the demos, whatever is out there.
The real problem is people who don't do any of this, buy games on a whim or because it's part of an annually released franchise, or whatever....and then realizing they shouldn't have for whatever reason. Those are the people who cry the loudest. Developers can release whatever they want, and nobody is required to buy it. They shouldn't be blamed because average consumers are stupid and need to be saved from themselves.
ThereIsBearCum · 1 points · Posted at 17:19:54 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Or even before day one.
totally_nota_nigga · -1 points · Posted at 17:02:33 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
And yet they still do.....I used to when I was younger but that was also when games were being released with all the content and minimal bugs, and then maybe just maybe gets a patch that adds more content and more bug fixes and even more rarely got a DLC that added a whole other game's worth of content to the game. Those times are long gone now that companies see that customers are willing to buy a $60USD game and $50 worth of DLC's within the same year.
ncocca · 8 points · Posted at 17:52:18 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Even worse: No more local multiplayer games. Halo is fucking ruined.
mothzilla · 6 points · Posted at 16:28:48 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
DayZ is still in Beta.
deepinthesea · 3 points · Posted at 17:25:35 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Lol not even. It's in alpha.
mothzilla · 6 points · Posted at 17:32:43 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Well I was being generous and pretending that the standalone meant it was in beta.
Willydangles · 2 points · Posted at 16:31:40 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
At least it wasnt as bad as 2014
reed311 · 2 points · Posted at 16:44:17 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Ah. You never were a PC gamer in the early 90's I see.
Qwertastic321 · 3 points · Posted at 14:13:10 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm refusing to buy Hitman for that very reason. Fuck not having the full game at launch.
PM_ME_YOUR_TENDIES · 1 points · Posted at 15:33:22 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
If you pay the normal price for a game (60$), you get every level in it.
Qwertastic321 · 3 points · Posted at 15:54:54 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's released periodically isn't it?
PM_ME_YOUR_TENDIES · 1 points · Posted at 15:55:30 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
And you can preorder all levels for sixty bucks.
Qwertastic321 · 4 points · Posted at 16:09:05 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yeah that's what I don't like. I may be old fashioned but when I pay full price I want the full game there and then.
brycedriesenga · 2 points · Posted at 20:46:38 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
So, if the options for the developers are to release the game in installments throughout the year or wait a year to release the full game, you think they should give people less options for purchasing their game?
PM_ME_YOUR_TENDIES · 1 points · Posted at 16:13:30 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
You can wait a year and buy the game then.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 14:41:25 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I agree truely broken or unfinished games being released, like Batman:Arkham Knight for PC, is dissapointing. What annoys me is people complaining about a game like Battlefront and saying it has only 4 maps. That game is neither broken nor unfinished, yeah if you want "additional content" you will have to pay more.
drewbster · 9 points · Posted at 16:18:12 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
That's a bunch of bullshit though, that's what they've made the norm. It didn't used to be like that
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 16:21:33 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yeah, you used to not have the option of receiving additional content on the consoles.
Vaneshi · 2 points · Posted at 19:17:15 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Ever since the Sonic & Knuckles pass-through cart that hasn't been true, it's especially not true with the previous generation of consoles that had HDD's to store stuff, DVD/BR drives & internet connections to get stuff: worst case scenario is slap the DLC together, bung it on a disk, call it an 'expansion pack' and that'll be £40 please.
The only reason it hasn't been done to date is a lack of will to do so on the part of publishers.
drewbster · 1 points · Posted at 17:07:37 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Oh yeah I think it's great we have it now. But there's a lot of cutting the developers do now, because they'll try to nickel and dime the consumer after it releases
chequilla · 1 points · Posted at 18:29:24 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The 'only four maps' thing is extremely misleading, as well.
weezermc78 · 1 points · Posted at 17:38:47 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yeah but as long as customers keep buying the $60 unfinished shit, why change? You can make 100% of the money off of a game that's 60% done, you profit!
At least that's probably how math works, I'm not a rocket surgeon
Beegrene · 1 points · Posted at 18:02:12 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
At least these days we get patches when games are broken. Back in the day there was no way to do that, and game breaking bugs would go unfixed forever.
HalkiHaxx · 1 points · Posted at 18:46:43 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I've been thinking about this and come to the conclusion that part of the reason is pirating. If you release a game with loads of bugs and it's cracked within a few days it doesn't matter as much. They have the release version that doesn't include the patches the developers have implemented in the weeks and months after launch.
Now the pirates have to make loads of patches and game versions so it's a lot harder to pirate a proper version of the game. This leads to some people not bothering with it and just buy the game.
burf12345 · 1 points · Posted at 19:39:11 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Obsidian have been doing this for years.
Breidurhundur · 1 points · Posted at 20:25:34 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
KJzero9 · 1 points · Posted at 20:57:52 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Welcome to the DLC era of gaming. I've said for years that DLC is the worst thing to happen to gaming and constantly got told I was an idiot. Eventually you're going to pay full price for half a game and you'll need to buy the rest as DLC. Well you're starting to see it.
and don't even get me started on DLCs little brother, micro-transactions...
Eddie_Hitler · 1 points · Posted at 21:17:35 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The overall finish and build quality of games has basically headed south since consoles had ready access to the internet.
I would play console games on the N64 and whatnot, and they'd be perfect. Few bugs, no showstopping glitches, everything was optimised and smooth. No patches were ever required.
Nowadays just ship the game ASAP broken as fuck, and make everybody download a 4GB patch on the very day its released when starting up for the first time.
payeech · 1 points · Posted at 00:21:31 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I thought destiny was released in 2014?
Blaz3 · 1 points · Posted at 02:43:31 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
#fortheplayers
#greatnessawaits
I'm still waiting for greatness and there's nothing that makes me think it's coming any time soon on ps4
bookerdewittt · 1 points · Posted at 03:01:04 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
A fair share of broken games might of came out but on the other hand plenty of amazing games came out.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 03:45:01 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Steam not being curated by Valve anymore is a massive contributor to this
S0mango · 1 points · Posted at 04:00:01 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Don't you like paying an extra 60 buck for 3 DLC of content that should have been in the game when it was released but we realised we could make more money off from that ?
MagicBuckwild · 1 points · Posted at 04:17:37 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
That's unfair that happens every year thanks to EA Sports!
_food · 1 points · Posted at 04:18:26 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Or people being bilked in star citizen.
luisrdm · 1 points · Posted at 04:23:20 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I recently purchased the first Assassin's Creed on the ps store, and I was surprised by the fact that I didn't have to update anything. I just downloaded it and played. I forgot how simple it used to be.
GaryOak69 · 1 points · Posted at 04:56:48 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
This has been a trend since the first 3D Sonic game.
pavlovs_canine · 1 points · Posted at 05:02:50 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outpost_(video_game)
My 17yo self is thinking about this. Why exactly did i build all these trucks that i can't use? why did the manual show all this stuff that wasn't even in the game?
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:29:52 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I love the hitman series, unsure If I'm going to buy the new one until it's all been released
Kong_Dong · 1 points · Posted at 07:20:21 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Hello, fellow guardian!
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 16:59:51 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Ouch. It seems like only yesterday I was defending the putrid pile of shit that turned out to be Battlefront.
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 18:58:13 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
PC MASTERRACE
winosaurousrex · 247 points · Posted at 16:28:33 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Sodosopa
[deleted] · 69 points · Posted at 19:27:30 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Everyone knows Shi Tpa Town is way better.
LuitenantDan · 17 points · Posted at 19:32:10 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yes, I much prefer history Shi Tpa Town.
shlongkong · 17 points · Posted at 21:14:48 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Come on child-rabor force!
lumberjawsh · 10 points · Posted at 19:02:07 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Welcome Home
Boiling_Flesh666 · 5 points · Posted at 20:46:54 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I see what you did there
REB3LxSOUL · 3 points · Posted at 03:42:46 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
NONONONONO NONONONONO SODOSOPA SODOSOPA
StarWarsPlusDrWho · 2 points · Posted at 04:28:13 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Well it was way better than Shi Ti Pa Town
ReverendDexter · 2 points · Posted at 05:15:56 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Do you really need to sudo the sopa command? I just run it as a regular user.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 06:58:13 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Booo-hoo-ooh-ohh-ooogers annnndd CUUUUUUUUM
turdmogrol · 1 points · Posted at 18:09:38 on March 28, 2016 · (Permalink)
The more I read your child comments the more confused I was. What the fuck is Sodosopa?
Steezymann · 3261 points · Posted at 12:21:06 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)*
The excessive use of Emojis on everything 👌🙌👏👑✔💯
Edit: Mr. Money Bags /u/swaggmoney187, thanks for the gold. Everyone beg him for gold.
NeededKoalafications · 1746 points · Posted at 12:44:15 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
bad shit ba̷̶ ԁ sHit 👎 thats ❌ some bad 👎👎shit right 👎👎 th 👎 ere 👎👎👎 right ❌ there ❌ ❌
[deleted] · 412 points · Posted at 13:23:21 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
[removed]
bombdotbiz · 202 points · Posted at 14:17:28 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Dey's uh, shrimp-kabobs, shrimp creole, shrimp gumbo. Pan fried, deep fried, stir-fried. There's pineapple shrimp, lemon shrimp, coconut shrimp, pepper shrimp, shrimp soup, shrimp stew, shrimp salad, shrimp and potatoes, shrimp burger, shrimp sandwich. That- that's about it.
WalrusMasterRace · 2 points · Posted at 04:41:32 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's always fun not knowing a deleted comment's contents and then trying to link the reply to the rest of the chain. I've gotta say I'm at a loss this time
NeededKoalafications · 2 points · Posted at 07:49:08 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
It was the good shit meme but replaced with good shrimp
prfalcon61 · 1 points · Posted at 17:49:49 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Thought?
fireork12 · 1 points · Posted at 18:22:20 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
BUBBBBBAAAAAAA!
Ryutohara · 1 points · Posted at 23:42:19 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
What is this from?
Emziloy · 1 points · Posted at 00:00:26 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Forest Gump.
[deleted] · -1 points · Posted at 14:56:41 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I saw this but I can't remember where this is from
Call-Me-Ishmael · 7 points · Posted at 14:58:42 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Forrest Gump.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:20:42 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Now I remember. I saw this the other day
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:00:40 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The chorus almost made me drop my phone from laughing so hard...
vaporflavor · 1 points · Posted at 15:56:49 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I don't know why. but this cracked me up.
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 16:25:42 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
This speaks to my soul.
Loudlech5 · 5 points · Posted at 18:43:43 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I think I just got cancer from that.
-WPD- · 8 points · Posted at 02:57:56 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
💉🔪 💉🔪💉🔪edgy shit edgY sHit 🔪thats 🔫some edgy💉💉 shit right 🔪th🔪 ere💉💉💉 right there 🚬🚬if i do ƽaү so my selｆ 🔫i say so 🔫 thats what im talking about right there right there (chorus: ʳᶦᵍʰᵗ ᵗʰᵉʳᵉ) mMMMMᎷМ🔫 🔪🔪🔪НO0ОଠＯOOＯOОଠଠOoooᵒᵒᵒᵒᵒᵒᵒᵒᵒ🔪🔪🔪 🔫 💉💉 🔪🔪 Edgy shit
HingleMcCringle_ · 1 points · Posted at 04:11:41 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
/r/whothefuckup
JrOrangee · -1 points · Posted at 19:16:38 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
That looks like my facebook post.
SadGhoster87 · -1 points · Posted at 04:19:43 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
/r/mildlyundertale
Bluesberry12345 · 210 points · Posted at 13:40:56 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The explosion of color after this comment is friggin beautiful.
pta2002 · 150 points · Posted at 14:12:13 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Unless you Samsung. Samsung emojis look awful.
RedAero · 23 points · Posted at 19:30:43 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Or on a computer...
HeySoulClassics · 3 points · Posted at 18:48:57 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I use Textra for SMS and they include a plug-in for iOS emojis
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 20:10:03 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I wish Hangouts would do this. I love my S7 Edge, but I miss my stock Android emojis.
CookieTheSlayer · 1 points · Posted at 00:38:30 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Root+Emoji Switcher
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 00:49:45 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Locked bootloader
CookieTheSlayer · 1 points · Posted at 01:27:22 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Oh right, US. Sometimes I forget that you guys get shafter in phones
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 02:14:41 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
We get shafted on service, but we usually get good deals on hardware, promotions for free swag, updates, first roll out on subscription services etc. We do alright.
I just got my Galaxy S7 Edge through my Att Next upgrade. Pre-ordered at Target, got a $100 gift card and a Gear VR. Then I registered a card with Samsung Pay and got a $30 Best Buy gift card for using it the first time. Nice incentives.
chastity_BLT · -1 points · Posted at 19:32:31 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I wish textra was free
ATryHardTaco · 4 points · Posted at 19:36:05 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Textra is free, but it has small top bar ads
chastity_BLT · -5 points · Posted at 19:38:41 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Let me rephrase I wish the ad free version was free.
[deleted] · 13 points · Posted at 20:11:27 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's like a dollar for something you'll use over and over again every single day.
ColdBallsTF2 · 1 points · Posted at 00:07:05 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Where do you live that people still use texting a lot? Here in the Netherlands pretty much everyone with a smartphone (so everyone) uses Whatsapp for messaging.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 00:48:41 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The birthplace of freedom.
And I use Hangouts. I just don't think it's a big deal to support the devs with a buck for a solid app.
ATryHardTaco · 4 points · Posted at 20:07:01 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Honestly, I don't even notice the ads, they're just there, they look like a text and don't look like shit, they're well placed and well designed.
chastity_BLT · -3 points · Posted at 20:19:28 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I just know at some point I will accidentally click it and its gonna piss me off.
passwordisaardvark · 3 points · Posted at 23:07:46 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Then pay for the ad free version
CSMom74 · 5 points · Posted at 00:34:52 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
That's just the terrible android faces. You have to add something like SwiftKey so you can actually have emojis. I have a Samsung. Just need a custom keyboard. 🎓👝💄👙👘👗👛👘👡👗🎒🎓🎒👡🎓🎒👗
See?
pta2002 · 1 points · Posted at 10:47:53 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
That's not what I mean. I am complaining about the awful Samsung font. But now I have cm and emojis look better 👌👌👍
Argh_ImaPirate · 2 points · Posted at 19:22:07 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yesssss. All the smileys look deranged.
tacolovingrammanazi · 1 points · Posted at 03:17:35 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
This is objectively true
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:10:42 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I call them poverty emojis
cherrytrix · -24 points · Posted at 16:03:49 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Everything about Samsung phones looks awful.
pta2002 · 11 points · Posted at 16:57:36 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The new touchwiz actually looks quite good. And the S6/S7 are beautiful phones IMO. Especially the Edge versions.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 21:12:15 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yeah, my S7 Edge screen, 7 hours of screen on time, SD storage and fast wireless charging are such a terrible problem in my life.
cherrytrix · -2 points · Posted at 21:45:32 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 00:47:40 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I've owned tens of phones, this thing is hot. Best looking and built Android phone I've ever used. Hell, any phone period.
DanieltheGameGod · -2 points · Posted at 22:16:24 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Don't know why your being down voted despite expressing your opinion. I personally could never switch from Apple due to aesthetics alone, not even including the numerous other reasons like os and iMessage that are huge pros for me. But that's also my opinion, and just because I think iPhones are very aesthetic doesn't mean other phones aren't to other people. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
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[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:16:36 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Safe
http://imgur.com/a/fknJN
SolidCake · 385 points · Posted at 13:00:02 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
good shit 👌👌👌👍👍👍👌👍👌😂😂😂
DinnerForkEmporium · 17 points · Posted at 18:50:08 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Great comment 😂😂😁😁😅😂😃😄😊😂😂😛😜😜😎😎😝🙏🙌🙌🙆😺😹😻💩
timo_tree · 12 points · Posted at 19:28:56 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
You forgot a bunch of 💯💯💯 and 🔥🔥🔥
Royal-Ninja · 5 points · Posted at 02:46:25 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
The one exception to that complaint, mostly because it's a parody of emoji spam.
ZypherMyth · 136 points · Posted at 13:59:35 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
They're was an article on npr about he passing of one of the founders of Intel. Apparently he used to respond to memos by stamping them with custom cartoon face stamps he had to show how he felt about it.
Basically he was using emojis before the concept of emojis was even around
Seyr · 16 points · Posted at 16:40:43 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
If they're custom that would be emoticons, which existed well before emojis anyway.
ZypherMyth · 3 points · Posted at 16:53:52 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Good point
aram855 · 2 points · Posted at 19:59:20 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I was calling them emoticons until a few week ago. What's the difference!?
Dre_PhD · 10 points · Posted at 20:09:20 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
emoji are the ones that use actual graphics on smartphones or tablets (and some desktop OS support it as well,) eg 😂😂😂.
Emoticons are the one made by stitching together unicode or ASCII text into rough pictograms that show emotion or responses. eg :), (-:, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯, ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
brycedriesenga · 6 points · Posted at 20:21:02 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I mean, before emojis became a thing, we called the actual graphic ones 'emoticons' in MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, and the like. But I'd agree that, yes, now 'emoticon' refers to text-based ones and emojis are the graphic ones. It just wasn't always that way.
Dre_PhD · 2 points · Posted at 23:27:27 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yeah, I know, I just wanted to explain the common usage :)
aram855 · 2 points · Posted at 21:02:02 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
But the emoticons were the ones we used in MSN! What is this!?
Dre_PhD · 1 points · Posted at 23:27:54 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I know! These days, tho, that's what people are referring to when they say it generally.
aram855 · 2 points · Posted at 23:30:58 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Goddammit, when I was left behind?
Dre_PhD · 1 points · Posted at 00:38:42 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's the youths who've done this.
Seyr · 1 points · Posted at 11:50:38 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Emojis are a part of Unicode, and thus the same library is on every device no matter how they're rendered, exactly the way the Latin alphabet is. Hence why so many emojis are Japanese. They are basically a part of our alphabet now.
Emoticons are made independently by different people or companies, and everyone has a different repertoire of which ones they use, which can be added to freely. Think MSN, Yahoo, many forums before the rise of emoji.
sushisharkjl · 1 points · Posted at 19:38:00 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
There's a hipster joke to be made here but I refuse to make it.
Varthorne · 1 points · Posted at 20:25:08 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Where's my "bleeding eye(s)" emoji?
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because_monstah · 67 points · Posted at 14:24:25 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I lost an eye there...
LennyTheMemeMaster · 16 points · Posted at 15:52:44 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
This centipede is a predator.
GimmeDatMeth · 3 points · Posted at 15:43:48 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
In jesting venomous poison into the Tarantula.
KevansMcGurgen · 2 points · Posted at 16:28:14 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Centipede
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Oh dear Zalgo
Undecided_Username_ · 2 points · Posted at 18:13:15 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
🐛C🐛E🐛N🐛T🐛I🐛P🐛E🐛D🐛E🐛
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:39:04 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I want to punch you.
coldmtndew · 6 points · Posted at 15:53:01 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
CENTIPEDE!
TehSalmonOfDoubt · 11 points · Posted at 16:20:05 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
BWAM BWOOOMMMM WIDDLYWIDDLY BWOOOOOW WUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUB
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Is this original verse? I thought it sounded familiar but googling offered no results. If so, well done! 👌👌👌👐👏💕💪
Cryzgnik · 2 points · Posted at 17:43:26 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Seeing as his/her username is oldepoetry, it seems like it might be original. And you're right, it's good enough that my first thought was that it was from somewhere else.
oldepoetry · 1 points · Posted at 22:06:51 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yep, all me. Glad you liked it! :) :) :)
pamelahoward · 16 points · Posted at 14:03:03 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
:') that was beautiful bruh
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Cryzgnik · 1 points · Posted at 17:44:34 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Is or was "bravely" ever used as an adjective and not an adverb? It certainly sounds like antiquated usage but... I've never heard it used like that before in any context.
oldepoetry · 1 points · Posted at 22:06:27 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
We poets take certain liberties.
GLOOTS_OF_PEACE · 295 points · Posted at 13:24:29 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I dont see the problem. Didn't written language begin as emojis on walls?
Neon_Platypus1 · 135 points · Posted at 14:59:00 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yeah that's true, but you'd think we have already evolved our language 👅👅👅beyond that. The main issue is that the emojis are done repetitively and it gets excessive. One emoji? 😚😚😚Sure. But comments like the ⬆️above? Fuck dat noise 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡
jacob2815 · 5 points · Posted at 20:34:56 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
There are very few people that actually type like that haha
iLiektoReeditReedit · 3 points · Posted at 20:44:31 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Great words get killed because people overuse them. "Savage" is a perfect example of an exceptionally discriptive word that has been taken over as trendy slang by white people and just people in general. I'm pretty sure gangsta shit is a lot more savage than your chipotle burrito tho.
idonthavekarma · 417 points · Posted at 14:47:20 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Our culture is literally devolving.
Mikav · 183 points · Posted at 15:33:07 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Actually it's progressing to information density. All I have to say is "centipede" and an entire political party knows my feelings on someone.
ANAL_Devestate · 19 points · Posted at 17:57:06 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
"nimble"
-NegativeZero- · 17 points · Posted at 18:50:30 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
or maybe you're just a knife party fan...
crazifrog · 3 points · Posted at 21:36:17 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
what a wonderful song
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D_for_Diabetes · 5 points · Posted at 23:29:41 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Hillary is gun?
JoeJoker · 2 points · Posted at 22:18:54 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
TWO HOLLOW FANGS
Jubguy3 · 2 points · Posted at 00:53:36 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Can someone explain all of the Donald memes to me please
isthisneccesary · 2 points · Posted at 01:02:31 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
IMPRESSIVE LENGTH
Tarcanus · 3 points · Posted at 18:55:36 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
And what is that feeling? The issue with emojis is that they take all context out of it. And even with context, they could mean any number of things.
Mikav · 15 points · Posted at 18:57:43 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
That's the magic of language and memes. This shit should keep linguists occupied for decades. We really should be chronicling all this shit.
The_Barnanator · 4 points · Posted at 20:01:58 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
There is this thing called the Internet that holds a ton of shit
Mikav · 6 points · Posted at 20:07:29 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yes well you see the internet is a series of tubes, not like a truck. And what happens when this tube gets turned upside down? It rains memes. So what we need is some kind of a... a bucket, or a truck that holds memes, and we need to build it, and I know how to build it, and it's the best. We're going to build it, a truck full of memes that will be in every library from coast to coast. A truck with context and with interpretation. A truck to surpass metal gear.
M3nt0R · 1 points · Posted at 04:18:19 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
My god, you've gone full Trump.
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bad shit ba̷̶ ԁ sHit 👎 thats ❌ some bad 👎👎shit right 👎👎 th 👎 ere 👎👎👎 right ❌ there ❌ ❌
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BUILD
isthisneccesary · 1 points · Posted at 01:02:05 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
WALL
chuby1tubby · 1 points · Posted at 20:07:03 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Which candidate is a centipede?
Clockwork621 · 0 points · Posted at 21:41:38 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The God Emperor himself of course.
ExtraSmooth · 1 points · Posted at 22:35:48 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Ah yes that's what I was thinking of
moonra_zk · 1 points · Posted at 05:06:56 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Is that supposed to look like a penis? 'Cause it looks like a penis.
machenise · 1 points · Posted at 01:42:32 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I don't know what you mean. I want to know your feelings!
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Try to text in the early 00's and tell me emojis aren't brillaint. Texting with any kind of tone or subtext (subtexting?) was impossible, and it was a total crapshoot if you ever sent anything sarcastic, playful, flirty, whatever
I hate this attitude. Emojis aren't making the world worse, Netflix & chill isn't making the world worse, and life wasn't better in 1950
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 06:48:30 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
The problem is that Emojis were never intended to, you know, exist outside of Japan. Or as, like a standardized thing.
Unicode basically made a computer text format to display every single kind of text ever in every language. And there was one or two obscure phone companies in Japan that let you put little pictures in your text. So obviously for backwards compatibility reasons, they reluctantly included these things.
Then in the mid-2000s someone figured out how to hack their iphone to access these weird Japanese pictograms that were never intended to be ever brought to any other culture.
Suddenly people were being sent emojis, and wanted to do it themselves. So Apple was forced to adapt this obscure Unicode feature out of necessity, and everyone else did the same thing.
Problem is, again, nobody really planned what emojis would, you know, actually be useful. There was also the problem of, say, how all the smileys and people were white, or how all the foods were japanese. Why is there an emoji for Bento box but not for a taco, for instance?
Most computer science things like this are planned by taskforces, commissions, companies, etc. far in advance, with tons of planning to make sure problems don't pop up. But emoji was something like one random guy in a Japanese cell phone company came up with, and it's really not built for long-term sustainability, or general use in everyday western life, or as a universal standard pictogram.
That's the problem with Emoji. It's not making the world worse, but it's just something that shouldn't exist, you know? And come on, people have been using ASCII smile since forever. It's not like we were unable to express sarcasm in texts, we just put a ;) in our message, rather than 😉.
thenacho1 · 1 points · Posted at 20:59:41 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
/r/badlinguistics
Fowlerbaby123 · 1 points · Posted at 22:41:52 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Teleology is not a real thing!
JimmyBoombox · 1 points · Posted at 23:42:47 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
No it's not. Stop being so melodramatic.
j00thInAsia · 2 points · Posted at 19:35:04 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
There's actually a really good novel by Greg Bear called "Eon" that includes an advanced culture of humans whose languages is all images. The explanation/rationale is that a single image can convey a lot more information than a single word. The advanced culture had become so literate that traditional written language couldn't convey information fast enough.
Prof_Acorn · 1 points · Posted at 16:55:43 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
If you don't see the problem, restate your thoughts to the same complexity and precision using only emojis.
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sign me the FUCK up 👌👀👌👀👌👀👌👀👌👀 good shit goOd sHit👌thats💯some good👌👌shit right👌👌the👌ere👌👌👌right💯there💯💯if I do say so my sel f💯I say so💯thats what im talking about right there right there (right the fuck there) mMMMM M💯 👌👌👌👌👌HO0O OOOOOO Ooooooooooooo👌👌👌👌💯👌👌👌💯
🎙️ AnyReview · 16 points · Posted at 12:31:18 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
i love to do that
DonnyDontDo · -3 points · Posted at 13:11:06 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I don't believe that
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major 🔑
ThePresentationguy · 4 points · Posted at 15:18:18 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
🍆🍑
SteroidSandwich · 3 points · Posted at 16:27:10 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
What is this black magic?
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 23:24:05 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
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
derprunner · 4 points · Posted at 14:13:24 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
With the notable exception for Bless Up 🙏
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 22:20:07 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)*
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Emziloy · 1 points · Posted at 00:05:01 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Now that's all I can see.
HometownHero89 · 2 points · Posted at 11:31:24 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
👅👊🙋💨📦
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 13:18:46 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I can't see an end to it anytime soon either... 😣😭😪
ol_tumbleweed · 2 points · Posted at 15:10:24 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
🖕🏻🖕🏼🖕🏽🖕🏾🖕🏿🖕🏾🖕🏽🖕🏼🖕🏻
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 16:16:36 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Using the word "Emoji". Darn it, they're emoticons! Smilies if you will...
Dragonsandman · 1 points · Posted at 16:12:37 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Reading the replies to your comment is like reading an /r/circlejerk thread.
slyfoxy12 · 1 points · Posted at 16:26:59 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Film comes out, better make an exclusive emoji for it!
dacookeymonsta · 1 points · Posted at 17:16:14 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
NO EMOJI
timesuck897 · 1 points · Posted at 18:48:36 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Excessive use of emojis is a dating red flag for me.
QFlux · 1 points · Posted at 19:33:47 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Holy shit, what happened with this? I swear it was like just randomly one day all of sudden I was getting spam in my GMail just loaded with emojis. Have these emojis just long been included in subject lines and GMail used to ignore them but now it's rendering them?
manawesome326 · 1 points · Posted at 19:37:23 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Especially on App Store reviews:
THIS GAME IS BAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!😡😡😡🍣😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡💩😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
yeaokbb · 1 points · Posted at 19:38:45 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Can someone explain why 💯 is used all the fucking time?
pm_me_hedgehogs · 1 points · Posted at 20:16:50 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Don't hate 🦄🐾🌸🌺🌷🍃🌙🍒
mk4_wagon · 1 points · Posted at 20:19:48 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Especially in work emails. I think anyone that uses emojis in work emails should be immediately fired.
Thank you,
mk4_wagon :)
doctorcoktor · 1 points · Posted at 20:30:18 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
u/d0m1n1cs god dammit
Cogitaire · 1 points · Posted at 20:35:46 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
/r/emojipasta
iLiektoReeditReedit · 1 points · Posted at 20:41:35 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I think it's because people suck at writing.
concord72 · 1 points · Posted at 21:06:11 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The hashtags of 2015
floppybunbun · 1 points · Posted at 21:25:19 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
What does the 100 mean? I used to see it quite a bit but no idea what it means.
codythomashunsberger · 1 points · Posted at 22:11:58 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I saw a guy on campus today wearing a sweatshirt with "Emoji State University" across the front.
Chrisixx · 1 points · Posted at 22:14:04 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Thanks Federer.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:38:53 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm an American studying in Europe and I have to say, Europeans have their emoji game on point. I'll use the generic :) most of the time, but here I have to use the actual emoji or else I feel wrong.
screaming_for_memes · 1 points · Posted at 22:41:10 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
HAHA AMIRITE 😂😂😂😂😂😂 /s
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:44:21 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
😿😿😿😿😿😿😿😿😿😿😿😿😿💩💩💩💩💩💩
PoliticalLava · 1 points · Posted at 22:45:11 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Aliens everywhere.
atlas3121 · 1 points · Posted at 23:15:46 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
My mother uses no less than six emojis in every text every time she texts. I had never felt as powerful an urge to strangle an inanimate object (my phone) as when she began texting.
Skull-Demon · 1 points · Posted at 00:27:59 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yep.
Skull-Demon · 1 points · Posted at 00:28:34 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
CAN SOMEBODY TELL ME HOW TO TURN OFF EMOJI MODE ON DISCORD!?
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 00:58:42 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I still don't know how to make one. I preferred when they were called smileys
D_Man10579 · 1 points · Posted at 00:59:08 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
This comment is 🔥🔥🔥
schlafentzug · 1 points · Posted at 01:22:21 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Don't look up aly_realrecover on Instagram, then. Yeesh.
brickmack · 1 points · Posted at 02:24:24 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I miss the good old days when everything was just plain old black on white unicode text. It looked better, it was more versatile (good luck doing any sort of text art with this shit), it used very few resources, and they looked more or less the same across all devices. The worst thing of all is that on mobile devices anyway these things have taken the place of existing unicode characters in the font pack, and can't be removed without inordinate effort
Princess_Cherry · 1 points · Posted at 02:59:12 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
My Grandfather smoked his whole life. I was about 10 years old when my mother said to him, 'If you ever want to see your grandchildren graduate, you have to stop immediately.'. Tears welled up in his eyes when he realized what exactly was at stake. He gave it up immediately. Three years later he died of lung cancer. It was really sad and destroyed me. My mother said to me- 'Don't ever smoke. Please don't put your family through what your Grandfather put us through." I agreed. At 28, I have never touched a cigarette. I must say, I feel a very slight sense of regret for never having done it, because your post gave me cancer anyway.
dtn1496 · 1 points · Posted at 03:18:58 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Seriously though the fucking Oxford Dictionary's WORD of the year was the stupid crying laughing emoji thing. That's not a fucking word!
source: http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2015/11/word-of-the-year-2015-emoji/
Stacia_Asuna · 1 points · Posted at 04:52:19 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Beware of the man who speaks in hands...
SirRogers · 1 points · Posted at 05:17:35 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Especially the crying laughing one. Not only do people (mostly girls, it seems) feel the need to add them after anything even slightly humorous, but they put like ten in a row. It really irritates me.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:18:54 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Feel better 🙏🙏🙏
zillysusa433 · 1 points · Posted at 05:53:07 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Especially THIS FUCKING FACE 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
violettheory · 1 points · Posted at 06:39:02 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
That fucking YouTube ad where the girl says "I like emojis a lot" makes me so goddamned angry. I've never watched long enough to find out what it is really about, I just can't stand more than the five seconds. It got to the point where I had to take my favorite channels off my Adblock whitelist.
DocGerbill · 1 points · Posted at 09:32:14 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I hate the fact that emoji has replaced smiley, they already had a name, why did we switch?
cj_x · 1 points · Posted at 16:18:57 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
tfw late to the party 🤔😭😭😭😭🌽👽👽🍆😂❤️❤️😭😭🤑🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻
fuck_you_people____ · 1 points · Posted at 17:13:47 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's always black people on facebook I swear
PEEDUR · 1 points · Posted at 17:08:30 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
🤗😍😜😜😂
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:49:32 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
This is definitely me when I'm driving 😂😂😂😂👌👌👌👌😂😂😂😂👌👌😂
Tanador680 · 1 points · Posted at 18:25:51 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Ayy fuck u emojis are a major 🔑 to success
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 14:40:49 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I don't get why they're called 'emojis'. That sounds super fucking stupid, and I hate that they're no longer black boxes. They don't deserve to be characters, that should got to useful symbols, like LETTERS and NUMBERS and other miscellaneous symbols like ! and ?.
Oolonger · 0 points · Posted at 16:02:44 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
This👏Fucking👏Bullshit👏What👏Does👏It👏Actually👏Mean?👏
3brithil · 0 points · Posted at 15:27:27 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
that's not a 2015 trend
Inspired_Choices · 1682 points · Posted at 13:16:13 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Fucking Minions
[deleted] · 717 points · Posted at 13:37:57 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
People are fucking them now?
lmaodelayyy · 517 points · Posted at 13:49:55 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
( ͡o ͜o ͡)
pamelahoward · 783 points · Posted at 14:08:56 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
bro is your face okay?
because_monstah · 238 points · Posted at 14:27:06 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
He dropped a... erm... whatever this is...
978507 · 1377 points · Posted at 16:14:01 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Chromosome
FishyNik6 · 77 points · Posted at 17:27:58 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Nah he gained an extra one. 21st one specifically.
RegretDesi · 41 points · Posted at 20:59:10 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Hey, don't let an extra chromosome get you down.
buckrussell · 8 points · Posted at 23:40:20 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
*downs
RegretDesi · 3 points · Posted at 00:19:40 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yes.
hazeleyedninja · 3 points · Posted at 07:37:45 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Thank you
prfalcon61 · 5 points · Posted at 17:54:41 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Dude's got a brain full of down's
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 19:10:10 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Oh.
tinyporcelainunicorn · 1 points · Posted at 01:43:19 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
It looks more like he picked one up
cledus_the_fetus · 1 points · Posted at 02:31:36 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Someone call the tard wrangler
twodadshuggin · 1 points · Posted at 05:05:01 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I think it was a dundundun. After all the attempts in the media to tell you to not drop it.
VTCHannibal · 35 points · Posted at 14:54:47 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)*
¯\_(ツ)_/
Phyco_Boy · 3 points · Posted at 17:35:38 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Where's your other hand?
VTCHannibal · 3 points · Posted at 19:59:35 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Reference back to a TIFU about a photographer who asked a little boy to move his other hand/arm, come to find out he didn't have one.
crazed3raser · 1 points · Posted at 02:53:03 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I thought it was no arm, so like this
VTCHannibal · 1 points · Posted at 02:58:19 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Probably, I couldn't find the TIFU
SadGhoster87 · 1 points · Posted at 13:59:09 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
FTFY
fireork12 · 2 points · Posted at 18:29:59 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
You dropped...
¯
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:21:30 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
You dropped this,
Here: _
FragMeNot · 4 points · Posted at 16:38:57 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's called a stroke.
Seriously_NotHigh · 5 points · Posted at 14:44:04 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
bro! You can't just ask someone if their face is okay! Like Gawd
skippieelove · 2 points · Posted at 15:27:40 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Oh my god the giggles, thank you!
radpandaparty · 1 points · Posted at 14:44:12 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Trisomy game strong
skimp_ · 1 points · Posted at 16:49:42 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
u dun goofed.
batman_is_tired · 12 points · Posted at 13:52:19 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Why do you think they're always smiling?
Solora · 1 points · Posted at 16:07:36 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Drugs
true97 · 13 points · Posted at 14:03:02 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It would certainly explain their banana fascination.
ayushmaansingh99 · 3 points · Posted at 14:18:31 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
They want the banana.
skelebone · 2 points · Posted at 14:39:31 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
/r/wackyfucktacs
TrustTheGeneGenie · 1 points · Posted at 14:20:22 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
They are chode shaped.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:52:38 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Minionsexual, my pronouns are Min Mon Mon
Not_A_Unique_Name · 1 points · Posted at 16:50:42 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
No, the fucked them in 2015 when it was trendy. Try to keep up will you.
GamingfulLuke · 1 points · Posted at 21:02:19 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
/r/minionporn
jed_PK · 1 points · Posted at 02:19:31 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Rule 34 demands it.
Cultivated2Destroy · 1 points · Posted at 03:24:20 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yeah
Shamwow22 · 1 points · Posted at 04:57:27 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
They have needs, too.
theJLP · 166 points · Posted at 14:12:02 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
You are now banned from /r/minionporn
spndl1 · 129 points · Posted at 14:23:13 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
When you posted that, I knew it would be a thing, but I really wish it wasn't.
crypticXJ88 · 3 points · Posted at 04:35:30 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Not the minions you're thinking of. Just as bad of course, but the distinction should be noted.
Inspired_Choices · 67 points · Posted at 14:25:08 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
oh... no,no,no, OH NO!
suddenly_seymour · 4 points · Posted at 19:37:58 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
There are dozens of them!
ClassicCarPhenatic · 8 points · Posted at 20:35:39 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Grammarnazi_bot · 2 points · Posted at 20:46:36 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's a league subrexdit
DrPac · 1 points · Posted at 01:36:15 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
OH NOOOOOO.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
APersonWhoIsReal · 23 points · Posted at 14:34:09 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
...I don't know what I expected.
[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 16:02:50 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I don't know if i am surprised because it's about LoL instead of Minions or because it exists.
Infinite_Bananas · 1 points · Posted at 17:15:03 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm kind of embarrassed now because I literally make up a third of the posts on that subreddit
T-Rex96 · 2 points · Posted at 18:07:31 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
But at least he is now a moderator of /r/minionhate
Infinite_Bananas · 3 points · Posted at 17:15:34 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Oh fuck I thought the subreddit was dead. I'm just embarrassed that I literally make up a third of the posts on the subreddit
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 03:36:53 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Can I also be banned?
DreadAngel1711 · 1 points · Posted at 16:49:43 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
THERE'S A SUB ABOUT THAT SHIT!?
PeanutButter707 · 1 points · Posted at 17:07:29 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Do I even wanna know?
JT70900 · 0 points · Posted at 17:49:30 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I almost clicked this... so glad I did not. The boss might not like something like this.
Doritonipples · 0 points · Posted at 18:07:25 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I don't know what I expected
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 18:10:41 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I really don't understand this.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 16:33:45 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Hi b4nny!
Mustard_Dimension · 4 points · Posted at 14:29:37 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
/r/minionhate
definetelytrue · 7 points · Posted at 15:19:35 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
/r/WackyTicTacs
SeptemVulpes · 3 points · Posted at 16:31:30 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
/r/reallywackytictacs
[nsfl]
Nightslash360 · 0 points · Posted at 23:13:04 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Doesn't exist m9s
SeptemVulpes · 1 points · Posted at 23:17:16 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yes it does?
Nightslash360 · 2 points · Posted at 23:26:45 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
For me it doesn't
SeptemVulpes · 1 points · Posted at 23:37:04 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Google it, should be the first link, says "God is dead"
beccaonice · 2 points · Posted at 15:25:42 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
/r/WackyTicTacs
anthson · 1 points · Posted at 20:33:39 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I went expecting videos of people blowing up minion dolls. Found a bunch of Facebook reposts, instead. It doesn't really look much different than /r/minionlove unless you read the comments.
cocoboco101 · 1 points · Posted at 23:11:55 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
torn between continuing to hate them or just fall into the abyss
Dutch92 · 1 points · Posted at 01:24:02 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I shall continue to upvote anyone who has the common interest of minion hatred.
quinncuatro · 1 points · Posted at 17:20:43 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I just got back from grabbing some pad thai for lunch. A minion, a skater with overalls and a surfer accent, and a guy dressed as the Count of Monte Cristo stopped my buddy and I and asked if we're Jewish. We told them no, and they acted all sad and sulked off. I legitimately have no idea what just went down.
The_Juggler17 · 0 points · Posted at 18:56:38 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Facebook can scan images and identify the faces of your friends with a fairly high degree of accuracy, can't they scan images for Minions so you can filter them out?
[deleted] · -1 points · Posted at 18:30:26 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
and the fact they are based of Jewish kids who tested gas chambers
Marilyn1618 · 1207 points · Posted at 12:07:25 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
"It's a prank, bro!"
AdClemson · 261 points · Posted at 12:28:58 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's a social experiment.
NeededKoalafications · 245 points · Posted at 12:44:52 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's just a felony, bro!
arhanv · 3 points · Posted at 18:21:36 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's just a fed(or)al crime, bro!
agentverne · 1 points · Posted at 14:57:09 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
The judge is right over there!
Jargen · 94 points · Posted at 13:42:37 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
That's even worse IMO, I'm not part of an experiment unless I signed off on waivers and contracts indicating that I understand what's gonna happen to me.
Lidasel · 11 points · Posted at 16:24:04 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)*
Only if the experimenter cares about ethics. You can still be a part of an experiment without your knowledge or consent if the researcher doesn't care.
A great example is this study from 2013 where they tried to influence people's emotions by manipulating facebook feeds which got massively criticised for the lack of ethical considerations (and we only learned about that study because they published it in a scientific journal. There are probably tons of social experiments going on on the internet that we are subjects of, but we have no way of knowing it).
Jargen · 1 points · Posted at 17:02:10 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Well facebook can do whatever they want to their news feeds. We don't own them as users.
Lidasel · 2 points · Posted at 17:21:42 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
That is true, my argument is just that
doesn't hold true if the researcher doesn't care about informed consent.
Jargen · 5 points · Posted at 17:28:29 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Right, but if I am subjected to an experiment where I am harmed (physically, medically, psychological, etc) in any way then they should be held liable.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 02:03:56 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
In regards to facebook I am sure you did sign off on a lot of things you don't know about.
Bingo-Bango-Bong-o · 1 points · Posted at 02:23:35 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Has nothing to do with "not caring about IC". There are long held and followed principles regarding what meets the criteria for necessitating informed consent.
[deleted] · 50 points · Posted at 16:25:28 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
IT'S ETHAN BRADBERRY
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 21:41:39 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
and my name is Ethan Bradberry
aaronclements · 3 points · Posted at 22:04:08 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
ETHAN BRADBERRY
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 00:41:35 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
IMETHANBRADBERRY
SuperAlbertN7 · 1 points · Posted at 01:32:36 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Usually it's just a video to fearmonger about something. It's not like they actually want to test something.
pleimer · 385 points · Posted at 12:22:43 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
[Gone Sexual]
SaysSaysSaysSays · 291 points · Posted at 13:21:31 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
[GONE WRONG]
thasquidkid · 281 points · Posted at 13:48:51 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
[IN THE HOOD]
[deleted] · 228 points · Posted at 13:51:24 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
[ ALMOST ARRESTED ]
[deleted] · 148 points · Posted at 14:04:21 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
(GONE RIGHT)
pta2002 · 186 points · Posted at 14:13:06 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
[GONE LEFT]
because_monstah · 552 points · Posted at 14:25:41 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
[GONE WITH THE WIND]
thasquidkid · 206 points · Posted at 14:34:26 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
[GONE FISHING]
Arwox · 214 points · Posted at 14:37:50 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
[GONE GIRL]
SgtKashim · 16 points · Posted at 14:46:21 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
[GONE PLAID]
fireork12 · 8 points · Posted at 18:32:24 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
[GONE GREASE LIGHTNING]
Varnishedchrome · 6 points · Posted at 19:42:37 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
[GONE AND NOT COMING BACK]
[deleted] · 8 points · Posted at 19:49:12 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
[GONE TO SYRIA]
fireork12 · 7 points · Posted at 19:58:21 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
[JUST LIKE DAD]
[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 20:08:43 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
[TO BE A SUPRISE PILOT]
thisissparta789789 · 4 points · Posted at 20:53:54 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
[GONE KAMIKAZE]
kjhunkler · 10 points · Posted at 21:57:02 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
[Gonorrhea]
[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 22:05:26 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
[CHLAMIDYA]
inthelittleforest · 5 points · Posted at 22:21:14 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
[HERPES]
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 22:24:39 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
[AIDS]
inthelittleforest · 5 points · Posted at 22:28:42 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
[EVERYONE HAS AIDS]
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 22:30:58 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
[TELL THAT TO CHARLIE SHEEN]
inthelittleforest · 3 points · Posted at 22:32:15 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
[HEY CHARLIE SHEEN!]
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 22:33:02 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
["I SPREAD MY AIDS" Charlie Sheen]
inthelittleforest · 5 points · Posted at 22:35:45 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
[WELL THAT WENT WRONG]
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 22:36:46 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
[LIKE JARED FOGLE]
inthelittleforest · 3 points · Posted at 22:38:01 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
[HE HAS AIDS AS WELL!]
404UNF · 4 points · Posted at 22:39:47 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
[PEDOPHILE]
inthelittleforest · 6 points · Posted at 22:40:37 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
[IF SHE'S 7, I'M 7]
[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 22:54:16 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
[15 YEAR SENTENCE THE SAME AS THE MAX AGE OF HIS SEXUAL PARTNERS]
404UNF · 4 points · Posted at 22:57:31 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
[PAROL]
RayVelcro · 3 points · Posted at 23:03:21 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)*
[PAROLE REVOKED]
thisissparta789789 · 4 points · Posted at 23:33:12 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
[AN EXTRA 20 YEARS FOR MISSPELLING]
Monkey_Legend · 2 points · Posted at 00:29:36 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
[OJ SIMPSON]
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 00:42:58 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
[deleted]
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 00:47:24 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
[JACK THE RIPPER]
z0mb13zl4y4 · 1 points · Posted at 03:02:08 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
[THIS IS ONE FUCKING ADVENTURE]
Awestruck3 · 1 points · Posted at 03:06:00 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
[I'M SO FUCKING LOST]
z0mb13zl4y4 · 2 points · Posted at 03:08:51 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
[THIS CHANGED SO MUCH FROM THE OP, THIS ESCALATED PRETTY FUCKING QUICKLY]
Linkinito · 1 points · Posted at 08:15:49 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
[JOHN CENA]
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 03:07:42 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
[┴┬┴┤( ͡° ͜ʖ├┬┴┬__________]
Nightslash360 · 2 points · Posted at 23:16:56 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
[PEDOBEAR APPROVES!]
inthelittleforest · 1 points · Posted at 09:54:21 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
[THAT'S A BIG WORD FOR A 7 YEAR OLD!]
OmegaSpark · 10 points · Posted at 14:59:38 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
[GONE BABY GONE]
yankeefoxtrot · 3 points · Posted at 15:51:58 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
We did it reddit?
fireork12 · 5 points · Posted at 18:32:42 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
We're never done
SnicketKnight · 7 points · Posted at 17:01:30 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
[/r/GONEWILD]
Horse_Sized_Duck_ · 3 points · Posted at 17:20:23 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
[GONE OUT TO LUNCH. BE BACK IN 15 MINUTES]
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 15:54:54 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
[GOING LOCO DOWN IN ACAPULCO]
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 18:59:44 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
[GONORRHEA]
m86edit · 3 points · Posted at 19:27:15 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
[GONE TO HANG MYSELF]
ChildishCris · 2 points · Posted at 17:36:38 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
[GONE IN 60 SECONDS]
Artiemes · 2 points · Posted at 18:03:42 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
[THE DEPARTED]
The_Leaderman · 2 points · Posted at 18:17:42 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
[GONE BABY GONE]
arhanv · 2 points · Posted at 18:21:09 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
[CLUB PENGUIN MEMES 100% LEGIT 2016 COMPILATION FREE DOWNLOAD NO SURVEY XXX!]
Wright4000 · 1 points · Posted at 18:44:17 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
[GONORRHEA]
ICantTyping · 1 points · Posted at 21:02:28 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
[GON' GET FUCKED UP]
Windex_Attack · 1 points · Posted at 21:58:00 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
[GONE SOFLO]
mermaidleesi · 1 points · Posted at 23:03:06 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
[GONE MAD]
Jacob3443 · 1 points · Posted at 23:47:15 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
[GIRLS GONE WILD]
Loliepopp79 · 1 points · Posted at 04:01:50 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
[GONE IN 60 SECONDS]
QueenGethsemoni · 1 points · Posted at 07:15:31 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
[GONE WITH THE WIND FABULOUS]
mtcdrummer14 · 1 points · Posted at 07:26:42 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
[GONE WILD]
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 23:08:47 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
[GONE SEXUAL]
swedishpotatis · 2 points · Posted at 19:57:36 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
[GONE TO LUNCH]
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 18:13:36 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
[DUST IN THE WIND]
_lukey___ · 3 points · Posted at 14:56:47 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
[ G O N E I S I S ]
[deleted] · 8 points · Posted at 15:37:39 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
[GONERRHOEA]
Ghosty141 · 1 points · Posted at 14:19:32 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
[BUT NOT FORGOTTEN]
2RINITY · 2 points · Posted at 15:32:39 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
[GONE UP AND DOWN AND ALL AROUND]
TheDerpyDinosaur · 2 points · Posted at 15:39:23 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
(GONE FUCKING ANNOYING)
KingStraton · 2 points · Posted at 16:05:00 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
https://youtu.be/2k0SmqbBIpQ
epikninja123 · 2 points · Posted at 16:58:16 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
[GUN PULLED]
XGC75 · 2 points · Posted at 18:39:54 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
[ DANGER ]
synrG_ · 2 points · Posted at 19:46:14 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
(2015)
TheSeaIsRadioactive · 3 points · Posted at 03:17:24 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
[GONE BRADBERRY]
earthw2002 · 2 points · Posted at 20:43:45 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
[REAL BLACK PEOPLE]
StructuralFailure · 3 points · Posted at 17:13:16 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
[GONE HOME]
TexasWithADollarsign · 2 points · Posted at 00:00:10 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
[GONE WILD]
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 01:34:59 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
My first thought reading this was an old Yorkshire lady shouting 'Ohh Christ, it's gone wrong!' while hanging off some sort of machinery. I think my brain's gone wrong.
Darth_Candy · 1 points · Posted at 13:51:03 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
[IN THE HOOD]
KilledTheCar · 50 points · Posted at 15:30:24 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
What the fuck even is "Gone Sexual"? How does something "go sexual"?
ohlookawildtaco · 26 points · Posted at 18:23:28 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'd imagine if it's they get a kiss, then miraculously start having sex or whatever. Seems 100% legit. insert 100 emjoi here
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 19:45:56 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)*
[deleted]
columbus8myhw · 4 points · Posted at 20:47:51 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Does $100% mean $1
TheToastWithGlasnost · 3 points · Posted at 22:04:08 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
"emjoi"
Teoke · 1 points · Posted at 11:43:39 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
💯
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 18:28:21 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's just another clickbaity tag used by the people who make these prank videos (usually alongside a thumbnail of a woman in a sexual position or something like that) to get people to click on their videos.
ratherfalinchocolate · 5 points · Posted at 19:40:10 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
its just a normal prank until someone whips their dick out
darez00 · 1 points · Posted at 21:38:23 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It worked.
JPinLFK · 1 points · Posted at 23:59:25 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Gone sexual is when a priest or nun gets it on after being celibate. Yes, as a Catholic I'm going straight to hell.
Pueblo890 · 3 points · Posted at 18:03:32 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
[Gun pulled]
Stacieinhorrorland · 149 points · Posted at 13:00:07 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
This irritates me so much. Like that video of the dude grabbing people's asses for "a prank" that's not a prank. That's sexual assault.
JustSomethingStupid · 12 points · Posted at 16:24:42 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Apparently that video was fake. The people were in on it. If we're talking about the same video.
Stacieinhorrorland · 9 points · Posted at 16:25:20 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Hopefully
JustSomethingStupid · 3 points · Posted at 01:35:57 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
If it was Sam Pepper, that one was fake. I couldn't remember his name, but someone else commented it. He also apparently did a video where he pretended to kill a friend in front of another friend. Apparently that one was fake too.
Vawqer · 3 points · Posted at 23:10:17 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I think there was more than one youtuber who did that, but the main Sam Pepper one was indeed a fake.
JustSomethingStupid · 3 points · Posted at 01:39:59 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
That's the one I referring to. I couldn't remember his name though. Thanks!
Wow I didn't know others did it also. That's awful. I don't watch those videos and they haven't shown up in my recommended videos so I didn't know that. I only knew of the Sam Pepper one because of other Youtuber I'm subscribed to who mentioned it. Still really awful that anyone would do something like that.
Vawqer · 3 points · Posted at 01:43:05 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Let me guess: You follow h3h3?
Anyways, I know that is a lot of copying and trying to 1-up, so I am not 100% sure on there being more but iirc I did see one in my suggestions. That is a tad odd since I never watch those videos, but YouTube algorithms are how they are.
JustSomethingStupid · 3 points · Posted at 02:14:16 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Actually it was Philip DeFranco.
I really wouldn't be surprised if there were more. Hopefully others were faked as well. I've heard that many prank videos are fake reactions, but I don't actually know. I remember when prank videos were just people playing harmless pranks on their friends or family. I guess it just escalated since then.
And yes, YouTube algorithms are really weird sometimes lol.
adoboacrobat · 2 points · Posted at 05:48:21 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Is Sam Pepper related to Brian Pepper?
Vawqer · 2 points · Posted at 06:06:43 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Idk man.
Windex_Attack · 1 points · Posted at 21:59:06 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's fake he said it was otherwise their faces would need to be blurred.
Tobilated_peoples · 158 points · Posted at 12:52:23 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Kills his wife Chill it's a prank bro
Eats his child alive Dude chill it's a prank
Chops off both his legs Look, Look a camera it's a prank
The_Escalation_Game · 231 points · Posted at 12:59:49 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Commits Jihad: It's a prank Brohammed.
ggggtotalwarrior · 33 points · Posted at 14:01:14 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
-Thad Castle
dontcallitjelly · 2 points · Posted at 16:10:41 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
OIL CHANGES FOR EVERYONE!
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:23:18 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
ha yeah...
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 14:02:25 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
[deleted]
SosX · 1 points · Posted at 02:30:31 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
/r/unexpectedjihad
ErnestScaredStupid · 2 points · Posted at 03:37:48 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Dumps liquid nitrogen on someone
Chill, it's a prank bro!
jaymastergamez · 175 points · Posted at 13:20:10 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
You would love h3h3. Vape nation
Whoooosiers · 99 points · Posted at 13:41:12 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
"I'm lookin to rip the biggest clouds of the vape nation!"
[deleted] · 18 points · Posted at 16:59:31 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Vape shop guy: This should last you about 4 days if you smoke all day
Ethan: So like 2 hours for me
tequilasauer · 5 points · Posted at 19:17:41 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I want a flavor that is natural. Like mountain dew or cheetohs.
Imperium_Dragon · 131 points · Posted at 14:47:04 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'M ETHAN BRADBURY!
Derick525 · 6 points · Posted at 16:46:36 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I see this in almost every thread now
GevellTheTorturer · 1 points · Posted at 02:51:08 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I've seen this in Pornhub comments
nathancard · 3 points · Posted at 00:19:52 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
IMABIGBLUEBERRY
themanofawesomeness · 1 points · Posted at 02:30:59 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
BRADBURY INTENSIFIES
MountainsOfDick · 4 points · Posted at 01:18:30 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
The good five minutes of the ABC news guy taking a picture of him had me cringing and laughing at the same time
Grammarnazi_bot · 4 points · Posted at 20:47:09 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Leafy wouldn't
ZypherMyth · 16 points · Posted at 14:02:04 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm so glad I found h3h3 recently
Ozwaldo · 7 points · Posted at 15:28:25 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Nashe, bro. You think those of us in Vape Nashe have time for that extra syllable? Fuck outta here bro, i'll bet you don't even hit phat rips
crispybabies469 · 4 points · Posted at 14:29:00 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Gotta rep the vape nashe dude
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 03:00:31 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
So topical
482733577 · 1 points · Posted at 05:20:56 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
The h3h3 circle jerk confuses me to no end.
Reddit hates reaction videos, unless it's reactions to other shitty reaction videos?
overfedfish · 0 points · Posted at 15:50:09 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
the vape nashe!
[deleted] · -9 points · Posted at 15:16:00 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The hypocrite?
ShrineyFez · 5 points · Posted at 15:46:01 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
He made another response recently that I suggest you read so you can get all the info.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 16:08:22 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Where?
o0Baconer0o · 1 points · Posted at 16:59:58 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
r/h3h3productions
imjohnk · 6 points · Posted at 16:05:52 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
In The Netherlands we have a group of friends who are really popular on YouTube. They make pranks what isn't that special but it's obvious that it's fake but nobody seems to care about it. There's a reason he gained so many subscribers in such a short time. It's like reality television with 3 pranks a week from "having sex with best friend of girlfriend" to "torturing our best friend GONE WRONG!"
TNLTwister · 1 points · Posted at 00:14:02 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Powered by RTL Nederland. It really is a shame. And the videos which arent fake are harrasment and straight up crimes.
imjohnk · 1 points · Posted at 09:26:52 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yeah but it has nothing to do with RTL, I meant Armoowasright and his friends.
TNLTwister · 1 points · Posted at 10:00:06 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
RTL has everything to do with it at the moment. They offered him and his shit friends a contract which makes everything they do fall under the responsibility of RTL. Like ruining store supplies and breaking the law. I really want to know how their advertisers think about it. Time to do something about it.
imjohnk · 1 points · Posted at 00:43:25 on March 26, 2016 · (Permalink)
What the fuck I didn't know that. That would be so stupid.
MadDogTannen · 4 points · Posted at 17:22:42 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I heard a podcast a while back about the guy who created Candid Camera. I guess at one point in his life, he was on a plane that was hijacked, and everyone on the plane recognized him and assumed the hijacking was a prank. Once they realized the hijack was not a prank, they were pissed at the Candid Camera guy for some reason I can't remember.
StructuralFailure · 3 points · Posted at 17:13:01 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
ruins a sports car with a fucking spatula
IT'S JUST A PRANK BRO DON'T TASE ME PLS AAAAAAH
odie4evr · 3 points · Posted at 20:44:26 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)*
MagicOfRahat makes pranks that are actually good. Ya' know, ones that are mutually funny.
Edit: Here's a video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sascHoIYdTQ
logangrey123 · 2 points · Posted at 15:12:54 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
☺️🔫😠
😵
"IT'S A PRANK BRO!!" 😂
Qwik_Sand · 2 points · Posted at 15:44:49 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Idk it created some really funny H3H3 videos
ItsJustAPrankBro · 1 points · Posted at 14:19:53 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
We got a problem here?
leek_of_legends · 1 points · Posted at 01:02:54 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Good thing we have evolved into "It's just a social experiment, bro!"
TheHeroicOnion · 1 points · Posted at 01:10:50 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Stop mentioning that in every thread you bunch of broken fucking records.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 02:10:11 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
It was great when that kid got punched the fuck out finally...
ItHappensAtMidnight · 1 points · Posted at 16:17:26 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'M ETHAN BRADBERRY
ch00d · 0 points · Posted at 18:20:05 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
What a bunch of bradberrys.
Canis_Familiaris · 115 points · Posted at 19:58:26 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
An Ad covering the ENTIRE FUCKING PAGE saying "you need to disable adblock." YouTube videos aren't showing up unless you have adblock off now.
GokuFromNaruto · 66 points · Posted at 21:45:28 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's not a problem if you use ublock origin.
jagershark · 3 points · Posted at 12:05:18 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
only a matter of time
Letho72 · 15 points · Posted at 22:48:54 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Currently using adblock plus for Firefox. I have never seen an ad on YouTube when using my computer or had problems viewing a video.
[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 00:05:59 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I've been using adblock for years (with Chrome) and never had a YouTube video not play because of it.
Dailymotion is starting to do it, though.
BaconLondoner · 6 points · Posted at 23:51:49 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Holy shit glad I use Ublock Origin now, made the switch after Adblock started to suck and have never looked back
suoirucimalsi · 2 points · Posted at 02:00:12 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
You can get rid of those and see the underlying page using your adblocker.
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 01:30:23 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
come on man. How do you think all that content is free?
[deleted] · 12 points · Posted at 02:19:02 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)*
[deleted]
cry_wolf23 · 1 points · Posted at 05:09:48 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
YouTube Red is nice
brickmack · -11 points · Posted at 02:32:33 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Not my problem. If they won't make it without an income, they probably didn't give a shit anyway. Theres near infinite actually free content out there, why should I support some dickwad that just cares about his paycheck?
firepri · 4 points · Posted at 03:41:28 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yeah, fuck them for making videos about something they love full-time AND having a roof over their head.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 22:56:52 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
YouTube Red is the greatest addition to my Google Music All Access subscription that I never knew I wanted.
nightcrawleronreddit · 1 points · Posted at 02:36:49 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
If you're on chrome, right click, inspect element and look for the strand of text that highlights the image impeding your view and delete it. Done
Keltin · 1 points · Posted at 05:26:12 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Any browser, actually. I loathe Safari's dev tools (and many other things about it, but especially the dev tools), but it even works on there. IE/Edge as well, though it's tougher to find on IE if I remember my last experience with it correctly.
[deleted] · -2 points · Posted at 22:45:04 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)*
[removed]
[deleted] · -3 points · Posted at 01:30:46 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
agreed
[deleted] · -1 points · Posted at 07:02:49 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Well can you blame them? They're trying to sell a service by displaying ads, you can hardly call them out on trying to protect their income.
Oconitnitsua · 114 points · Posted at 17:54:52 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Those white bars above videos
"Can't believe that happened!" Video "😂😂😂😂"
Tranquillititties · 11 points · Posted at 22:20:28 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Never seen one of those except for the one where the guys making the video "snap" those bars off
Coldbeam · 9 points · Posted at 00:44:26 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I believe those are to get around auto detection of copied videos.
aaronclements · 5 points · Posted at 22:08:31 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Looking at you, Soflo.
powerfulCollin · 3 points · Posted at 06:10:58 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I've seen a few videos that say "who made dis?😅😀😆" on Facebook. If you uploaded the video, you must have downloaded it from somewhere. So you know damn well who made it!
[deleted] · 233 points · Posted at 18:51:26 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Outrage. Everyone was up in arms about everything. 2015 was the year of ZERO CHILL.
Roman_Statuesque · 10 points · Posted at 03:54:24 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's an addiction to infuriation I've seen it called. The example in the book I saw it in was saying: "people complain about what they see on certain news stations, and then proceed to watch those stations to find more to complain about, thus encouraging them to show more things for them to complain about".
As a whole the I think it is because people have realized they just need to wave around a sign saying "Look! I'm a victim!" to get all the free press attention they want and the ability to exclusively use ad hominem attacks against any critics. Couple that with increasingly thin-skinned people getting worked up over non-issues and you have recipe for a lot of people beginning to not give a shit about any issue which will in turn lead to, you guessed it, more problems.
Wow, that turned out to be more long winded than I intended.
[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 04:01:56 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I absolutely agree that it's about playing the victim.
Roman_Statuesque · 6 points · Posted at 04:45:40 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I mean really, what do you have to lose? All you need to do is: carry around a mattress or go to an Ivy League school, then post something on Twitter about your "struggle" and internet will do the rest. They'll generate a nice false consensus and call anybody who bothers to do fact checking a (insert "-ist" and/or "-phobic" of choice here) shitlord. They might even dox them for additional lulz. Next thing you know, you're being interviewed by a major magazine, or perhaps end up on the nightly news, hell, you might even get to address the UN on your (incredibly relevant and pressing issue that represents continuing blah blah blah)!
If you wanted to hurt someone, their reputation is ruined. If you wanted money, you sure as hell got it. If you had an agenda, it is complete. If you just wanted fifteen minutes of fucking fame, you just got immortalized on the interwebs.
On the technical side, this and most everything else people are
talkingcomplaining about ITT is stuff that takes advantage of "peripheral processing". Nice bits of info you can absorb and add to your existing schemas without needing to think critically.(I'm sorry, I'm Psych student. This sort of shit comes to mind.)
LiterallyBats · 7 points · Posted at 00:32:18 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yeah, 2015 was the most angsty year I can remember.
Stacia_Asuna · 1 points · Posted at 04:52:49 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
2015 used OUTRAGE! It had no effect on 2016... (lol fairy types)
TheNumberMuncher · 1 points · Posted at 05:18:43 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Also, the trend of saying "zero chill".
And fleek
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 05:23:19 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
What's fleek mean?
EDIT: Never mind. Discovered google.
EDIT2: That's stupid.
ambersroses81 · 1 points · Posted at 06:55:31 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I know dude ... totally un-chill
DakotaN2895 · 1 points · Posted at 04:20:08 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
And there are popular subs that seem to exist for the sole purpose of pissing off the viewers. Looking at you /r/TumblrInAction and /r/KotakuInAction.
[deleted] · 73 points · Posted at 15:57:09 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)*
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GamingfulLuke · 25 points · Posted at 21:06:10 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I kinda forgot already. Thank god
tekhnomancer · 13 points · Posted at 00:34:18 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I don't hate the series. I hate the people who started in depth blogs and theoretical think tanks over the fucking bite of 89. If you dedicated a tenth of that time to something real, like a hobby or school, you'd actually better yourself. This just seemed ridiculous to me.
VictorClark · 4 points · Posted at 02:04:17 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
It was the Bite of 87. Not 89.
tekhnomancer · 6 points · Posted at 03:13:30 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Either one. Let the story unravel.
DrPac · 3 points · Posted at 01:40:33 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
The games themselves are okay, it's just the six year olds who make it look bad.
FlamingWings · 3 points · Posted at 03:04:42 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
eh, FNAF itself was okay, just a guy trying to make a living. Scott is a cool guy, does what he loves for a job, donates a ton, and is very talkative with the fans. shame that youtubers like Markipler fight to have their face all over it
Fr33_Lax · 5 points · Posted at 20:12:47 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's fun watching idiots scream for a camera though.
DannyRent · 5 points · Posted at 20:49:58 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Less fun if they aren't scared and are just screaming for attention.
We like being scared, and seeing people get scared by things that scare us. Watching someone ham it up isn't why I'd personally watch a video of someone playing a scary game.
[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 21:01:24 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I enjoyed some of the series. First one had an actually decent framework for a story, and was pretty creepy with the weird, unexplained aspects.
Then the creator didn't get why people liked it, and instead began catering to the "weird" part of the fanbase shared with Sonic and Undertale, with the sequels. Real bummer there.
[deleted] · 8 points · Posted at 21:08:37 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)*
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BaconLondoner · 4 points · Posted at 23:53:57 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Ugh, Game Theory. It was good! Then, a few bad episodes here and there, then MatPat started a few other series... then FNAF... then a whole channel... Now I just stay subscribed for Culture Shock
FrostyTheHippo · 5 points · Posted at 00:26:23 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Thank god I'm not the only one. I am getting really sick of Game Theory. Its about nothing but FNAF.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 03:40:52 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Actually MatPat hasn't posted about FNAF since his end of December live stream.
DrPac · 1 points · Posted at 01:41:36 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
THANK YOU
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 22:51:40 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Then he botched the fourth game because even if someone unraveled the poorly written ball of insanity for a continuity, it doesn't matter because it's so inconsequential.
drderpymd · 1 points · Posted at 00:52:12 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
That was late 2014 though
Daskichan · 1 points · Posted at 21:43:23 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Or any of its' 1000000 spinoff games.
Ryllynaow · -1 points · Posted at 05:10:40 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)*
I work with children. It's not dead yet. There's apparantly an fnaf mmo game.
Edit: Word lost in transit.
Uyersuyer · 1 points · Posted at 16:56:32 on March 26, 2016 · (Permalink)
...You don't say.
Ryllynaow · 1 points · Posted at 17:24:10 on March 26, 2016 · (Permalink)
Oh, god damn it, I dropped a word. A fnaf mmo game.
Freaky_Teeth · 444 points · Posted at 13:04:29 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
These mass shootings and bombings I keep hearing about. Not a huge fan of them.
UseApostrophesBetter · 243 points · Posted at 15:52:19 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
"The more I hear about this Hitler fellow, the less I care for him"
bonejohnson8 · 10 points · Posted at 16:28:59 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
You know what really grinds my gears? Child rapists.
DrPac · 4 points · Posted at 01:39:06 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
That Stalin guy, something just seems off about him.
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 17:11:35 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
They are going down in number compared to the past.
FuguofAnotherWorld · 3 points · Posted at 01:48:46 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
That's not really a trend so much as the last sputtering gasps of violence in an increasingly peaceful land. If you look at the stats you'll find that you're safer in pretty much every when than when you were a kid, assuming you're in one of the nicer countries.
popsicle_cat · 1 points · Posted at 16:01:29 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Its still a big trend even in 2016
P1LLcozby · 2148 points · Posted at 11:39:48 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
"Hoverboarding" which was technically doucheily handlelessly electrically scootering-ly
Xenomemphate · 73 points · Posted at 15:41:02 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It is just a hands free segway.
BitchinTechnology · 1 points · Posted at 00:38:06 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
So?
P1LLcozby · -6 points · Posted at 15:51:40 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Hands free, light flashing douche indicator as well. I'm surprised they don't come with built in vapes.
ShakerGecko · 7 points · Posted at 17:04:56 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
You are worse than those you insult. Change your ways or suffer from your negativity.
P1LLcozby · -3 points · Posted at 17:07:57 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Hey man, this is specifically about those who "hoverboard" not those who scooter around... Woosah
Ghotimonger · 1 points · Posted at 21:28:56 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Wooooosah!
Tobilated_peoples · 463 points · Posted at 12:53:22 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Oooh this useless piece of shit thing. And it cost so fucking much
oliviathecf · 475 points · Posted at 15:49:00 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
My little cousins got some of these for Christmas and one of them was like "Olivia, you should get one, they're awesome."
Now, this was after I tried it out and proceeded to injure a few people, so there was no way I was going to do this.
I said that I don't think I can afford them and she gives me a look before saying something like "They're only $400."
She's twelve years old but when I was her age, twenty bucks was a lot of money and a big purchase, $400 would be far out of the question.
I made something up about having to pay taxes I think, and she doesn't know anything about taxes so that was accepted as a fine answer.
rangemaster · 137 points · Posted at 17:36:47 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I remember saving my "allowance" for weeks to be able to afford a $10 micromachines thing.
oliviathecf · 119 points · Posted at 18:37:17 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I never got an allowance, so I didn't have to save anything up. If I wanted something, I would ask my parents and I had to be good and not bratty to get it.
I remember being nervous to ask for video games though because they cost a lot of money to me!
[deleted] · 63 points · Posted at 19:31:52 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Same here, and if the cover of the game looked "weird" or "demonic" I couldn't get it. Even in high school with my own money.
It was great growing up Jehovah's Witness....
No, mom, pretty sure Jehovah doesn't think Pikachu is Satanic.
oliviathecf · 9 points · Posted at 19:37:41 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yikes, I didn't really have to worry about that although my mom was very strict on ratings. I'm sure she would've liked to ban Pokemon from the house though haha.
ikemynikes · 2 points · Posted at 22:35:47 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
What do you think would happen if your parents listened to The Slim Shady LP all the way through?
mandudebreh · 1 points · Posted at 05:11:19 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
That's how mom crusades get started.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 20:36:42 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
have you tagged as 'scared of needles' for some reason
CoreFour1996 · 2 points · Posted at 23:35:44 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
If you click the tag, you can see what comment you tagged him for.
DrPac · 1 points · Posted at 01:37:21 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
That sounds horrible.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 01:58:54 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Can confirm. I was there when Jehovah gave his opinion on Pikachu. Not satanic.
F4cetious · 1 points · Posted at 04:40:43 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Hah, when the first Harry Potter movie came out, my mom didn't want to take me to see it because she had watched some religious talk show that made it sound "evil" with all the witchcraft and monsters.
Then Oprah talked about it a week later, and suddenly Jesus didn't think it was such a sinful movie after all. But I still wasn't supposed to read the books on Sundays because it "could bring bad spirits into the house". Fun times.
shiningmidnight · 1 points · Posted at 14:34:30 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I am so, so glad I wasn't raised religious. Because I'm pretty sure if my mom were, I wouldn't have ever been allowed to do anything at all.
As it was, all the way up until grade 12 when I was 17 she wouldn't let me wear clothing with skulls on them. I went out and bought a longsleeve t with skull and crossbones on the arms to wear under t shirts all skater-style since that was what was cool at the time. Not only did she try to stop me from wearing it to school, one time she did laundry for me (I normally did my own but sometimes she did the whole house's at a time) and left that shirt in her room thinking I wouldn't notice it just disappeared.
Great lady, but really didn't like skulls for some reason.
iLiektoReeditReedit · 3 points · Posted at 20:48:57 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Value is something every child should learn young.
oliviathecf · 4 points · Posted at 20:52:36 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I mean, I knew that a dollar was a dollar, I just thought that it was a lot more money than it really is because it could buy me so much candy. Video games are worth more then candy, so they must be worth a lot of money!
This isn't uncommon thinking for a kid, I'm sure you thought that $100 was some crazy cash when you were around ten.
iLiektoReeditReedit · 3 points · Posted at 21:02:46 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Oh yeah I completely agree with you. And as a child, a dollar should be worth A LOT. I never really learned too well honestly. I just used my early adolescent cash on fast food and expensive status symbol products like ray bans. Gave me some really bad habits.
oliviathecf · 3 points · Posted at 21:06:54 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Heh yeah, I feel like a lot of kids do that. No real concept of saving money unless it's for something else that's pretty frivolous that you can't afford quite yet.
At the same time though, I will still spend money that's given to me on something frivolous but nearly all of the money I make at work is going to be saved.
Like I hypothetically could afford the aforementioned hoverboard but I can't because it'd be out of my budget for leisure spending.
Being an adult, I look at my money less as a figure but more in paychecks. And something that would be about 60% of my biweekly paycheck better be worth it.
whogetsthebanana · 2 points · Posted at 01:21:23 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
When I was in my last year of college I took my niece to dinner at a local restaurant, I took her to a movie and to the mall where we got ice cream and she got a shirt. I explained to her how much I made an hour, that it was above minimum wage in our area and what that was, and then had her do the math for how many hours I worked to provide just those things on that day for her. It actually seemed to stick!
dino340 · 2 points · Posted at 02:04:36 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
They cost a lot of money anyways, have you ever gone back and looked at what n64 and snes games cost when they came out? It's insane
TheNumberMuncher · 2 points · Posted at 05:21:02 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I didn't get an allowance or get toys lol. I remember one christmas all I got was a coin bank. To hold what? We were poor. I didn't have any coins.
Y_orickBrown · 3 points · Posted at 19:01:22 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Are micromachines still a thing, or did some dumb fuck choke on run and ruin it for everybody?
kilroyishere89 · 3 points · Posted at 20:01:05 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Looks like they started being made again last year. Wiki.
jdallen1222 · 2 points · Posted at 20:00:27 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I remember I saved my allowance and cut grass all summer so I could save up enough money to buy Mortal Kombat 2 for the SNES. When I finally had enough and it was released, my parents let me buy the game but took away my SNES. I don't remember what I did to warrant that, but I was not a happy camper for the next 2 months. When I was finally able to play it, it was everything I hoped it would be, I couldn't get enough of it.
DARKTHRONE666 · 1 points · Posted at 19:21:35 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Well your micromachine didn't have as many awesome features. Could it catch on fire due to faulty batteries?
rangemaster · 2 points · Posted at 19:43:26 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It could not, as it was powered by imagination.
buttery_shame_cave · 1 points · Posted at 21:41:31 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
wtf is an allowance? i had to go above and beyond with my chores to earn money as a kid. my dad was TIGHT when it came to money. still is.
though granted he owns a respectable piece of land and a house, debt free, could stop working if he wanted and just coast on savings, etc... so he was doing something right.
rangemaster · 1 points · Posted at 22:01:12 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It was something like $2 a week in in mid-90s, so it wasn't much. Dad called it an allowance, but it was really meant for extra snacks at lunch time during school, where 50 cents would buy an ice cream. I just did without so I could afford my toy.
geostigma11 · 1 points · Posted at 05:41:48 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I saved up $50 over the course of 4 years, brother stole it >.>
rangemaster · 1 points · Posted at 06:02:46 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Ouch.
TheNinjaFish · 6 points · Posted at 20:18:48 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
to be fair, an NES bought in 1985 would cost over $400 today
oliviathecf · 1 points · Posted at 20:41:09 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
True but I wasn't around during the NES days haha, video game prices are comparable to how much they cost now from when I was a kid, maybe even lower.
Ihateallgigginox · 4 points · Posted at 21:29:11 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
ONLY $400?!
gleiberkid · 3 points · Posted at 20:29:03 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
When I was 12 or 13 my grandpa bought my cousin an awesome remote control car. We wanted 2 so we could race so I spent all of my earnings from chores, snow shoveling, lemonade stands, and allowances. I thought it was so expensive.
I recently wanted to get the same car so I looked it up. What I was expecting to be $200 was $40 back in 2002. And they don't make it anymore.
oliviathecf · 2 points · Posted at 20:36:42 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Haha yeah, I feel like kids don't really have a good idea of money and what it is, but we usually didn't go in the "only $300" range, rather in the $40 is soooo much money direction.
F4cetious · 3 points · Posted at 04:35:37 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Shit, if I ever said "only" about anything more than $15 as a little kid, my mom straight up gave me the "ONLY?" lecture, no sugar coating. We weren't particularly broke, but she wasn't about to have me make light of cash.
buttery_shame_cave · 4 points · Posted at 21:40:19 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
this right here makes me grateful for how my oldest is - he looks at the price tags on stuff when we're shopping for things for him - hockey gear especially. he gets(at age 10 no less) that hockey is goddamn expensive. he worries about the gear budget just as much, if not more, than i do. he will regularly go in favor of the less expensive option much of the time.
meanwhile i hear his cousins acting much like the kid you're talking about.
I_FAP_TO_TURKEYS · 2 points · Posted at 02:42:22 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Can confirm
Source: am oldest sibling and have been upset at my younger siblings spending habits
iLiektoReeditReedit · 2 points · Posted at 20:48:18 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
You shoulda been like that was rude.
oliviathecf · 1 points · Posted at 20:49:25 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
My cousins aren't very nice heh. She wasn't accepting no for an answer, so I had to make something up.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 22:50:03 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
400$ is still a lot of money she is just little and probably just doesn't understand money or they are rich
oliviathecf · 1 points · Posted at 23:19:38 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
She doesn't understand money, they're not rich.
aron2295 · 1 points · Posted at 00:58:34 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Some people are bad w/ money and dont care.
I_FAP_TO_TURKEYS · 3 points · Posted at 02:49:07 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Even if I was rich, I'd still hesitate with $400. Even if I had a spending problem, I'd still hesitate with $400. How do I know I'd hesitate? I still hesitate buying a $3.00 item that I absolutely NEED and have plenty of money for
Letty_Whiterock · 1 points · Posted at 02:09:02 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
"You're 14 and have a hoverboard? When I was your age, I had a spaghetti!"
oliviathecf · 1 points · Posted at 13:00:55 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
The age of her having a hoverboard doesn't matter, I had silly gadgets when I was her age too, it's her lack of understanding what money is worth to people that bothered me about the situation.
tapirsaurusrex · 1 points · Posted at 04:13:06 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
What does "cf" stand for?
oliviathecf · 1 points · Posted at 12:54:16 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Heh, I really can't remember. I made this username a long time ago, so I don't even really know myself anymore. I just let people make their own decision as to what it stands for.
I_Speak_For_The_Ents · 1 points · Posted at 04:13:10 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I know its not their fault... But fuck spoiled kids.
cliffthecorrupt · 1 points · Posted at 05:32:02 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
An N64 was worth around $294, adjusted for inflation ($199 at release at the time). Large purchases aren't outrageous, to be honest.
oliviathecf · 1 points · Posted at 12:50:22 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I was a bit young for the N64...actually, I wasn't born when it was released (I came around a year later), so I wasn't really asking for the N64 or really any other game system unless it was Christmas and it was a shared family gift.
(Yes, 1996 was nineteen years ago so, no, I'm not ten.)
Regardless, that doesn't really matter because I had little concept of money other than "I've never seen $400 in person before, therefore it is really big."
cliffthecorrupt · 1 points · Posted at 13:00:37 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
So you were too young to even play it until the price went down. That's fair enough. What I was trying to say is that high price gifts are not that bad. Also the fact that perhaps your cousin has a warped sense of money. Where perhaps their parents bought it for them easily so therefore the amount must not be that big of a deal.
oliviathecf · 1 points · Posted at 13:04:12 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Ah yeah, I get it now. My main issue isn't that she's getting high priced gifts, it's Christmas and her parents had clearly saved up enough money to get them that, but her warped sense of money.
OG_Hash · 1 points · Posted at 08:50:22 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
You probably asked for obscenely expensive shit as a kid. I know you understand that. But I hope you don't think the kid's too out of touch
oliviathecf · 1 points · Posted at 12:46:12 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I gotta say, you're probably right. I think I was a bit more patient on these things than my cousin is, but she's not really known for her patience.
ghostpoopftw · 1 points · Posted at 09:21:42 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Was it your birthday yesterday?
oliviathecf · 1 points · Posted at 12:46:19 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Hm? No.
ghostpoopftw · 1 points · Posted at 21:39:34 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Aww rats, I only know one Olivia and her birthday was yesterday :p
oliviathecf · 1 points · Posted at 12:40:49 on March 26, 2016 · (Permalink)
Haha, well, I do hope you wished her a happy birthday.
thatwasnotkawaii · 84 points · Posted at 13:26:54 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
vrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Doctor_Rainbow · 1 points · Posted at 16:55:30 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
crack
akafamilyfunny · 3 points · Posted at 17:04:25 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
boom
crawshay · 2 points · Posted at 00:42:11 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I was talking shit about these things a few weeks ago and got downvoted into oblivion. They're seriously useless. Their slow, unstable, expensive and make you look stupid.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 13:18:31 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
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crawshay · 1 points · Posted at 16:03:34 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm not on my own dick (what does that even mean????) I can just tell a fad when I see one. Talk to me in a year when no one is riding them anymore and they have faded into obscurity.
papalonian · 2 points · Posted at 04:13:49 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's supposed to be useless. They're toys, not personal transportation. People saying that they're completely idiotic for that reason are almost as annoying as the people that use them for that reason
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:45:36 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's fun. But it costs way too much
private_meta · 1 points · Posted at 18:53:54 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
In my experience, people Usually say it costs so fucking much if they secretly want such an item too.
Tobilated_peoples · 1 points · Posted at 02:13:35 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I tried one and i don't see the point except the really small challenge to be able to rive it around. I'm pissed that they charge so much for such a senseless thing
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:32:41 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
bad shit ba̷̶ ԁ sHit 👎 thats ❌ some bad 👎👎shit right 👎👎 th 👎 ere 👎👎👎 right ❌ there ❌ ❌
BitchinTechnology · 1 points · Posted at 00:37:55 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
How is it useless?
Tobilated_peoples · 1 points · Posted at 02:16:06 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Well you can't really get from a to b quicker with it than with a bike, skateboard or something similar. It brings out lazyness in people and they start to get more fat. And where i live it's not even permitted on public ground because of the careless handling and the possible dangers that occur with it.
BitchinTechnology · 1 points · Posted at 02:20:27 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
So you can go a to b quicker with it than walking.
How is it any different than a skateboard?
Its the same exact thing dude
Tobilated_peoples · 0 points · Posted at 02:32:44 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
No the physical aspect is missing
BitchinTechnology · 2 points · Posted at 02:54:02 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
So?
In your mind anything motorized is a waste? Like seriously what the fuck is the big deal. No one talked this much shit on Segways, or minibikes, or anything else.
What is wrong with a little hoverboard? For quick short trips or you know, having some fun? Why does it have to be involve a physical aspect
scare_crowe94 · 1 points · Posted at 16:49:16 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
They cost like 100$ it's not crazy expensive
Tobilated_peoples · 3 points · Posted at 17:01:43 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
No way where i live they're between 400 to 500 bucks
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:37:43 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
They are like $300+
DramaOnDisplay · 0 points · Posted at 18:27:44 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I think a $100 board might actually be of the lowest tier, more "shady" varieties... Chinese knock-offs and the like.
If you want one that's at least not going to explode while you're riding it, I'd shell out a little more than $100.
Jacob0050 · 5 points · Posted at 18:40:35 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
They're all Chinese knock offs. There's no main company or brand that makes them.
Foxboy93 · 363 points · Posted at 16:57:15 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The thing that irks me about it
IT DOESNT HOVER
IT DOES ZERO HOVERING
IT SHOULD JUST BE CALLED A BOARD
P1LLcozby · 29 points · Posted at 17:03:16 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Fútboard. #2016Fútboard4president
Sack_Of_Motors · 4 points · Posted at 00:24:19 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
FTFY
earthw2002 · 4 points · Posted at 20:36:10 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
In England people have started calling them swegways.
WootTurnt · 7 points · Posted at 19:00:58 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's not really a board either; it's just a hands free Segway.
[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 20:33:37 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
ITS NOT EVEN A BOARD, ITS A HANDLESS SEGWAY
EnjoyableBleach · 12 points · Posted at 18:28:02 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I just refer to them as twatplanks, nobody has corrected me yet.
manawesome326 · 2 points · Posted at 19:40:38 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Rollerboard!
chuby1tubby · 2 points · Posted at 20:11:02 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The problem is, it's more similar to a ripstick than a board of any type. So we should call it a glide-stick perhaps.
Hogwartsreject1912 · 2 points · Posted at 21:43:22 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Or better yet a broken moped.
likedatyall · 1 points · Posted at 21:18:40 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
with wheels.
SpaceFace5000 · 1 points · Posted at 22:58:55 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's even a stretch calling it a board.
legendofhilda · 1 points · Posted at 23:33:21 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
My SO refuses to bend on this subject and it is UNACCEPTABLE. THERE IS NO HOVERING IT CAN'T BE A HOVERBOARD WITH NO HOVERING. IT HAS FUCKING WHEELS FOR GOD'S SAKE.
BitchinTechnology · 0 points · Posted at 00:38:38 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
So Facebook can't be facebook because it isn't a book?
A lavalamp being lava?
legendofhilda · 1 points · Posted at 05:06:05 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Lava lamps are meant to look like lava in a lamp. Probably named that for their supposed resemblance and I'm pretty sure nothing was called a lava lamp before their invention. (Also that's a dumb comparison. Who the hell has a lava lamp anymore? And they were made in the seventies everybody was high)
Facebook... yeah that's a weird name but there is no confusion there because nothing else is called that. Zuckerberg came up with a unique name that became synonymous with the website.
Hover boards were already a concept before those idiots named their handleless segways. They didn't invent hover boards, they just leached off the hype surrounding them. That's my issue with it. They're the crappy knock off brand that tries to fool you into spending money on them
BitchinTechnology · -1 points · Posted at 05:10:48 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
But that is not what lava looks like.
Also they do look like you are hovering from a distance, they sure as hell feel like you are hovering.
Nothing else is called hoverboard either. The things in the movie? Yeah no one ever brings those up. Ever ever ever ever ever. You hear that word in the movie and never again in real life unless you're watching the movie.
THey are not Segways, segway is a brand name. Funny you call people idiots.
So you agree with me that Facebook is not a book of faces and that is a stupid term right? If hoverboard is stupid so is facebook
Do you know how language works?
Are you aware that NO ONE sells or markets these things as "hoverboards". That is just what the general population calls them.
Are you aware how language works? How words are formed?
legendofhilda · 1 points · Posted at 15:48:36 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yeah... 2015... The year everybody was making a big deal about everything Back to the Future... and nobody ever brought up hoverboards /s
They don't even remotely look like you are hovering from a distance. This may be impractical and not fully developed to its full potential but it looks a hell of a lot more like a hoverboard than these "smart electric scooters" do you prefer that over Segways?
I'll agree that Facebook is a dumbass comparison to make but oh yeah you sure did make your point /s
And I would not say the general population calls them hoverboards, just the moneygrabbing people who sell them and the gullible dopes that buy them and want to make themselves feel cooler after they fall on their ass 20 times. Which group do you belong to?
BitchinTechnology · 0 points · Posted at 19:24:46 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)*
Show me. Show me someone who is talking about hoverboards talking about the thing from the movie. Do you know anyone who just walks around talking about a device from the movie?
How is Facebook a dumb comparison?
NO THESE THINGS ARE NOT BEING MARKETED AS HOVERBOARDS
http://iohawk.com/
Show me where THE FUCK they call them hoverboards.
Everyone calls them hoverboards. Even people on reddit bitching about them. That is what they are called. You guys just don't like people having fun. Lets try this again
Can words have more than one meaning? Yes or no.
Can the meaning of words change over time? Yes or no.
Does common usage dictate what the meaning of words are? Yes or no.
Do you know how words work? A vast majority of people call something something that means that is what it is right? That is how words are formed? Yes or no
legendofhilda · 1 points · Posted at 20:29:53 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Okay. Let me see if I got this straight. You paid a bunch of money for one of these things and everyone made fun of you so now you go on the internet and get in a spitting rage over people that dare speak ill of your precious "hoverboard" Those fools don't understand! They'll never understand the brilliance and fun of this fantastic invention! Well one day they'll see! THEY'LL ALL SEE!! AND THEY WILL RUE THE DAY THEY EVER CALLED ME ME AN IDIOT!! I, HOVERBOARD HAVOC, WILL MAKE THEM ALL PAY!!! MUAHAHAHAHAHA (rides away on "hoverboard" into the night)
admititI'vegotyoupegged
BitchinTechnology · 1 points · Posted at 22:46:10 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I don't own one.
Can you show me where words have to be taken literally ?
Darkstar_98 · 1 points · Posted at 23:41:30 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Just like you will be when you finally get one
Jacob3443 · 1 points · Posted at 23:44:02 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
A WHEELBoard
magichobo3 · 1 points · Posted at 02:07:26 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's also not a board, it's just two foot pads and wheels
TjTheProphet · 1 points · Posted at 03:44:53 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Not even really a board either
StarWarsPlusDrWho · 1 points · Posted at 04:13:33 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
The other thing that irks me about it
IT ISNT A BOARD
ITS TWO FOOT-RESTS ON WHEELS
IT SHOULD JUST BE CALLED A
CaptainKatsuuura · 1 points · Posted at 06:37:00 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
""swagway""
alblaster · 1 points · Posted at 07:01:58 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Roll Board, not to be confused with board with wheels( otherwise known as a skateboard)
Brochachola · 1 points · Posted at 07:40:46 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
When I first saw them they were being sold as roller-boards which makes perfect sense, I don't know who started calling them hover boards but they can fuck off
SomeAnnoyingTeenager · 1 points · Posted at 14:59:25 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
ITS NOT EVEN A FUCKING BOARD
Tulemasin · 1 points · Posted at 16:52:20 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
it even cannot be called a board for it does not look like one at all.
THIS is a board: http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0690/5793/products/artemare-ex-longboard_product1_1024x1024.jpg?v=1417718738
iLiektoReeditReedit · 1 points · Posted at 20:49:20 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
But watch if I go behind this couch...
DramaOnDisplay · 0 points · Posted at 18:25:58 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
A ZippiBoard! There, I just saved the awesomeness of the Hoverboard for when it actually graces us.
...no, I didn't? Damn.
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 23:32:39 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
What really irks me is the internet geeks that lose their shit over the name. Lots of things are called something different than what they otherwise do. People call everything with 4 propellers a Drone which most of the time isn't right, a drone is in 100% control of itself, yet people call them drones. Quadcopter or UAV would be correct. Though people are for "drones" do they don't nitpick at that one. Chinese checkers isn't Chinese or checkers, Killer Whales aren't whales. The world is filled with Misnomers, deal with it.
SilverNeptune · -9 points · Posted at 19:34:42 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
You are aware a Lava Lamp isn't actually lava right?
What about Facebook not being a book of faces right?
A fire engine isn't actually an engine...
I don't think you guys know how language works. The population calls them hoverboards, thus they are hoverboards. Words can have more than one meaning and language changes with time
columbus8myhw · 5 points · Posted at 20:42:38 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
There's a difference between it being an actual word, and it being the name given to something by a company.
SilverNeptune · 1 points · Posted at 00:29:37 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Um no company is selling these things as Hoverboards... nor is there a company called hoverboard..
columbus8myhw · 1 points · Posted at 00:51:44 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Then why do people capitalize the name? What do they sell it as?
SilverNeptune · 1 points · Posted at 00:58:13 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Because it is a noun?
Because people think its a proper noun?
Because it doesn't really matter? Like do you think there is some law that says people must follow the rules of grammar? What rules? Show me, show me these "rules". Who decides them? Oh wait its "accepted usage" right? Thats where these "rules" come from right? People make mistakes all day long. Just like this post, I bet there are at least 10 "mistakes" in it, yet you know exactly what I am saying. The purpose of language is to convey meaning no? So if you understand what I said than by definition didn't I use the correct meaning?
Accepted usage pretty much calls these things hoverboards......thus they are hoverboards!
The main company is called IO Hawk and they call them "Intelligent Personal Mobility Device"
That is hard to say so most people just say hoverboard so you know what they are talking about. Just like I don't call my car an "automobile" or I don't call my cell phone a VS980. I say "phone".
columbus8myhw · 1 points · Posted at 02:06:14 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)*
FTFY
starshadowx2 · 4 points · Posted at 21:32:03 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Sure, but the globs look like lava.
Except it mostly is. It's a database of people and pictures of themselves, and started out as an online yearbook.
But it is a vehicle, powered by an engine, used to fight fires.
You are correct, but that doesn't make the word any more correct. It still doesn't hover.
DanskJeavlar · 0 points · Posted at 23:58:41 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
A hover board makes you apare as hovering.
SilverNeptune · 0 points · Posted at 00:29:10 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Lol it does not look like lava.. like at all.
Its not a book though?
book:
So its not a book at all right? It cannot be called facebook if its not a book right? As a hoverboard cannot be called a hoverboard if it doesn't hover right?
How is it any different?
Yes it does make it correct, it is correct because thats what people use it as. Thats how words fucking work.
BitchinTechnology · 0 points · Posted at 00:33:42 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I don't think you know how language works. Show me where it says a hoverboard must hover. Cite it. Show me the governing body that says a word must be taken literally
Does a sand castle have to resemble a castle?
I know no castle that looks like a pail turned upside down.
Sandcastle is wrong too right?
Adarain · 1 points · Posted at 02:16:45 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Right, so, I agree with you on the fundamental basis of "if people call this thing a hoverboard, then that's what that thing is called", but that doesn't take away people's right from finding said term stupid. I also find "I could care less" (and many, much more established idioms, which I use myself as well) silly, I just don't go around telling people they're stupid for using that idiom (because I know intelligence has very little, if anything to do with it).
SilverNeptune · 1 points · Posted at 03:11:07 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I really don't get why Reddit has an issue with them
My theory: people on them are having fun and Reddit resents that.
That don't have an issue with any other word that doesn't make sense when taken literally.
Let people do what they wanna do. Plenty of words don't make sense. Reddit just wants something to bitch about. Like I don't think they realize they are "that guy" every time they bring it up
They wonder why they don't get invited to parties. Its because you say "well actually, you see...."
No one cares guys. The fact that when someone says "hoverboard" you instantly know what they are talking about is proof enough.
Words have multiple meanings.
Take the word "either". It can either (heh) mean "both" or "one or the other"
Those are almost fucking opposites
SilverNeptune · 1 points · Posted at 03:11:36 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Also thanks for responding and not just downvoting me. I don't get Reddit's hate with these
[deleted] · 160 points · Posted at 13:30:44 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
When I was on ski vacation two months ago, a new group checked into the hotel with a bunch of cunt kids who, among other things, used these things inside.
Needless to say, I wasn't too bummed to leave the next day.
YUNoDie · 103 points · Posted at 14:09:28 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Why would you bring those skiing? They most certainly do not work on snow, or even hills for that matter.
Arwox · 189 points · Posted at 14:36:48 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Throw some chains on the wheels you'll be good to go
P1LLcozby · 8 points · Posted at 16:03:35 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
... Don't forget to also put the pussy on the chainwax
sbd104 · 1 points · Posted at 18:28:44 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Chains don't help in snow. They help on ice. It's like using snowshoes on fresh snowfall.
SynSyx · 1 points · Posted at 20:46:59 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
pull the wheels off and youre most of the way to a snowboard
clubcrackers08 · 0 points · Posted at 18:24:59 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Two inch screws and sugar in the gas tank
medikit · 2 points · Posted at 16:59:21 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
They just got them for Christmas most likely.
Tarcanus · 1 points · Posted at 18:58:09 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Not to mention anywhere with snow has salt on everything, making the hoverboards tough to use anyway.
CreativeInput · 1 points · Posted at 23:45:50 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
THIS IS WHY YOU BRING THOSE SKIING
IchBinGelangweilt · 1 points · Posted at 00:17:01 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Because hopefully the shitty people who do stuff like that will try it out on the mountain and fall to their death.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 02:00:11 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
https://youtu.be/-hLAq5SRi2w?t=3s
radpandaparty · 0 points · Posted at 14:43:26 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
At least you banged one of their moms right?
callmefire · 113 points · Posted at 13:41:43 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I've tried one and while i can't deny they're a fun toy to mess around with, people using them in public is really annoying.
wicksa · 68 points · Posted at 17:58:22 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm a nurse and I had a patient's boyfriend get pissed at me because I told him it was unsafe for him to take his newborn baby on a "cruise" on the hoverboard down the hospital hallway.
I_AM_TARA · 6 points · Posted at 20:25:23 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's scary how that idiot was able to procreate.
rileyrulesu · 25 points · Posted at 17:33:01 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
You say I shouldn't use them in public, the other guy says I shouldn't use them inside, is the only place that's socially acceptable to ride mine on my back porch?
Maybe you guys are the douchebags that for yelling at people for doing something that doesn't affect you at all.
callmefire · 2 points · Posted at 17:36:20 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm not saying you shouldn't, i'm just saying that i feel they're kinda unnecessary to use in public when you can easily just walk without the extra hassle.
blaghart · 4 points · Posted at 20:17:02 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Why walk when you can skateboard?
Why skateboard when you can make the skateboard run automatically?
aron2295 · 2 points · Posted at 01:00:16 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yea, to me theyre like skateboards or bikes. So ride em on the sidewalk, backyard, park, to go run to the corner store but not in the mall. To the mall, yes, but not in the mall.
BitchinTechnology · 1 points · Posted at 00:39:37 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
So is a bike
Tranquillititties · 1 points · Posted at 22:18:07 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I agree. If I could have one I would use it whenever I could.
c_dawg7 · 16 points · Posted at 15:34:33 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I don't understand the hate. They are by far better than people on skateboards out in public.
BitchinTechnology · 6 points · Posted at 00:42:11 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Because Reddit doesn't like to have fun while at the same time complaining how much life sucks. Like seriously. Reddit you are NOT Jim Halpert. You are Andy Baines in your office. This is why you don't get invited to parties. People start talking about hoverboards and you walk up and say "well actually..."
No one fucking cares. Just live life and quit hating on everything. Reminds me of that South Park episode where Kyle or Stan are talking shit about every single movie they see previews for.
throwaway0835 · 1 points · Posted at 04:52:29 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
This is too true. I was hanging out at a friend's place watching something once, and all the people there did was hate on everything. I mean, it wasn't just that nothing was off limits, but every fucking thing that they could make a comment on, they did. Everything was stupid. I was dumbfounded. I didn't know what to do - I wasn't enjoying myself at all, but I didn't want to be rude.
BitchinTechnology · 1 points · Posted at 05:01:39 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Its ok to hate SOME things , but if you hate everything you are just a cynical asshole
callmefire · 1 points · Posted at 17:37:48 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I don't hate the things, they're fun to use, i just don't see the necessity of using them all the time in public when you can easily walk.
chuletron · 1 points · Posted at 21:28:16 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Because it's fun
aaronclements · 2 points · Posted at 22:06:27 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yeah, it seems like the majority of the hoverboard hate stems from inconsiderate hoverboarders. I've tried one, and they're a ton of fun.
betterthanyoda56 · 2 points · Posted at 14:42:09 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
We have them in the office. They are convenient for getting around rapidly
SuperTurtle24 · 22 points · Posted at 15:04:45 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
But aren't your feet also convenient for that?
Danger_ist · 5 points · Posted at 15:14:47 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
You sound like a wise turtle.
BitchinTechnology · 3 points · Posted at 00:42:24 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Its not as fast. Do you walk to work?
SuperTurtle24 · 1 points · Posted at 09:16:24 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
It'd be hard to walk 12 Miles to get to work on time.
BitchinTechnology · 1 points · Posted at 19:25:27 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
So in other words what you said was meaningless?
SuperTurtle24 · 1 points · Posted at 20:14:38 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
It was a joke
crespoh69 · 1 points · Posted at 16:41:30 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I see Wall-E in our future
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 06:52:08 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
No.
betterthanyoda56 · 1 points · Posted at 20:10:28 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
True. Big office though. I prefer my skateboard to get around.
SuperTurtle24 · 2 points · Posted at 20:14:26 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I was only joking, I understand if it's a big office.
oodluvr · 1 points · Posted at 17:54:42 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Why buy something so expensive if you don't use it everyday?
aron2295 · 1 points · Posted at 01:01:38 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Bikes are expensive. Bikes from a bike shop, not Wal Mart. Theyre fun toys / semi serious modes of transportation depending where you live.
BackwardBeaver · 1 points · Posted at 18:46:56 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Like I get why people don't want to use them but why does it bother people others use them. It seems strange I mean if they aren't running into your with them why care what others do.
thegreekone2 · 1 points · Posted at 21:18:19 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Thats why I use mine in the privacy of my own home.
TheEthalea · 0 points · Posted at 19:49:36 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Some little kid was riding one down the middle of the street in my town the other day and totally bit asphalt. I laughed pretty hard.
MagicalWeirdo · -2 points · Posted at 18:05:51 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Someone was riding one inside my church yesterday. A guy next to me and I were laughing because it probably took him an hour to get on. We were going to push him off of it and tell him to not ride it in the church. But he face planted before we could.
mista_masta · 5 points · Posted at 16:18:51 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm guessing you weren't able to ride one?
P1LLcozby · -1 points · Posted at 16:37:25 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I did not, but I've used a segway and a razor before...so...
mista_masta · 3 points · Posted at 16:53:07 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Idk dude they're pretty fun
MadDogTannen · 3 points · Posted at 17:19:40 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Someone brought one to my office one day last year, and I ate shit on it so hard. It looks like fun once you get the hang of it though.
This girl in my housing community has one, and she's so good at it. I've even seen her taking out the trash on it.
aron2295 · 1 points · Posted at 01:02:52 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
There is a learning curve. I almost destroyed the store I bought it at when they were teaching me. After 30 mins in my friends apartment, I had it.
P1LLcozby · -1 points · Posted at 16:56:14 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Honestly, in all honesty, like for realsies... I'm sure they are too. It's just all the fgts that ruined it for everyone by being douchebags on them
TheRealDickPoncho · 3 points · Posted at 15:34:52 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I saw some guy ride up to a hot dog stand on one, step off of it for ~30 seconds and some guy grabbed it and ran. That poor man who now had to walk home like a simpleton wielding his hot dogs.
P1LLcozby · 3 points · Posted at 15:46:11 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
How unfortunate. He instantly became an undouchified weiner wielder
IPostMyArtHere · 3 points · Posted at 16:46:53 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
At the movie theatre I work at, my greatest joy is yelling at kids about to enter that they can't bring in their hoverboards.
SimonaBee · 3 points · Posted at 22:55:46 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Like when I tell kids I won't sell them cigarettes without ID, feels so good seeing their face drop and their fumbled "Oh, I left it in the car," as they run away.
IPostMyArtHere · 3 points · Posted at 22:58:33 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Oh my god, this was why selling Deadpool tickets was the best.
So many disappointed teenagers. Several kids brought their parents without telling them it was rated R, and we had to warn them to avoid refunds.
SimonaBee · 3 points · Posted at 23:23:34 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
"Gavin! An R rated movie?! We better see Zootopia!"
I love feeling that power! "Sorry ma'am, this register is handbaskets only, you'll have to take your trolley to another register." They look so angry!
GimmeDatMeth · 3 points · Posted at 15:44:43 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
If I got one for free is prob use it in my house where no one could see me... And it'd be up my bum.
P1LLcozby · 1 points · Posted at 15:55:40 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'd honestly trade it for one of the unicycle looking ones
Silvystreak · 3 points · Posted at 18:10:29 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Swegway
-Red_Forman- · 13 points · Posted at 13:36:41 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I hope they know that they're basically standing in wheel chairs...
TheRedComet · 2 points · Posted at 16:52:17 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Felt good to see ads on the subway explicitly saying they're banned
tdug · 2 points · Posted at 17:20:50 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I love my hoverboard. Got it about a year ago. Having one of the first ones in the USA was great because people loved it then. Almost everybody thought it was sweet. I really hoped they'd stay uncommon.
[deleted] · -1 points · Posted at 17:25:38 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
How have you prevented it from exploding?
tdug · 3 points · Posted at 17:40:28 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Many of them were shipped with chargers that didn't automatically shut off, and this was a large part of how batteries got damaged. My charger does have auto-shutoff.
aron2295 · 1 points · Posted at 01:04:04 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Mine came w/ instructions that said "DO NOT OVERCHARGE".
bogidyboy · 2 points · Posted at 18:15:37 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
"It's like drinking Starbucks, but with your feet"
0food · 2 points · Posted at 18:54:56 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
"Hoverboards" piss me off so much because I ride unicycles, and whenever you're looking for unicycles on sites like eBay, etc, the stupid Chinese listings for hoverboards always call themselves "unicycles." And because unicycles aren't popular and "hoverboards" are, you always get lots of results for hoverboards but none for unicycles.
mbuff · 2 points · Posted at 19:03:38 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yep. This short video just so happens to combine two things I really dislike, one of which is hoverboarding: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSfUEhXtAAg
P1LLcozby · 2 points · Posted at 19:15:25 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
FUCKBOY STARTER PACK
A-Perfect-Triangle · 2 points · Posted at 23:22:17 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
More like a seg-gay amirite?
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 06:47:07 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
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P1LLcozby · 1 points · Posted at 15:00:56 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Dude. I commented to another fellow redditor and mentioned how it's the people who "hoverboard" they're usually the douches on it. I actually know someone who got one of the first I/O Hawk scooters. Sure, they spent more than others would probably be willing to pay (seriously they paid like over a G) but that also means that they're going to take care of it. Now I know that's not always the case with people but this persons not a douche, it's tech, they geeked out, they use it. I agree that's pretty damn awesome. We have to progress, even if it means Wall-E style, just don't be a fuckboi getting there.
NosyEnthusiast6 · 2 points · Posted at 19:48:59 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm not paying that much for an IED.
P1LLcozby · 1 points · Posted at 21:26:51 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Exactly.
mostlyemptyspace · 4 points · Posted at 14:06:42 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Look at me I paid hundreds of dollars to not walk and to be unable to navigate stairs, curbs, grass, and sand.
BitchinTechnology · 1 points · Posted at 00:44:02 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I guess I should return my bike then huh
mostlyemptyspace · 1 points · Posted at 01:21:43 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Only if the front wheel is bigger than the rear
BitchinTechnology · 1 points · Posted at 01:43:39 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I paid hundreds of dollars to not walk and to be unable to navigate stairs, curbs, grass, and sand.
P1LLcozby · -1 points · Posted at 14:23:58 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
And although I am not hovering, I will without a doubt call it a hoverboard. EVERYTIME.
Deathcommand · 2 points · Posted at 14:55:50 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
To be fair, that's like calling an iPhone an iPhone because... It's an iPhone.
Redbulldildo · -2 points · Posted at 15:38:19 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
But they aren't hoverboards goddammit, boards that hover actually exist.
P1LLcozby · 0 points · Posted at 15:40:27 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Found the one who lives under a bridge and came to make comments. Amirite
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:32:30 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I remember some cunt came into my local corner shop on one of those, blaring music from the built in speakers. Such a douchey thing to do.
S_Polychronopolis · 1 points · Posted at 23:13:31 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Built in speakers? Really?
Is that a common feature on them?
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:03:31 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
They're kind of douchey to use in public but they're pretty fun to just ride around on.
charliem76 · 1 points · Posted at 19:12:31 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Saw a guy at the park yesterday using one to push a stroller. Undecided on if it was a good use of it or not.
TheLowSpark · 1 points · Posted at 20:19:45 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Those things are cool as hell I don't care what anyone says.
andwhyshouldi · 1 points · Posted at 20:20:23 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I have one. They're actually quite a lot of fun if you don't act like a complete prat with it.
P1LLcozby · 1 points · Posted at 20:22:45 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Classic Chris.
andwhyshouldi · 1 points · Posted at 21:04:49 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Sorry?
P1LLcozby · 1 points · Posted at 21:08:38 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
...Starlord.
210hayden · 1 points · Posted at 20:32:20 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Theyre stupid and shouldnt be used to get around by any means.
But have you ridden one?
Fun as fuck.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:35:37 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
did you see the video of the fat mexican kid on the "hoverboard". He was on his knees riding it around. Fat bean eating kid couldn't be older then 10... so sad. Parents should be charged with child endangerment. My future children will not be allowed to eat fast food.
fake edit: here is the fat mexi kid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEXlK9VmFV0
FreeFallFormation · 1 points · Posted at 20:39:35 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
My dad saw a kid in a parking lot trying to use one and kept falling over before taking the board and throwing it into some bushes.
its_not_Christmas · 1 points · Posted at 21:32:05 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I honestly think if those things cost $35 they'd be HUGE right now and be more than just a trend. but they all started at $200 and only douches bought them and have now been forever labeled douchemobiles and even if they start coming out cheaper it will be too late
jenkinsonfire · 1 points · Posted at 22:00:43 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The other day I saw a kid hoverboarding while vaping. Taken THAT far, he's got to be trying to look like a douche
codythomashunsberger · 1 points · Posted at 22:12:48 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
"It's like you're standing in a wheelchair."
Ninetendoh · 1 points · Posted at 23:13:09 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Due to this shitty trend and the low quality crap that has come from China, half of the items on the Australian governments recall list under electronics are "hover board" items.
https://www.recalls.gov.au/content/index.phtml/itemId/952814
Ooph and we have a temporary ban: https://www.recalls.gov.au/content/index.phtml/itemId/1081137
greenpeppers100 · 1 points · Posted at 23:21:11 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Not kidding I had a friend die on one if these.
coalminnow · 1 points · Posted at 00:01:40 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Handle bar-less segways
rarely-sarcastic · 1 points · Posted at 01:41:00 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
One of my all time favorite TV shows is the US version of Shameless. They tried to make Hoverboards look really cool in the show. Such a shameless bullshit commercial that felt so forced and pointless.
Daz_on_Reddit · 1 points · Posted at 01:48:28 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Not to mention several of them have spontaneously combusted. That's right, your $400 piece of shit fake ass 'hover' board can just randomly burst into flames.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 02:30:05 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I don't understand why everyone loathes hoverboards.
It's no different than a scooter/skateboard/roller blades. Just let people travel how they want, it's not like it affects you.
tacolovingrammanazi · 1 points · Posted at 03:19:17 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Fuccboimobiles
geckosean · 1 points · Posted at 05:46:01 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I have quite literally watched this trend rise and then fall into backlash territory - they were all over my campus in winter... now that the weather is nice, I have seen fewer than 2 sightings in a month. Maybe because they finally realized how absurd it looked and that walking is better.
And don't even get me started on how much they cost.
CaptainKatsuuura · 1 points · Posted at 06:36:40 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/11/27/457404184/episode-666-the-hoverboard-life
mildly interesting
Kii_and_lock · 1 points · Posted at 07:41:13 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I live in a college town. I cracked the fuck up when I saw some dude just riding one to class. Partly because I thought it was a segway and I hadn't seen one in years. Then I realized it was one of those fucking things instead.
OG_Hash · 1 points · Posted at 08:48:44 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Don't really get how riding one of those makes somebody "douchy." I'm sorry. Why's it such an issue to people? Do these people hurt you! Does it bug you its referred to as "hover boarding"? Either way, why?
P1LLcozby · 1 points · Posted at 15:02:53 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's the people who say it's a "hoverboard" and act like douches on them. Other than that ride away, to the gates of Valhalla if you wish as well!
SpartanKnight0 · 1 points · Posted at 09:12:51 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
For some strange reason every time a see someone at work on one of those thing I just want to spear the fuck out them then tell them "You are not allowed to have this inside" is that weird?
HeyItsAmberP · 1 points · Posted at 12:58:28 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
And to think that for one brief moment, I thought we'd all own one one day.
P1LLcozby · 2 points · Posted at 15:04:24 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
That's actually not wrong to hope that. I agree with progress, especially the technological kind. Just don't make us regret it and backtrack.
Ayepuds · 1 points · Posted at 16:31:26 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
And why the fuck are they called hoverboards. There is nothing remotely hover like about them, they have wheels
P1LLcozby · 2 points · Posted at 16:39:28 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
"hot wheels" so hot they melt right off!
TheFoxGoesMoo · 2 points · Posted at 17:43:58 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Marketing. Do you think anyone would buy them if they weren't called hoverboards? It'd just be another skateboard then.
rileyrulesu · 0 points · Posted at 17:34:08 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Clever. Did you come up with that on your own?
Ayepuds · 0 points · Posted at 17:37:57 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
What?
rileyrulesu · 2 points · Posted at 17:43:55 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Oh, it's just I've never heard anyone say that. It's certainly not the first thing every douchebag who thinks he's clever says when the topic comes up. I was just wondering if you came up with that brilliant witticism yourself, or you had a team of highly paid comedians work on it for months!
Ayepuds · 1 points · Posted at 17:56:56 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Of course it's not original nor is it a joke. It's just a comment about the topic at hand, no need to be a dick
b_tight · 1 points · Posted at 14:39:11 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Im more bothered by people calling them hoverboards than the actual device itself. It doesn't hover, at all.
I_drive_all_over · 1 points · Posted at 16:20:07 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I went to a local park to walk my dog. The park has a 6 mile paved trail around a small lake. There was this asshat "hover boarding" on the paved trail. I was behind him for about a mile. The whole time he was leaning back and forth trying not to fall. He finally fell. I walked by him and asked if he was because he was just sitting on the ground. He replied "stupid hover board, I need to take it back, it doesn't work right!". I laughed and kept walking.
P1LLcozby · 2 points · Posted at 16:38:31 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
"its aposed to huver gooder then dis"
benpoopio · 1 points · Posted at 19:03:20 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Idk why everyone hates on them. They are pretty sweet no lie. Unless people are being total douches, I don't see nothing wrong with them. I also know how you guys will respond, "but everyone who rides them rides them like a douche". Well whatever, this is the future get with it!
P1LLcozby · 1 points · Posted at 19:11:20 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The douche just makes everyone hate them. But I agree, we're on our path to a life like that in Wall-E
Teknikal69 · 0 points · Posted at 15:33:55 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Definitely the "HOTTEST" craze you could say it really "EXPLODED".
P1LLcozby · 1 points · Posted at 15:43:37 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The cheaply made Chinese one's all of a sudden "blew up"
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 15:12:44 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Some guy shot someone and rode away in a hover board
K-Shrizzle · 0 points · Posted at 18:00:40 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I consider the "hoverboard" (the fucking thing touches the ground. That's the definition of not hovering) to be one of the biggest examples of how lazy this society has gotten. People don't even want to put the effort into walking. Just walking. Not strenuous exercise.
If you use one of those, you deserve whatever weight you gain.
eugenesbluegenes · -1 points · Posted at 14:25:58 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I just break out in laughter when I pass guys (it's always a guy) using those down the sidewalk. And I work in San Francisco, full of dudes with a bunch of money and hard-ons for gadgetry.
P1LLcozby · 2 points · Posted at 14:30:42 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Fuck yea. Technology! Skeetskeetskeetskeet
radpandaparty · -1 points · Posted at 14:42:13 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I like how there are 2 versions
Segway: For the top 1% of nerds, the nerdiest of nerds
Hoverboard: For Douches
Phouza · -1 points · Posted at 15:43:49 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I facepalm each time someone calls those things hoverboards. It doesnt even hover. It has wheels and it touches the ground. It's not a hoverboard! It's not that difficult.
P1LLcozby · -1 points · Posted at 15:52:44 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's because it "hovers" just like they have "haterz"
RSHenderson · 344 points · Posted at 13:59:16 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Any Vine trend
KrishaCZ · 173 points · Posted at 14:14:55 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Crikey Cameron!
GoodPretzel · 142 points · Posted at 14:41:16 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
DURR PLANT
Soundbreaking · 15 points · Posted at 16:46:57 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I Hate Dust!
[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 17:16:03 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
:(
DrPac · 5 points · Posted at 00:50:18 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I DON'T WANT IT BUILDING UP IN MY HOME.
Soundbreaking · 5 points · Posted at 13:19:57 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
IF YOU LET DUST BUILD UP YOU'LL YOU HAVE AN ARMY OF DUST BUNNIES PLANNING TO TAKE OVER BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS WHERE DID YOU GET THOSE FROM,OUR GARDEN?
_coyotes_ · 15 points · Posted at 20:09:48 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
DURR PLANT is actually really funny... Only in I Hate Everything's video. Anywhere else it looks like a bowl of mashed potato's with diarrhea gravy.
Skull-Demon · 2 points · Posted at 00:29:46 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Nice!
DreadAngel1711 · 5 points · Posted at 16:50:08 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
DURRRRRR PLANT
Narflarg · 1 points · Posted at 01:21:33 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
21
darkblade273 · 4 points · Posted at 21:38:17 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I am sending the magical copyright wizard right now
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 04:25:17 on March 27, 2016 · (Permalink)
COPYRIGHT CLAIMIUS DURR PLANTIUS
ExtraShard · 4 points · Posted at 21:58:20 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
MonoGiraffe · 1 points · Posted at 04:30:19 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Gee, George!
THE_GR8_MIKE · 1 points · Posted at 06:24:08 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I don't know what that is but it's pissing me off just hearing it.
KrishaCZ · 1 points · Posted at 08:49:36 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Its a parody of a stupid meme Damn Daniel by the youtuber I Hate Everything, whose video on Damn Daniel got copyright claimed because the fucking stupid meme is copyrighted
ghostpoopftw · 1 points · Posted at 09:30:43 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Doing things another time with brown sperry's on!
TheOctophant · 51 points · Posted at 14:39:32 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
What are thoooooooooose!?
The_Regart_Is_Real · 7 points · Posted at 17:14:18 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Fuckin shoes!
GevellTheTorturer · 5 points · Posted at 02:53:55 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
People are fucking them now?
3BallJosh · 2 points · Posted at 12:18:55 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
People will fuck anything
R3ap3r973 · 5 points · Posted at 21:24:16 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'll admit the first few of those were funny. Got old fast though. Edit: This is an example of the funny.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 00:50:26 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
21 of deez nuts
Roman_Statuesque · 0 points · Posted at 03:55:28 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
This was the worst of them all.
Clambulance1 · 20 points · Posted at 16:36:40 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Damn, Daniel, back at it again with the shitty vine trends.
redditorofwallstreet · 16 points · Posted at 18:31:06 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
That was 2016
DramaOnDisplay · 3 points · Posted at 18:36:22 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I barely follow anything Vine related. I'm glad. It's like a mixture of YouTube and Instagram.
Sydthebarrett · 2 points · Posted at 18:49:23 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
"Put 'em in a coffin" was the stupidest
JawshD123 · 3 points · Posted at 20:02:11 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Pretty sure that guy was arrested a few months back
The_Leaderman · 2 points · Posted at 18:20:05 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
DAMN DANIEL
JigglythePunch · 1 points · Posted at 19:08:50 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
DEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE DURRR PLAHNT
Skull-Demon · 1 points · Posted at 00:29:58 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Damn Daniel!
Skull-Demon · 1 points · Posted at 00:30:57 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I gonna feel bad for a Daniel in my homeroom is possible in Jr High.
xx7beast · 1 points · Posted at 04:58:22 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
ASUH DUDE!!
frozen1267 · 1 points · Posted at 22:18:25 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
IM ETHAN BRADBURRY
Natem0613 · 869 points · Posted at 13:52:04 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Most vine trends.
"WHAT ARE THOOOSE"
"DEEZ NUTS!"
"21"
greenmask · 532 points · Posted at 15:06:51 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
That's been around since the beginning of the internet.
"OWNED."
"GIRLFRIENDS AGE? SCHWIFTY FIVE"
"And BOOM GOES THE DYNAMITE."
You just see more of those since there are more people using social media now.
[deleted] · 626 points · Posted at 15:20:25 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
But these are new so they suck
Ztuu · 364 points · Posted at 16:26:30 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
One phrase to sum up the entire internet
bizitmap · 4 points · Posted at 22:13:46 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
there are those who say "the internet is new so it sucks"
Really it's just suck all the way back
I'm sure primordial single celled organisms were like "remember when everything was simplistic RNA structures? It's all this DNA bullshit now"
Ztuu · 1 points · Posted at 10:36:37 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Ah yes the good old days
benpoopio · 1 points · Posted at 19:04:24 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Seriously. Vine is the shit, don't need to hate on everything.
TheOnlyBongo · 0 points · Posted at 18:09:33 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Sums up this thread. Give the world 20 years and then the people who posted this stuff will look back and laugh, like how people look at poodle skirts or Afro hair and laugh.
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 20:53:31 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Nah, the old ones were shit too.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 21:51:02 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I was using "deez nuts" in the 90s.
Do you like tapes or CDs?
"CDs"
See deez nuts!
blamb211 · 2 points · Posted at 18:24:17 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I would argue that they suck because they suck, not because they're new, but I'm sure others would argue the same about Schwifty Five and Boom Goes the Dynamite. I like those two, not so much the newer ones.
greenmask · 10 points · Posted at 19:23:26 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Because you're getting old granpa
lavalampmaster · 48 points · Posted at 16:03:06 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
God I haven't thought about schfifty five in years
Photovoltaic · 2 points · Posted at 17:16:57 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Every so often my girlfriend and I will say it (usually in reference to the temperature). Same with Boom goes the dynamite, though that's mostly me.
aaronclements · 2 points · Posted at 22:07:42 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I like to think I've been knowledgeable about Internet culture for a while, but I don't get this reference.
legendofhilda · 3 points · Posted at 23:36:32 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I've got you covered, friend
I can still recite this entire video and I haven't heard it in at least 5 years.
OneAndAHalfNuts · 1 points · Posted at 20:45:34 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
How many years...?
agentcodyburke · 2 points · Posted at 22:14:06 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
tree fiddy
ThatguyMalone · 2 points · Posted at 19:00:33 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Damn it Schfifty Five got stuck in my head so much.
folkdeath95 · 2 points · Posted at 19:33:38 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
"Okay so. Here's the earth.
Damn, that is a nice earth."
KateKillz · 1 points · Posted at 15:58:06 on March 28, 2016 · (Permalink)
ROUND!!!
columbus8myhw · 2 points · Posted at 20:50:41 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
And BOOM go the canons, watch the blood and the shit spray
And BOOM go the canons, we're abandoning Kips Bay
DoubleClickMouse · 2 points · Posted at 22:22:44 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Schfifty, Schfifty five. Schwifty is what you get when you shit on the floor.
TexasWithADollarsign · 2 points · Posted at 00:03:55 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
ElolvastamEzt · 2 points · Posted at 00:27:37 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
FTFY
mackavicious · 1 points · Posted at 16:00:46 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
BOOM GOES THE DYNAMITE will always be relevant.
doestthouevenhoist · 1 points · Posted at 17:26:37 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I use this sometimes. No shame.
ncocca · 1 points · Posted at 17:54:22 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The annoying thing about new memes is that I don't know them. DAMNIT I'M OLD NOW.
chequilla · 1 points · Posted at 18:34:37 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Capitalizing boom goes the dynamite kills the whole vibe of what made it funny in the first place.
logos__ · 1 points · Posted at 19:58:59 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
And that's the waaa-aaa-aay the news goes!
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:56:47 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
[deleted]
logos__ · 1 points · Posted at 21:00:24 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Rikki tikki tavi biiiiatch!
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 22:12:04 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
AIDS!
logos__ · 1 points · Posted at 22:34:16 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
No jumping in the sewer!
TheHeroicOnion · 1 points · Posted at 01:12:01 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
People got schwifty before Rick and Morty?
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 01:43:00 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Maybe they all suck?
BigStereotype · 1 points · Posted at 02:46:04 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Shiggity shwat?
RadTadNastical · 1 points · Posted at 04:17:42 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
"Schfifty" ahem
MikoSqz · -4 points · Posted at 18:24:59 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm suspect you made two of those up. I've never heard them, unlike the previous commenter's ones.
greenmask · 2 points · Posted at 18:30:09 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Sit down sonny boy. Let me tell you a story about the internet in a distant time far far away.....
[deleted] · 16 points · Posted at 17:00:07 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
SURPRISE MOTHERFUCKER SOME FRIES MOTHERFUCKER ALL RISE MOTHERFUCKER
ReconRP · 21 points · Posted at 15:33:07 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I don't know, I am not a fan of video memes, but there is something redeeming in "deez nuts" for me.
[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 22:13:19 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Probably because it's a punchline and requires a setup, making it into an actual joke.
The rest are just occasionally shouted and people think it's funny for some reason.
DannyPrefect23 · 1 points · Posted at 13:00:45 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I watched the Tosh .0 episode with the Deez Nuts guy. I found it hilarious.
wubalubadubscrub · -1 points · Posted at 19:58:40 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
lol i dont think ill ever stop laughing at "deez nuts!"
neocommenter · 6 points · Posted at 19:30:28 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I remember people yelling "deez nuts!" in school at least 24 years ago.
Ozwaldo · 5 points · Posted at 15:27:00 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
What is "21"?
Also does anyone know the original source of the high-pitched screaming "BITCH WHAT THE FUCK?? WHAT THE FUCK?!?!?" Like if you google "Makin it with Molly" her top video is her pouring whipped-cream on her cat, and then playing that audio... (turn down your speakers it's fucking loud)
iprefertau · 9 points · Posted at 15:50:07 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
"you stupid"
"no im not"
"what is 10+10"
"21"
Ozwaldo · 3 points · Posted at 15:53:20 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
wut
McStudz · 1 points · Posted at 16:40:57 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Wait that... that was an attempt at humor?
How old are these people? 10???
SnakeEater14 · 6 points · Posted at 17:22:08 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I believe they are... 21.
Kingmatt227 · 38 points · Posted at 14:22:25 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Has anyone even used Vine since 2015?
aheid73 · 93 points · Posted at 14:45:00 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
DAMN Daniel!!! Yes, they do.
TheColiny · 6 points · Posted at 15:58:29 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
That started on Twitter actually.
TheRedComet · 3 points · Posted at 16:54:41 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Twitter owns Vine anyway
heyitsmeurdad · 10 points · Posted at 15:11:19 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
That was twitter not vine
[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 15:42:14 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)*
[deleted]
heyitsmeurdad · 1 points · Posted at 15:45:51 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
From what I know, it was like a 32 second video posted to twitter and it blew up from there
jmattingley23 · 2 points · Posted at 19:23:03 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The video was a collection of snapchats though
heyitsmeurdad · 1 points · Posted at 19:52:43 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Oh whoops. Didn't know, I just saw the twitter vid
blindbird · 1 points · Posted at 03:49:11 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
That shit was actually pretty funny when it started.
Konker101 · 1 points · Posted at 09:33:17 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Same thing
SGZack · 1 points · Posted at 17:49:46 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
But those aren't vines
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:00:56 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
That was a Twitter video wasn't it?
roomandcoke · 1 points · Posted at 17:29:47 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I actually fucking loved that.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 16:15:00 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Vine is still very popular
FreaXoMatic · 0 points · Posted at 14:34:46 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
No noone
SasquatchTamales · 4 points · Posted at 19:38:47 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
1992 Snoop called, he says you a punk ho for thinking that Deez Nuts is even from this century.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKCsKpZZOTc
Natem0613 · 5 points · Posted at 21:10:53 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
My thought process:
"Snoop Dogg wasn't around in the 1800's... Wait shit 1992 was last century!"
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 22:15:35 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
other facts to make you feel old:
there has been 16 years since the 90s
george w bush died at the age of 90 last week
in the past people's consciousnesses were stored in flesh vessels
there was once a time where mortal life ruled the cosmos
ia
ia
cthulhu ftaghn
SasquatchTamales · 1 points · Posted at 23:46:51 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)*
The thing that freaks me out is that children who were born when Zelda: OoT and the Nintendo 64 came out are almost drinking age. I literally have shirts I wear to school that I got from Nintendo Power that is basically as old as these kids.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:54:27 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm 17. OoT was kind of old when I was playing it at the age of 7.
I fucking loved it though. That shit was tight.
SasquatchTamales · 1 points · Posted at 23:57:21 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I was five when it came out; it was literally next level shit. I would throw up magazine cutouts of upcoming N64 games like they were playboy pinups. I can only imagine what it's like for kids that grew up with Minecraft and how much it blew their tiny minds.
DrStephenFalken · 4 points · Posted at 20:32:44 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)*
Fun fact once you hit 20ish you don't care about Vines. I'm 31 and never had a vine account and have only seen vines posted here and a few on facebook. I have no idea who they big vine stars are or any of the trends.
lava172 · 1 points · Posted at 01:31:09 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
No wonder you don't care about Vines, the website didn't even exist until 3 years ago.
DrStephenFalken · 1 points · Posted at 01:38:42 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
My point was it's a young persons thing. No one I know over 20 cares about them.
muhaski · 2 points · Posted at 16:29:15 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
How about just Vine in general.
BaconLondoner · 2 points · Posted at 23:50:00 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Don't forget the newest one, "DAAAAMN DANIELLL!!!!!"
MountainsOfDick · 2 points · Posted at 01:20:55 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
They're pretty annoying to begin with but the possible worse is right when they seem to be dying out even younger children pick them up. So I have to hear the same things all over again but in a higher pitched more nasaly voice than before
Daz_on_Reddit · 2 points · Posted at 03:41:27 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
To be fair the deez nuts one was funny for a bit, the others not so much. Also the unexpected loud porn in a normal seeming video and actual unexpected jihads like the toy story cut to 9/11 are funny as hell to send to friends.
scare_crowe94 · 2 points · Posted at 16:51:05 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Deez nuts? Man that was like 1999
plasticsheeting · 1 points · Posted at 03:14:30 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Even before.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:08:57 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn Daniel!
Back at it again with the white memes!
OneTerriblePancake · 1 points · Posted at 19:14:29 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
WHAT ARE DEEZ 21 NUTS?
TinzIsTinz · 1 points · Posted at 20:59:05 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
"Deez nuts" has been around for decades.
Marysthrow · 1 points · Posted at 21:01:31 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I know a math teacher that finally told students they'd be sent to the office for yelling out "21" unless that was the actual answer
papersupplier · 1 points · Posted at 00:44:13 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Miami!!!!!
lava172 · 1 points · Posted at 01:28:32 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I usually hate those vine-esque memes but an unexpected Deez Nuts joke will never not be funny
ThatAstronautGuy · 1 points · Posted at 02:13:29 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Wait is 21 a joke to other people? So when I have said 21 in reference to an inside joke, people have though I was referencing a vine?
Cobbleking32486 · 1 points · Posted at 02:51:45 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
and i wouldn't mind...... IF THEY WEREN'T SAID 178945614027368918561349653489214946901242861062356921 TIMES A FUCKING MINUTE! granted 21 has mostly died, but still.
Sabimaruxxx · 1 points · Posted at 04:43:26 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Stupiddddddd. I hate it!
Teoke · 1 points · Posted at 11:45:20 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
DAAAAAAAMN DANIEL! BACK AT IT AGAIN WITH THE WHITE VANS!
mudbutt20 · 1 points · Posted at 16:01:29 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I actually thought Damn Daniel was kind of funny in an annoying my friends kind of way. How it spread so fast and has been turned into an app and other stupid shit is retarded.
sophistibaited · 1 points · Posted at 18:57:43 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)*
Basically anything which results in some 13 year dickface repeating the same 2 or 3 (non)words in some sort of exclamation.
"GOTTEEM!" - Fuck you, you fucking lemming. Shut the fuck up.
...but honestly that's carried right on over to 2016 so.. fuck.
cahaseler · 0 points · Posted at 15:03:31 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
And that shoe thing
reallifedog · 152 points · Posted at 20:35:46 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
"On fleek" can go straight to hell.
LilRony · 5 points · Posted at 01:06:15 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Just say "On Teek" and confuse people
F4cetious · 5 points · Posted at 04:24:09 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Same with "yaaaassss".
fail_nerd · 1 points · Posted at 07:43:41 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yaaaaaaasssss queen Yaaaaaaasssss
dino340 · 3 points · Posted at 02:28:03 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I've never seen on fleek said anywhere other than by people who hate it
ambersroses81 · 3 points · Posted at 06:58:36 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
It seriously makes me want to gag.
Flynn_lives · 26 points · Posted at 01:06:37 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
"Here I am, in my garage. I just bought this Lamborghini"
Fuck him
[deleted] · 9 points · Posted at 03:42:20 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
sounds like you need KNAWLEDGE.
Vergiss-Uns-Nicht · 3 points · Posted at 04:22:32 on March 28, 2016 · (Permalink)
I've got 47 Lamborghinis in my Lamborghini account
SunTzuIsMyFavourite · 1133 points · Posted at 12:16:13 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Man buns, along with the term "lumbersexual," connoting men with said buns, with matching beards, and flannel jackets.
moonyeti · 580 points · Posted at 14:19:28 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I have been guy with beard and ponytail since my 20's. Trends come, trends go, but in the end I will still be beard with ponytail guy.
Xyranthis · 574 points · Posted at 15:42:54 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Just don't be beard with balding-head-but-still-long-on-the-sides-in-a-ponytail-guy. That guy is a fucking weirdo.
palerthanrice · 22 points · Posted at 17:15:27 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yeah just shave it off because the bald-but-still-has-a-really-nice-beard guy is normally pretty cool.
Vincent__Vega · 5 points · Posted at 18:14:22 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
For me I don't "bic it", but keep it Jason Statham length.
ssoass7 · 1 points · Posted at 19:32:18 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I see that in my medium-term future, and I'm at the point where I don't think I'll care all that much. My dad bics it-- I think I'll go with the Statham.
z500 · 1 points · Posted at 19:40:59 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm kind of lazy with it. I don't feel like shaving every day, so I usually wait about a week until it gets to Statham-level and past which it wouldn't be easy to bic. I'm thinking of just maintaining Statham-level, but I just love the feeling of being freshly shaven.
moonyeti · 13 points · Posted at 15:52:11 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Not likely i'll ever grow bald. Going grey but still as thick as ever.
KMFDM781 · 16 points · Posted at 17:14:12 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
So, Tim Robbins in High Fidelity ponytail?
moonyeti · 3 points · Posted at 17:33:34 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yeah good call on the reference. Not as grey but that's the idea.
z500 · 2 points · Posted at 19:39:34 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Kind of hard to grow negative hair.
moonyeti · 1 points · Posted at 19:43:03 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
So you're saying there's a chance...
toxicmischief · 6 points · Posted at 19:31:58 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
But on the other hand, that man's client is the 1 in 21-1.
The4Kast · 1 points · Posted at 02:30:29 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
BRRRRRROCK LESSSSSNAR.
sofakingcheezee · 4 points · Posted at 21:32:09 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
We call that a skullet round these parts.
MidwestException · 2 points · Posted at 16:55:51 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
No worries. It's just te sound guy.
ircool321 · 2 points · Posted at 17:37:38 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Ahhh the bonytail as I've heard it called
ManWhoKilledHitler · 2 points · Posted at 18:10:11 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The perfect look for a roadie or meth dealer.
raviolirob · 2 points · Posted at 21:14:35 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Listen here, brother.
Infantry1stLt · 2 points · Posted at 22:24:39 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Quit talking shit of my mom, bro!
Not_Allen · 2 points · Posted at 22:49:39 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Where I'm from, we call that "the skullet."
MrGriffin · 2 points · Posted at 00:39:33 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
"Baldilocks"
jdizzle4 · 1 points · Posted at 16:00:45 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
yea fuck those guys and their baldness genes that they have no control over for choosing a hairstyle you don't like
k_o_g_i · 29 points · Posted at 16:32:37 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Found the balding ponytail guy
Xyranthis · 14 points · Posted at 16:42:06 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
This is what I'm referring to, but yes, make me out to be an asshole by all means.
Toe_by_three · 3 points · Posted at 17:02:47 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Is that Mario Batali?
Ghotimonger · 0 points · Posted at 21:36:10 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
ew
buttery_shame_cave · 1 points · Posted at 21:54:40 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yeah my older brother in law is that dork.
Drizen · 1 points · Posted at 23:36:59 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
You be whatever the hell you wanna be moonyeti
heidevolk · 1 points · Posted at 23:42:54 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Idk. Paul hey man is pretty fucking cool.
somethin_else · 1 points · Posted at 00:57:51 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Worst. Cosplay. Ever.
Cat_Punter · 1 points · Posted at 02:34:15 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Hulk Hogan may be weird but he is my hero! I guess you could call him a weird hero. Or shorten it to weirdo...
fireman4884 · 1 points · Posted at 02:45:11 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
That guy teaches wood shop.
-WPD- · 1 points · Posted at 03:01:21 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Relevant Dilbert
ambersroses81 · 1 points · Posted at 06:59:39 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
That's my uncle. He IS a fucking weirdo. I do fucking hate him. Not because he's a weirdo but because he's a weirdo asshole cunt.
WaGgoggles · 1 points · Posted at 07:02:06 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Paul Heyman eventually grew out of that phase
ghostpoopftw · 1 points · Posted at 09:26:02 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Unless he has a cool hat
Ragnrok · 1 points · Posted at 21:54:02 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Unless he has a neck tattoo, in which case I assume he's dangerous as fuck and keep my distance
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:30:12 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Don't put your hair in a ponytail at all if you want to keep it.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/28/health/the-claim-tight-braids-and-ponytails-can-cause-your-hair-to-fall-out.html?_r=0
8Gh0st8 · 3 points · Posted at 18:19:23 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Wait...did you used to be boomerang guy?!
moonyeti · 1 points · Posted at 18:24:59 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
No, but it might not surprise you that I was the guy that always brought an acoustic guitar to a bonfire party.
nikkitgirl · 7 points · Posted at 17:04:22 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I was that guy for two years. Now I'm that lady that dresses like she's that guy
moonyeti · 5 points · Posted at 17:09:55 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Awesome! So you are still that guy even though you aren't a guy anymore.
nikkitgirl · 7 points · Posted at 17:55:16 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yeah, I like to joke that people shouldn't have been surprised when I came out, I've always dressed like a massive lesbo
A-Perfect-Triangle · 3 points · Posted at 23:56:44 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Wait, are you trans or gay? The wording in your first comment is confusing me
nikkitgirl · 2 points · Posted at 00:29:07 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Both. I'm mtf and exclusively attracted to women
A-Perfect-Triangle · 3 points · Posted at 00:33:09 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Ooohhhh, okay that makes sense lol
nikkitgirl · 1 points · Posted at 00:39:39 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's cool, I get how that might have been confusing
Lincolnius · 3 points · Posted at 16:52:04 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
i'm 27 now, have been doing the ponytail thing since 19 and beard since 21. I have become the beard and ponytail guy to everyone and neither they nor i can imagine me any differently.
abutthole · 3 points · Posted at 19:26:47 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Have you thought about maybe changing your appearance at any point since your mid-20s? Doesn't it get boring to always have the same look?
moonyeti · 2 points · Posted at 19:30:44 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
No, but I am boring in plenty of other ways too, so you would probably not even notice how boring I look.
LearnedPaw · 2 points · Posted at 16:14:29 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Head over to /r/relationships. Your future is not so certain.
moonyeti · 2 points · Posted at 16:52:15 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I think I could handle it if my wife left me for beard but no ponytail guy, or left me for no beard but a ponytail guy, but if she left me for no beard and no ponytail guy it would just be too much to bear.
LearnedPaw · 3 points · Posted at 16:57:30 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I read your original comment with a bunch of "with"s in there. I thought you were a woman saying she's been with a guy with a beard and ponytail since her 20s. That she will still be with this guy despite the tide of trends that come and go.
Now that I read you're a guy with a ponytail and a beard, I must inquire: how can man be born again, Lord?
moonyeti · 1 points · Posted at 17:06:30 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Honestly, I can't even remember how I did it just the once. I think it just sort of happened.
KeijyMaeda · 2 points · Posted at 21:11:34 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Except now everyone will scoff at you for conforming to bygone style.
moonyeti · 1 points · Posted at 21:14:39 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
But if i live long enough the trend will come back again. I'm playing the long game here.
PsychoAgent · 2 points · Posted at 21:18:07 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Worst. Trend. Ever.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 23:09:15 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
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moonyeti · 2 points · Posted at 23:45:26 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Close! Only off by a decade.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:09:22 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Brain malfunctioned and read "since the 20's". I was momentarily impressed at your dedication to ponytails.
moonyeti · 4 points · Posted at 19:28:31 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
There aren't many of us left nowadays, but every year I attend the annual meet up of my old WWI unit, the Fightin' Helltails.
begra23 · 1 points · Posted at 19:50:29 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
There's a difference between ponytail and man bun. You're a real man of you didn't know that.
PootieTang_ · 1 points · Posted at 03:17:31 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Mmmmm, delicious
TheNumberMuncher · 1 points · Posted at 05:22:21 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Don't be old guy with pony tail.
Crumps_brother · 1 points · Posted at 07:53:54 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Gross
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 21:55:19 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Just cut the ponytail, I've never seen a guy with a good ponytail. The beard is fine, scruffy or clean depending on your style. But for real ponytails have never really be good.
moonyeti · 1 points · Posted at 22:58:05 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
For real though? Or for really real?
[deleted] · 214 points · Posted at 14:59:05 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I digress. As a big brown guy, I'm so fucking happy. In Sydney I couldn't get into a lot of bars if my hair was too long or my beard was too much. I always had to look cleaner and more dressed up then white dudes.
I don't like hipsters but fuck man they liberated my arse from having to shave every weekend. Plus I'm Punjabi I get a five o'clock shadow at midday.
choppingbroccolini · 20 points · Posted at 21:34:55 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
You Punjabi's and your glorious mustaches. I can't grow a beard to save my life. I'm the wrong kind of indian (American).
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 03:14:10 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Ahaha I'm glad you think it's epic. High school I felt ashamed of my body hair and its a little wierd now girls are into hairy guys. I've been so used to shaving and keeping everything hidden.
Wait are you from the motherland? Or did you mean you're Native American? Is that acceptable or is indigenous Americans? The whole Indian Americans and Indians from South Asia have always confused me on reddit. Are they talking about my people? Or the Native Americans.
choppingbroccolini · 4 points · Posted at 03:43:53 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Native American, indigenous, also known as "American Indians" or "Red Indians" if you want to go way back, because people are dumb.
When I was a kid proper Indians were rare in the U.S., and people still referred to us with that label. Then they attached "American" to it which didn't really make it any better. Then "Native American", but "America" was a thriving place before Amerigo Vespucci showed up, so that's not so great either.
Naming has been a long standing controversy: Native American name controversy
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 03:58:13 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
That was an interesting read. I remember watching TV as a child and seeing American kids play cowboys and Indians. I'm like wait a minute when did we have cowboys in India. I've met people here who thought Native Americans were decedent's from Indians ( they were a particularly slow group of people I knew.)
So what do you prefer if you don't mind me asking? I've always enjoyed reading Native American history (albeit it's also quite sad), the culture is so rich and diverse.
choppingbroccolini · 4 points · Posted at 04:17:27 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
My grandmother called herself "Indian", my mother calls herself "Native American", I prefer "native" or "indigenous" because I don't like being named something attached to colonialism, but I know a lot of natives who aren't political and still call themselves simply "Indian".
elgringofrijolero · 1 points · Posted at 14:12:31 on March 26, 2016 · (Permalink)
I don't have any indigenous blood in me at all, I've also never met an actual indigenous person where I live in the US. But I tend to say American Indian. Because I feel that Native American is too broad, like I was born and raised and live in the US, therefore calling myself a native American is technically correct, but there's absolutely no way I can call myself an American Indian.
Am I just outdated?
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 22:10:18 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
What shitty bars do you go to? Or is Australia just a stuck up place?
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 23:21:29 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It was a stuck up place, still kinda is. In the late 2000's and early 2010-11, things started to change.
I still find it hard getting into more Asian dominated bars/clubs though.
e-jammer · 2 points · Posted at 03:45:11 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
The funny thing is that I have never met a Punjabi who I would consider it medically capable to make them angry.
Konker101 · 2 points · Posted at 09:31:04 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
So you grow a 5 o'clock shadow at 5 o'clock...
oliviathecf · 24 points · Posted at 15:53:57 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I don't hate the "man bun", I even like it, but I don't get why it has to be called a man bun. It's not like the hair style is called the glittery pink feminine rainbow or something, it's named after a pastry.
Upallnight56789 · 19 points · Posted at 20:21:46 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm a woman. About a month ago, I went to work with my hair in a high messy bun. A coworker commented "rocking the man bun, I see!" What? This was the moment it dawned on me how stupid the term man bun is. It's a bun, no matter who is wearing it.
brycedriesenga · 3 points · Posted at 20:50:14 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yup, as a man who happens to put my hair in a bun, I see no reason why people insist on putting a gendered term on it especially when many of the same people are supposedly for gender equality.
apologeticPalpatine · 251 points · Posted at 13:30:18 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I don't want to look like a lumberjack, viking is the way to go. The bun (because I hate when people call it man bun) is just a way to tie my hair so it's out of the way
CommentCalligraphy · 24 points · Posted at 19:43:14 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
An annoying trend of 2015, and any other year for that matter, is people's obsession over how other people choose to look. If you want your hair in a fucking bun and sport a beard, be my fucking guest! So long as you like it, that's all that matters. People really need to learn to keep their opinions to themselves sometimes.
apologeticPalpatine · 1 points · Posted at 19:45:59 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Spot on, that's what I should have replied in the first place
LiquidSnak3 · 527 points · Posted at 13:40:32 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
shh bby is ok
apologeticPalpatine · 120 points · Posted at 13:42:06 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
no bae is no ok
Seriously_NotHigh · 261 points · Posted at 14:41:27 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
what is this new layer of hell
[deleted] · 12 points · Posted at 15:10:22 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
nokay.
fullchaos40 · 1 points · Posted at 06:20:52 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
That reminded me of the cleaning lady from family guy and now I believe it need lemon pledge.
Rockonfoo · 2 points · Posted at 18:15:53 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Where did this come from?
LiquidSnak3 · 6 points · Posted at 18:27:12 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
there was a thread where a guy was looking for a song of a SEAT ad. he made posts on numerous sites including reddit. then months later someone anonymous sends him the link of that song. OP wants to thank his saviour and let it be known who that hero is.
hero's response: shh bby is ok
i am probably incorrect on numerous bits of that story but you get the gist of it.
Rockonfoo · 1 points · Posted at 18:36:17 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I am now more confused.....
StarWarsPlusDrWho · 1 points · Posted at 04:23:02 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I give you the number one annoying trend of 2015:
clusterfawk · 159 points · Posted at 13:50:41 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
so are scissors...
Cessno · 195 points · Posted at 14:10:17 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Damn hippies, get a haircut
roadkilled_skunk · 122 points · Posted at 15:08:21 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
shakes cane
Godtiermasturbator · 3 points · Posted at 18:13:47 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
If I can't tell him to cut his hair, he can't stop me from calling it a man-bun
ZILDJIAN2613 · 1 points · Posted at 18:37:52 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Never trust a hippie!
Cessno · 1 points · Posted at 18:50:23 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
And never follow a hippie to a second location
thumbtackswordsman · 2 points · Posted at 19:12:34 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
But then you have to get regular haircuts.
CyberClawX · 9 points · Posted at 14:42:32 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)*
Real men don't cut their hair. That's grooming you clusterfawker.
EDIT: To the dowvoters, his name is clusterfawk... you downvawters.
beccaonice · 6 points · Posted at 16:04:42 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
You are getting downvoted for the "Real men" part, not the username part.
roboninja · 3 points · Posted at 19:17:52 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
So he's getting downvoted for sarcasm?
CyberClawX · 1 points · Posted at 00:35:24 on March 27, 2016 · (Permalink)
You do realize it is a joke? As a fake man, I find the label of real men as offensive as any other fake man here!
ThisIsAWorkAccount · 2 points · Posted at 18:42:35 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
DAE long hair is for girlssss!!!
Shepherdsfavestore · -7 points · Posted at 18:28:58 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Lol right? Why justify it by saying "I just do it to keep it out of the way". If you wanted it out of the way you'd cut it
apologeticPalpatine · 13 points · Posted at 19:11:46 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Because I want to have long hair, but sometimes I don't feel like having it in my face like when I'm making love to your mom
clusterfawk · -1 points · Posted at 21:15:06 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
you know his mom's a woman right?
apologeticPalpatine · 2 points · Posted at 02:43:21 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'd make love to her even if she were a dude
TheBosma · 16 points · Posted at 14:58:15 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm the same way. I tie my hair back because my options are "homeless" or hair back and honestly fuck people right in the eye that say "well just get a haircut then". I like having longer hair. It's soft, I clean it well, and I even condition it. So it's not hygiene that grosses people out. It's people that can't handle other people looking like they want. It irritates the hell out of me.
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 16:29:26 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Putting your hair back isn't a man bun. A man bun is a somewhat specific style. It's like samurai meets princess leia.
TheBosma · 4 points · Posted at 16:31:44 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I've got the samurai bun in the back. No regrets.
theartfulcodger · 7 points · Posted at 17:24:18 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Hot tip: you don't look like either a lumberjack or a viking. You look like an Irish washerwoman with a slightly-thicker-than-normal beard.
apologeticPalpatine · 5 points · Posted at 19:13:24 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
This is exactly the look I'm going for
shadowDodger1 · -1 points · Posted at 18:22:32 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Or a wannabe-samurai weeabo...
mostlyemptyspace · 2 points · Posted at 14:08:17 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's going to be fun to look at pictures of yourself ten years from now and laugh at how you did the Viking/Lumberjack thing.
[deleted] · 17 points · Posted at 15:28:14 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I dunno, I was into punk back in the 90's I look back at my old photos and I'm like "fuck yeah".
apologeticPalpatine · 3 points · Posted at 19:13:06 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'll still look the same way in 10 years. It's not a phase, it's who I am mom!
Sky248 · 1 points · Posted at 15:04:11 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Ok then Ragnar
Norgenigga · 1 points · Posted at 17:38:41 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
A lot of hairstyles today are based on Viking. Only some of them had crazy long hair, and they usually had nicknames based on it.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:40:50 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Seriously, I put my hair up because I like it long but it's convenient to keep it out of my face while I'm doing shit.
KevansMcGurgen · 1 points · Posted at 16:29:53 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Okay little Vicky Viking
apologeticPalpatine · 3 points · Posted at 19:12:29 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I am a pretty Vicky Viking
robertx33 · -1 points · Posted at 15:51:03 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
My hair is short so it's always out of the way :3
I just checked my privilege.
thatJainaGirl · -12 points · Posted at 14:42:54 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
There are three acceptable haircuts: high and tight, crew cut, buzz cut. Are the scissors broken in your house, son?
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:04:46 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I have long hair, but I love Ron Swanson
[deleted] · -4 points · Posted at 14:34:11 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
When I had my top knot I told people I was going for the samurai/ninja look
kovu159 · -3 points · Posted at 16:57:24 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Cut your damn hair you hippy.
Redbulldildo · -5 points · Posted at 15:41:11 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Out of the way? Any dude I've seen with a bun doesn't have hair long enough to put it in a bun.
Source: Dude whose hair is currently touching his ass.
apologeticPalpatine · 2 points · Posted at 19:14:20 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
My hair touches my nipples so I'd say it's long enough haha
roadrunner440x6 · -4 points · Posted at 17:20:09 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
You know what else works good for that? Some fucking scissors.
BigStereotype · 2 points · Posted at 02:43:28 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Did you storm the beaches of Normandy? Cause if not, this makes you seem like a cranky fuck.
roadrunner440x6 · 2 points · Posted at 03:14:21 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Naw, I'm actually a born-again long-hair. I like to play the part though. Man-buns are insipid though. I don't even like pony-tails ('cept on gurls) but if you need to keep your hair out of your face we can allow it.
BigStereotype · 2 points · Posted at 03:25:51 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Cut your hair you fucking hippy.
Cairo9o9 · -6 points · Posted at 17:45:39 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
What's worse than hipsters? Hipsters that can't even admit their hipsters.
apologeticPalpatine · 2 points · Posted at 19:14:36 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
No internet person, you are wrong!
Cairo9o9 · 0 points · Posted at 19:37:37 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)*
I bet I'm being downvoted by a brigade of man bun hipsters who claim they do it for practical reasons
apologeticPalpatine · 2 points · Posted at 19:44:02 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
...or by me on all my alternate accounts
Cairo9o9 · 1 points · Posted at 19:47:53 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Egad!
su5 · 63 points · Posted at 12:36:52 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
As a big, hairy, bearded man I am loving it.
But fuck flannel.
MistaPitts · 154 points · Posted at 13:39:52 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
What's wrong with flannel? It's so soft and warm.
batman_is_tired · 100 points · Posted at 13:50:58 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Big, burly, hairy men get warm easily.
kanst · 33 points · Posted at 14:09:36 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Thats why I like Flannel. With just a flannel shirt I can be warm down to like 40 degrees or so. I don't even wear jackets in the fall.
FrenchFriedMushroom · 19 points · Posted at 14:33:50 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
40 degrees isn't cold. 40 degrees is shorts and tshirt weather.
LucklessRouge · 1 points · Posted at 15:18:04 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Found the Canadian.
FrenchFriedMushroom · 6 points · Posted at 17:35:26 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Minnesotan, so...yeah pretty much.
Avoidingsnail · 3 points · Posted at 16:39:34 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
But then you go inside and sweat your ass off.
kanst · 1 points · Posted at 16:49:10 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I have taken to not doing the top two buttons of the shirt and rolling the sleeves up. Also I am almost always sweating inside, so I deal with it.
Avoidingsnail · 3 points · Posted at 17:09:42 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
You're sweating because you're wearing flannel. Where a t shirt with a sweater and take the sweater off when you come inside. Or where a long sleeve compression shirt under a t shirt.
CptnStarkos · 1 points · Posted at 18:35:36 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's never down to 40 degrees here.
joecb91 · 1 points · Posted at 20:28:10 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
They are great for Arizona winters.
man_on_hill · 2 points · Posted at 15:19:10 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Serious question: what's the difference between flannel and plaid?
ALARE1KS · 5 points · Posted at 15:28:07 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)*
Plaid is just a pattern on clothes/sheets/whathaveyou, like houndstooth or argyle.
Flannel is the actual thick tough fabric that often is made with a plaid pattern on it which is why the two get mixed up.
MistaPitts · 3 points · Posted at 15:30:07 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Plaid is a pattern, flannel is a material. More specifically, flannel is made by loosely spun and/or brushed yarns, which make it very soft.
man_on_hill · 1 points · Posted at 15:31:02 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Okay. Thanks. I guess I have been wearing plaid shirts all this time.
su5 · 3 points · Posted at 13:48:10 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I dunno honestly, gf says I look good in em too.
WhenAmI · 1 points · Posted at 16:32:21 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I live in Florida. You just described the problem.
TheBitchIsBack666 · 9 points · Posted at 12:48:48 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
How you doin'?
su5 · 38 points · Posted at 12:54:45 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Just choppin' down some trees to build a table so I can have my breakfast of a dozen eggs. Beard keeps the sawdust off my face so I should be fine to eat after.
You know, just manly stuff.
[deleted] · 12 points · Posted at 13:20:16 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
manly stuff... hot.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 15:16:24 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Hot username
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 15:18:02 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Thanks baby, wanna share a fetus with me?
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 15:28:06 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
nope
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 16:08:06 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
ah well fuck you then...
su5 · 1 points · Posted at 16:22:01 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
What a rollercoaster of emotions
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:56:27 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
it was, i feel broken hearted i've been lumberdumped.
Photovoltaic · 1 points · Posted at 17:14:01 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
He doesn't know what he's missing, the stem cells give us power.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:49:20 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
too right they do!!
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:24:22 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
fuck me
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:49:07 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
i'll fuck you mr!
nikkitgirl · 3 points · Posted at 17:04:48 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
As a lesbian, those are fighting words
Pengu_333 · 2 points · Posted at 18:19:19 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Who would win in a fight? A lesbian or a bear? Let's see how it plays out...
WolfMan889 · 2 points · Posted at 18:59:19 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Irrelevant question. We band together to quell the Twink Uprising.
makka-pakka · 3 points · Posted at 14:08:27 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
As a big bearded man, fuck that. I'm just big and lazy, not following a trend
auronvi · 0 points · Posted at 15:53:19 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Growing a beard feels like an accomplishment when in reality it's just bad grooming.
IrenaeusGSaintonge · 1 points · Posted at 18:42:26 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's weird. I've been growing my beard since 2009 or something. Long-ish hair on and off since then as well. All of a sudden now I'm trendy. I don't know if I appreciate it or not. But yeah, never flannel.
RCTIDsince85 · 3 points · Posted at 15:52:59 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
"Lumbersexual"???? In Portland EVERY DUDE looks like this....
QUEENROLLINS · 11 points · Posted at 13:05:00 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I think they're super hot.
zarmin · 31 points · Posted at 13:57:33 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Also man buns with an undercut... I see those all over nyc. I can't think of a less attractive combination of hairstyles.
PaulRuddsJeans · 144 points · Posted at 14:20:14 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
As a 19 yo girl I love it idk man
BaconatedGrapefruit · 95 points · Posted at 15:13:00 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Man, do you and don't let Reddit (or anybody else) tell you what you should be into.
It's been ten years, I've graduated university and have a real-ass job and emo girls still turn me to butter. No shame.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 20:28:02 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I think /u/zarmin was just expressing their opinion, not telling that girl what she can and cannot find attractive.
[deleted] · -30 points · Posted at 16:14:33 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Me too man. They make me melt like butter on a hot biscuit. Ride my cock and turn me to mush while I cum inside your pussy while ripping your tits off of your tattooed chest...
firedrake242 · 32 points · Posted at 16:30:36 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
You need a minute
[deleted] · -18 points · Posted at 16:57:53 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Why did you downvote me?
firedrake242 · 8 points · Posted at 17:06:52 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I didn't
[deleted] · -18 points · Posted at 17:10:38 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yea, u actually did according to the browser plugin I made.
Iknifecuzimgay · 16 points · Posted at 17:33:47 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I donwvoted you. Because you're creepy
[deleted] · -6 points · Posted at 17:41:14 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Wow thanks... How am I creepy...?
Iknifecuzimgay · 7 points · Posted at 17:45:56 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Starting to think you may just be hella autismal. Here's hoping.
[deleted] · -4 points · Posted at 18:07:26 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm not.
Godtiermasturbator · 2 points · Posted at 18:16:08 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Shh bby is ok
PaulSupra · 53 points · Posted at 15:35:25 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Most guys hate it because girls love it
Hitlerdinger · 9 points · Posted at 19:14:04 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
god forbid any girl is attracted to a characteristic i dont have
alexvalensi · 2 points · Posted at 18:59:20 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Spot the fuck on
mikey_says · -3 points · Posted at 20:36:31 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)*
Actually, people hate it because it's basically a mullet and it looks fucking stupid. I've seen women with that look, and guess what? It still looks absolutely terrible on 99% of people. You're not Jared Leto.
Dunno if anyone has noticed, but the Hitler Youth haircut has made a huge resurgence as well. People are not going to remember the mid 2010's as a good time for hairstyles.
PaulSupra · 2 points · Posted at 20:43:28 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
If you think you have to be Jared Leto to pull off a certain hairstyle you'll never be able to pull off anything
Firsttrygaming · 5 points · Posted at 15:10:34 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Paul Rudd's jeans identity as a 19 year old girl. TIL
jennycakes69 · 4 points · Posted at 16:20:41 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
the brad taylor hair?
Mixtapeshuffle · 1 points · Posted at 17:00:27 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm 27, I still think this is sexy.
alexvalensi · 1 points · Posted at 18:58:45 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
26yo here, I love it too, call me trash but I want to fuck them all. I don't get why people are so mad
mikey_says · 1 points · Posted at 21:09:59 on March 26, 2016 · (Permalink)
You think mullets are sexy? Weird.
RredTheCollie · 1 points · Posted at 19:25:26 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
20 y/o gay dude and I love it to. Hipsters are a huge turn on for me.
MegaSuperAwesome1214 · 1 points · Posted at 20:06:35 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I call it "the sokka."
mikey_says · 1 points · Posted at 20:40:53 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Please don't encourage the hipsters
_YeLikeDags_ · 0 points · Posted at 21:36:59 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Also a 19 year old girl and I think the same
2RINITY · 4 points · Posted at 15:33:27 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The sad thing is, if they ever let it down, they end up with an accidental mullet.
deathstwr · 2 points · Posted at 16:31:54 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
What's wrong with a mullet?
2RINITY · 2 points · Posted at 17:33:34 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Nothing, as long as you rock it with pride and purpose. But the mullet that results from an undercut and man bun is not an intended mullet. It creates a mullet by accident.
Thermoshock · 1 points · Posted at 20:33:49 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I dont get a mullet when I let it down. It just turns into bieber's what do you mean style. I usually slick it back, do a pompadour, or wear a hat. Top knots are my last resort and do it if im gonna be active alot
samantha_jade · 3 points · Posted at 18:02:40 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Sorry but, as a female, that shit is hot.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:45:25 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I believe those are called "topknots". The douche copout version of a bun.
BlueDragonGirl_ · 2 points · Posted at 18:00:23 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Alright, it is kind of annoying. But I honestly really like this look and it has been making me very happy while watching these guys, who are already hot, put their hair up and grow nice beards, and end up looking even hotter because that's my favorite look. It makes me weak.
SunTzuIsMyFavourite · 1 points · Posted at 18:18:23 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
And I would never mean to take that from you, but guys who just jump on the bandwagon because of the effect it has on women like yourself annoy me. Not the ones who do it as a life choice.
BlueDragonGirl_ · 1 points · Posted at 18:50:23 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Sorry, I thought I was replying to a different comment.
Anyway. It's the same as the fact that I've always worn glasses, always mismatched my socks, and made my own outfits from thrift store finds and indie brands. The only thing that really frustrates me is that people used to make fun of me for it, and now I'm labeled as a poser who's just following the trends, or an annoying hipster. Bugs the fuck out of me.
slvrbullet87 · 2 points · Posted at 16:40:44 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
All of the beard trend annoys me. People seem to think it makes them look manly. All I can say is wearing a Michael Jordan jersey doesn't mean you have 6 championship rings and having a beard doesn't make you rugged.
brilliantjoe · 10 points · Posted at 17:10:11 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Found the guy that can't grow a beard!
napoleon535 · 3 points · Posted at 17:43:39 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
SHUN THE NON-GROWER
brycedriesenga · 2 points · Posted at 20:50:52 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
But, with a beard, you see, you don't have to shave every day which sucks and who has time for that?!
joecb91 · 1 points · Posted at 05:38:27 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Having a beard is fine, just don't make it into your entire personality where you are obsessed with your beard and telling people about how great it is.
ThatsSoBloodRaven · 2 points · Posted at 13:30:24 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Found the guy who can't grow a beard.
Nervoz · 16 points · Posted at 13:45:16 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Found the chubby nerd who believes a beard turns him into a man's man. I can make assumptions too, see. And I like my odds of being right better than yours.
ThatsSoBloodRaven · -14 points · Posted at 13:51:34 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Found the second guy who can't grow a beard.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:29:08 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I have all that except for the beard. While you may not like the trend, I look incredible.
jrmax · 1 points · Posted at 16:13:54 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I like flannel because its comfortable and my beard covers my lack of a chin. I'm not a lumberjack or do I pretend to be one. I hate that everytime I wear a comfortable flannel shirt I'm some how a poser.
jimmorrison- · 1 points · Posted at 18:15:41 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I think man buns are super hot..
chequilla · 1 points · Posted at 18:32:10 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Somebody on reddit not long ago described the 'hipster beard' trend, saying the main thing they hated was how 'those guys' with beards like that always posed for pictures as if they were the guy who invented beards altogether.
It was hilarious, and I probably should have saved that comment. Regardless, perfectly describes my sentiment on the 'hipster beard' trend.
DramaOnDisplay · 1 points · Posted at 18:38:44 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm so sick of hearing about man buns, as if they just exploded on the scene recently.... pretty sure as only as any man has had long hair, man buns have existed.
PM_ME_YOUR_H0NKERS · 1 points · Posted at 18:57:35 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Every guy with a man bun and a beard was "the emo kid" a couple of years ago.
BlackSparkle13 · 1 points · Posted at 19:03:55 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I had never heard the term "lumbersexual" before this and it makes me mad that it exists.
Zugwat · 1 points · Posted at 19:20:35 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
My sisters thought I was being trendy when I started doing my hair in a traditional topknot, I didn't even know what a man bun was.
Sage2050 · 1 points · Posted at 20:03:35 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I figured "lumbersexual" was tongue in cheek and self aware
doublementh · 1 points · Posted at 21:11:17 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The lumbersexual has been popular in MFA since forever.
russiangerman · 1 points · Posted at 02:25:01 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Not crazy about the man buns, to each their own. But fuck those guys, flannel is the cloth of the gods and some of these douchefucks are making flannel look like asshat clothing
SosX · 1 points · Posted at 02:34:04 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Manbun is awesome tho, you want your hair long? You don't want said hair in your face? Do you love pussy? There you go, manbun.
The whole lumbersexual thing seems like a really funny joke tho.
GrumblesFTW · 1 points · Posted at 02:51:16 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
As someone who's college mascot is a lumberjack, take away the man bun and the sense of entitlement and you get about a quarter population of my town.
THE_GR8_MIKE · 1 points · Posted at 06:24:57 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I just call them sheds. Seeing as they're comprised mainly of tools.
Airine · 1 points · Posted at 06:43:27 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
For me it's refreshing, after years of metrosexual shit.
PrinceOfAgrabah · 1 points · Posted at 14:03:56 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The lumbersexual trend is on its way out
Princess_Little · 1 points · Posted at 16:01:59 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
My wife said I was a lumbersexual Thursday. I cut off my beard Friday.
cogsandspigots · 0 points · Posted at 16:01:49 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Calling yourself anything-sexual that isn't heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, or a sexual.
h00ter7 · 339 points · Posted at 13:51:47 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Savage. On fleek.
PaulTheRedditor · 321 points · Posted at 15:26:47 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Savage can stay around, but fleek is the same as groovy, it is a going to be outdated soon.
rileyrulesu · 58 points · Posted at 17:40:35 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's not outdated already?
QuinnHumphreys · 6 points · Posted at 23:33:50 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Savage
ninjabubbles3 · 1 points · Posted at 21:03:25 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Theres still one kid in my grade who does this. I want to violently rip his head off
scrafts · 4 points · Posted at 21:45:41 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Now that is savage.
melraelee · 3 points · Posted at 01:37:09 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Rip it off gently. I promise it will hurt him more.
blamb211 · 8 points · Posted at 19:12:06 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Comparing fleek to groovy would imply that fleek was ever not stupid.
AlexanderDavidBand · 4 points · Posted at 19:56:04 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
My friends overuse savage, make it stop.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 21:37:36 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
By how the term "savage" is used, it can often be a good indicator of people you don't like..... especially in school..
HaroldSax · 2 points · Posted at 21:38:43 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The whole savage thing is fine in most cases, but people just try to plug it into stupid shit.
KingStraton · 6 points · Posted at 16:06:41 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yeah savage is fun, fleek is just meh
Cheroon · 3 points · Posted at 18:41:15 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
On fleek is just "on point" for me.
bigtuck54 · 1 points · Posted at 21:06:03 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Fleek can stay as long as thugger says it. But I've noticed savage is totally overused on social media. People will say it over stuff that really isn't close.
Themightykamina666 · 1 points · Posted at 21:14:32 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
What the fuck, I use groovy all the time?!
clockwork-cards · 1 points · Posted at 21:30:36 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's mostly gone where I live now. Now everything's peng.
I hate peng with every ounce of my being.
Kekoa_ok · 1 points · Posted at 01:31:45 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Rad till the day I die
PaulTheRedditor · 1 points · Posted at 14:52:55 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Are you stuck in the late 90's to early 2000's?
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 01:48:59 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I say groovy all the time myaaan
PaulTheRedditor · 1 points · Posted at 14:52:34 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Get a job you hippie /s
tacolovingrammanazi · 1 points · Posted at 03:29:19 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
No man redditors have run fam and savage into the ground
itsnews · 1 points · Posted at 05:08:11 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Reverse that. Savage can fuck itself with a Twinkie. Fleek's ight.
RootsRocksnRuts · 1 points · Posted at 07:00:17 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Savage is timeless. We were using it as youths in the early 2000s. I still use it. I will continue using it.
whiskeyandyarn · 1 points · Posted at 11:49:57 on March 26, 2016 · (Permalink)
Don't insult groovy like that!
Photovoltaic · 1 points · Posted at 17:18:53 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
When did Savage hit? I've been saying it to play on WoW: Warlords of Draenor since it was announced.
Just like this time it's CLASS FANTASY
iLiektoReeditReedit · -4 points · Posted at 21:00:06 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Savage is a great word, therefor stop using it wrong just because you think it's funny to exaggerate your poor life. Gangsta shit is savage. White people just love being white.
Fadman_Loki · 1 points · Posted at 04:28:54 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Wat.
RagingAcid · 18 points · Posted at 16:00:57 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Brutal. Savge. Rekt.
DR-SATAN_MD · 3 points · Posted at 00:22:28 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
People are killing the word brutal. That's always been my go to for things I find cool, but now everyone's using it for everything. And the people going around saying everything's "metal as fuck". "This chocolate ice cream is black! IT'S METAL AS FUCK"
ReCursing · 1 points · Posted at 22:04:38 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Rekt can fuck right off alongside topkek
tekhnomancer · 4 points · Posted at 00:30:53 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Topkek makes me giggle and it's only use is to make fun of itself. Other slang terms it's hard to tell.
TheVirtuousJ · 0 points · Posted at 02:50:48 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
None of these guys understood your ReDeYe reference, but I got your back bro.
Cryzgnik · 5 points · Posted at 17:47:18 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
To someone outside the U.S. who only sporadically hears the word "fleek" and doesn't get accustomed to it: that phrase sounds incredibly odd.
passwordisaardvark · 6 points · Posted at 23:28:04 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
As someone in the US, I don't recall ever hearing it in person
kenziepi · 1 points · Posted at 23:49:53 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I hear it in person all the time. Unfortunately though I also work with people who tend to say "LOL" out loud instead of laughing.
akunomegami · 3 points · Posted at 18:55:57 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Please tell me what a fleek is so that I can never be on it again.
ninjamoomoo98 · 7 points · Posted at 16:46:08 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Savage can stay, its quite funny sometimes
h00ter7 · 1 points · Posted at 17:45:52 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'll admit, I like savage, but it's overused. Right now I quite enjoy, "bah gawd, that man had a family!"
Davadam27 · 2 points · Posted at 19:08:50 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
STOP THE DAMN THREAD!!!
Seriously Good Ole JR should never be lumped in with On Fleek
Boner_All_Day1337 · 2 points · Posted at 20:43:08 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Savage can stay, but FUCK the other one. I hate that word.
barcode1555 · 2 points · Posted at 23:34:43 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Savage has been around for decades in Ireland.
weezermc78 · 2 points · Posted at 17:48:32 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Savage is OK. The other one just hurts my brain and makes me realize that I'm finally not "with it"
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 17:02:31 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
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Wiitard · 1 points · Posted at 18:34:01 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Reddit down voting the guy who gets it, that's a savaaaaaaage.
Neat_On_The_Rocks · 2 points · Posted at 21:55:39 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
This guy fucks.
am I doing this right?
lmacleod · 1 points · Posted at 19:17:03 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
That comment is so savage bro
dman4325 · 1 points · Posted at 21:25:20 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
On fleek surprised me with the way it blew up last year. It's been in use for at least a decade, but social media was in its infancy back then.
ETFO · 1 points · Posted at 22:01:42 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Savage is only bad when it's overused and/or used in the wrong context.
Awakend13 · 1 points · Posted at 03:39:04 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Low key
vortexcat74 · 1 points · Posted at 06:44:54 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Savage is actually a pretty good term, when used sparingly. Like in describing my usually very quiet and non-confrontational mother pulling a very savagely, passive-aggressive move against my father. It was a beautiful thing to watch, really. Savage was the first thing that came to mind...
manlightning · 1 points · Posted at 21:58:34 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
"Low key"
JimmyBoombox · 0 points · Posted at 23:54:41 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
You're a few years behind.
Jessa_of_Caerbannog · 17 points · Posted at 23:18:21 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Bae. Everyone who uses this word needs to stfu
FunnOnABunn · 62 points · Posted at 16:00:37 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'd say people getting offended about everything, but now the trend i hate is denouncing any criticism as "being offended by everything"
MHG73 · 5 points · Posted at 02:44:15 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
"What? stop kicking you in the crotch? Oh, look at the big butt hurt baby. You just think everything I do is offensive."
SloppyDiarrhea · 34 points · Posted at 19:16:48 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
"Now watch me whip, now watch me nae nae"
sirlost · 3 points · Posted at 23:24:17 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Try having 13 and 14 year old girls in your house. One has a sense of rhythm, the 14 year old does not.
tekhnomancer · 5 points · Posted at 00:38:56 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm up voting this because I hated it so much I originally knee jerk down voted it.
9gagSubredditOf4chan · 14 points · Posted at 17:12:20 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The amount of undertale related things I find on youtube are insane. The game is great, the trend is as bad as FNAF.
nickburgess · 8 points · Posted at 21:05:18 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I appreciate people like this game but I said something about trying it and decided it wasn't for me and people got so mad because it is "clearly the best game of all time"
9gagSubredditOf4chan · 7 points · Posted at 22:33:55 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Of course you got hate, you're not allowed to have opinion on the internet.
DannyPrefect23 · 2 points · Posted at 13:03:29 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I liked FNAF as a game, but there are some weird ass people in the fandoms.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 13:32:09 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
The first one was okay. Short, but fun.
Then the rest of them had to add gimmicky mechanics to cash in on the fandom.
PM_Me_Churros · 12 points · Posted at 16:03:44 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
ISIS. To be more specific suicide bombers.
DannyRent · 2 points · Posted at 20:55:03 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Sooooo 2015.
BigStereotype · 1 points · Posted at 03:15:21 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yup, suicide bombers just came in vogue.
Defreee · 49 points · Posted at 14:22:23 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
"Don't judge me challenge" I hate it
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 03:24:55 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
You know, I've never heard of it until this thread.
Defreee · 2 points · Posted at 09:35:34 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
you're lucky ;)
Lazy_Genius · 134 points · Posted at 15:31:11 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Those fucking beiber pants that make you look like you shit yourself. I went to NYC for xmas last year and saw 7 pairs on grown adults the first fucking 3 hours. Twats, all of them.
MikoSqz · 19 points · Posted at 18:31:18 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I thought those were a flash-in-the-pan fad that happened in 2013 or so.
Lazy_Genius · 7 points · Posted at 20:40:59 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Not what I saw in New York. I was shocked and appalled. Shocked I tells ya!
theyellowgoat · 5 points · Posted at 21:12:05 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Drop crotch man, those have been around since at least 2012, but yea they got bigger last year.
whogots · 6 points · Posted at 21:42:39 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Good god, how could thet get bigger than they already were?
everdred · 15 points · Posted at 20:50:25 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Ah, yes. The full diaper.
WMDTHEALMIGHTY · 5 points · Posted at 00:25:41 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
FTFY
TheNewGuyNickD · 1 points · Posted at 16:39:08 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Every hip looking Asian student in my school wears these
strawberryblueart · 1 points · Posted at 17:40:33 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
That's surprising considering no one in LA was wearing them. Maybe I saw a couple of pairs of harem pants, but that was more of a thing a couple years ago.
Lazy_Genius · 1 points · Posted at 18:23:39 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I came from LA... I never see them here (Although mind you, I never leave the westside). Soon as I landed at JFK, holy shit!
strawberryblueart · 2 points · Posted at 20:04:04 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Really? I thought we had all of the shittier trends.
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 23:41:35 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
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Lazy_Genius · 6 points · Posted at 00:02:42 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Only a Korean would say that.
dylannovak20 · 0 points · Posted at 00:47:05 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)*
They're called MC Hammer pants edit: hmm. guess im wrong! look up harem pants, hammer pants, and "justin bieber" pants. same thing you downvote army
killerpoopguy · 2 points · Posted at 03:26:16 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
These are way different.
strawberryblueart · 1 points · Posted at 17:42:15 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
What he's talking about are harem pants with a weird crotch that makes you look like a penguin. They're always the wrong material too.
brokeassknitter · -1 points · Posted at 03:25:32 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Hammer pants, not Beiber pants. They were a big thing in 1990. My favorite pair was a leopard print overall version I'd wear with crop tops. It's no different than bell bottom pants from the 60s coming back into style in the mid 90s. Though, I seriously doubt they'll catch on like they did last time. Justin Beiber is no MC Hammer.
http://youtu.be/otCpCn0l4Wo
Nambot · 392 points · Posted at 12:44:58 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
ITT a lot of things that either aren't trends or things that started long before 2015.
Sevrek · 194 points · Posted at 14:21:32 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
ITT people making ITT comments
arhanv · 23 points · Posted at 18:23:50 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Damn Daniel, back at ITT again wITTh pointing out ITT wITTh other ITTs
Sevrek · 1 points · Posted at 18:24:31 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
This one actually made me laugh
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:13:32 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Am i the only one who thought damn daniel wasnt that funny and got old after the first time i saw it
jmwbb · 1 points · Posted at 23:36:57 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
ITT
arhanv · 1 points · Posted at 05:31:02 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
That's what I'm making fun of... It's not funny at all
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 15:42:17 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
ITT people making comments about ITT comments.
OkArmordillo · 2 points · Posted at 17:18:51 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
ITT people making comments about people making comments about ITT comments.
IanalystI · 3 points · Posted at 18:03:11 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
ITT people making comments about people making comments about people making comments about ITT comments.
3brithil · 2 points · Posted at 15:34:56 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
FTFY
HowRiskyIsDatClick · 1 points · Posted at 19:15:48 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
ITT people making ITT comments on ITT comments
sowhatifimdead · 1 points · Posted at 22:58:10 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
What does it mean?
theafonis · 1 points · Posted at 00:58:10 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
ITT: old people
Haz_Matt_ · 1 points · Posted at 12:16:43 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Oh that reminds me
Lets just add pretentious ITTs to this list
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:26:03 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I seriously don't even know what half of these things are or that they were trends at any point.
Chris_Hansen_AMA · 0 points · Posted at 19:58:05 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
You showed us!
zhuguli_icewater · 0 points · Posted at 19:56:42 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Also, a lot of things that got started or peaked in 2016.
heyitsmeurdad · -1 points · Posted at 15:13:12 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)*
¯\(ツ)/¯
[deleted] · 10 points · Posted at 15:36:46 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Paid reviews on Amazon. It used to be that you could sort by reviews and buy. Nope, not any more. "I received a discount on this product in exchange for my honest and unbiased review"
t31os · 12 points · Posted at 16:10:18 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Invert your logic, read and focus on all the bad reviews, as you can always pick out the dumb asses that can't work a given thing or simply aren't equipped to operate anything short of their own mouth and fingers. If there are no bad reviews, then it's possible it's a really good product(rare) or quite possible that the site moderates bad reviews and/or purposefully removes them(much more common).
Bad reviews are a good thing, you can always ignore the ignorant and stupid criticisms some users have, but usually you can find a few nuggets of good and useful feedback amongst the ranting and raving.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 14:45:59 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I always go straight to the 1-3 star reviews to see whether it's just a bunch of "shipping was too slow/chainsaw was not child-friendly/this Beowulf book is nothing like the movie"-type reviews, which usually means that it's a good product if no sane, literate people are complaining. Stupidly enough, the actual number of bad reviews is usually irrelevant—it usually just tells you how appealing the product is to people with no problem-solving skills.
KintsugiExp · 18 points · Posted at 18:55:00 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Me, not having a fucking job.
SenorArchibald · 9 points · Posted at 17:30:51 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
All the [removed] posts on reddit
-WPD- · 1 points · Posted at 03:03:57 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Uneddit
THE_GR8_MIKE · 1 points · Posted at 06:27:52 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
You mean the mods.
paraworldblue · 9 points · Posted at 01:59:55 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Trend pieces by NYT and other out-of-touch publications about how "millennials" are ruining the world.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 00:11:45 on March 26, 2016 · (Permalink)
Well we are, though. I mean for real, I just sent a text. Hell in a hand basket
paraworldblue · 1 points · Posted at 08:58:42 on March 26, 2016 · (Permalink)
Welp, there goes the neighborhood!
MagnaSparta · 778 points · Posted at 12:59:29 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The fruition of Donald Trump's presidential campaign
attackontitanite · 130 points · Posted at 14:15:52 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Really the only one I find genuinely concerning
jaytrade21 · 10 points · Posted at 17:29:34 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)*
I used to be concerned. Now I am in a state of "I just don't give a fuck".
Funniest thing is, it's all rhetoric and if he wins he just might be more progressive than Obama. Most NY'ers (even the ones who call themselves republicans) are generally pretty liberal.
attackontitanite · 10 points · Posted at 17:32:47 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I actually kind of think this, he didn't seem to be such an outspoken bigot before running for president, all of the shit he says (besides his views on women) seem to me like he's just telling his supporters what they want to hear. The concern for me comes from the fact that it's working this well, and what that says about society.
Phillile · 7 points · Posted at 18:54:30 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
If he is elected by his electorate, and he wants a second term, then he will pander to that electorate for the next four years. Being unable to predict his future behavior is cause to feel disconcerted, not only for his political opponents but also for his political backers.
LadyCalamity · 2 points · Posted at 18:10:51 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yep. Donald Trump supporters scare me way more than the possibility of a Donald Trump presidency.
SuperGusta · 11 points · Posted at 15:39:43 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Can I ask why it's concerning to you?
attackontitanite · 70 points · Posted at 15:42:04 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)*
Certainly. He's incredibly disrespectful to people and his supporters eat it up. All he ever does is blame people who aren't white Americans for problems. He not so subtly uses racist and xenophobic jargon to rile people up. He brags about being able to shoot someone in the street and still have supporters, basically mocking his supporters as well. Really all he ever does is mock and bully. And a huge amount of people want that to lead them. It shows that a massive percentage of the population think we can solve all our problems by focusing on Muslims and illegal immigration, when there's so much more we need to focus on. It also reflects a society that adores the disrespect of women, minorities, and "ugly" people, and thinks that anyone that disagrees with its mindset should be ridiculed and not taken seriously.
Thizzlebot · -12 points · Posted at 23:28:15 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
So your argument is you'd rather have a comfortable lie over the uncomfortable truth?
I would love to see some evidence of this "racism", it's the buzzword liberals use to say he's meeeeaaan.
Yeah and he was right, look at Brussels.
So basically your whole argument is "he's meeeeaan". I wish you guys could move past that and actually look at their policies because they are really good.
BigStereotype · 7 points · Posted at 02:51:18 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)*
What policies are those? He's a policy vacuum. I don't know what guys policies are and neither do you. It's one of the infuriating things about his campaign. Even for US presidential politics, there is absolutely nothing of substance there. You're being fooled by an authoritarian snake oil salesman.
Thizzlebot · -3 points · Posted at 03:18:42 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Just because you don't know anything doesn't mean I'm the same.
https://www.donaldjtrump.com/positions
BigStereotype · 7 points · Posted at 03:32:54 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
But they're so empty and he doesn't seem to understand the fundamentals. Just to go with an infamous example, he wants to remove the lines around the states to foster competition. But you can only get a plan if it meets your state guidelines, thereby making that totally meaningless. He doesn't know what a nuclear triad is. You know that the president is our chief general, right? If I'm more informed on our strategic capabilities (and I'm just a nerd with a laptop), doesn't that pretty much disqualify him on its own? What about his flight of fancy tariffs? He's just not a guy who holds up under scrutiny.
ZombieGoast5757 · -56 points · Posted at 16:29:00 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
You are so misinformed it's incredible
Antinous · 31 points · Posted at 17:15:03 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Actually, if you watch his speeches he pretty much says that exact stuff over and over. "We're going to build a wall. We're going to be tough on China. We're going to bomb the shit out of the middle East. My opponents are losers. Get that protester out of here. Actually beat him up for me will you?" We're not making this stuff up. If Trump really has a real plan for this country, he's sure not campaigning on it. He's a fake demagogue at best. Do you really think a man who incites violence at his rallies and makes fun of people with disabilities is fit to be president?
Iknifecuzimgay · -31 points · Posted at 17:36:21 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
He has never told people to beat a protester up that is a lie. A blatant lie.
Antinous · 33 points · Posted at 18:05:48 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzYv5foyAS8
"Knock the crap out of em would you?" Don't even try to tell me that it's a joke and his fans wouldn't take it seriously. Donald knows that people are getting assaulted at his rallies.
b_port · 19 points · Posted at 18:47:39 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I still don't get how some of his supporters don't believe that he's been directly promoting violence. Where the hell have they been the last 4 months? Are they blind and deaf? It amazes me how many people try to claim that it is "lies" when there are blatant examples.
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 23:43:12 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Most of his supporters think that saying he's a racist is slurring his name and demonising him unfairly... its just calling a spade a spade. Is it politically incorrect to say he is a bigot? So much irony, so little self-reflection.
Joenz · 0 points · Posted at 21:01:10 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm not a Trump supporter, but there has been more violence from the anti-trump protestors than the trump supporters. Chicago was a complete shit show of people actually causing violence.
attackontitanite · 5 points · Posted at 21:14:48 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I don't want to play the "he started it" game, but he totally did
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:34:10 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)*
[removed]
attackontitanite · 1 points · Posted at 21:38:09 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Well, yeah
attackontitanite · 19 points · Posted at 16:29:50 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Prove me wrong, I'd like to have as much information on the subject as possible
ZombieGoast5757 · -45 points · Posted at 16:42:07 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
All Of what you're saying is just broad generalizations based off of all the negative circlejerking that the media loves to do with Donald Trump. Look up what he actually wants to do. Give him a fair chance when you look at him instead of all the bullshit they want you to believe
attackontitanite · 43 points · Posted at 16:49:41 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
See, all of my opinions were based on things I've actually seen him say and what I've seen of his supporters, but I'll look more into it. I'd like to know his opinions of things I care about like environmental issues, renewable energy, private prison corporations, unfair tax cuts for the rich, the disgusting way our education and medical systems work, etc. unless the media is SERIOUSLY twisting his words, he thinks that we can fight terrorism by bombing innocent people and discriminating against those trying to enter the country, which of course will only make the situation worse. I know the media is biased but the only political issues I ever hear him talk about is a zero tolerance policy on illegal immigration and foreign Muslims, and it might just be where I come from but I never hear his supporters talk about any other issues, either, except that "Trump will make everything great," spoken with complete, unsettling certainty.
mcopper89 · 1 points · Posted at 04:45:58 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
These two he actually talks about. The rest is pretty much off the radar for him. He talks about reforming education and doing away with common core curriculum. He isn't very specific, but he recognizes it as a big problem and wants to at least take away one known issue. On healthcare, he wants to deregulate insurance to promote competition. Make it so healthcare can be bought across state lines, and allow citizens to not buy products that aren't cost effective for them. For the citizens that can't, he wants to expand Medicare to those who need it. His platform may be missing some planks, but there is real substance.
On the topic of racism and xenophobia, I don't see it. Many of the things he says are just as easily fueled by reality as racial hatred. Terrorist attacks of the last decade have been largely a result of radicalized muslims. Allowing poorly managed immigration allows that radicalism to spread. If it were a disease, you wouldn't think twice. This is a disease that muslims are seemingly susceptible too, and this is a temporary solution to stop the spread until better screening can be put in place. Similarly illegal immigrants can bring anything from drugs, to weapons, to bombs and terrorists. On top of that, they are a large group that allow companies to dodge taxes by paying them under the table. Much of the money they are paid is sent out of the country and not in America where it promotes the American economy. Making illegal immigration harder helps our economy and if the immigration process is improved it may lead to a better life for immigrants. The man is married to an immigrant, so you can be fairly sure it isn't that he hates foreigners or anything.
On the topic of "inciting violence", he said some things in frustration when protesters were getting out of hand. Lately, protesters have shown pretty clearly that they are quite disruptive and dealing with them calmly will not help. Was it right? No. Was it something that almost any human might do when being provoked day after day during an exhausting campaign? Absolutely.
I am willing to calmly debate any of this, but the misrepresentation of everything he says and does really gets to me. I really believe he does want to make America great again, but everyone has a different opinion on how to get there, and many are afraid to actually say what they think.
Phillile · -20 points · Posted at 18:57:37 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I dunno, are the families of terrorists really innocent people? Why or why not should we target them to discourage radicalization, and why is it stupid that doing so would be considered a war-crime?
xSnarf · 20 points · Posted at 19:11:50 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
If you think killing innocent families members would decrease radicalization, you have to be crazy
christhetwin · 12 points · Posted at 19:31:45 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
That's like asking if family members of serial killers are innocent people.
Phillile · -8 points · Posted at 19:54:05 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Are they innocent people? Teach the controversy!
attackontitanite · 9 points · Posted at 19:55:27 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Uh, yeah, probably. Just being related to someone doesn't mean you're always going to agree and support whatever crazy shit they do.
Phillile · -6 points · Posted at 19:55:53 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Agree to disagree.
attackontitanite · 12 points · Posted at 19:56:28 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)*
You're obviously and clearly wrong, but okay.
Actually you know what? Thats not okay. You're saying innocent people should be killed just for possibly being related to someone. FUCK that, and fuck everyone who thinks that way.
BigStereotype · 3 points · Posted at 02:56:58 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm sure you have family members who aren't vile. Do you want us to judge them off of you?
attackontitanite · 4 points · Posted at 19:54:15 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
How can you be sure that everyone caught in the explosion is family of a terrorist, even if what you're saying is correct? If innocent, unrelated people die, their friends and family learn that the US is their enemy, creating more radicals than there were before
Oxirane · 5 points · Posted at 19:35:26 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Some may not be, but I imagine most are.
Consider some of the likely scenarios- Maybe a man became radicalized after getting married and having some kids. Considering the part of the world we're discussing (and moreso, that we're talking about radicals), I doubt his wife and kids have much sway over him.
Or perhaps it's the kid who became radicalized. Maybe they're a teenager or young adult, and they've effectively joined an incredibly violent, hateful gang. Maybe how their parents raised them is a component, but that's not necessarily the case.
Lets say ISIS blows up your family. Are you going to think "Oh wow. I guess I was wrong to disagree with ISIS, they've actually got the right idea." and fall in line? I doubt it. The opposite might even happen- you might feel the urge to join the Army/Marines/etc. If nothing else you'd probably support a war effort against ISIS more than you currently do.
Trump's idea of bombing their families would have the same result. Killing their families won't discourage them, it'll re-affirm their belief that the Western World is evil and their cause is just. What's more, by targeting non-combatants like that we'd likely push other members of their community towards extremism as the US reinforces ISIS's statement that the West is against them.
BigStereotype · 1 points · Posted at 02:52:49 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)*
Yes. They are.
And you can't kill the fight out of people. You can achieve specific goals through use of force, but general pacification is out of the question. Look at die Ostfront if you want an example. You really think we can crack down harder than the wehrmacht did? And isn't America supposed to be above that?
[deleted] · 27 points · Posted at 17:37:46 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Donald Trump's actual opinions
Wrong
wrong
Wrong (not even gonna bother giving a source on the first one, its a proven scientific fact)
and wrong The EPA's cap and trade program has been very successful
There are next to no economists that will agree with Trump's protectionist garbage. Free Trade and NAFTA were net benefits that do not contribute very much to unemployment. He is, once again, wrong
wrong
Anything I missed? Basically what I'm trying to say is that Trump is stupid, and you are stupid for supporting him
attackontitanite · 11 points · Posted at 17:43:37 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
That's not fair, he's just misinformed
ZombieGoast5757 · -5 points · Posted at 17:50:31 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Well these are some interesting points, and it does force me to think a little differently, but I still like him better than Sanders and Clinton.
ZombieGoast5757 · -4 points · Posted at 17:51:13 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
You're not gonna convert someone by insulting them then showing them a few links of people who disagree with them lol
[deleted] · 9 points · Posted at 18:03:35 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
well if we're being technical I insulted you after showing you
linksevidence of him being proved wrong.You're right though. I shouldn't have insulted you. You are supporting a Candidate who is wrong on just about everything, and you claimed it was due to media circlejerking, rather than anything of actual merit, which I showed you was wrong.
Sorry, and I hope you reevaluate your opinions with some of the things I've shown you. Are there any other policies you agree with him on?
ZombieGoast5757 · -1 points · Posted at 18:23:14 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
My main thing is he wants to lower taxes and seems to want focus on domestic issues first. That's the simplest way I can explain my thinking. I like the way he seems to want and do things, there's nothing wrong with that, many people agree with me too. As far as the being proved wrong on his tax policy.. Idk, how can you know how it'll work before we try it? That's what I think. Loads of people are on both sides, to say Trump is wrong about everything isn't fair because that's just an opinion, same as if I said "Bernie sanders is wrong about everything".
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 20:03:51 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
You know economics is a thing right? There is a whole subject of study devoted to this kind of thing?
ZombieGoast5757 · -2 points · Posted at 20:14:55 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Oh yea I know, I really enjoy economics actually. I've read alot about his policies working well too! And as a voter, I think less taxes for me are a good, so why shouldn't I vote for what I think will help me as an American?
DakotaN2895 · 2 points · Posted at 04:42:08 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
This conversation summarizes what I love and hate about reddit. I disagree with you, but seeing two people actually willing to have a conversation about something they disagree about is great. It's a shame you're being downvoted just for your views, even though you're contributing to the discussion.
tubbzzz · 1 points · Posted at 04:24:05 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Because anyone who actually understands economics understands that money needs to be taxed and spent for the economy to grow. Allowing large tax cuts and allowing the wealthy to simply sit on their money like has been going on is NOT good for the economy, as we've clearly seen. Every other first world country has much higher tax rates and much better social assistance programs that are supported partially by those higher tax rates, and their economies work.
Americans seem stuck on the idea of "this is mine, so I deserve it regardless of how I got it, and the government has no right to use the money I wasn't going to spend anyway to help the poor, fuck those guys", and it's really scary that there is such a large percentage of the population who buys into that idea, Trump supporters or not.
ZombieGoast5757 · -1 points · Posted at 04:44:20 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
do you have a job? have you been employed for a long time or talked to people who have been? alot of them agree with me, its not about being selfish and saying "fuck those guys" to the poor.
BigStereotype · 3 points · Posted at 02:58:57 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Maybe not, but you really should be able to see through such thinly veiled populist nationalism. I thought we in this west learned this lesson as a whole.
SuitedPair · 5 points · Posted at 17:35:55 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Please show us some specific policy examples.
christhetwin · 1 points · Posted at 19:29:11 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Is he tough?
motorstorm · 3 points · Posted at 18:30:16 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Is... Is your username a combo of AoT and Dark Souls?
attackontitanite · 6 points · Posted at 18:50:31 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yep!
motorstorm · 3 points · Posted at 19:14:54 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Two of my favorite things! Fabulous.
gallantBlackKnight · -1 points · Posted at 20:45:37 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
If you listen to his actual stances, not the ones the media likes to talk about, he's not that bad.
attackontitanite · 2 points · Posted at 20:47:44 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Like?
gallantBlackKnight · 0 points · Posted at 20:48:48 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Tell me one that worries you.
attackontitanite · 3 points · Posted at 20:54:18 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Keeping Muslims from entering the country. Also i don't know if he's ever come up with a specific plan for renewable energy other than "this thing is bad, and this thing is good!," but he seems to be very against it.
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 22:21:54 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
i remember the last time a right-wing populist with centrist economic policies promising to make his country great again implemented a policy of labelling and deporting a religious minority thought to be a threat to national security
i'm referring to hitler in case you didn't catch on
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:33:09 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I wasn't aware Europe had a problem with suicide bombings and attacks performed predominantly Jews in the 30's.
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 12:44:49 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
If you were a German in the 30s, you would believe so. Propaganda is a powerful force.
gallantBlackKnight · -3 points · Posted at 21:07:28 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The Muslim ban will be temporary until congress can get their shit together and figure out how to deal with ISIS.
attackontitanite · 5 points · Posted at 21:09:00 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Meanwhile the rest of the world sees that America is clearly discriminating against Muslims and many Muslims start to think that America truly is their enemy, causing more to join Isis and other anti American groups
Thizzlebot · -1 points · Posted at 23:33:46 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
No you are missing the point. We will be taking muslims that have been vetted and we can be certain they won't be a problem.
We don't need more useless people/potential terrorists/illegals clogging up the streets and using our system for free. We have plenty of people trying to enter the country LEGALLY and it's a big fuck you to them to just bring people in that truly aren't our problem.
C-O-double-M · 2 points · Posted at 23:26:00 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
his stance on international trade is beyond ignorant
5MC · 1 points · Posted at 05:25:14 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
His stance on trade is ignorant?
Not the ones of the political class who have let us rack up hundreds of billions in trade deficits per year?
Jakethesnake98 · 0 points · Posted at 01:25:48 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)*
Cruz concerns me about the same.
EDIT: yay Reddit! Down vote opinions
DonaldTrump-Official · 3 points · Posted at 10:38:36 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Excuse me, honestly, there's no problem here
Metalgear-hero · 2 points · Posted at 03:27:53 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's incredible how far down this comment is.
Love_asweetbooty · 19 points · Posted at 15:21:22 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The fruition of Hilary clinton's presidential campaign.
Minn-ee-sottaa · 6 points · Posted at 23:31:11 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Oh please. You vote for Hillary, you get 4 more years of the last 4. Simple as that. Your life will not appreciably change for the better or worse.
FlamingWings · 7 points · Posted at 02:47:11 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
this is my thought on thoughts for every president, people belive that the president has a million times more power than they actually have
Love_asweetbooty · 0 points · Posted at 13:19:38 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Well, I'm not going to vote for her.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 23:47:15 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Clinton is just the same old corporate sponsored evil America has always seemed to have. Trump is a whole different flavour of evil, but is in my opinion is way worse. Its a shit choice, but Trump doesn't believe man-made climate change is real. Even besides everything else, that is completely fucked
da_truth_gamer · 1 points · Posted at 23:40:49 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'd say Hillary is the shiniest turd out of Trump and her. Trump lies a lot more (infact the most out of all the candidates) and way to reactionary. I'm not a Hillary supporter at all, neither a Bernie..since I know people are gonna accuse me of it. I'm just saying, if it comes down i'd vote for the lying cunt rather than the clown.
TJA0912 · -4 points · Posted at 00:24:32 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
That's the worst reasoning I've ever heard. Don't vote if you hate them both. Don't advance one of their campaigns because "they're the better of two evils."
da_truth_gamer · 7 points · Posted at 01:59:53 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Honestly, I really don't want someone in office who only thrives when people are scared and angry.
TJA0912 · 0 points · Posted at 02:07:12 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
So you want a liar and a criminal who can't even be trusted to use government email?
da_truth_gamer · 2 points · Posted at 04:41:43 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm not defending Hillary AT ALL. Like I said, she is the shiniest of the two turds. Trump is an ego maniac and ALSO a fucking liar, probably worse than Hillary, which I thought wasn't possible. His main reason for popularity is fear and anger... I don't want someone who has to capitalize on peoples anger and fears to win votes. That type of person in the White House is more dangerous IMO than someone like Hillary. It's like having to choose from having my Kidney removed or half my liver. I'd rather have my liver, since it has a chance to regenerate.
mhblm · 3 points · Posted at 02:31:01 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Not participating in the democratic process isn't a solution, it's just complacency. If you don't like the candidates vote for a third party candidate you believe in. I'll freely admit that it doesn't do much, but it does do a little.
Voting for a third party is especially powerful now, when one of the major parties seems to be on the brink of collapse or at least a major realignment. Why? Because times of tumult are when third parties become mainstream parties, or when mainstream parties abandon their crumbling ideologies and look for new ideas.
[deleted] · -6 points · Posted at 16:16:11 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's HER turn! /s
[deleted] · -11 points · Posted at 14:20:19 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
But do you know what costs more than a wall?
Illegal immigrants.
josh_the_misanthrope · 23 points · Posted at 15:30:57 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Nah we'll recoup our losses when ladder and rope sales skyrocket.
grendus · 15 points · Posted at 16:08:35 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Nah, they're cheap. I picked up a few for $5 the other day down at Home Depot.
Zeig9 · 5 points · Posted at 01:53:02 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Illegal immigrants actually provide a net gain in tax revenue. Most of them work in low-skill wage based jobs where taxes are taken out of their paychecks automatically. Additionally, they're unable to file returns or file for social services because doing so would risk exposing their illegal status.
Desmond_Jones · 0 points · Posted at 05:03:36 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
You... you know they are paid in cash right? As in under the table. Its not like they have direct deposit.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 15:53:15 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Ho shit
[deleted] · -1 points · Posted at 16:17:43 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Let's just wait and see what the CPI will say about that.
[deleted] · -18 points · Posted at 15:29:56 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
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FrostyTheHippo · 2 points · Posted at 00:30:09 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I liked your comment. Don't worry. Your friends over at /r/The_Donald won't even bother trying to come out here considering all of Reddit backs our supposed "Lord and Savior" Bernie Sanders who has all these "great ideas", but has absolutely no idea on how to execute them.
Literally every subreddit has become /r/SandersForPresident.
"Bernie still has a chance! Now he just has to recover from an even larger margin than yesterday. To prepare for the upcoming states, please go bother literally every person you know and tell then to vote for Bernie Sanders. Also, keep donating!"
drdeadringer · 1 points · Posted at 19:48:07 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
"The fruition of Trump" video greeting at the White House visitor center.
logos__ · 1 points · Posted at 19:59:59 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
More like the inception. The fruition is yet to come.
Billnyethebrah · 1 points · Posted at 03:14:35 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
So you don't want to Make America Great Again?
moralfaq · 1 points · Posted at 05:42:10 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
edgy
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 21:11:36 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
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mhblm · 3 points · Posted at 02:32:56 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I would usually agree, but unfortunately, they very well might.
beaverlyknight · -12 points · Posted at 16:07:33 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'd still way rather have an egotistical and manipulative mastermind as opposed to an incompetent felon owned by Wall Street or a Bible thumping retard.
Weak field this year, gotta say.
chokingonlego · -1 points · Posted at 21:43:20 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Just remember, the dark always comes before the Don.
AubieTheTiger · -1 points · Posted at 22:54:06 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Condescending assholes is a trend I want to go away.
dhockey63 · -4 points · Posted at 21:54:47 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Shh it's ok, let the butthurt flow through you.
Kazz3lrath · -13 points · Posted at 16:21:52 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
LOW ENERGY
rileyrulesu · -14 points · Posted at 17:38:10 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
You know, everyone acts like it's the most apocalyptic thing possible, but really, what's gonna be so bad about president trump? So we spend a few years focusing on making lives for Americans better. How HORRIBLE.
da_truth_gamer · 1 points · Posted at 23:51:39 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
How so?
choppingbroccolini · -4 points · Posted at 21:37:10 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The coronation of Hillary Clinton is much worse.
REB3LxSOUL · -1 points · Posted at 03:47:11 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Him over Clinton, if I had to pick. Sadly, I'm probably going to have to.
torinaga · 48 points · Posted at 19:35:58 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Being connected all of the time has really driven our culture towards narcissism. People generally do not seek to challenge their own views and since they are always connected and the channels of information are constructed in such a way to show people only what they want to see, they are unlikely to meet a reasonable critique of any given contrary idea that is not framed in a negative way.
People remove or hide people from their Facebook feeds if they don't agree with them politically. I think that generally this is a horrible idea because it allows you to dehumanize their ideas. Facebook then becomes an echo chamber of ideas you already believe. You fail to see that the people who hold them can be good coworkers, good parents or even just a normal human trying to make their way through a confusing and scary world.
Angston · 4 points · Posted at 00:07:49 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
You know, I really have trouble expressing my thoughts, beliefs and you wouldn't believe how glad I am when I see posts that express these things. I'm really grateful to you for posting this even though i'm fairly sure it won't gain much traction because "We're more connected now than ever, how could we be more closeminded etc etc".
Well I agree with you and if I had gold you'd be the first person i'd have ever given to out of all the posts and comments ive seen on reddit. Thanks a lot for posting this.
mhblm · 2 points · Posted at 03:17:48 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Not only do we hide Facebook friends who disagree with us, but web algorithms are designed to present us with things that we will like and click on. It's not just us, the chamber is designed to keep us happy and clicking.
I think you might be interested in this TED talk. It's a few years old, but I think it hits close to home. The phrase "information junk food" itself is worth it.
tekhnomancer · 1 points · Posted at 00:37:04 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I hide my opposing friends' alternative styles of thinking because I am sick of hearing about it, really. I don't post much pro Bernie stuff, but I also get tired of no-context quoting with the only research being done by the posters is "Facebook research."
They are the "weed is a naturally occurring plant, therefore it should be legal" people. Well....yeah...so is the coca plant. So are poppies. But we know what they're used for.
agarret83 · 109 points · Posted at 12:36:13 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
the dab
earnedmystripes · 57 points · Posted at 13:56:15 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
bitch, DAB
[deleted] · 34 points · Posted at 14:18:10 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Look at my DAB!
HaxorusKiller · -5 points · Posted at 15:41:56 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
THE DOOR ------> door
Danny1994m · 1 points · Posted at 23:05:57 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I missed this One. Pls explain
bonejohnson8 · 35 points · Posted at 16:23:57 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)*
I hope it never dies. Sometimes I wonder how rap will age with me as I become an elderly white man. Will I bump the chronic? Will I still dab? Will I embarrass my grandchildren rapping along?
I imagine an old Snoop Dogg, grey and frazzled, passing away and having a state funeral, like if Sinatra had died. The disapproving looks of my imaginary grandchildren really helps me visualize cycle of life and generational shifts. We were once rebels, only to grow old and still rap along to Eminem while an uncomfortable populace stares on disapprovingly.
BigStereotype · 1 points · Posted at 03:08:35 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
That's a question I have for myself all the time. I just can't see my grandpa going "Fuck if ya leg's broke bitch, hop up on ya good foot" along with the radio.
bigtuck54 · 6 points · Posted at 21:07:06 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
As a panthers fan and migos fan, the dab fucking rules.
agarret83 · 1 points · Posted at 22:28:08 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
As a Saints fan, FTP
bigtuck54 · 1 points · Posted at 14:23:31 on March 26, 2016 · (Permalink)
I agree, fuck the patriots
Madrid_Supporter · 4 points · Posted at 18:38:33 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The dab is great, especially because Cam Newton was able to piss off white Americans with it.
agarret83 · 3 points · Posted at 22:27:42 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
he pissed me off with it because he did it every single time he did something positive. get over yourself
PS. biased Saints fan speaking
Kerbixey_Leonov · 2 points · Posted at 19:56:20 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Wait, how did it piss anyone off?
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 21:58:28 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
He wasn't "playing the right way." Think Joe Namath vs Johnny Unitas.
"Now there's a haircut you can set your watch to."
[deleted] · -4 points · Posted at 13:20:32 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I saw my crush dabbing whilst on the dance floor...I died a little inside.
[deleted] · 19 points · Posted at 14:05:03 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Damn. Dabbing must mean something completely different than what I know it to be.
Crumpyo · 6 points · Posted at 14:15:28 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
So many dab vids, so little shatter.
Sevrek · 1 points · Posted at 14:23:52 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It doesn't, they're doing a dance move that was made to look like coughing after hitting a dab
Just white people staying cringey
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 20:19:29 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
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Sevrek · -3 points · Posted at 20:52:32 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
They aren't doing it at church which was the point.
Don't get rustled
Son_of_Carr · 1 points · Posted at 14:26:07 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's a dance move where you put your arm up to your face with the crease of your elbow on your eyes, not the dab as in smoking a dab.
Seriously_NotHigh · 0 points · Posted at 14:45:45 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I thought that dabbing while dancing was impressive tbh
Cessno · 9 points · Posted at 14:11:34 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
That's the shallowest crush ever then
ShakerGecko · 0 points · Posted at 17:09:18 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Leave swag in 2015, we dabbing thru 2016
[deleted] · -9 points · Posted at 14:19:34 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
"Dab" is weed-related and that's all there is to it. No dance bullshit.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 14:47:22 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Here I was thinking it is a dance move. I guess not everyone is cool enough to know your hip weed lingo brah.
Jucie_Potatochip · 8 points · Posted at 14:51:32 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's both. This guy just refuses to accept it.
[deleted] · -7 points · Posted at 14:54:58 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Nah he is just so edgy and in the know. We get it dude, you smoke weed.
[deleted] · -3 points · Posted at 15:05:48 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's not about the weed, it's about the fact that the "dance" is retarded.
[deleted] · -8 points · Posted at 15:12:27 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I happen to think it's fun, especially when the God send of a QB that my team has does it in the endzone. Why do you feel such a need to hate on something as trivial as a dance move?
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 15:17:34 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
You're getting way too bent out of shape about it. All I'm saying is the word dab was weed-related years before this shitty dance move was invented.
[deleted] · -3 points · Posted at 15:27:42 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm getting bent out of shape?
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 17:16:13 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Can you dab?
THE_GR8_MIKE · 0 points · Posted at 06:27:10 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Most stupid fucking thing I've ever seen in my entire life. How in the FUCK can you call that a "dance"? It's as stupid as the people that do it.
weezermc78 · 8 points · Posted at 17:50:35 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Rude by Magic. Fuck that band.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 07:01:47 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
That horrible song makes me want to snack on shards of glass until my GI system breaks apart. It's godawful.
williamthebloody1880 · 1 points · Posted at 07:13:37 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
You wanna know why he's saying you can't marry his daughter? It might be because you appear to be an entitled cunt
[deleted] · 8 points · Posted at 01:49:23 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
That stupid fucking dress.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 12:50:19 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
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Azcarate98 · 1 points · Posted at 15:38:47 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Dude you are wrong, it was clearly green and orange.
medik13 · 27 points · Posted at 16:35:33 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
that fucking blue and black or gold and white dress
delecti · 24 points · Posted at 20:32:01 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
That faded away pretty fast though.
It was also an absolutely fascinating phenomenon. It's like a real-world experiment testing that philosophical question "what if the red I see isn't the same as the red you see".
BigStereotype · 3 points · Posted at 03:12:04 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Bonged philosophy, maybe.
[deleted] · 11 points · Posted at 19:37:33 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Nah, that was tremendous fun
SickBoy88 · 6 points · Posted at 21:20:45 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I thought it was really interesting. My girlfriend and I saw different colours, and reading about why people saw it differently was cool.
Ghotimonger · 4 points · Posted at 21:37:41 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I still don't know if people are fucking with me. How can it look gold and white.
Frankasti · 3 points · Posted at 01:04:26 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's the way your brain perceive the colors in the photo. The light source is not visible and there is nothing else in the picture that give a clue about lightning.
If your brain thinks the light that reflects off the dress is yellow-ish (natural sun light), you'll assume the gold shades are reflections on black material. The dress appears black and blue. On the other hand, if your brain thinks the light is blue-ish (artificial lightning), you'll assume the blue shades are reflections on white material. The dress appears gold and white.
The interesting part is the realization that your brain can lie to you. You can be convinced of something because you are currently starring at it and yet, it's wrong. Adding to this, our brain "makes up" a huge part of our sight by approximating the zones we don't directly look at so we can understand what's in front on us. This little accidental experiment was really good to help people realize that.
Derpy_doughnut · 1 points · Posted at 23:06:25 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I only saw it as gold in white, therefor we must fight to the death.
barcode1555 · 1 points · Posted at 00:45:08 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I still don't know if people are fucking with me. How can it look black and blue?
Letty_Whiterock · 1 points · Posted at 02:13:50 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
They're lying to sound different.
barcode1555 · 1 points · Posted at 00:44:08 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I thought that was 2014. And I'll never understand how people can see black and blue.
Coldbeam · 2 points · Posted at 00:47:20 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
With their eyeballs. Maybe you need to update yours.
deathofevangelion · 22 points · Posted at 17:54:35 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The use of the slang word bae
C3NTR1FUG3 · 1 points · Posted at 22:06:22 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
What bugs me even more than that is the use of the sharp S/Eszett (ß) "spelling" (ßæ). It doesn't even remotely make that sound!
deathofevangelion · 1 points · Posted at 23:02:53 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I never thought of that. That makes it worse.
C3NTR1FUG3 · 1 points · Posted at 00:17:32 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)*
The worst part is the sound the letters ß and æ would make the phrase sound more like szaesch or szash, not 'bae'. You can Google the Eszett on the U.S's version of Google, the first recommend search is 'ßæ'. Let me point out that in a language like say, German, the Eszett is not simply 'a fancy b'. It's usage highly varies from that of a 'b' (the Eszett makes the long s and z sound; or the long s over round s sound).
Mdgboone · 109 points · Posted at 12:32:30 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
"Deez Nutz" got boring after the first time I heard it.
Tupnado21 · 123 points · Posted at 12:35:48 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I guess he got you
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 17:02:42 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
HAA
GOT EEM
[deleted] · 73 points · Posted at 14:08:46 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
That got boring way before 2015.
slwrthnu · 11 points · Posted at 16:19:17 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
i just thought i got transported back to 95 for this thread.
neocommenter · 3 points · Posted at 19:32:45 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Shit, it was played out by '95. Way out.
slwrthnu · 2 points · Posted at 20:24:25 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
But being 10 in 95 it was hilarious to me lol
paintingunicorn · 2 points · Posted at 03:15:14 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
The Chronic has a song called Deez Nuts from 1992
Yourdoneson · 1 points · Posted at 05:51:49 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Hold this
ballsvagina · 6 points · Posted at 18:07:18 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
1992?
GLOOTS_OF_PEACE · 6 points · Posted at 13:33:28 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Good band though
true97 · 3 points · Posted at 14:09:24 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Good presidential candidate too!
Rhaski · 3 points · Posted at 15:03:30 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
THERE'S A PARTY OVER HERE AIN'T SHIT OVER THERE
greg1998 · 2 points · Posted at 14:08:37 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Ive been listening to deez nuts before it was popular
MrGMinor · 3 points · Posted at 17:03:43 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Thats not a 2015 trend.
SasquatchTamales · 3 points · Posted at 19:43:02 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm guessing you've never listened to The Chronic...
Mithster18 · 1 points · Posted at 15:36:12 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I found it cool in THUG2
arhanv · 1 points · Posted at 18:25:08 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The meme itself was boring, but when that kid applied for president that was just fucking hilarious
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:30:53 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Same here, and I first heard it in 1995
shlongkong · 1 points · Posted at 21:12:40 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It was a thing on my team to try and weasel ourselves into asking "what are deez?" (Similar to the "what's up dog" joke). Sounds stupid but it was incredibly satisfying to lay down a DEEZ NUTS on the unsuspecting sap and watch their face melt into complete and utter shame.
JimmyBoombox · 1 points · Posted at 23:58:23 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
So years ago.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 03:49:08 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
That shit was in Tony Hawk's Underground, why are people still saying it
planetpike75 · 27 points · Posted at 14:09:46 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The whip and nae nae. That's it
HaxorusKiller · 2 points · Posted at 15:42:45 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
My siblings do it all the time and tell me to do it and it really pisses me off
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:33:23 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Sounds like something with a horse???
HaxorusKiller · 1 points · Posted at 16:49:18 on March 29, 2016 · (Permalink)
lol
[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 17:18:17 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Watch me whip? watch me nay nay? THE DAB? ugh, the list goes on.
LTtheOmniscient · 11 points · Posted at 14:03:25 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
So many rockstars dying or becoming unable to perform. Became worse in 2016.
lifeonbroadway · 0 points · Posted at 18:35:04 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Its only going to get worse man... IMO the day Ringo and Paul McCartney pass away will be the day the music dies. I just can't imagine a world without the Beatles... :,/
sirlost · 1 points · Posted at 00:25:05 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
...but the Beatles asked you to imagine.
DannyPrefect23 · 1 points · Posted at 13:06:57 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Paul's not dead yet, buddy.
nitzua · 17 points · Posted at 17:36:18 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
'literally' becoming overused in conversation to the point of inducing nausea.
ArtsWarrior · 2 points · Posted at 20:16:20 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's actually funny the word literally, now literally means figuratively.
DannyRent · 1 points · Posted at 20:51:46 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
You're saying something figuratively means figuratively?
WHAT DOES THAT EVEN MEAN?
Letty_Whiterock · 1 points · Posted at 02:12:32 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
It has for at least a century.
nitzua · 1 points · Posted at 12:48:53 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
no, I refuse to follow that idiotic redefining.
Sterling_Archer_ISIS · 2 points · Posted at 18:50:57 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
That has been a trend for years now. I don't even think it is a trend at this point. I don't think it is going to disappear anytime soon either.
bentbrewer · 1 points · Posted at 20:11:33 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
People literally use it every day.
Damn, I used it correctly. :/
ExtraShard · 1 points · Posted at 22:01:35 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Thats literally true.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:53:07 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I literally hate this.
TitusVandronicus · 13 points · Posted at 16:50:05 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm gonna go with describing most things as "cringe" or "cringey" or "cringe inducing."
Cringe needs to be retired for a few years. Let it take a nice long vacation with "Epic."
The_Eggsecutive · 3 points · Posted at 19:17:39 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I still see epic here and there occasionally. I die a little inside each time.
Themightyoakwood · 2 points · Posted at 19:41:30 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
What's really annoying is people say "cringe" when they mean embarrass or awkward. Cringe is watching a tooth get pulled or the sound of nails on a chalkboard. Not watching people do embarrassing things.
Rapturence · 1 points · Posted at 22:18:09 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
"Cringeworthy" is a perfectly fine word, in my opinion.
TitusVandronicus · 2 points · Posted at 23:39:01 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I think all of these words are perfectly fine when used well.
They've just been diluted through over-use, IMO.
irishpride0220 · 32 points · Posted at 14:20:37 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Bae. Or "only 90's kids will get this". "If you remember this show your childhood was awesome!" It's sad the direction social media is going. Thanks to Facebook, you can learn how ignorant your coworkers/peers/family/classmates truly are.
[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 22:23:30 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
People were complaining about that 5 years ago
cocoboco101 · 3 points · Posted at 23:15:44 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
it helps me weed out the weak
Goodiyoyo · 1 points · Posted at 05:08:35 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Although I agree and find those things annoying too, all of those things have been around for over two years now.
Empty_Trash · 7 points · Posted at 15:27:00 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I ran out of mind to be blown, so I stopped clicking.
DerpyDumplings · 5 points · Posted at 15:39:31 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Freaking "pranks" and "social experiments"
doittuit · 1 points · Posted at 00:01:30 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Aint an experiment if the people arent in on it and signed a waiver to be apart of it.
meurtrir · 5 points · Posted at 19:45:31 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
"Squad goals"
crypticXJ88 · 2 points · Posted at 04:57:06 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
'squad' in general. Motherfucker, being in a group doesn't make you a squad. Squads have a specific purpose.
confusedparrot21 · 1 points · Posted at 19:47:25 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Could you explain? I am clueless on what you are talking about.
greenteareaper420 · 16 points · Posted at 17:40:28 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Otherkin.
PM_ME_UR_NETFLIX_ · 5 points · Posted at 23:00:42 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Sadly, it has been around since about 2013.
barcode1555 · 1 points · Posted at 00:45:38 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Longer.
BigStereotype · 5 points · Posted at 03:13:33 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I fucking guarantee you've never met someone who insisted on being called a wolf. Guarantee it.
NiChun · 11 points · Posted at 16:27:56 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Youtube drama.
React World. Reaction Channels. Prank Vids.
wyxtt · 3 points · Posted at 19:53:03 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Prank vids kinda piss me off but kinda make me laugh. Funniest one was where they would tie a bike up to a tree and random people would steal the bike only to flip off of it when they got far from the tree. Shit was hilarious.
uwagapies · 34 points · Posted at 13:17:30 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Minions! and manbuns
iamalwaysrelevant · 5 points · Posted at 17:05:04 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
People have been doing manbuns for years. It just didn't have that stupid name.
Le_Tabernacle · 1 points · Posted at 05:16:29 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Sorry but ALOT more people have them now
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 00:17:14 on March 26, 2016 · (Permalink)
Did guys have buns before? Sure. But it was like spotting Nessie when you saw one, except that no one cared. But at some point this past year it went from seeing maybe 3 a year in the hipsterest, hippiest, or trashiest parts of town to every other college dude. I don't know how they all grew their hair out so long so fast. Some were just guys with regular length hair snapping the back - most few strands in an elastic, but they were everywhere and still are
Gougaloupe · 3 points · Posted at 17:02:21 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Everyone complains about man buns but no one is talking about the next level douche with the Kim Jong IL hairstyle...
uwagapies · 5 points · Posted at 17:06:06 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Dear Leaders hair is divinely inspired, it cannot be bad.
RsCaptainFalcon · 2 points · Posted at 14:10:16 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Why is it I've never even heard of man-buns? Maybe it's because I live in Redneck-land.
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 13:59:35 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
No manbuns are everything don't you take them from me
uwagapies · 1 points · Posted at 14:02:44 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I can't stand them! maybe cause i don't wanna fight for hair ties etc. Plus it seems a certain type of hipster douche (I'm a hip girl myself) and wooks wear manbuns. i've yet to meet a decent guy rocking one.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 14:03:50 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I've met a bunch!
uwagapies · 3 points · Posted at 14:10:42 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
well then! get at it girl.
TheBosma · 0 points · Posted at 15:01:56 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Hey, I think I'm pretty decent.
DramaOnDisplay · 1 points · Posted at 18:47:27 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Sounds like my next straight-to-Amazon erotica story!
ChunksGalore · 10 points · Posted at 14:52:38 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Everything that got popular on Vine
DramaOnDisplay · 2 points · Posted at 18:48:50 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Vine period. It's like the Twitter version of Youtube.
ChunksGalore · 2 points · Posted at 19:20:24 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
If you click on the popular comedy page of Vine and the top Vine isn't some garbage by Lele Pons or Logan Paul, hell is about to freeze over.
RedStag00 · 3 points · Posted at 21:34:24 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Why would I go to any page on Vine?
ChunksGalore · 1 points · Posted at 12:42:44 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
That's the spirit! Have an upvote.
Springheeljac · 154 points · Posted at 14:17:22 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Safe spaces.
ch00d · 26 points · Posted at 18:29:26 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
People being overly sensitive, taking things out of context, and being easily offended isn't new in 2015.
FlamingWings · 3 points · Posted at 02:59:02 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
its okay now because its CURRENT YEAR
doittuit · 0 points · Posted at 23:34:59 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Triggered!
BigStereotype · 4 points · Posted at 03:07:07 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I saw way more annoying backlash about this issue than I did any actual evidence of it.
NTOU99 · 2 points · Posted at 05:30:08 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm offended you just said that.
ZombieDonkey96 · 1 points · Posted at 15:45:03 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
This. I saw the footage from Yale where students were demanding safe spaces and one girl was screaming at an admin "you're not here to create an intellectual environment!" Like, you're at fucking YALE, an Ivy League School. The whole point is to create an intellectual environment! And this whole protest stemmed out of the administration telling students that they wouldn't police Halloween costumes and they were okay with people wearing whatever they wanted.
THE_GR8_MIKE · 1 points · Posted at 06:28:40 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Bunch of pussies.
ugathanki · -20 points · Posted at 17:54:59 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
They're important though. What's your issue with them?
zjm555 · 16 points · Posted at 18:56:56 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Words and ideas are not a threat to one's safety, so it's a misnomer. The more ridiculous part is that many college students are trying to convert their entire campuses into so-called "safe spaces" in which dissenting or controversial opinions are silenced, which is completely contrary to the role of universities. Nobody has a right to silence controversial opinions, and in fact, being exposed to those who are different from you is an important part of growing as a person. Echo chambers, as we have seen from so many online communities, are really bad for public discourse, as they push people toward extremes rather than compromise and understanding.
ugathanki · -10 points · Posted at 20:24:11 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Discourse isn't the point. The point is to have a place where vulnerable people don't have to worry about shitty people. Identity is not a matter of opinion, and therefore discourse is only valuable from a learned opinion. So unless you're a feminist / queer theorist, or a psychologist, or sociologist, then your opinion doesn't matter. When your words actually damage people, then maybe you shouldn't resent their place of solace.
zjm555 · 9 points · Posted at 21:12:31 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
All due respect, discourse is a very important role of the academy, and fostering a culture of censorship and echo chambers is not going to change the hearts and minds of bigots.
PixelNotPolygon · 4 points · Posted at 23:16:42 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
How do you define vulnerable? With the amount of safe spaces I see in my uni, you would think the world was a dangerous place for everyone unless you're a straight white man.
Springheeljac · 26 points · Posted at 19:04:53 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
No, they're not. If you can't function in the real world without having a room full of kittens and coloring books provided then you need to seek help. And I don't mean that in a disparaging way. I mean that you need to get better coping mechanisms and find someone to talk to because this is a first world rich kid problem.
ugathanki · -9 points · Posted at 20:32:58 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Seeking help is the entire point of a safe space, so I don't see your point. Clearly, there's a reason these spaces exist, and there's a reason that universities promote them. Otherwise they wouldn't exist. Your distaste for vulnerable people shows a lack of maturity and empathy, and yet you complain about others needing "kittens and coloring books". Clearly, you've never been depressed or faced severe trauma, so what right do you have to denounce the coping methods of others? Based on our interaction, I can tell you are the kind of person who wouldn't be welcome in a safe space. Words won't break bones, but they still cause harm.
Springheeljac · 16 points · Posted at 21:00:27 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm type II Bipolar, was horribly abused and molested as kid and have the scars to prove it emotionally and physically. So please, tell me more about how I just don't understand. Safe spaces are being provided because coddled children are demanding them. They aren't helpful. They don't fix problems, they're a place to hide from problems. The kittens and coloring books wasn't some bullshit I made up, it's what a university did when Christina Hoff Sommers gave a speech for the people who couldn't handle dissenting view points.
Being unable to have a conversation with me without resorting to ad hominems is extremely immature. As for empathy, I wasn't showing a distaste in people I was showing a distaste for the pseudoscientific treatment of hiding from things that make you uncomfortable. These aren't war veterans having night terrors from PTSD these are middle and upper middle class children upset at people disagreeing with them.
So CLEARLY the problem here isn't the person suggesting they get real help.
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 02:08:27 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
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Springheeljac · 2 points · Posted at 02:15:06 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2015/05/05/sommers-women-feminism-lecture-college-column/26923945/
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:33:00 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
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Springheeljac · 1 points · Posted at 11:36:01 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Long time?
Ravinac · -3 points · Posted at 22:43:51 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
No, words cannot harm you. There is no way for words to physically hurt you, and only you can let them harm you mentally. If you are so weak minded that people calling you out on your bullshit triggers a psychotic break down, you are not a well adjusted adult. You are defective in some manner, and should seek help from a professional, not from a hug circle of people telling you society is wrong for not propping you up all the time.
nikkitgirl · -3 points · Posted at 18:00:20 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Seriously, I hang out in one between classes, it's awesome
Eatsbakedchicken · 7 points · Posted at 18:46:37 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
What is a "safe space"
nikkitgirl · 9 points · Posted at 18:52:23 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
An area that is safe and respectful (by enforcement of those in it and possibly by a person in charge of it) for a minority group, especially LGBT people
Eatsbakedchicken · 4 points · Posted at 21:16:03 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm sorry but I think that is ridiculous. Is everyone allowed in a safe space? What are the rules? Why especially LGBT people? It just seems like students are trying to run from the real world and attempting to coddle themselves. I hope I don't sound too harsh and I'm sorry if you've ever felt marginalized but a safe space isn't going to do anything for you once you're off campus.
[deleted] · 12 points · Posted at 22:47:40 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
probably because LGBT+ people are still being mistreated and it's nice to have a space where you know you're not going to be insulted/attacked for your sexual or gender identity?
ATryHardTaco · 3 points · Posted at 19:39:21 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
People are offended too easily these days
[deleted] · -1 points · Posted at 16:18:07 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
LOUD NOISES!
FedoraLovingAtheist · 6 points · Posted at 18:16:24 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It was sad seeing some of the kids in my hs that aren't fortunate enough to have expensive shoes and hearing people yelling "WHAT ARE THOSE?" And laughing at them. Thankfully it has died off.
TokKloo · 6 points · Posted at 18:59:44 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Deez nutz
WHAT ARE THOOOOSE
logarithmyk · 5 points · Posted at 19:03:16 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Those motherfucking hoverboards.
karterkid · 5 points · Posted at 19:15:20 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The Whip/ Nae Nae. I don’t technically mind the move itself. It’s fairly simple. However, it’s the song that makes my ears bleed.
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 20:32:06 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
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Dashashound · -1 points · Posted at 22:38:57 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
"Wutz dat" gotta love the darkys and their poor excuse for English
[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 02:03:15 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Those stupid fucking big beards and shaved sides, quiff and man bun, the fucking bland music of this decade, big phones and thin clothing with equally bland colours.
PlayBaseball · 23 points · Posted at 15:52:52 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
JOHNNNNN CENA!!!
BackInAsulon · 16 points · Posted at 17:09:33 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
THIS SUNDAY NIGHT! WWE!! SUUPERSLAAAAMM!!! ORDER NOW!
i liked this one actually
8bitslime · 14 points · Posted at 17:19:31 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I think the clever setups that some have done are funny. It's definitely funny when used properly, but kids with terrible meme game just trying to be cool bastardised it.
C3NTR1FUG3 · 3 points · Posted at 22:10:13 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Everyone likes a good r/unexpectedcena . I have yet to see somebody not at least chuckle at the good ones.
EveryGoodUNWasTaken · 6 points · Posted at 18:17:45 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Is champ there?
999happyhants · 4 points · Posted at 00:18:03 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Who is champ??
EveryGoodUNWasTaken · 1 points · Posted at 02:56:36 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
THAT QUESTION WILL BE ANSWERED THIS SUNDAY NIGHT!!!!
sjnims · 5 points · Posted at 17:22:39 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
False. Still awesome.
Immediateload · 9 points · Posted at 18:45:58 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Vocal fry
heyitsme63 · 2 points · Posted at 16:35:32 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
yes, my son does this and it drives me crazy. He's an MD for chrissakes. How can his patients take him seriously.
irfatftw · 14 points · Posted at 14:20:47 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Why you always lyyiiinnn?
lancol · 1 points · Posted at 18:21:17 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I almost downvoted this out of instinct. So yeah, this.
JawshD123 · 1 points · Posted at 20:42:01 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
mmmm oh my god
h4x0rati · 7 points · Posted at 14:29:43 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Top comments on Facebook:
"Blah blah is the best, like if you agree!" 1,502 likes.
Also, 'yaaaasssssssss'. Get off my lawn.
velociderp · 4 points · Posted at 14:52:53 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
"Suh dude"
It's just the dumbest crap I have ever seen.
HolyHipHop_TJ · 4 points · Posted at 15:29:10 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Nae Nae
jagenigma · 1 points · Posted at 16:23:47 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Never hearing get that song before the YouTube rewind, I knew how it sounded. It's weird how you can figure out how it's supposed to be just by guessing.
It was stupid...
Montigue · 3 points · Posted at 16:22:02 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Vine. I know this is not just a 2015 thing, but I feel like it is unnecessary and most just get stolen for Vine compilations featuring a picture of a girl in a bikini
skarkeisha666 · 4 points · Posted at 17:03:05 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
DAAAAAAAAMMMNNN Daniel!
walawoola · 3 points · Posted at 17:41:38 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Still don't get it.
_Alljokesaside · 1 points · Posted at 18:17:32 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
What don't you get about it?
doittuit · 1 points · Posted at 00:10:01 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
That whate vans are back
doittuit · 1 points · Posted at 00:11:09 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
White*
_Alljokesaside · 1 points · Posted at 16:08:47 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's daniel that's back not the white vans lol
Upallnight56789 · 1 points · Posted at 20:16:34 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
That's 2016
MpVpRb · 5 points · Posted at 19:14:52 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The violence and political extremism committed in the name of religion
electricdwarf · 4 points · Posted at 21:05:59 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Idk if this counts as a trend but recently I'm seeing web pages block you from using their website unless you turn ad block off. Fuuuuuck that's shit man, I just don't use that site anymore.
MariachiMacabre · 5 points · Posted at 21:08:32 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Right after the Minions movie came out, a bunch of old people on Facebook started making "memes" with a minion just standing on the side of the picture next to some "witty" remark disparaging Muslims, gays, Obama or really anything not old and white. Those were pretty dumb.
DatsFuckedUp · 4 points · Posted at 22:30:37 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The Whip Nae Nae song. To kids of this decade, this is your version of Crank Dat Soulja Boy which kind of started it all if you think about it. Speaking for all teenagers from the late 2000s, I am sorry we've cursed you.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 12:40:03 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)*
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DatsFuckedUp · 1 points · Posted at 03:05:25 on March 26, 2016 · (Permalink)
The trend of crappy hip hop dance songs.
inhuman44 · 4 points · Posted at 23:13:28 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The expansion of click bait garbage in to the mainstream media. It's bad enough when BuzzFeed does it, I don't to hear about twitter fights on CNN.
Foo3112 · 4 points · Posted at 00:18:03 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Those keep calm shirts along with man buns.
Barnabas_Collins · 4 points · Posted at 00:46:03 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Worst trends of 2015 prank (gone sexual) [almost killed] (arrested) (gone viral) (gone homosexual)
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 01:11:50 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
What if it's a social experiment?
pquigs · 13 points · Posted at 19:29:30 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Damn Daniel
[deleted] · 8 points · Posted at 21:12:35 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Isn't that 2016? Correct me if I'm wrong.
pquigs · 3 points · Posted at 22:55:32 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Shit I think your right. My bad
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 01:02:14 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Woah there buddy, this is reddit. You aren't allowed to admit mistake here.
DannyRent · 3 points · Posted at 20:52:29 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
As a
motherDaniel, I agree.Genericynt · 16 points · Posted at 15:50:27 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
fam
ExtraShard · 5 points · Posted at 22:02:12 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Thx fam
aaronclements · 3 points · Posted at 22:09:48 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's actually mutated into a term to be used ironically now, at least in Internet culture.
flyingfences · 3 points · Posted at 00:51:38 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
senpai
larrymoencurly · 23 points · Posted at 14:37:40 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
ISIS (which is actually shrinking)
Economic austerity slowing down the world economy.
China not running its economy right
Donald Trump
Fusc · 1 points · Posted at 20:55:23 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Found the Keynesian!
larrymoencurly · 1 points · Posted at 03:13:47 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
The Keynesians have been right about the Great Recession; the Austrians have been wrong. The Austrians (real and charlatan non-economists like Peter Schiff) have been predicting hyper inflation and the collapse of the US dollar, neither which have occurred.
iamalwaysrelevant · -1 points · Posted at 17:01:44 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
How is China not running its economy right?
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 19:46:18 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
China has been openly fucking with their financial market.
They've inflated their worth to such a level that they remain competitive, but it is far too much, far too fast.
One of the strongest economies in the world where the ordinary person has NO money. It makes no fucking sense
idrinkamp · 3 points · Posted at 18:04:27 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
chinese stock market has been a shitshow
fletchindubai · 64 points · Posted at 13:11:31 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The word "bae"
[deleted] · 129 points · Posted at 14:06:09 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
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man_on_hill · 4 points · Posted at 15:24:43 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Trends tend to have longevity while fads are short-term.
tinoasprilla · 0 points · Posted at 14:26:50 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's at least two years old if not more
carclain · 3 points · Posted at 16:30:21 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Used it jokingly back in 2012, can confirm. Google Trends says its been around since atleast 2004 tho.
Rebecca_Star · 1 points · Posted at 02:08:19 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
You don't have to end every sentence with tho, tho
SRPayne · 0 points · Posted at 16:43:55 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yep. You are so correct
StructuralFailure · 2 points · Posted at 17:15:34 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Shh bae is ok
Lemonface · 1 points · Posted at 21:20:08 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Lol "bae" peaked in like 2012-2013
JimmyBoombox · 1 points · Posted at 23:59:19 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Been around before 2015.
jeffzhang69 · 1 points · Posted at 03:24:24 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
*bæ
Photovoltaic · 1 points · Posted at 17:21:32 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
My girlfriend and I now refer to each other as "bae"
It's fun and cute, just another long list of nicknames we use on each other. IT's also one syllable, which is nice when I don't feel like using one of her grander titles that I've come up with.
ImAnAgentOfChaos1322 · -6 points · Posted at 13:43:09 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's not a word. It's a stupid acronym.
[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 13:57:48 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
bitch ass ears?
jmrecon · 8 points · Posted at 14:04:41 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
bacon and eggs?
WaffleBrothel · 2 points · Posted at 14:28:20 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Breaking and entering, obviously.
SyKoHPaTh · 2 points · Posted at 15:38:15 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
blue analogous earwax
ImAnAgentOfChaos1322 · -4 points · Posted at 14:01:00 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Lol good one😂
No, it's supposed to mean before anyone else. A pretty fucking stupid way to refer your significant other as. Plus, it's supposed to translate as shit in Danish.
Alpine_Pineappler · 4 points · Posted at 15:07:19 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
No it's babe but the second b didn't make it.
pamelahoward · 2 points · Posted at 14:09:54 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
before anyone else
Vaynor · 2 points · Posted at 16:17:44 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's not. It's a backronym.
Ozwaldo · 1 points · Posted at 15:34:49 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It isn't an acronym, it's from that woman who wrote "bae caught me slippin" but you can see in the mirror behind her that she's taking a picture of herself. She meant to write "babe" but missed the b and hit post too quickly.
I think it caught on because it sounds like baby-talk, and the internet seems to love baby-talk... with all of its feels... and all of the things...
killerpoopguy · 1 points · Posted at 03:30:15 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
It was around/popular before that picture.
[deleted] · -2 points · Posted at 14:02:07 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's both. Stands for significant other and "before anyone else" but I sincerely doubt many people use it as an acronym
ImAnAgentOfChaos1322 · -6 points · Posted at 14:05:35 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It just shows the ignorance in this generation, huh?
SamuraiBadger · 0 points · Posted at 04:27:30 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Man, how's it feel to be so superior?
ImAnAgentOfChaos1322 · 1 points · Posted at 05:16:56 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Never did I claim such a thing.
SamuraiBadger · 0 points · Posted at 10:48:05 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
When you talk about an entire generation being flawed, it shows a clear sense of superiority.
akirartist · 56 points · Posted at 13:21:00 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Encouraging Donald Trump and giving him the most air time. We're still doing that now, but I think if we just ignored him he wouldn't be where he is now.
RsCaptainFalcon · 19 points · Posted at 14:12:42 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
"There's no such thing as bad publicity", yet news and social media make a point to talk about him EVERY day, even if it's just to talk about what a shitty person he is.
DakotaN2895 · 2 points · Posted at 04:51:14 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm by NO means a Trump supporter, but what you seem to be talking about is censorship. Yeah, the fervor that everyone gets whipped up into is a bit much, but he has every right to run.
akirartist · 1 points · Posted at 09:29:05 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yeah, I'm a huge supporter of allowing everyone to run; that's what makes our system of governing great. However, I'm talking about the media focus on trump has been skewered mostly to his favor. No one talks/talked that much on the other candidates as much as they did for Donald. That I find unfair
Brjalaedingur · 1 points · Posted at 21:27:45 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
What's wrong with Donald? He has the right to exercise his free speech and I consider him a legitimate candidate. Id vote for him
FlamingWings · 1 points · Posted at 03:01:56 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
well he isn't hip with the kids
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 21:00:45 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I like trump he matches my beliefs
PornAccount3314 · 1 points · Posted at 22:51:42 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I don't mind trump as much as I loathe his whiny opposition. What's pathetic is the left wing couldn't comprise ONE person to beat him.
vampireweeknd · 304 points · Posted at 12:35:49 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
"All Lives Matter"
Ugh, way to miss the point.
[deleted] · 21 points · Posted at 17:48:00 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
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FederalReserveNote · 5 points · Posted at 20:32:53 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
KillAllHumans
sparkleowl · 4 points · Posted at 21:32:44 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Bender Bending Rodriguez for president 2016!
Stolenusername · 1 points · Posted at 22:12:07 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
forman98 · 261 points · Posted at 13:57:46 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yes, the point of BLM was to bring awareness to the fact that black men and women were still being treated with prejudice, especially by the police. There were multiple instances in 2014 and 2015 of black people being shot or killed in a situation where it was entirely unwarranted.
A guy gets choked to death by the cops on the sidewalk for selling cigarettes, with video evidence that he was not resisting. He certainly wasn't resisting enough to be murdered on the sidewalk by someone's bare hands.
A guy gets shot in the back multiple times while running away from the police in Charleston, also caught on video.
The South Carolina state capitol flies a confederate flag and refuses to take it down, citing heritage and ignoring that fact that many people of an entire race (and citizens of SC) see it as a reminder of a time not long ago when their people were slaves to the whites... in that same state.
A group of black people holding a bible study in their church are murdered simply because they are black.
BLM was meant to bring awareness to the fact that racism, especially between whites and blacks, still exists and shouldn't be overlooked. Blacks, being the minority and the ones who were slaves to the whites, decided to focus on the fact that it seemed like their lives (black lives) didn't matter to anyone as proven by the above examples and many more.
Yes, all lives do matter, but that completely misses the point. White people aren't dying because they are white. White people aren't being killed by the cops because the cops have a prejudice against white people. White people aren't being murdered in churches simply because they are white. Black people are.
exelion · 291 points · Posted at 14:44:16 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Got subverted almost immediately when many of the more publicized BLM events refused to let non-blacks participate.
Racism still exists. Prejudice still exists. Wrongful things still happen. And we should ALL be coming together to deal with them. When a BLM protest tells white people they aren't allowed to join BLM in solidarity, or a hispanic reporter than he's not welcome to film them, they're part of the problem too.
XseCrystal · 21 points · Posted at 15:45:40 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)*
Sadly this was the biggest facepalm for me. I do still argue in favor of BLM since it's a glaringly obvious issue, but this was where I felt the most like "This isn't getting attention for change. This is getting attention for getting attention."
jaytrade21 · 10 points · Posted at 17:41:56 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I think some of the BLM events basically became about non-issues and mimicked the worst ideologies from modern Feminism. This includes like you stated: alienating people from your movement who are not in their demographic. The inability to have rational discourse. Like I stated before, the creation of problems where none existed or could have been handled rationally. Creating an "Either you agree with everything we say or you are a racist" line in the sand.
Then there have been the NUMEROUS violent outbursts from some of supporters and rather than denounce the worst people, they either remain silent or support them.
Finally there is the issue of Leadership. As anyone who watched the Occupy Wall Street movement play out (as I did when working and living in NYC), I can tell you that not having a strong leadership is the main reason that the BLM movement is being treated like a joke. The few smaller leaders in some of the Universities were upper class and came from rich families and refused to utter the idea that true separation of people comes from those who have and those who have not. In all the discourse, no one has stated other from the ignored people, this is the real issue that EVERYONE faces, it doesn't matter what skin color or race you belong to.
ugathanki · 1 points · Posted at 17:49:34 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The issue is learned experience. Black people have experience with discrimination, so clearly they should be the ones who speak at events about it. But very often there'll be a white person who does the talking, and their message doesn't resonate as well, is misleading, or completely false. All unintended, but possible. This happens a lot to feminist speakers as well. Turning people away from expressing solidarity is just wrong, though. Same for the reporter thing.
Sevrek · 536 points · Posted at 14:20:55 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
People missed the point because everyone in BLM was being a huge cunt about it
LuitenantDan · 25 points · Posted at 19:29:54 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
So, obviously the police are murdering people in cold blood. There's been multiple cases where there was video evidence of no resistance. How should we bring attention to this social issue?
I dunno. What if we incite riots and generally act like the stereotype were trying to fight?
Genius.
skidoos · -8 points · Posted at 14:37:25 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Cool sweeping generalization bro.
Gruzman · 28 points · Posted at 15:13:10 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Ironic considering that a phrase like "blacklivesmatter" is itself a sweeping generalization that still requires qualifications by supporters not to come off as racist.
[deleted] · 11 points · Posted at 16:28:52 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It really doesnt. People arguing about the semantics of "too" at the end are being purposefully tone-deaf. It is damn well understood that they aren't implying that other lives don't matter or matter less.
Porphyrogennetos · 2 points · Posted at 05:08:00 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
They act contrary to what you're saying.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 13:14:33 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
oh please. Find me even one instance of someone actually involved in the organization saying "only black lives matter" "white lives don't matter" or some variation thereof.
The plain truth is, the detractors insert "only" in "black lives matter" in their own mind just to reinforce their pre-existing disposition on the subject.
Gruzman · -1 points · Posted at 18:26:20 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Then why are they compelled to argue it? You don't think they have genuine reasons for concern with the titling? Do you really think they're all just trolling people?
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 18:50:06 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I think they're being purposefully obtuse to suit a decision they already made.
You could make some legitimate criticisms about the group not being very organized, and some members acting very very contradicting, but the semantics of the very obvious message are not one of them.
It's the same dimwitted at-face assertion as people who say "National Socialists were leftist and socialist, not fascist. They have socialist in the name!"
skidoos · 6 points · Posted at 15:31:29 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)*
Understandable, but to be fair that was not really the point of my comment. /u/forman98 made an interesting and well thought out comment detailing his opinion as to the motivations and meanings behind BLM to provoke discussion and /u/Sevrek's reply (in typical reddit fashion) was basically "fuck everything you said, because I think that every single person in BLM is a cunt."
All I intended to point out with my reply was the vacuousness of /u/forman98's contribution to what could be an interesting discussion. I'm sure you don't need me to tell you to feel free to imply my motives in doing so all you want, but I believe my criticism still stands.
[deleted] · -3 points · Posted at 18:27:27 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
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skidoos · 5 points · Posted at 18:34:07 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Top insight. Thanks for playing.
Sevrek · -2 points · Posted at 18:25:24 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yes because I totally meant every single person.
Idiot
skidoos · 2 points · Posted at 18:29:04 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I am so terribly sorry that I wasn't impressed nor enlightened by your juvenile hyperbole.
Says the person who responded to a 295-word comment explaining an opinion with "fuck you, they're all cunts" and then gets pissy when (s)he gets called out on it.
Sevrek · -4 points · Posted at 18:30:04 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Sorry didn't mean to rustle your jimmies.
Don't you have some traffic to disrupt or some professors to yell at?
skidoos · 2 points · Posted at 18:31:38 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)*
Real mature.
If you're implying that I'm a member of BLM, I'm not nor have I ever been. I just enjoy pointing out stupid and worthless comments. Maybe we should be friends?
[deleted] · -2 points · Posted at 23:21:27 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
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darkescaflowne · 17 points · Posted at 00:06:35 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Civil rights was important, disenfranchisement was important, lynching of blacks was important, and how did the civil rights movement deal with this? With respectable marches, sit-ins of accountable institutions and non violence, this got people to change their minds and rally around the cause.
Even BLM supporters need to remember that nobody is going to like your cause, no matter how just or cogent, if you act like a prick about it. People aren't going to support a cause if the supporters are violent.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 00:17:42 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
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darkescaflowne · 6 points · Posted at 00:29:55 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Were the black panthers effective? Because when I think back to what I learned they were the douche-bag group that didn't achieve much. Comparing the non-violent with the militant movement it is clear to see who actually created the change we live in today.
NateHate · 7 points · Posted at 02:10:53 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
The effectiveness of the non-violent movement was because of the militant movement. People were willing to listen to their arguments because they knew the militant movement would only continue to grow until some change had come. The powers that be decided to negotiate on peaceful terms rather than with force
mhblm · 2 points · Posted at 02:52:41 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
That's an interesting perspective, and I think there's some truth in it, but recent events have inclined me to believe that people tend to be more reactionary and focus on the extremes of any movement they disagree with as a way of discrediting them. We get scared and angry, not scared and accepting. Generally, I'm inclined to believe that the Black Panthers probably did more harm than good to the civil rights movement, because they gave a boogeyman for racists to point to, even though goddamn lynchings were happening, and jury nullification was allowing people to literally get away with murdering blacks.
Of course, it's hard to equate now with 50 years ago. In spite of the wealth of information available -- actually probably because of it -- we are more able to seek out information that feeds into our biases rather than challenging us. The industry of web content is built (understandably) on getting us to click links, which means presenting us with stories that we are inclined to agree with. This means more extremism, more straw men, and more attempts to discredit those we don't agree with.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:04:30 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
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darkescaflowne · 1 points · Posted at 21:06:25 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Was that effective in changing America? Because as I look at it it was not, mlk changed minds the bp made people join Islam and regimented them into some sort of militia.
FlamingWings · 1 points · Posted at 02:57:22 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
right on point, you could have a good goal in mind but still be bad people. I think a good connection would be to Fallout 4's Railroad. while they want to free synths which is good, they murder innocent people to continue their cause: you murder people just to get sets of cloths, you murder people to set up machines for a crazy guy, and you blow up the Prywden, an air port, and the Instistue, all of which contain innocent people trying to live, just so they could save a few robots.
BadFont777 · 0 points · Posted at 03:45:43 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Fucking vegans.
motion_lotion · 5 points · Posted at 04:49:00 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
That's such a reductive and retarded take of it. The reason (s)he's saying BLM were being a huge cunt about it is because of how trashy their organization behaves. I'm in a college town with a heavy BLM presence and they're such scumbags they're hated by blacks and whites alike. Their last 'protest' was an organized temper tantrum where they blocked highways whilst yelling racial slurs at whites and asians, and managed to loot and burn down half the city. There's a reason nobody outside of reddit and academia takes BLM seriously, they're a bunch of cunts who will accomplish nothing with their movement.
TheVegetaMonologues · 1 points · Posted at 05:50:25 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Well, when people associate you with Michael Brown and you make no attempt to discourage that association, you're just not going to get anywhere. Sorry, that's life.
gerdgawrd · -10 points · Posted at 14:40:10 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
And how exactly do you stand up for yourself after countless transgressions against your very being become marginalized for decades?
[deleted] · 38 points · Posted at 15:37:47 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
MLK and his followers didn't look like raging cunts in old videos.
gerdgawrd · 34 points · Posted at 16:20:40 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I don't really know your awareness of historical contexts, but MLK shut down cities, disabled the bussing systems for years, and marched down highways kind of a lot. If anything BLM is taking tame approaches to civil protests.
Wally324 · -17 points · Posted at 17:09:12 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
You can have the buses. We don't ride on them anymore because of you guys.
gerdgawrd · 10 points · Posted at 17:17:57 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
If you're going to make a racist joke you could at least try to have it make sense. Bussing is a huge mode of transportation for major cities and is used by all races and ethnicities.
And I'm sorry fellow human beings ask you for basic human rights and equal treatment, that must be hard to take in.
Wally324 · -10 points · Posted at 17:21:55 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
"Major cities" is right, guess who moved out of the major cities?
gerdgawrd · 1 points · Posted at 19:17:28 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Are you referring to White flight? So I guess you're saying that literally every single white person in the US neither lives in cities, nor has interaction with them. I'll leave it up to you to figure out how ridiculous of a statement that is.
Wally324 · 1 points · Posted at 19:57:17 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Bro, just get on the bus and go to work.
gerdgawrd · 0 points · Posted at 20:56:49 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Good one.
CptnStarkos · -2 points · Posted at 18:40:15 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Bus Users Matters.
gerdgawrd · 1 points · Posted at 19:22:52 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Super creative joke friend, never heard one like that before.
Kenzienza · 2 points · Posted at 17:18:02 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
What's that supposed to mean?
Arthrawn · 7 points · Posted at 17:19:35 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
he is afraid of black people
Wally324 · -10 points · Posted at 17:19:44 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Only poor people ride buses now a days. Suburbs barely even have them for that reason. I would never take public transportation because of the loud ignorant "people".
Kenzienza · 9 points · Posted at 17:22:42 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
poor people aren't people? And you can't share with poor people?
Wally324 · 1 points · Posted at 17:38:11 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
We gave them the buses. No need to share. They can have them.
METAL_AS_FUCK · 15 points · Posted at 17:29:25 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Tell that to the people who sprayed them with fire hoses. A lot of people thought they were cunts at the time for disrupting the status quo. We just don't think that in retrospect. Hindsight is 20-20.
Hakunamatrotta · 14 points · Posted at 15:19:25 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
With empathy for the people whose minds and hearts I'm trying to win over.
Is that a lot to ask? Absolutely. But if you want to build partnerships to make change, that's really what it takes.
ShowMeYourPuppy · 7 points · Posted at 15:42:38 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Well to start you don't walk into a college library and shout and harass people. Step one is don't be a cunt if you want people on your side.
dmkicksballs13 · 1 points · Posted at 15:42:00 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Well, not but being racist yourself.
man_on_hill · 3 points · Posted at 15:22:49 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
While I agree with you, you aren't exactly going to convince people on this site.
Sevrek · 0 points · Posted at 18:26:10 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Half the people in BLM haven't even been alive for decades. Stop ruining lives of people who aren't racist and had nothing to do with discrimination 50 years ago
gerdgawrd · 6 points · Posted at 19:12:58 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Having loved ones mis-treated/killed by the police which is happening today, not decades ago, isn't ruining people's lives, but blocking traffic and interrupting a study session is? Who's lives are being ruined here?
Having empathy and listening to other people is not a bad thing, despite the popularity of stoicism and boot-strapping that is here on Reddit
Coldbeam · 0 points · Posted at 00:57:51 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Interesting to hear someone that supports BLM say this. Unless you mean you should only have empathy and listen to people who agree with you.
gerdgawrd · 2 points · Posted at 01:33:29 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Well, I'm putting myself in your shoes. What am I supposed to feel when fellow human beings are begging for change to end corrupt policing practices that are disenfranchising their community?
Coldbeam · 0 points · Posted at 01:47:41 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm not saying that we shouldn't listen to people like this. Black people do face specific challenges in the US. The problem that I'm trying to highlight, is that people (especially who are part of groups like blm) seem to have this weird thing where they say, "Obviously we have the most problems, and anyone who has a different outlook, or is even a different group than is being represented is not worth listening to at all, and if they try to have a conversation that in any small way disagrees with the group's narrative, that person is branded a racist and not allowed to participate.
gerdgawrd · 2 points · Posted at 02:24:54 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
The problem I have with your perspective is that it assumes that this is a new problem. Black communities have been dealing with this for decades and their outcries are always trivialized and justice is rarely carried out appropriately. Think back to Rodney King nearly 25 years ago, and try to imagine all the things that happen that aren't caught on camera. For 25 years you're told, "yes yes but there's more pressing matters"
So like, when? When is this finally going to be addressed?
Fwiw, here's what MLK thought on similar issues
Shallow understanding from people of goodwill is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection."
Coldbeam · 0 points · Posted at 02:40:16 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
But the BLM method is so sure that all of their assumptions are correct, that it will not even listen to alternatives. I can't get behind a movement that will not allow discourse. I'm not saying "we should address this later, come back in a few years." I'm saying that there are more issues at play here than the BLM members would like to examine, and that there needs to be some self-examination that says "These people were out of line and don't represent the group" or "This person we held up as a gold standard of injustice wasn't the black and white (no pun intended) situation we thought it was" or "You disagree with the best way to remedy this situation, what would your thoughts be?" There's none of that. No outside thoughts, and no accountability.
5MC · 0 points · Posted at 05:36:50 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
You do know the Rodney King incident isn't what you think it is? It's far more on the side of a Michael Brown event than an Eric Garner one, and spouting it as an example only discredits BLM.
gerdgawrd · 1 points · Posted at 13:50:04 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Discredits BLM? They're not proclaiming their undying innocence, it's the issue that the police carry out extra-judicial killings of people with no accountability or punishment. It's a warped viewpoint to think every person killed by the police needs to be as innocent as Rosa Parks or else they deserve it.
It discredits them to ask for investigations and protocols to add transparency to police killings? Go to the BLM website and actually read what they're about because it sounds like you don't know what you're talking about. Reactionary Reddit posts are not the best place to form political views
Sevrek · -1 points · Posted at 20:53:40 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
So what about the black people stuck in traffic that day? Their lives don't matter?
gerdgawrd · 3 points · Posted at 21:17:06 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
...black people were affected by blm protests, therefore their lives don't matter? Genius, I'll get in contact with Jesse Jackson so we can avoid future embarrassment
Sevrek · 0 points · Posted at 23:05:18 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Good to know you're hard at work doing something because you obviously don't have a job
Also just so you know sarcastic half witted remarks do nothing to prove me wrong so you might try again to explain what stopping black people in traffic is accomplishinf
gerdgawrd · 2 points · Posted at 23:15:17 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Prove you wrong? I have no idea what you're even trying to prove, so I showed you my understanding of your logic to see if you wanted to correct me.
What are you trying to prove with the logic that black people are affected by BLM protests?
Sevrek · 1 points · Posted at 15:43:24 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm saying that all BLM members are cunts.
My proof is that they would stop traffic of people who have nothing to do with discrimination even to the point where their protests negatively affect black people.
I mean it's not that hard to understand even for someone who isn't educated
gerdgawrd · 2 points · Posted at 17:42:34 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I would say the oppressive policing policies causing death, poverty, and insecurity is wrong. But you have your head so far up your own ass that you think black people are blocking traffic because they hate suburban white people instead of trying to attain the status of a human being and equal treatment in America.
There's so much blatant evidence of this mistreatment so I'm hoping that it's only going over your head because you're young and naive instead of older and purposefully misinformed.
It's way too easy to just dismiss people as crazies and cunts with only a shallow understanding. Every person on this earth has their own autonomy and individual experience which leads them to the decisions they make, so maybe that'll pique your interest into actually listening to the cries of a disenfranchised community instead of just dismissing them as cunts after the first article you read and spicy Reddit memes repeated ad nauseam
Sevrek · 0 points · Posted at 14:46:20 on March 26, 2016 · (Permalink)
You're missing the point so bad but I'm not surprised.
Stopping traffic and ruining the day of hundreds of people isn't going to change anything.
You're seriously beyond ignorant if you truly believe that disrupting the lives of regular citizens is going to have any positive effect on civil rights.
It accomplishes nothing except for extremely bad PR.
gerdgawrd · 2 points · Posted at 14:51:51 on March 26, 2016 · (Permalink)
It worked for MLK but whatever my man. Hope a history books falls on your head and knocks some sense into you.
Sevrek · 0 points · Posted at 16:33:07 on March 26, 2016 · (Permalink)
Comparing MLK to BLM is hilarious.
Fowlerbaby123 · 2 points · Posted at 23:02:41 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Most people in the SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) hadn't even been alive for decades when they were protesting in the 1960s.
Sevrek · 1 points · Posted at 15:45:49 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Lmfao like they are even comparable. The difference now is that the general population is not racist.
beaverlyknight · -1 points · Posted at 16:10:02 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
They might be right. But regardless, I think they are going about it in the wrong way. I think that antagonizing and inconveniencing the general public just won't gain you support for your cause, even if you are right.
gerdgawrd · 7 points · Posted at 16:27:15 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Civil protests are suppose to be disruptive. The only reason they do it is because other forms of outreach are largely ignored. Reddit or other news outlets wouldn't even address the issue if they just sat outside a state house with some signs.
I know it's hard to put into perspective, but these people have been subjugated to terrible policing policies to the point where every death or mistreatment is marginalized and everyone just moves on with no justice served. If someone close to you was killed and everyone just went ¯_(ツ)_/¯ and trivialized the whole situation, there was no investigation, and it's happened frequently in the area around you, wouldn't that upset you?
josh_the_misanthrope · -5 points · Posted at 15:33:02 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
By being a huge cunt about it.
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walrusunit · -5 points · Posted at 18:15:34 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Everyone?
Sevrek · 33 points · Posted at 18:22:03 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yes I meant a literal 100% with no margin for error
CptnStarkos · -1 points · Posted at 18:39:17 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
122.33% +/- 8.1%...
Phillile · -8 points · Posted at 19:00:44 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Oh honey are you honestly going to use the tone argument? Are you honestly going to insist that black people be polite and civil in the face of being murderlized? Honey, you can just fuck the fuck off.
pewpew444 · 4 points · Posted at 19:16:46 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
You should try to sound less like a patronizing cunt to people you disagree with.
Phillile · -2 points · Posted at 19:55:20 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
So tone argument again? Because if it isn't absolutely apparent, I don't have any shits to give people like you.
pewpew444 · 2 points · Posted at 20:03:59 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
No I agree with your original point. I'm just saying you're a fool for thinking that it will do anything other than make people dislike/ dismiss you. You can continue this rude attitude all you want, it just won't help you anywhere in life.
Phillile · -2 points · Posted at 20:06:35 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
If you're trying to insinuate that people would otherwise be persuaded were it not for a rude, patronizing tone, then you have a fundamental misunderstanding of the purpose of the tone argument.
WhiskeyGrin · 17 points · Posted at 16:31:13 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
All your points are completely valid. I say that in all seriousness, with sincerity.
Counterpoints
Police are in contact with black people more so than other ethnicities because (due to economic disadvantages that black Americans face), black communities tend to be higher crime communities. When you are talking about hundreds of thousands of interactions between police and the public, it bears consideration that interactions going horribly wrong are going to happen/keep happening.
2nd point
If I decided to google black on black, black on white, police on white, white on black, and police on black, how do you all think these statistics would read?
forman98 · 17 points · Posted at 17:05:14 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
That is a valid point. A factor that is not taken into effect is how a cop's reaction changes over time due to so many run-ins with criminals that are also black. It seems that this has breed a mistrust for anyone black that fits the some form of the criminal stereotype they have seen. Are the cops more suspicious because some guy is wearing clothes typically associated with the criminals they see, or are they suspicious because some guy has the same skin color as the criminals they typically see?
They would read however they end up reading, but they would fail to take into account which ones were racially motivated. Simply looking up the broad statistic of black on white crime will not prove anyone's point. You have to dig deeper and look at more factors and variables to determine what really happened. I could google # of white presidents that have declared war vs # of black presidents that have declared war and come to the conclusion that white people love war.
WhiskeyGrin · 6 points · Posted at 17:07:42 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Great points. Good comment.
mcopper89 · 1 points · Posted at 04:57:46 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
On your last paragraph, racial motivation does not affect how it impacts black lives. The organization is called black lives matter and came in response to the death of a black person. So it seems that they are saying that the killing of black people shows a lack of value from the group killing. So who is the largest demographic killing blacks and therefore showing the least value for blacks....it is other black people. Do you see how this undermines what they started as. If they think black lives matter, their priorities should have obesity, heart disease, and black on black crime WAY above police brutality.
Another point is that police brutality does affect everyone. When they made it about race, they alienated the huge group of people who have been mistreated by police and are not black.
Minn-ee-sottaa · 5 points · Posted at 23:34:12 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The "black on black crime" talking point isn't relevant. How are black Americans supposed to handle crime in their own communities when the people who are supposed to protect them from said crime, beat and shoot them with impunity? You're really gonna call the cops if there's a higher probability of them making the situation worse?
WhiskeyGrin · -1 points · Posted at 01:09:52 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I doubt it's a "higher probability". Honestly I think rogue police make up a subset of cops that could be called an extreme outlier.
machenise · 3 points · Posted at 01:53:13 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
This is the best explanation of BLM that I've ever seen.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 03:28:05 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
If a house in a neighborhood is on fire, the fire department doesn't put water on every house. Hence why "All Lives Matter" is fucking stupid.
Also, the phrase is actually "Black Lives Matter Too"
BriaCass · 2 points · Posted at 17:16:22 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Thank you.
Love_asweetbooty · 7 points · Posted at 15:27:07 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
You really believe there aren't white people who have been unjustly shot and killed by police officers? The media just doesn't cover it like they do if it's a black person.
HappyGangsta · 14 points · Posted at 15:42:16 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I would also like to add that I'm sure there are Hispanic people that have been treated like that
forman98 · 10 points · Posted at 15:50:56 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm sure there are cases of white people being unjustly shot by the cops, but where they shot because they are white? That's the distinction everyone who comments AllLiveMatter seems to forget. White people aren't killed simply because they are white. Atleast not as often as black people are.
Yes, white people are killed all the time. But how often is it due to them being white and not some other circumstance?
jabberwockxeno · 1 points · Posted at 20:30:25 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Can you link to examples where it occurred solely due to race and not other factors that, while not justifying the killing, still are race independent and haven't led to white deaths in similar situations?
DeadHeadAhead · 0 points · Posted at 12:36:17 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Listen...all I hear are crickets. Who would have thought?
Love_asweetbooty · -2 points · Posted at 15:58:51 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yeah, they are never doing ANYTHING wrong when they get shot. Never breaking laws, acting aggressively towards the police or others. Cops are just riding along, looking for black people to shoot. All the BLM movement is doing is driving a stake further into race relations.
forman98 · 2 points · Posted at 16:56:46 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
So is the AllLivesMatters movement that formed simply out of spite.
Coldbeam · 0 points · Posted at 01:00:23 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
But you're assuming that every black person unjustly killed by police was only done so because he was black.
dmkicksballs13 · -1 points · Posted at 15:42:45 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
They hate hearing it, but in the cases of murder, more black are murder by black people. Something like 80%.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 18:57:00 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I only recently installed RES and this thread is a goldmine for trying out the tagging system.
jabberwockxeno · 4 points · Posted at 20:29:20 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm not saying you don't have a point, but the police violence part is pretty indiscriminate between whites and blacks if you account for the overall crime rate of the area.
Just like there's a systematic racism issue, there's also a systematic violence, "shoot first ask questions later" and lack of de-escalation issue.
Ozwaldo · 1 points · Posted at 15:38:27 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The problem is the media. There were lots of cases of white people being killed by the police last year as well, but that isn't controversial so it doesn't make headlines. Seriously the media is absolutely fucking shit up in this country.
forman98 · 0 points · Posted at 15:52:32 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
But were those killings of white people by cops racially motivated? That is the distinction. This isn't an issue of cops being horrible, it's an issue of people being murdered based on the color of their skin.
Ozwaldo · 2 points · Posted at 15:56:06 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I think it's ridiculous that people are assuming the motivation was the color of their skin.
DeadHeadAhead · 1 points · Posted at 12:38:04 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Then provide us with some links to back up your claims.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 17:11:04 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
That was the original point, but then they went full retard.
eatadick92 · 2 points · Posted at 20:28:37 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Not trying to be racist, but how do you explain that black on black violence is way more prominent? Or black on white? Or cops on white?
forman98 · 2 points · Posted at 20:31:23 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Is it racially motivated? Are there long standing prejudices that are leading to these situations? If so, we can include them in this conversation. If not, then that is an entirely different topic probably more related to drugs and just general crime and not based in race.
fgump910 · 3 points · Posted at 19:18:11 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Can we all just agree that "black lives matter" was not the greatest slogan in the world? It's pretty ambiguous and given how short-sighted people can be—they should have seen the backlash coming from a mile away! I'd love to be a fly on the wall when whatever PR team picked this out, because IMO it was the single most debilitating part of the movement.
ArtsWarrior · 0 points · Posted at 20:14:41 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Also the initials of Black Lives Matter co-opt the name of a federal agency
kalidescopetitties · -1 points · Posted at 15:10:19 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's a little hard to get the right message when a group of people use it as an excuse to riot/loot. It had good intentions but the loudest party will always be heard the most and it led to people not getting the right message.
beefstewforyou · -1 points · Posted at 18:16:32 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
They could have expressed those problems in a better way.
[deleted] · -6 points · Posted at 14:41:40 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Do we have proof these people were killed for being black?
forman98 · 11 points · Posted at 14:55:55 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
This one we definitely do. The killings were motivated by his racism (and insanity), that is a known fact.
The police ones are grey, but it is hard to deny it. Why shoot a guy in the back in broad daylight? He was running away, not threatening anyone's life in that moment. And it was multiple shots, not one. The cop unloaded a few rounds in the guy that was running away from him. That's murder in any other situation. It can be argued that it happened due to the cop's prejudice. He was way more skiddish because the guy filled out some negative black stereotypes in the guy's mind. Why did the guy run? Because he doesn't trust cops due to situations just like the one that was about to unfold. It was 2 scared people. One was scared of the other because, historically, the other was scared of him just because he was black.
ch00d · 0 points · Posted at 18:25:45 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The bible study thing was Dylan Roof murdering a group of black people. BLM is about cops killing black people.
goldgibbon · 1 points · Posted at 19:48:44 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The point isn't that they are consciously prejudiced against, but rather that there is a bias in the results, whether conscious or unconscious
[deleted] · -1 points · Posted at 16:40:55 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Dude all lives matter who gives a fuck about BLM. What about syrian lives or Iraqi lives? Like I give a fuck about hoodlums acting gangster then gettng shot by a cop. When Michael died he played stupid games. He's 19 he should know not to steal. The only ones that are really fucked is like the 40 year old dad who got choked to death. Other than that I don't care if gangsters or hoodlums get killed for being idiots. Play stupid games win stupid prizes.
forman98 · 5 points · Posted at 16:57:42 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Did I mention any of those gangsters or even Michael Brown? No.
Which I mentioned...
[deleted] · -1 points · Posted at 18:05:58 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
But a lot of the BLM is people standing up for the gangsters that died. As well as idiots going into university classes and yelling at people cause they are white which makes them privileged apparently lol
CyberClawX · -4 points · Posted at 15:03:45 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
They didn't choke him to death. They didn't murder him. He died from cardiac arrest. Yes. Heart attack. The cops didn't try to kill him. It looked more like an unfortunate accident than "police on black" violence. You sound like sensationalist media.
He did resist by the way, by saying no, and not complying with police orders for a few minutes. When cops tried to handcuff him standing, he kept resisting, slapping their hands away and saying don't touch me (it's called resisting arrest). What do you think will happen if the police are trying to handcuff you and you keep slapping their hands away? They'll go "Oh, ok, let's not arrest this criminal then." The chokehold I believe was illegal, but even when down, he kept resisting at first. Is it strange cops didn't believe when this huge man twice their size that was resisting arrest, started saying he needed help? They thought it was a scheme.
I don't think there was any evidence of racism. A cop used an illegal move on someone selling something illegally, that didn't comply with their orders, and then resisted arrest, might be poor judgement on the cops' part. Unfortunate. The criminal died as a result of the altercation. He didn't die because he was black. He died because he resisted arrest, had a bad heart, and when cops took it to the physical level his heart gave up. Might not have happened if they drew their batons, or firearms, or whatever the correct procedure was. (I rather suffer a chokehold than a gun in my face personally)
[deleted] · -2 points · Posted at 16:55:10 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
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jakefromstatefarm10 · 0 points · Posted at 03:27:45 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I mean, the numbers don't lie. Number of blacks killed by cops compared to violent crime stats is pretty consistent.
MobthePoet · -2 points · Posted at 18:29:24 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
If you think there aren't white people being killed just because they're white then you need to open your eyes.
Violence against race exists against every race. It's just way more open to criticism when it happens to a black person because they were the slaves and whatnot. And I'll say it probably DOES happen more, institutionally, to blacks.
mebeblb4 · -5 points · Posted at 16:20:07 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I don't think you understand these things as well as you would like to.
Gifididy · 6 points · Posted at 18:08:55 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Lives don't matter
theredwillow · 2 points · Posted at 03:07:32 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
All they had to do was add "too". #blacklivesmattertoo Why doesn't anyone ever explain it that way?
halfar · 2 points · Posted at 05:01:15 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
http://chainsawsuit.com/comic/2014/12/08/all-things-considered/
[deleted] · 13 points · Posted at 12:45:14 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
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CyberClawX · 2 points · Posted at 15:06:57 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The message, while short, was meant to be read as "Black Lives >also< Matter" in comparison to the assumption that only white lives matter. That said, it culminated in a riot... so the effort came undone by some barbarians that were in it for the personal profit.
attackontitanite · -5 points · Posted at 14:49:56 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
You're absolutely right, they should just stay quiet whenever they get wrongly killed and have no justice in death. How dare they entertain the notion of their lives mattering, it's almost like they don't know they're black, and therefore don't matter
Mr_Goodknight · 3 points · Posted at 15:05:04 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Destroying neighborhoods and rioting is not the correct way to get the point across, peaceful mass protesting is
attackontitanite · 2 points · Posted at 15:29:46 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
And don't dismiss the idea of human lives mattering by going "well some of them do this!" That's a fucked mindset to have.
attackontitanite · -2 points · Posted at 15:09:09 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I want to agree, I really do, but peaceful protests have been happening for years and the problems still exist. And don't pretend that everyone who thinks that black lives matter (and they do, they're human beings too ya know) are all violent rioters, those are just who media outlets are focusing on to dismiss the idea behind black lives mattering. Riots and violence are definitely not the answer here, but it's not like they're happening for no reason
mikey_says · 1 points · Posted at 20:45:36 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
No, right, burning and looting Baltimore totally stopped the police from throwing black people in jail. That makes sense.
How about the BLM "activists" who say we should "give pigs wings"? Because, you know, I think murdering cops is the only clear solution to this problem.
attackontitanite · 2 points · Posted at 20:47:33 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Obviously it fucking won't, but you can't pretend like it wasn't going to happen eventually if black people keep getting wrongfully imprisoned and killed. People lash out when they get mad enough
mikey_says · -1 points · Posted at 20:54:06 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Maybe black people need to quit gangbanging and killing each other instead of using cops as a scapegoat. Cops are scared of black neighborhoods for a reason. Let's not pretend the black community doesn't have its own very real problems to address.
That's not to say that cops don't literally get away with murder all the time, but to think that only happens to black people is laughable and anything but constructive.
attackontitanite · 1 points · Posted at 20:58:00 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It happens to black people way more than any other race, probably because their scared of black communities. And black people are constantly taking stands against violence in their own communities, you just don't hear about it because it isn't as sensational as "BLM starts giant riot!"
mikey_says · -1 points · Posted at 21:01:50 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Blacks also commit way more crime than any other race in America, which would definitely lead to more black people being questioned and locked up. Of course profiling is a thing, and the issue is complicated, but blaming literally everything on white people is not the fucking answer.
attackontitanite · 1 points · Posted at 21:03:23 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Who said it was? Why be so defensive?
mikey_says · 2 points · Posted at 21:08:42 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
BLM social media seemed obsessed with "sipping white tears" and shunning white people from attending any meetings or participating in any way.
BLM at its core is a segregationist organization. Ever heard of a black supremacist? You'd be amazed at the shit some of these people believe.
attackontitanite · 3 points · Posted at 21:10:46 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Members of the organization sure, but that doesn't mean everyone who says black lives matter thinks that way. Too many people hear that and think it's anti white because it's pro black, like everyone has to pick a side
mikey_says · 2 points · Posted at 21:16:38 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It is anti white. I've never heard so much whining about privilege in my life. Just watch some of that Francesca whatever her name is on MTV talking about how white people shouldn't be allowed to participate in conversations about race. These are mainstream views. BLM has no credibility because they aren't willing to listen to the other side. All they do is shout people down with their crocodile tears of oppression, pretending to be Martin Luther King while ignoring the actual problems in their communities.
Trayvon Martin was a piece of shit. Michael Brown was a piece of shit. Yet, for whatever reason, they are the poster children on the movement. Get real. BLM is a joke.
attackontitanite · 1 points · Posted at 21:18:05 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yeah fuck Trayvon for fighting back against a strange man who was following him then dying
mikey_says · 1 points · Posted at 21:22:51 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Don't get me wrong, dude. Zimmerman was also a gigantic piece of shit who should not have been anywhere near a gun. But, really, Trayvon had already gotten away. He doubled back to Zimmerman's truck for the sole purpose of fucking him up.
Pick your fights wisely, because that obese failed-cop whose head you're repeatedly smashing into the pavement might just have a gun. I don't feel bad for Trayvon. He got what was coming.
attackontitanite · 2 points · Posted at 21:26:03 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Somehow I don't think wanting to fight the guy who followed you around with a gun means you deserve to die and have your reputation trashed on tv, but alright. Wasn't a smart thing to do, but the way he was treated after his death was just disgusting. The whole thing should not have been made into the media shitshow that it was
mikey_says · 2 points · Posted at 21:28:48 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I don't think Trayvon necessarily deserved to die, but he did not adequately assess the risk that comes with smashing someone's head into the pavement in a stand-your-ground state. You know you can kill someone like that, right? It's not like Trayvon was just some innocent kid.
It should not have become what it did. I agree with you, but for apparently different reasons. Trayvon has basically become a martyr to the black community even though he was just another dumb thug who thought he was tough and caught a bullet.
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attackontitanite · 4 points · Posted at 14:59:22 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
You don't think they're trying? Either way it's hard when people can get off for murdering you and a huge portion of the population finds ways to blame the victim, making it seem like they deserved it. Black culture in America has been fucked over from the start, and the idea of their lives mattering less has been ingrained into society. I agree about peaceful protests, but those have been happening for years and nothing has changed, can you see where the violence and frustration comes from?
mikey_says · 0 points · Posted at 20:48:17 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The cops are obviously a problem, but that doesn't make it all whitey's fault. Plenty of black cops have participated in this fiasco.
attackontitanite · 2 points · Posted at 20:56:05 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's centuries of purposely keeping black communities poor and uneducated while dismissing them publicly as nothing but violent thugs. Also private prison companies demanding higher numbers of prisoners, basically modern day slavery
mikey_says · 0 points · Posted at 20:59:43 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
So no individual black person can ever be at fault for acting like a violent criminal? It's all society's fault? Are you saying it's impossible to escape the systems in place?
attackontitanite · 2 points · Posted at 21:00:50 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Not what I'm saying, but the majority of people are eventually going to act the way they're treated
[deleted] · -14 points · Posted at 13:01:27 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Oh do elaborate
jaybee1414 · 19 points · Posted at 14:01:56 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
"dividing people by race is bad. Let's fix it by dividing people by race"
attackontitanite · 0 points · Posted at 14:18:30 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Well when people are already divided by race and made to think that a certain race matters less than others, what's wrong with saying that the lives of that race do matter? It's not like they're saying that black lives matter more or only black lives matter, just that they do matter and people should stop thinking they don't. I think the organization themselves suck dick, but the sentiment of their title I completely agree with.
[deleted] · 23 points · Posted at 13:10:28 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
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Pperson25 · 33 points · Posted at 13:26:36 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
about point #1, you're ignore the fact that there are more white people than black people to begin with in the U.S., but proportionally black people are shot more often than white people.
source
ggggtotalwarrior · 12 points · Posted at 14:08:23 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
If we're going by murder rates it's almost entirely by black people I might add. https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2013/crime-in-the-u.s.-2013/offenses-known-to-law-enforcement/expanded-homicide/expanded_homicide_data_table_6_murder_race_and_sex_of_vicitm_by_race_and_sex_of_offender_2013.xls#disablemobile
The police make up a very small portion of blacks getting killed and in many cases that get outrage it is quite possible that lethal force was necessary, but people decide to riot because they assume all cases are those of racist cops, because they're projecting their own racism onto white cops. No one talks about excessive force if a black cop kills a white guy, or white-white/black-black.
[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 13:48:52 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
But points 2 and 3 are still on point. And black people are killed by other blacks far more than police.
I don't have a source on-hand for this because laziness.
attackontitanite · 1 points · Posted at 14:19:01 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Doesn't make it okay to kill innocent black people
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 16:02:25 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
No one is disagreeing with you.
attackontitanite · 1 points · Posted at 16:08:13 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Just because black people kill other black people doesn't make it alright for other people to kill them too. It's not okay when they kill innocents, it's not okay when anyone kill innocents. The whole "well black people kill each other all the time" just seems like a justification
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[deleted] · -5 points · Posted at 13:59:32 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
No, it's an apples and oranges thing and people like you getting confused is running it. If I like apples and support apples, that has nothing to do with the taste of oranges. They're both fruit. Both are good. But in this world the apples have less representation and more discrimination. Most people think apples are based. I still support apples, but now I tell people so apples can become okay to exist. That's just how it works.
[deleted] · -2 points · Posted at 13:03:08 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
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notbarry1 · 1 points · Posted at 13:19:57 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
No
AubieTheTiger · 0 points · Posted at 22:56:12 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Black lives matter is a joke
Porphyrogennetos · 1 points · Posted at 05:05:54 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
No.
Lcs5829 · 9 points · Posted at 13:37:22 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
New remakes or shitty movies based on books
UnknownUser404 · 8 points · Posted at 15:08:06 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
This is not a new trend exclusive to 2015.
Lcs5829 · 1 points · Posted at 15:20:09 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yeah, but definitely one I've noticed a lot more
Aturom · 9 points · Posted at 18:09:28 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
America's infatuation with being in a dystopian forever war state whether it be actual war, the war on terrorism, or the war on drugs. As with most things, I implore people to look where the money is going-this will illuminate people's motivations.
BigStereotype · 3 points · Posted at 03:14:09 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Bruh that's been happening since the cold war. 1945.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 03:46:34 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
illuminate people's motivations
Aturom · 1 points · Posted at 03:57:41 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Lol
PhotonSharpedo54 · 6 points · Posted at 14:21:17 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Shitty vines like "WHAT ARREE THOOOOSSEE"
Nem985 · 6 points · Posted at 16:04:48 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
"I died"
You didn't fucking die, shut the fuck up
The_Eggsecutive · 9 points · Posted at 19:19:49 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Fairly certain that's been around since way before 2015.
Duckman1337 · 2 points · Posted at 06:45:39 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
lmao i died XD XD 😂😂😄😄😄😃😃😃😃😊😊😊😊☺☺😙😙😗😗😌😜😝😣😞😙🐼🐘🐭🐗🐧🐤🍪👌👌👉👉👇👇👌👌👌👍👍✊✊ LOL SO FUNNY XD
commanderlestat · 6 points · Posted at 18:43:28 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Isis was a rather shitty trend.
_Sytri_ · 21 points · Posted at 15:08:25 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Don't know if this is world wide but definitely UK wide.
The male top knot. Generally whenever a new trend comes out I can see how people will look at it in 30 years time and most of them have been weird but OK. But when I have to explain to my kids that yes, my generation of trendy men shaved the sides of their heads and then put what was left into a teeny tiny pony tail at the top of their head. I can already see the look of shame in my children's eyes.
Ridiculous.
Jasani · 6 points · Posted at 16:02:53 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
"It's called a warriors wolf tail."
_Sytri_ · 4 points · Posted at 16:04:23 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
"No darling, that's not a pony tail, that's a warriors wolf tail."
Yup, still looking at me with shame.
joecb91 · 1 points · Posted at 05:44:59 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Unfortunately it is quite widespread in America too
Zugwat · 1 points · Posted at 19:38:46 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
They call it the "Man Bun" in the US. I didn't know it existed until my sisters asked me if I was trying to be trendy (I've been doing a Top Knot because it's a traditional hairstyle in my tribe).
Baconlightning · 69 points · Posted at 11:48:54 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
selfie sticks.
forman98 · 360 points · Posted at 13:40:42 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Counter view: the trend of hating on selfie sticks was the worst trend of 2015. I heard more people complaining about them than I ever saw anyone using one.
[deleted] · 52 points · Posted at 14:59:31 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
If you travel at all to tourist sites they genuinely are everywhere
forman98 · 136 points · Posted at 15:19:53 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Is it a bad thing? I've seen them being used. I even own one. People want to be in a picture with the cool thing they are visiting so they bought a selfie stick to show more of the cool things and less of their face. They will look back at that picture and remember the moment fondly. We've all seen a million pictures of famous buildings, and we can even go there and take another picture just like the other million out there. Or, it can be personalized by standing in it and having it as tangible memory.
Don't like seeing it shared on Facebook? Don't get on there, easy.
Think people are stupid for bringing it out into public? Don't be such a grump. No harm is being done to you or anyone else. Let people have fun.
Milain · 15 points · Posted at 15:33:03 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)*
It's a great invention for me. Whenever I travel I'm too shy to ask people to take a picture of us and I don't like to pose infront of a stranger who takes a pic. I won't have to deal With this in the future
Edit: plus not getting the Camera / smartphone stolen from the kind stranger who agreed to take a pic
[deleted] · 8 points · Posted at 16:26:06 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I don't like to have to hand over my phone to a stranger. My husband is tall enough to take a selfie and get most of a monument in the background with both of us in the foreground but not everyone is so tall. If I was traveling alone I might buy a selfie stick.
Heheas · 3 points · Posted at 18:03:30 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Not only that, they could take a picture that you consider blurry, or you might think your face looks weird in the picture and you don't want to inconvenience them for a long time.
The_Gecko · 2 points · Posted at 22:09:01 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Also if you hold them at the right angle as opposed to straight up in the air (which everyone seems to do for some stupid reason) then the stick isn't even IN the shot.
Heheas · 2 points · Posted at 18:02:17 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I completely agree with you.
Oh, you want to have a picture of your significant other and yourself on your memorable vacation? Too bad, should have brought some friends on your personal vacation. ...Well you could always let a stranger hold your $$$ phone/camera and take your picture and hope that they don't run off with it.
Needless to say, my wife and I went on quite a few vacations and we had pictures of one or the other in front of places that would be memorable for us, but we couldn't get a good picture of the both of us until after we bought a selfie stick.
That being said, we don't always have it out, and we always make sure to collapse it down and put it away when we are done so we aren't walking around waving a giant stick like a blind man who doesn't know up from down.
PalladiuM7 · 1 points · Posted at 19:21:48 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I was given one for Christmas in 2014. It has been used as a butt scratcher ever since.
Anustart15 · 1 points · Posted at 17:24:25 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
If you live in a tourist area and half the sidewalk is blocked by someone's phone on a stick while you are just trying to walk, it gets annoying pretty quick. People with selfie sticks tend to be oblivious to how much they are getting in the way of other people
[deleted] · -1 points · Posted at 18:54:40 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's just increasing levels of self absorption
eljefe43 · 0 points · Posted at 15:45:07 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's more about the improper/ridiculous times that people use them
mudbutt20 · 7 points · Posted at 16:06:56 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
That's just people being stupid. Hate the people, not the stick.
eljefe43 · -2 points · Posted at 20:27:15 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Or just dislike both
RedStag00 · -3 points · Posted at 21:25:11 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
This right here is the disconnect.
I don't understand this impulse whatsoever. Why? What makes you look at something and then think "Thats nice, but it would be better if I could also have a masturbatory photo of myself along with it!" I find it vain, narcississtic, and self-absorbed. If I want to remember a place, I'll take a picture of what I saw, not a picture of what someone would have seen if they stood 2 feet away from me and were particularly interested in my dopey grin.
Of course no harm is being done. But its one of those "sign of the times" that puts the cultural divide between generations front and center. It highlights the "Look at me! SHARE LIKE SUBSCRIBE!!" mantra that millennials embody. The selfie stick symbolizes the worst aspects of your generation.
forman98 · 3 points · Posted at 21:57:36 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
To each his own. It's not that big of a deal. Like I said, we all have access to a million pictures online of mt. Rushmore, but none them contain me and my family unless I take one. It'll either be with a self stick or from a stranger using my camera, either way people are going to be in it with their dopey grins. There is absolutely nothing new about that. Being in the picture of the cool thing isn't new, there is just a tool now that makes it easier. It's not a sign of the times and not all people who use one are narcissistic. I guarantee that if today's camera tech was available in the last century, the same pictures would be taken, so calm down with that dumb millineal bullshit.
RedStag00 · 1 points · Posted at 22:07:21 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Like you said: to each his own. I'm allowed to think you look ridiculously conceited and desperate for attention, and you're allowed to think I'm an idiot asshole for thinking so. Defend it any which way you want, but you're still going to be judged negatively.
forman98 · 3 points · Posted at 22:11:01 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
And so are you, it equals out.
dmkicksballs13 · 5 points · Posted at 15:46:59 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
That's like bitching that camera's are everywhere. They're practical as fuck.
invisible39 · 17 points · Posted at 15:17:12 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's probably the biggest example of "people are having fun different >:(" of recent years. Who cares? Move on. It's not narcissistic to want a photo of yourself.
neocommenter · 2 points · Posted at 19:35:52 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
When they make contact with my person because someone else isn't paying attention to their surroundings.
invisible39 · 3 points · Posted at 19:40:39 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Okay so what you have there isn't a problem with selfie sticks. It's with people that are inconsiderate of others.
It's the same with so much stuff reddit likes to bitch about, the thing isn't the problem - it's the person.
If someone pisses you off by being on the phone in the cinema do you take it out pre-emptively on every cellphone user? No, you think "that guy is a tool". The thing isn't the problem the person is. You don't then go on message boards and say "oh you use a cell phone? You're a total prick because one time someone ruined a movie with one".
neocommenter · 3 points · Posted at 19:58:28 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I should have been more clear, sorry. What I was trying to say is they only bother me when I get whacked with one.
invisible39 · 3 points · Posted at 20:01:02 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
In that case, disregard what I said. That's a perfectly understandable point of view. It's just a shame that the other one is all too common.
rangemaster · 2 points · Posted at 17:47:52 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I dunno, someone brought one to my high school reunion and it worked really well at getting everyone in a group picture at a football game.
Cryzgnik · 1 points · Posted at 17:50:47 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
And I heard more people complaining about terrorist attacks than I ever saw.
So that means the other people are wrong for complaining, I guess?
forman98 · 2 points · Posted at 18:20:40 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Did you really just compare selfie sticks to terrorist attacks. Do people actual complain about terrorist attacks? Are the terrorist attacks annoying them, or are they actually kind of terrifying them?
People aren't wrong for complaining, it's just a complete waste of time. It's a stick that people put their cameras on and it seems to cause near violent reactions from people on this site (and a few I know in person). They act like it is a plague and a horrible offense against them.
maagdenpalm · 1 points · Posted at 22:02:00 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I actually found that they improve my selfies since I can get a better angle and distance than what my arms can do. I hate how there's an overall trend on hating people who like taking pictures of themselves. It's refreshing to actually feel positive about your looks.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:49:34 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
first time I saw a selfie stick in person was yesterday, it was used to take a picture of the 12-ish international students attending crepe night at our dorm. it's basically the same as getting the person with the longest arms to take the picture, what's the issue??
barcode1555 · 1 points · Posted at 00:47:31 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I live in one of the world's major tourist cities. Pretty much every day I do something other than go to the office, I see someone using one.
ThatAstronautGuy · 1 points · Posted at 02:19:12 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Counterpoint: you don't live in a tourist area! When I was in Europe last week they were all over in the tourist areas! A good tenth of people had one, more depending on the age and ethnicity of the people.
BeanBagBuddy · 1 points · Posted at 02:57:36 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Right? Why does it matter? If somebody wants to get a bigger picture with their phone, or whatever they want to do with it - let them.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 03:48:42 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Agreed. I have not yet physically seen a selfie stick but I have seen billions of memes shitting on them.
RadiantPumpkin · 1 points · Posted at 04:30:50 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I thought the same thing until I went to Mexico. They were everywhere. And I assume any super touristy place would be the same
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 14:20:30 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I saw a bunch at my grad school commencement and they were pretty obnoxious.
Jucie_Potatochip · 11 points · Posted at 14:48:08 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Why were they obnoxious? A grad school commencement seems like an appropriate place for them. If you're taking a family photo it allows you to take a picture of everyone at once and not have someone left because the needed to take the picture.
ImAnAgentOfChaos1322 · -8 points · Posted at 13:46:11 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Wrong, people use those pieces of shit more than you think.
forman98 · 13 points · Posted at 13:58:46 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
You sound angry about the use of a selfie stick. Is that the hill you want to die on?
ImAnAgentOfChaos1322 · -6 points · Posted at 14:04:18 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Not angry, so much as irritated. Why ask that? The dying on the hill thing I mean. 😂
forman98 · 5 points · Posted at 14:47:15 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Because you call a little metal pole a piece of shit. Sounds like unnecessary anger towards an inanimate object.
Fatmanhobo · -4 points · Posted at 14:51:32 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
When I went to florida in 2014 there were people with narcissticks everywhere.
[deleted] · 83 points · Posted at 14:13:16 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's funny that people will happily hand a total stranger their phone (think about all the shit you keep on your phone) and ask them to take a picture, but they think selfie sticks are stupid.
nobody16 · 18 points · Posted at 13:16:13 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
They are very handy when travelling.
People using them at parties or reunions is what I don't understand.
forman98 · 8 points · Posted at 15:23:21 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Because no one has a clunky camera that can stand up on it's own when you set the timer, and everyone wants to be in the picture. Solution is either a really long arm, or the selfie stick.
Or you make that one person you hate take the picture just so they aren't in it.
BriaCass · 2 points · Posted at 17:18:56 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
They're to get a big group in one tiny phone screen. I honestly don't see the problem with selfie sticks. They reach to places arms don't reach, and not only is it really cool, it's also convenient.
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 17:17:52 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Hey I know!! I want lots of people in my picture!! Instead of stretching the fuck out of my arm let me use a selfie stick so I can get all of my family and friends and even that bitch Sharon in my picture!!!
Haha so dumb.
dmkicksballs13 · 2 points · Posted at 15:47:54 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Can I ask why you don't like them?
goldgibbon · 2 points · Posted at 19:45:04 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
but they are so useful!
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 20:10:29 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Why? I think they're pretty practical if you want to take a wider shot of something like if you're at a cool site on vacation, or want to take a picture with your friends.
NumbMyLove · 1 points · Posted at 16:58:56 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
My selfie stick is the single most useful contraption I own. Then again I don't use it for selfies, I use it for online video karaoke lol
Tupnado21 · -14 points · Posted at 12:34:53 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
showerthought: selfie stick is a internet way of saying dildo
teelo97 · 21 points · Posted at 13:54:54 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
That doesn't make any sense.
Tupnado21 · 6 points · Posted at 13:56:44 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
its a stick you use on your self
teelo97 · 6 points · Posted at 14:01:24 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
That makes total sense.
Naggins · 10 points · Posted at 13:57:50 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
No it isn't
Tupnado21 · -4 points · Posted at 14:01:13 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Oh my bad, Naggins is the other word for dildo.
Naggins · 2 points · Posted at 14:03:31 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Now you're just not making any sense.
Tupnado21 · -1 points · Posted at 14:07:05 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
hands raised up emoji guy
Andromeda321 · 0 points · Posted at 13:07:08 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I feel like these are less common than they used to be already. Fingers crossed that's true!
🎙️ AnyReview · -4 points · Posted at 11:52:03 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
that is seriously true, selfie sticks are just on people's nerves
Kneph · 9 points · Posted at 20:57:49 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The need to know everyone's specially-named sexuality. What the fuck is gender fluid? Pansexual? Why is this a thing?
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 02:24:56 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
gender fluid isn't a sexuality, it's perceiving your gender as fluctuating between male/female and everything in between. Pansexual means being sexually and/or romantically attracted to all genders. It's a thing because it helps people understand themselves better, and enables them to find other people like them, and potential partners.
ExtraShard · 2 points · Posted at 22:04:49 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Last I checked there were 200+ "official" ones. What the fuck.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 02:16:00 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
What makes it official?
ExtraShard · 2 points · Posted at 02:43:14 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Nothing, it's just that they think that there's over 200.
Roman_Statuesque · 1 points · Posted at 04:08:23 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Facebook, obviously. /s
THE_GR8_MIKE · 1 points · Posted at 06:30:01 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Still don't get that. You either have a sausage or a bush. Fuck you mean you're pterodactylsexual?
aestus · 3 points · Posted at 17:09:20 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Damn it feels good to not be aware of most of these trends.
JefferyGoldberg · 2 points · Posted at 21:59:43 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I hear ya bud.
7bucksofhoobastank · 3 points · Posted at 18:45:25 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Well Donald Trump became a serious contender.
SamCropper · 3 points · Posted at 18:47:10 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
"Don't judge me" challenge.
eatmandarins · 3 points · Posted at 19:32:50 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Expensive juice cleanses. Are you fucking kidding me? Just no.
butt_sludge · 3 points · Posted at 19:33:19 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Dabbing.
EntertainmentBreeze · 3 points · Posted at 19:56:24 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
HEY GUYS I'M ETHAN BRADBERRY!!!1!!1!!!!
Pranks and 'social experiments' in general
Greatlordchinchin · 3 points · Posted at 20:34:07 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The term bae
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 22:26:06 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Social experiments. Please, you uneducated kids stop fucking with people for attention from the internet in the guise of "social experiments".
hipmommie · 3 points · Posted at 23:21:22 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Higher temperatures
MisterUndestructible · 3 points · Posted at 23:31:23 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Watch me whip/nae name won song of the summer which just proves how dumb our generation is getting.
BrainSick420 · 3 points · Posted at 00:41:03 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Gotta say, it was pretty fucking excruciating to watch that 'whip' song run its course.
dorrisx · 3 points · Posted at 00:51:37 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
•YOLO •Puffy Pants (Justin Bieber wore them) •Anything Justin Bieber contributed •Hoverboards (not ACTUAL Hoverboards, those stupid two-wheeled handleless segway boards) •Hotline Bling Dance (unless used for sarcasm) •Pretty much anything on Vine
immortalalphoenix · 3 points · Posted at 01:12:03 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
doing things cause it was "2015"
I'm looking at you Obama
DingJones · 3 points · Posted at 01:15:41 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
1 up vote = 1 prayer
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 01:51:14 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
The Dab.
Redarrow762 · 3 points · Posted at 01:55:21 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Kanye and Kim
Pizzashrapnel4 · 3 points · Posted at 02:18:28 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Hoverboards, stupidest shit ever.
fulminedio · 3 points · Posted at 03:47:31 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Beards becoming popular. Dude your a yuppie not grizzly adams. Shave that shit off your face.
[deleted] · 37 points · Posted at 11:52:21 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
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[deleted] · 17 points · Posted at 12:28:01 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)*
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ucantsimee · 2 points · Posted at 12:39:58 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Well there's your problem! You're only supposed to take half until you know how it will affect you.
potatohats · 2 points · Posted at 19:14:31 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It was because you are not maximum people!
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:22:17 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
train comes out of nowhere
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
andwhyshouldi · 1 points · Posted at 20:51:06 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Is that why you're a failed cult leader?
QUEENROLLINS · 14 points · Posted at 13:04:01 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
i see
haonowshaokao · 39 points · Posted at 12:41:46 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I used to be maximum people but now my siamese twin has been removed I'm feeling a lot less selfi
🎙️ AnyReview · 15 points · Posted at 11:54:30 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
i also hate taking selfies and posting 100's of selfies on Facebook, it's just like ME GETTING MAD
[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 15:29:56 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
As a maximum person, I'm offended by this.
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 17:21:16 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
#minimumlivesmatter
minutegongcoughs · 5 points · Posted at 16:51:26 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Can't tell if ???? or ???? but this is my favorite comment on Reddit ever
su5 · 3 points · Posted at 12:35:56 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
What bugs me is in 2014 it seemed like a bad thing to be caught doing, now its super common.
Pahk0 · 1 points · Posted at 16:35:10 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Selfies were ever a super bad thing? In what world? I hate how much of a buzzword "selfie" has become, but it's not like taking a picture of yourself was invented in 2013.
bong_ninja · 2 points · Posted at 13:31:07 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's pretty amusing watching a girl take selfies in the middle of class. Everyone's taking notes then there's that one girl with her arms stretched up making a duck face into her phone screen.
robwaterson · 25 points · Posted at 15:25:15 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Donald Trump. And the nightmare continues.
StructuralFailure · -2 points · Posted at 17:14:50 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I still don't understand why everybody is afraid of him. He's only one person.
acalacaboo · 3 points · Posted at 19:24:12 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
He's got a lot of people behind him. I'm not afraid of him, I'm afraid of what he turns Americans into.
Manadox · -1 points · Posted at 20:54:37 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
What do you genuinely think he's going to do? The way people talk about him you'd think at the inauguration he's going to slap on a Hitler mustache, slip a swastika arm band, and start seig heiling to the crowd.
acalacaboo · 2 points · Posted at 21:30:03 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Part of it is I don't know. But I also can't help but think that a scarily large portion of his supporters would still cheer if he did that.
Matador_14 · -8 points · Posted at 17:58:16 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
No worse than that shitbag Sanders.
robwaterson · -6 points · Posted at 18:08:28 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Absolute agreement. At least Trump is not ignorant of ECON 101.
Rocketflyer360 · 5 points · Posted at 14:47:29 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Hoverboards that don't hover.
insert-words-here · 4 points · Posted at 22:23:22 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The majority of the things I see here all involve social media. Not surprised. At. All.
I think one of the worst trends of 2015 was bandwagoning. Doing something just because everyone else does it doesn't make you any cooler. To me, it removes all sense of individuality and uniqueness while making you look like a tryhard which you are. (if you bandwagon).
Roman_Statuesque · 2 points · Posted at 04:11:20 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
See example: Hashtag activism, all the fun of protesting something from the comfort of your
safe spaceroom!Notorious_TN9ne · 1 points · Posted at 05:26:35 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I was actually speaking to someone recently about this. It's funny, considering not long ago there were ads being pushed out about "not giving into peer pressure" on the issues of drugs and things of that nature. Yet, why does that logic not apply to the bandwagons of today?
Specifically, I recall one ad pushing the point of "well if everyone else does it, I should too", and why that is a bad mentality to accept. Acceptance is one thing, but it seems the current trend pushes an agenda that is basically "if you're not with us, you're completely against us" and it may garner a bad reputation for someone that doesn't jump on the bandwagon, amongst other things.
insert-words-here · 2 points · Posted at 05:59:50 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Agreed. I find myself feeling ashamed being in tbe kind of society where it's either fit in or be left out. I'm thinking that for someone who doesn't jump on the bandwagon, some may get a bad rep or get ignored and forgotten altogether. The latter comes from personal experience that I really don't know how I got through. Anyways, interesting point that you made.
BeerofDiscord · 1 points · Posted at 12:38:18 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
While annoying, it's hardly new or recent.
KMFCM · 22 points · Posted at 14:56:57 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
"uptown funk"
jcskarambit · 6 points · Posted at 17:36:24 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I like that song.
rileyrulesu · 4 points · Posted at 17:42:04 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
That song was an amazing revival of classic funk. What don't you like about it?
lifeonbroadway · 3 points · Posted at 18:28:27 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
They probably just don't like funk music in general...
KMFCM · 5 points · Posted at 18:10:49 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
hearing it 20 times a day.
it was fine the first few times, but i had a feeling by the 3rd time that if it became the "song of the summer", I would be very sick of it by the time summer was over.
(oh, but the trumpets ripped straight from "jam" by Michael Jackson)
DrTelus · 1 points · Posted at 22:03:01 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Everything in it's ripped off. Oops Upside Your Head, Shack Up - it's just the hooks from other people's records bolted together and presented as something new.
Dallywack3r · 2 points · Posted at 18:19:27 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
BigStereotype · 1 points · Posted at 03:12:42 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I mean I'm not going to act lie I'm not stoked that early 80's disco/r&b is making a comeback.
KMFCM · 1 points · Posted at 13:22:24 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
which I wouldn't expect you to if you actually liked that stuff.
DrTelus · 1 points · Posted at 22:00:16 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
This. Total rip-off of some great records. Stealing other people's stuff note for note isn't a "tribute" or a "revival"; it's stealing.
laterdude · 64 points · Posted at 12:37:56 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Shaming
Now if you don't immediately agree transgenders, gay marriage and eating the booty like groceries are the greatest thing ever, you're immediately slammed as a knuckle-dragging neanderthal.
Whatever happened to giving people a chance to adapt? Bruce/Caitlyn getting tagged woman of the year is really force-feeding the issue.
KatiTheMatey · 40 points · Posted at 15:03:36 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
"Your intolerance to my intolerance is making me mad >:((("
MikoSqz · 4 points · Posted at 18:29:49 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I don't think that's a recent trend. In the 70s you got shamed if you were against racial integration and women working outside the home, in the 90s you got shamed if you were against legalizing gay sex, etc.
ugathanki · 20 points · Posted at 17:55:53 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
We've been waiting for decades, and you're complaining about it coming too fast?
Jacktoid · 11 points · Posted at 20:24:03 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Well, trans people have been around for a long time, and gay people since recorded history. (Trans people probably just as long, just less well recorded) It's pretty unfair to ask these groups of oppressed people to "wait for people to adapt"; they've literally been waiting for millennia. When we give people time to adapt it just paves the way for more oppression and laws like the one just passed in North Carolina. Sorry if you don't like being called a bigot, but the only real way to avoid that is to stop being one.
Ozwaldo · 12 points · Posted at 15:42:46 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
What a weird stance to take. The worst trend of 2015 in your book was that people who are resistant to progressive views aren't treated well? You don't like trans-gendered people and you think it sucks to be shamed for it?
I mean think about that for a second man, you're upset that you're being shamed... for not liking trans-gendered people? (Hint: What do you think has been happening to them for the longest time...)
nikkitgirl · 14 points · Posted at 18:06:41 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Seriously, as a trans person I'm just trying to live my life in a way that makes me happy (as opposed to how I felt extreme depression before transitioning). If I'm going about my business not affecting your life and you have a problem with it, you should feel shame, if you express that problem people should shame you.
Davadam27 · 1 points · Posted at 20:21:27 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Hey if that's how you get happy, then get happy. More power to ya. I would only disagree in one sense, if OP didn't have any exposure to trans people. Often the unknown can be discomforting. Doesn't make him horrible, just means there is some ignorance. Like you said as long as he's keeping his discomfort to himself, it's at least a little better.
koroshi-ya · 0 points · Posted at 22:35:36 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I don't think he was complaining about people like you, I'm really glad you're not depressed anymore.
But there are people who shove their sexuality into everyone elses' faces and when they get called out on the fact that they're being annoying or forcing their opinion on everyone else, they call them intolerant, even if they are tolerant of their sexuality/sex change/whatever, just not of all the bullshit around it.
Loodvig · 15 points · Posted at 16:25:45 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
He's not saying that he hates transgender and that he shouldn't be hated for it, he's saying that he shouldn't be looked down upon immediately for disagreeing that transgender is the greatest thing ever.
andwhyshouldi · 4 points · Posted at 21:00:21 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Pretty much what is being said is those of us who are not part of the LGBTQIAP+ community don't want to be screamed at for being whatever we are. Sectors of the Internet spend their lives picking fights or insulting straight people. You know what?
It is terrible how transgender, LGBT, etcetera, people were/are treated. That does not give them the right to attack people who are doing nothing to them and have not done anything to them besides exist as something that offends them.
They are doing what others have done to them.
Ozwaldo · 6 points · Posted at 18:27:09 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Cool, it's still a weird stance that he shouldn't be looked down on for disliking trans-gendered people. Like great, what a terrible plight, not being accepted for your lack of acceptance. It's not like they've had to struggle with anything...
Davadam27 · 1 points · Posted at 19:37:32 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)*
Read the comments man. It's not about not liking it. It could be about not understanding it. Just because something makes you uncomfortable doesn't make you a bad person. It means there's a lack of experience, or possibly only bad experiences.
To flip the script for an example, think about this. Slaves brought to North America most likely had only met white people that put them into captivity. Having only known those white people, they probably hated white people. It would be completely understandable.
OP never said he'll hate trans-gendered people forever! He just said he doesn't think they're the greatest thing ever. As long as he's not being an asshole to the folks he mentioned, and is just uncomfortable about it in his own head, then who the fuck cares.
If he's going out and voicing bigoted opinions that's one thing. His comment didn't suggest as such.
Edit: Also one of his things he didn't think was "the greatest thing ever" was eating ass. Me myself I'm all for it, but I completely understand people being uncomfortable about it and not liking or agreeing with it.
derp_08 · 7 points · Posted at 17:12:41 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
You're recrafting what he actually said. He said holding any sort of traditional views is automatically considered shaming. Even if the extent of your views stays within your head. There's a difference between disagreeing and discriminating, correct? Having traditional views on social issues is perfectly acceptable. It's when you start mistreating those 'untraditional' people that it becomes a problem.
Snuggly_Person · 4 points · Posted at 22:50:42 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The issue is that this easily bleeds over into "deciding to make uninformed declarations about someone else's life". If I say "that person's Christian? They probably don't let their kids think for themselves, I wish they would stop going to church" then that would make me an ignorant asshole. If someone "doesn't like gay marriage" or doesn't think gay people should have kids then they're being an ignorant asshole. It doesn't become any more acceptable to have sharp opinions on a stranger's life because some piece of it has been labeled a "social issue". Even if I never outright complain about my Christian neighbour, forming opinions on them based on false hypotheticals is still doing something wrong.
Some opinions are shaming. Their entire content is to say that doing X or being Y is worse than otherwise. When person A is informed that person B looks down on their life, they tend to be somewhat upset. Is any of that unusual? If you find out that I secretly think you're an asshole over something innocuous, should you not think any less of me? If I said I thought black people were inherently stupid I'd be downvoted to hell, even if I prefaced it with "I never say this out loud". What makes this different?
derp_08 · -1 points · Posted at 00:57:14 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
You bring up very good points, and just to clarify, I am not defending traditional viewpoints for the sake of them being traditional. I am merely saying that in today's environment, expressing ANY traditional viewpoint will automatically get you labeled as an 'x shamer'. It doesn't matter how nuanced your viewpoint is, you're a shamer.
I personally don't agree with homosexuality. However I'm not going to go out on the streets and protest gay weddings or try to stop gay couples from adopting. Hell I'm not even going to think negative thoughts about the person based on his/her sexuality. But I'm not going to agree with it. But some people would call me a shamer because of my views. That's not correct, and hopefully you can see the problem with that line of thinking can't you?
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:13:16 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
This is the only argument "against" homosexuality that I don't understand at all. What's there to agree exactly?
"I don't agree with people being taller than 6'4"". Like, what? lol
Like, veganism would never be a lifestyle option for me. Is it like that?
derp_08 · 2 points · Posted at 16:26:18 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
It goes against my religion. I'm not saying I hate homosexuals or anything, I'm saying it's a sin. But we're all sinners and if I decide to judge them for that I'd be a hypocrite.
Ozwaldo · -2 points · Posted at 17:32:32 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
We're talking about worst trends, and he said "Shaming." I read that as him being shamed for having those traditional views.
derp_08 · 4 points · Posted at 17:40:50 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)*
I kind of agree though. It's a cheap way of shutting down the opposing viewpoint if their viewpoint is automatically labeled as "shaming". How are you going to listen to the other side if you think they are shaming?
[deleted] · 9 points · Posted at 16:24:02 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
This is what people refer to as the "regressive left." We are tolerant and accepting of all people, except those that disagree with us. Remember, even assholes have just as much right to exist as you and me.
akunomegami · -1 points · Posted at 19:10:43 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I very much advocate the rights of the LBGT community, but in a way I get what the post is saying. I think we've gone a step too far with needing to be accepted. To the point where not being overwhelmingly positive about homosexuality or trans culture is getting people lashed out at. I've witnessed that kind of animosity toward people who weren't harming anyone in any way. They still get labeled as hateful bigots. I don't see how treating others the way we demand not to be treated helps the cause at all.
longlivethejeriot · -4 points · Posted at 18:16:51 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Respectfully, I think that here is where you started to veer off. There are certainly many hate-filled people towards transgendered people but I don't think that being "resistant towards progressive ideas" is always personal.
From my perspective, the narrative from the LGBT is that all this is extremely normal, not a big deal, should just be accepted without question and anything less is unreasonable. They need to understand that for many people, this isn't normal and doesn't make sense and it's not a personal thing. I have no issue with transgendered people on a personal level and zero interest in trying to tell them how to live their own lives. However, I am not obligated to affirm what they are doing or believe it is normal and that's not personal; it's based mostly on what I believe to be a logical thought process. I'm not convinced it's normal and there's a lot of scientific study going on that's either inconclusive or in favor of it being a mental disorder. There are plenty of studies showing that post-op, transgender individuals report greater satisfaction in their lives but over the long term, surgery has little affect on the suicide rate. We're supposed to hear "I'm a woman in a man's body" and just go "Oh, okay". No science. No explanation. How does that work? Is it a woman's soul? A woman's brain? See, there's no substantive and quantifiable evidence to support these claims, it's all just how they "feel", but plenty of people "feel" things in this world that are out of touch with reality, and we help them, not perpetuate their dysfunction.
From my perspective, our culture is a politically-correct "yes man" sending people to be mutilated, many of which still go on to kill themselves. That breaks my heart. Clearly, whatever internal struggles they're having aren't being fixed and I'm willing to be labeled a bigot or a hater in order to say "Hey, can't we step back a minute and think about this?" I consider transgendered people fellow human beings and I happen to not agree with some of their beliefs. Isn't that true of all people? But just because we don't agree doesn't mean we can't love each other. I just think that from the vocal LGBT community, their version of love is nothing less than complete and total affirmation and that's something that I can't give. So I just hope you understand that not everyone who isn't jumping on the bandwagon right away is doing it out of hate.
Ozwaldo · 3 points · Posted at 18:40:58 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yeah that's totally respectable. I'm a straight white male trapped in the body of a straight white male, so it's something I have absolutely no understanding of. I feel like it's pretty much none of my business as long as they aren't hurting anyone, I don't even really have any judgement to pass on them either way.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 16:46:15 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
SHE RAN OVER A DOOD AND GOT WOMAN OF THE YEAR WHAT A FUCKING WOMBLES
solestri · 1 points · Posted at 00:26:05 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
For what it's worth (and I say this as a lesbian), I think a lot of people jump right to the instant celebration/glorification not because the issue actually matters to them personally, but because they think being seen as being accepting makes them a good person. It's not just LGBT issues, either, I've seen the same attitude pop up in all sorts of situations.
Don't let people make you feel bad for not being perfect at being generous, sympathetic, and understanding at all times. It's okay to need time to adjust to thing, or not understand, or be weirded out. It's part of being human.
SylveoPlath · 1 points · Posted at 05:34:52 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
You dead name someone who's been public with her transition and wonder why you're considered a knuckle dragger...
PalladiuM7 · 1 points · Posted at 19:27:10 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I've seen it to a degree with not buying into the whole HAES movement. No, I don't care what you say, no doctor is shaming you for your weight. They are trying to do their job of keeping you healthy, and diabetes, high blood pressure, and weighing as much as some livestock are the opposite of that.
andwhyshouldi · 0 points · Posted at 20:56:10 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Exactly. I mean, I am so sorry that I was born straight, cisgender, whatever. People yell at me for being privileged. Do you want me to apologize for being born while I'm at it?
Someone went so far as to say EVERY person should be at least transgender, just because.... They should?
andwhyshouldi · 0 points · Posted at 20:56:11 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Exactly. I mean, I am so sorry that I was born straight, cisgender, whatever. People yell at me for being privileged. Do you want me to apologize for being born while I'm at it?
Someone went so far as to say EVERY person should be at least transgender, just because.... They should?
Exist50 · 0 points · Posted at 21:06:25 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
By a magazine that no one cares about?
IntHatBar · 80 points · Posted at 13:00:33 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Vaping. How many people became addicted to nicotine in 2015? How many people quit smoking and started vaping?
iliketosnuggle · 303 points · Posted at 14:38:42 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yeah, um, I smoked cigarettes for 15 years. I managed to quit cold turkey when I was pregnant, but other than that, I've been around either a half pack or full pack a day smoker. For 15 years.
The winter before last, I started vaping. I've had a few mishaps with having a cigarette or two, mostly if I'm out drinking, but for the most part I haven't smoked since the end of 2014.
I quit vaping about a month ago. I crave nothing, I can walk up stairs without feeling out of breath, I run anywhere from 5-10 miles a day, I don't have this phlegmy cough, I don't stink, and I'm not huddled outside during inclement weather trying to get a fix.
Vaping can stay. Sorry if you don't like it, but it's entirely too helpful.
blackflag29 · 29 points · Posted at 17:23:53 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The people who actually use it to quit smoking aren't the ones that people complain about, the people who never smoked but have $300 rigs just so they can blow clouds in everyone's faces are the ones people complain about.
Davadam27 · 23 points · Posted at 19:18:08 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Don't worry. People who vape hate them too.
HaroldSax · 2 points · Posted at 21:39:53 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Don't need to belong to demographic to hate an asshole.
Davadam27 · 2 points · Posted at 23:51:21 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Fact
atticusmars_ · 4 points · Posted at 23:02:03 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Everybody is happy for people like you. Nobody likes the 13 year old vapers who do smoke tricks.
Kovy22 · 3 points · Posted at 21:23:51 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Hes talking about high-schoolers that use vapes to do tricks and show off, not smokers trying to quit
bigfluffy3564 · 6 points · Posted at 15:31:33 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I dont hate vaping, I hate some people who cape though. My wife had a friend come over and she vapes and did it inside. I told her to go outside and she wanted to argue saying its just water vapors or some shit. That's not the point. The point is I dont come to your house and spit my chewing tobacco on your floor. Hell I dont even like to chew tobacco if I'm in other peoples house unless they also chew in the house. The people who think that just because its not a cigarette they can do it indoors or in stores just because its "not smoke" bother me.
Siniroth · 9 points · Posted at 18:17:45 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
So you hate assholes
bigfluffy3564 · 3 points · Posted at 21:09:29 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Exactly. I think I was being fair that I didn't want it in my house. Ya know considering its my house...
HaroldSax · 5 points · Posted at 21:41:06 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)*
I don't fuck get this. I just don't. Why can't people just ask "Hey, is it cool if I vape in here?" and just accept the fucking answer? I'm lucky that the people who live with me love the way it smells so I can blow my clouds of black cherry custard fucking surprise, but my buddy hates it so I don't do it in his house.
How is that so hard for people to understand?
bigfluffy3564 · 3 points · Posted at 21:51:00 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I especially hate it at restaurants/bars. I actually heard someone say "it used to be legal for people to smoke cigarettes here so its okay and this isn't as bad for others around" when asked if they could stop. I wanted to tell them that so was beating your wife, enslaving people, and public lynching.
HaroldSax · 2 points · Posted at 21:53:34 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
As lame as it sounds, the bar I frequent solved the issue by having a "vape night". It's cool. Local shops come out and you can try shit that they have, get some beers with your friends, and just chill. The whole point of the night is to accommodate those people and it's one night a week.
It's also fucking gigantic so it's still fairly easy to stay away from vape when you're inside.
bigfluffy3564 · 1 points · Posted at 22:42:12 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I dont have a problem with having a designated night or something along those lines. But if I want to take my wife to a bar for dinner and some drinks I dont want smoke or "vape" clouds around us
HaroldSax · 2 points · Posted at 22:56:35 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Of course. Shit man, I vape and I don't want that. Some juices are just really pungent and the smells are just way too strong.
PalladiuM7 · 3 points · Posted at 19:18:37 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
If that happened in my house, that's the point where the request to go outside becomes insistence and the invitation to come back in is rescinded.
bigfluffy3564 · 3 points · Posted at 21:10:41 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
My wife kind of tried to de-escalate things and I ended up just going to work on something in the barn. I dont care that its water vapors or whatever, it still smells
PalladiuM7 · 3 points · Posted at 21:33:36 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
You don't have to justify to me, friend. If you don't want something in your house, that's entirely your right. For example, there will never be a cactus allowed in my house, because I hate them.
bigfluffy3564 · 4 points · Posted at 21:41:41 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Funny cactus story. I was pulling some weeds around some flowers at this place I used to work. I was maybe 16. I reached to pull the weeds and what did I grab? A fucking catus. The prickers were deep and everywhere. I was pissed. Who knew cactus grew in Michigan? It is way to cold. I also hate cactus plants and will not allow them into my house unless they are the friendly type. So I do not blame you for your anti cactus law.
fuzzysham059 · 2 points · Posted at 22:00:01 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
What do you consider a friendly cactus? :)
bigfluffy3564 · 2 points · Posted at 22:40:38 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The ones with no prickers. I have seen them in restaurants. Maybe they were fake but they are friendly because they dont hurt.
InsipidCelebrity · 1 points · Posted at 03:24:03 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
It infuriates me when people say "it's just water vapor" because it's not even close to being just water vapor. It's an aerosol of polypropylene glycol, vegetable glycerin, and smells you might not want to smell. It's like the perfume lady spraying shit in your face. Nobody likes that.
bigfluffy3564 · 1 points · Posted at 20:08:52 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Thank you! I also hate when I'm tolf yo chill because its just water. Water dont smell (well its not supposed to)
AntediluvianEmpire · 2 points · Posted at 15:30:37 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm not a smoker, but I am a pothead. Vaping is such a world of difference from actually burning your material, I love the fact that I can actually breathe a bit better now and not be constantly coughing up huge chunks of phlegm.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:57:43 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
You're missing the point of what they are saying. Countless people who didn't already smoke started vaping and became addicted to nicotine, including many teenagers who started doing it because it was 'cool.'
Twinkie4sho · 55 points · Posted at 14:41:11 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
My roommate recently stopped smoking by switching to vape. He doesn't even use nicotine in his juice. His vape was broken for a day, so he went to go smoke and couldn't do it anymore. When you're used to fruity sweetness when you smoke, it makes actual smoking seem disgusting.
Ozwaldo · -6 points · Posted at 15:40:08 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Doesn't even use nicotine? Fuck is that shit bro, you gotta get that Churrio flavored juice. VAPE NASHE BITCH
[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 16:53:20 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
what?
Ozwaldo · 1 points · Posted at 17:33:00 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
pfff this guy aint even down with Vape Nashe! What a buster! Get with the times old man
8bitslime · 3 points · Posted at 17:21:31 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
No nicotine = only mental addiction = way less harmful.
Master_Kief117 · 3 points · Posted at 18:04:28 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm more into all natural flavors like mountain dew or cheetos
Ozwaldo · 1 points · Posted at 18:46:39 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
papa bless
ibanez_slinger · 1 points · Posted at 19:18:26 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Bless up.
Golden_Rain_On_Me · 115 points · Posted at 13:26:24 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Enough people. Enough to make the business scare big tobacco.
Vaping isn't a trend or fad, it's actually been around for at least 5-6 years now.
IntHatBar · 9 points · Posted at 14:34:02 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Sure, it's not going to fade out like mall kiosk oxygen bars. Nicotine is addictive.
Golden_Rain_On_Me · 10 points · Posted at 14:57:31 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
That is true, nicotine is very addictive.
I vape, outside, and use the wind to make sure no one gets hit by my clouds. I vape in my home office, and only vape in peoples houses if they say it is okay, and even then I do it and blow it out a window, or just go outside.
The amount of cloud chuckers that suck their douche flutes hurt those who use vaping as an alternative to cigarettes and eventually to cut themselves off nicotine. Which is what I and many others are doing.
IntHatBar · 5 points · Posted at 15:16:04 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Hahaha douche flute!!! Outstanding.
Look, I completely understand that vaping is a safer, healthier and less offensive alternative to smoking cigarettes. I think your comments are spot on and you represent a group of people who benefit from the technology. Plus, you see the humour in the whole thing. Have a cloudy upvote my nameless, faceless friend.
Davadam27 · 3 points · Posted at 19:16:47 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Hey as a fellow vaper that agrees with /u/Golden_Rain_On_Me whole-heartedly, thank you for recognizing the he's not trying to show-off or be rude or anything of that nature. You wouldn't believe how many times I've typed out a comment that was well thought out IMO and made valid points (again IMO) only to be responded to as if I was butt-hurt with, "We get it. You vape, Bro."
People often don't like seeing they're wrong, or don't like discussing things in a civil manner.
Thanks for not being a dick! Have my up arrow.
IntHatBar · 2 points · Posted at 20:54:41 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Cheers! I thought I had it all figured out once. Then I graduated from kindergarten and realized I am a speck on a speck on a speck. My view of the world is small and I appreciate every opinion.
Davadam27 · 2 points · Posted at 20:56:47 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I can't go this far. One of my favorite comics, Patton Oswalt once said, "You have to acknowledge everyone's opinion. You don't have to respect it"
Golden_Rain_On_Me · 1 points · Posted at 15:19:05 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Why thank you!
I am not a fan of seeing people in large crowds chucking clouds, or when I go to a club to see someone blowing clouds for all to smells, and it is usually some creamy- unpleasant smelling flavor, that probably tastes good but smells horrible.
I have respect for those who are conscious of their surroundings.
I call respectful people those who vape from a vaporizer, and those who are dicks about douche flute suckers.
Ralph-Hinkley · 3 points · Posted at 15:34:58 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
My last cigarette was February 22. I bought a vape rig to help with the nicotine. I am also aware of my surroundings, and I try not to blow huge clouds at people. My battery is only 20v, so it's not like I can anyway. It's just called courtesy.
Golden_Rain_On_Me · 1 points · Posted at 16:57:12 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
You get it!
Thanks for keeping up with being respectful with it!
Congrats on not smoking :)
Ralph-Hinkley · 1 points · Posted at 17:10:09 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Thanks.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:41:09 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
in its current form, yes. Vaporizing herb and vaporizers have been around since the 70s
blamb211 · 1 points · Posted at 20:36:14 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Well, it has been around a while, but I'd say that it is now a fad. Wasn't previously, but has sort of become one.
Golden_Rain_On_Me · 2 points · Posted at 20:42:50 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'd say it is a trend that will last for some time. To become a norm
blamb211 · 2 points · Posted at 21:07:14 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Oh, definitely. Vaping is here to stay.
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 22:43:36 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's been around for years as a tool for people to quit cigarettes. Recently it's become a fad for people who don't have a nicotine addiction but want to blow huge clouds like ass hats.
Sevrek · 130 points · Posted at 14:25:16 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yeah people stopping cigarettes is a horrible trend /s
I see like 1 person a month who is vaping and people on Reddit make it seem like theyre the only person they know who doesn't
dmkicksballs13 · 10 points · Posted at 15:55:59 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
To add to this, I know four people at my work who vape. They just do it. They don't bring it up in conversation, they don't endlessly talk about it, as reddit would have you believe.
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 19:42:44 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
ya but i bet they mod their rigs
just typing that out made me feel douchey
largePenisLover · 2 points · Posted at 20:13:56 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Well it happened. I'm 39 and started going out of touch so I googled into the vape thing.
Apparently "modding their rig" means the exact same thing as when pc users say it. They modify a device to suit their needs.
I can't find why modifying and personalizing your gear is suddenly a douche move though, what am I missing?
HaroldSax · 1 points · Posted at 21:42:37 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
You aren't missing much. There's just as subsection of vapers who are just about the image that is vaping. I even hate the word "vaping" but that's what it's called, so whatever.
Realistically, most people are using it to do something other than smoke cigarettes or because it can be cheaper.
WilliamofYellow · 2 points · Posted at 23:36:13 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
At this point I'm starting to wonder if the tobacco companies have some kind of covert smear campaign.
brat_meister · 2 points · Posted at 15:51:48 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Maybe you don't spend much time on a college campus, or maybe people at my campus were just big into vaping. But I know a lot of people who do vape. One of my coworkers (who is about to retire) vapes in the office. It's everywhere if you look for it.
Ruby-ish · 3 points · Posted at 17:01:37 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
A 30 year old tried vaping in class on Tuesday and the professor kicked him out. Like really, how could be think that would be ok?!?
brat_meister · 2 points · Posted at 13:08:23 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
We had guys using chewing tobacco in class. Sometimes leaving behind their nasty ass spit bottles. You would think someone could go an hour without using tobacco.
PalladiuM7 · 1 points · Posted at 19:20:29 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
When it was relatively new (5-6 years ago), I would see kiosks in the mall selling them with the ads that you can use them indoors, since it's water vapor. Some people probably took that to heart and fail to realize that it's up to the discretion of the people in charge of where you are.
dwild · 1 points · Posted at 18:11:32 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I see at least a dozen on my transit to work in the morning.
EDIT: Not that there's anything wrong with it. I prefer people that vape than people that smoke by a long shot.
blamb211 · 1 points · Posted at 19:31:20 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
There's several teenagers that live in my apartment complex that are constantly vaping. Idk if they use nicotine juice, but they're ALWAYS vaping!
Ioneadii · 1 points · Posted at 03:18:51 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
You need to see a university/college campus.
slwrthnu · 1 points · Posted at 16:20:35 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
just go to a car meet/show. i'm going to a car show next month that has a vaping competition...like wtf does that even consist of, the only reason i'll go near it at the show is to figure out what the fuck it is.
Hoofygonglaird · 1 points · Posted at 19:23:28 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
As a person who vapes to get away from cigs. Its one giant cringe fest of people with extremely unsafe coils on unsafe mods trying to see "Who can blow the biggest cloud bro!?"
Its part of the culture that gave all of us such a bad image.
KMFDM781 · 1 points · Posted at 19:37:18 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I guarantee it's gonna be a bunch of stance/ricers.
slwrthnu · 1 points · Posted at 20:23:43 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yea but that's what I like...I just hate the tools that hopped on the trend. I've been driving around with no ground clearance and flush wheels for 10 years now.
ch00d · 0 points · Posted at 18:27:21 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Vaping instead of smoking = good
Vaping because it is cool = bad
I know several people that never were smokers, but started vaping for no damn reason.
Sevrek · 1 points · Posted at 18:29:19 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Or you could just let people do what they want
Not sure why you need to have an opinion on others smoking habits
ch00d · 1 points · Posted at 18:37:23 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I don't have an opinion on it. I'm saying it's bad as in it's less healthy than not smoking at all.
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 16:45:05 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I think literally 90% of my friends that smoked immediately swapped to vaping, I only know one who didn't because he hated the taste and one who starting vaping, because she enjoys the sensation but has 0% nicotine in hers.
Hell, that means 90% increase of my friends are gonna live longer and I'm happy about that. Only thing I have against vaping is when you go somewhere and literally EVERYONE inside is vaping, creating a humid atmosphere and making it a little hard to breathe. But otherwise I really like the idea of it.
MistaFotso · 1 points · Posted at 01:41:12 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
What? There are like thousands of flavors/tastes.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 03:11:15 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yeah, I asked about that and he said he'd tried about five or six that were locally and easily available for him both here at university and back home in Romania. Didn't like any and didn't want to be stuck in a situation where he'd have to wait for a few days for the oil to be delivered, so he's stuck to cigarettes for now.
tchefacegeneral · 7 points · Posted at 16:01:18 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
besides a bunch of douchebags that like to blow big clouds in public its actually a very very good thing. I smoked from age 14 to 29 and tried to quit multiple times. I started vaping and straight away quit cigs. I have vaped for almost 2 years now and haven't touched a single cig and the thought disgusts me. I feel 100 times healthier, can taste better and i dont stink. I really enjoy it and have got into making my own e-juice which is a hobby in itself. I feel like it could also help people struggling with their weight as you can vape tasty sweet juices which give you no calories and prevent yourself from eating sweet snacks.
Just because some douchbags make it look bad doesn't mean thats the whole story. Vaping will save 1000s of lives and needs to be embraced in the right way.
Education, education, education
jub672 · 3 points · Posted at 19:39:00 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
vapenation
devtastic · 5 points · Posted at 17:30:02 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Do you mean people who started vaping, people who started smoking cigarettes, or both?
Are you assuming that if vaping didn't exist nobody would have started smoking cigarettes in 2015?
Are you assuming that none of the people who did start vaping would have started smoking cigarettes instead if vaping was not available?
People seem to forget that people are still taking up smoking cigarettes. Whilst I personally would not recommend vaping or cigarettes to somebody who is not already a smoker, if somebody is determined to try one I'd recommend vaping over cigarettes every time.
Not enough. It's about 2.6 million in the UK so far where it is considered a good thing by our health authorities compared to cigarettes.
Source
zacheast · 2 points · Posted at 00:33:09 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Ever heard of harm reduction?
IntHatBar · 1 points · Posted at 04:49:52 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I have not but the concept sounds super interesting. I will read about it for sure. Thanks
charlesthechuck · 2 points · Posted at 14:16:43 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)*
Isn't gaping good for people(better than smoking)?
Edit:vaping
sagethesagesage · 6 points · Posted at 14:39:19 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
[deleted] · -10 points · Posted at 14:25:32 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
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Alpine_Pineappler · 8 points · Posted at 15:09:33 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I disagree with all points
IntHatBar · -1 points · Posted at 15:17:14 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Duely noted.
Golden_Rain_On_Me · 1 points · Posted at 15:24:46 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
We can get into all the specifics between the similarities to some of the flavorings in vaping juice and analogs, that and the nicotine is pretty much the only simalarity. After that we find that cigs have much more of the bad flavoring chemicals in them, not to mention you are inhaling smoke, and oxidized chemicals (which are usually much much much worse than non oxidized), and vaping you are inhaling a vapor of Polypropylene Glycol, Vegetable glycerin, some nicotine, and the vaporized flavors (which are not oxidized through combustion.)
It isn't inherently healthy, but when you are a former pack a day smoker, it is much better, and helps you avoid getting agitated from no nicotine, and allows you to safely step down.
If you are respectful about it, it doesn't really affect those around you, and doesn't leave an unpleasant smell on you like smoking.
HaroldSax · 2 points · Posted at 21:44:25 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
See, this is the thing people miss. No shit it isn't healthy. I'm still heating something up to inhale it, that's never going to be good, but it's healthier than setting plants on fire and inhaling that.
Golden_Rain_On_Me · 1 points · Posted at 23:30:57 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Boom nailed it!
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:07:18 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'll admit that I had never smoked before getting a vape, but now I'm definitely addicted to the nicotine. I don't mind though, gives me something to do between breaks at work, driving in the car, or really anything.
But I can tell you I do know A LOT of people who have used them to cut down or completely cut cigarettes out of their lives.
I can also tell you I fucking hate kids my age always bragging about their MAD CLOUDS BRO and getting wayyyyy too into ecigs, to the point where 95% of what they talk about is ecigs. Fuck those kids.
sumsum98 · 1 points · Posted at 22:25:53 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Only thing I have against it is the douchebags that go "yeah, I know I can't smoke in her,e but I'm not smoking, I'm vaping"
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 00:29:24 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
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IntHatBar · 1 points · Posted at 04:46:29 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Studies? Now you have my attention. I'm a sucker for peer reviewed journal articles.
devtastic · 2 points · Posted at 12:02:36 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Public Health England is a good starting place. They published a meta study to advise UK health policy. E-cigarettes around 95% less harmful than tobacco estimates landmark review
You can also get the full 113 page report there too.
Page 31 onwards is "Use of e-cigarettes among young people". You can draw your own conclusions from the report as it covers a lot of data.
But one thing that people seem to neglect when discussing kids and e-cigs is that cigarettes still exist. People sometimes talk about the young person that is vaping as if that young person would never have tried cigarettes. To make up some numbers, if in 2010 2 out 10 kids started smoking and in 2015 1 in 10 started smoking and 1 in 10 started vaping that's still a better outcome for me as the cigarettes are more harmful.
killerpoopguy · 1 points · Posted at 03:28:17 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
You don't have to use juice with nicotine.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 03:30:17 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
VAPE NASHIONNNNN
SirRogers · 1 points · Posted at 05:35:32 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I know that they've helped a ton of people quit smoking, so that's great. Its the people who's whole identity is vaping that are annoying. But to be fair, that is true of anyone who makes their whole identity based on one thing.
APock · 1 points · Posted at 08:54:51 on March 28, 2016 · (Permalink)
#vapenation #gogreen
hoffi_coffi · -3 points · Posted at 16:16:42 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Ugh, people going on about it, smug dicks opening up vaping shops and going through their overpriced kit, smoggy clouds of cherry wafting everywhere. Great, people are quitting cigarettes and sucking on this instead. Give it time and it will become a trend in itself, they can be far more potent, and will get taxed to the eyeballs anyway. Then you are just waiting for some side effect to be found out and people are screwed.
[deleted] · -4 points · Posted at 18:04:33 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
ITT people who missed the first point. There are tons of people who started vaping (I go to high school, I see it first hand) who never would've gotten addicted to cigarettes, but they're definitely addicted to vaping.
Letho72 · 1 points · Posted at 22:44:28 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The people who pick up vaping are the exact demographic that would pick up smoking. They're the people who like to experiment and try things that might be "wrong" and carry a risk. They most likely would have taken up smoking if vapes weren't a thing
heisenfgt · 3 points · Posted at 16:07:48 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
People commenting something among the lines of "natural selection at work" on every single fucking video of someone being stupid. No one thinks your funny or witty for copying that, so fucking stop it.
ehowardhunt · 4 points · Posted at 16:22:09 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
In Texas, it was everyone posting pics of them or their family in a field of bluebonnets. This has been going on for years and years but really blew up last year and its continuing into this year. It reminds of the Ice Bucket Challenge. "Everyone is doing it, so I need to too".
Boiling_Flesh666 · 0 points · Posted at 20:53:40 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Good God, my mom still does this shit. Every opportunity I get, I take a piss on a patch of those flowers. Because fuck those flowers.
muhaski · 5 points · Posted at 16:26:14 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Trump
SteroidSandwich · 3 points · Posted at 16:27:46 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
"Please turn off adblock to view our content"
DrZed400 · 2 points · Posted at 16:30:17 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
How do I do this to my videos?
Fit-for_Life · 5 points · Posted at 17:00:43 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Your mom, also all those that were anti vaccinations parents, their children are either dying or dead cause viruses and disease kill, what a surprise. Well at least it will help get rid of stupid ppl, but poor kids to have those parents and having your mind twisted like that.
slippin_squid · 3 points · Posted at 17:41:27 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
People using the word "lit" to describe nearly everything
silliestboots · 6 points · Posted at 20:12:40 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'll probably get down voted to oblivion, but here goes:
1) stenciled on Dracula eyebrows meant to look, "powerful" or, something. I see this mostly on the extremely young (under 25 set). I predict one day they will look back and wonder what the heck they were thinking.
2) along those same lines, dying your hair gray. It is a very, very, very rare bird that this looks good on. Hope you're one of them. Another look to regret later.
Flash_Johnson · 2 points · Posted at 00:22:42 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yes, everyone has been stenciling on dracula eyebrows lately. When will it end?!
BigStereotype · 1 points · Posted at 03:16:58 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
If you're a girl who can pull off white hair, though, it's straight FIRE and you shouldn't change it. We all know that Black Cat is Spidey's hottest girlfriend.
silliestboots · 1 points · Posted at 14:18:54 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Agreed. But she is that rare bird I spoke of. ;)
Uyersuyer · 0 points · Posted at 18:40:27 on March 26, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'M PROBABLY GOING TO GET DOWNVOTED FOR MY POPULAR OPINION THAT EVERYONE AGREES WITH GUYS
CherryWolf · 5 points · Posted at 17:57:27 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The Kardashians. Still.
rails-developer · 9 points · Posted at 16:44:00 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
There was a time in 2015 where lots of dudes I knew were suddenly, like, "feminist allies", and would constantly tweet / post stuff calling other dudes "shitlords" and whatnot, and it was just really strange to me. Its like they were doing it for positive attention from women or to feel better than everyone else and the whole thing I found really cringely.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 14:34:37 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Living
RichCovs · 2 points · Posted at 14:38:13 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Top-knot haircut
ktnlo · 2 points · Posted at 15:33:55 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Dudes with flowers in their beards
magnuscrassus · 2 points · Posted at 15:54:32 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Global warming.
Gfos212 · 2 points · Posted at 16:10:53 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Sodosopa
JackHarrison1010 · 2 points · Posted at 16:18:30 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
DAMMMMMMMMMMMMMMN DANIEL
jet_fuel_ · 2 points · Posted at 16:40:18 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Websites that are near empty with AdBlock.
brisingfreyja · 2 points · Posted at 19:41:34 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Websites that adblock doesn't work on so you have to inspect element so you can delete the nodes. Its the only way to look at some websites. There are some that give you a few minutes to look, there are some that demand you subscribe to their magazine. I just delete that part and read it anyway.
OldManWithAStick · 2 points · Posted at 16:46:40 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Dank memes. Started as satire and ended up as boring recycled shit.
skyvex1 · 2 points · Posted at 16:55:53 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Watch me whip and fucking naynay
Marsycat · 2 points · Posted at 17:25:04 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The word: Bae.
My SO would drown me in the bath tub if I were to ever refer to them as that.
bham205 · 2 points · Posted at 17:29:29 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
overuse of the word "viral"
theshoegazer · 2 points · Posted at 17:31:17 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Cellphone noise pollution: having a conversation in public via speaker phone, or subjecting people in a public place to your music through shitty tinny speakers.
keefard · 1 points · Posted at 02:33:12 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Agree it has made my lunchroom at work at terrible place.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 17:39:29 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Come on people, it's 2015 already!
Viziondfc · 2 points · Posted at 18:27:26 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The man bun, fuckin mic drop.
CoIRoyMustang · 2 points · Posted at 18:29:16 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The media using counterfeit questions to solicit traffic on its website through the comments section: "Mass murderer gets 40 years in prison, do you think he deserves it?" Basically asking simple minded people questions with obvious answers.
Beerand93octane · 2 points · Posted at 18:31:59 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Now watch me whip
wilde11 · 2 points · Posted at 18:41:55 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
El Nino. Every few years it starts to trend and fucks over a whole lot of people.
Kougeru · 1 points · Posted at 18:45:26 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I read California likes it
poop__fist · 2 points · Posted at 19:26:52 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Man bun
Anti_Venom02 · 2 points · Posted at 19:29:54 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The man bun trend is pretty ridiculous.
hanul2 · 2 points · Posted at 19:32:44 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Manbuns.. and this is coming from a guy that rocked one...well i thought so :/
juicyjcantt · 2 points · Posted at 19:55:42 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
All these half-assed early access Survival Crafting MMO Permadeath Open clones. Some of them are good, but why the hell are they staying in early access for 4+ years? Release a damn product already!
"Introducing CraftSurvivalCraft, a Survival Game where you Craft shit and survive using crafted shit against some random alien/mutant/wildlife/horror threat! Early access $15. Will be released in 2020."
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 19:56:49 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Super low quality jpeg ghetto memes on facebook. There are pictures of pure text in blurry ass low quality jpeg.
fuchur7 · 2 points · Posted at 20:03:20 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Anything that has to do with "pranks"
andwhyshouldi · 2 points · Posted at 20:14:01 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Instagram eyebrows.
GoredonTheDestroyer · 2 points · Posted at 20:14:02 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Fucking. "Hoverboards."
Cry_Mor · 2 points · Posted at 20:52:49 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Shaved hair halfway up one side of your head. Screams "I want to work for minimum wage FOREVER!"
here_for_the_lols · 2 points · Posted at 21:45:03 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Fleek
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 02:05:16 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
And "squad". You can't bring back military fashion and culture even ironically like that.
TheManlyBanana · 2 points · Posted at 22:13:07 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's not necessarily a bad or worst trend, but applying a translucent flag on your profile picture helps no one.
aspbergerinparadise · 2 points · Posted at 22:24:03 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
ONLY GENIUSES WILL GET THIS RIGHT
1 + 2 * 5 + 1 = ??
LIKE AND SHARE!!!
Usagii_YO · 2 points · Posted at 00:08:46 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
12
aspbergerinparadise · 2 points · Posted at 00:18:27 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
sorry, the answer is 1,251
source: certified genius
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 22:35:33 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Whip and nae nae. My younger sister walks around the house doing the whip EVERY SINGLE GODDAMN DAY
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 22:39:33 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Man buns. They're somehow even worse than undercuts.
It's the faux hawk equivalent of what's seen in this. It screams "mom wouldn't let me do it".
typeswithgenitals · 2 points · Posted at 22:51:23 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
"salty"
Merax75 · 2 points · Posted at 23:15:56 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
/r/Roastme is getting very old, very fast. Pretty much the same comments now, over and over. The only thing worthwhile is the best of compilations.
AnimZero · 2 points · Posted at 23:20:22 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Selfie Sticks.
ElPanaChevere · 2 points · Posted at 23:22:47 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Manbuns
CrossYourStars · 2 points · Posted at 23:26:27 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
YOLO
Usagii_YO · 1 points · Posted at 00:08:08 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
2014...
MisterUndestructible · 2 points · Posted at 23:36:42 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
That condom challenge at the end of the year.
sincevance · 2 points · Posted at 23:50:59 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
excessive #hastags
JPinLFK · 2 points · Posted at 00:07:43 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm wary of the Making a Murderer type documentary. Yes, I have extreme bias, as its my hometown and I know a lot of people in it. Some people over reacted IMO. Two sides to every story.
Baggabones88 · 2 points · Posted at 00:14:08 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Stupid smart watches. What the hell do you need one of those for? The people selling this shit are laughing at you.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 00:23:14 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
People from both sides of the aisle taking South Park so fucking seriously
It was a cartoon on basic cable with no real significance, everyone needed to just calm the fuck down
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 00:31:07 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Man buns for sure. A great way to look like a complete twat. Bonus points for amnish beard.
Jlew451 · 2 points · Posted at 00:40:27 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
DAMN DANIEL or vaping.
tree5eat · 2 points · Posted at 00:49:40 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Skinny jeans (ok on there own) but with the super saggy bottom...no way.
mylifebelikelawl · 2 points · Posted at 01:20:00 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Prank/reaction video. The creators are cunts.
zulu-bunsen · 3 points · Posted at 01:57:52 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
They're all a bunch of Bradberrys
MountainsOfDick · 2 points · Posted at 01:24:37 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Constantly seeing anything to do with Kanye West tweeted and retweeted to my Twitter feed.
Mortimer452 · 2 points · Posted at 01:44:13 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Snapchat
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 01:48:34 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Skinny leggings jeans on men -- sagging!
TheExtremeWaffle · 2 points · Posted at 02:16:42 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Those huge blocks of texts that are like "share to 5 people or else [blank] will happen to you! (Followed by like 5 laugh emojis)
TheExtremeWaffle · 2 points · Posted at 02:17:21 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
LIKE AND COMMENT AMEN IF YOU FEEL BAD/LOVE JESUS
IGNORE FOR [INSERT MUTILATED PERSON OR SATAN]
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 02:27:33 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Undercuts
undeadrwby911 · 2 points · Posted at 02:46:25 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
deez nuts and what are those absolutely.
undeadrwby911 · 2 points · Posted at 02:49:01 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
and the hoverboards that dont even fucking hover.
Enzeru · 2 points · Posted at 03:11:06 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Any and all challenge videos. 'Sexy' prank videos. Sending death threats to female gaming journalists.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 03:12:21 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
comparing everything to the 95-96 bulls....i think im going to be sick after typing that
CPGill210 · 2 points · Posted at 03:29:20 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Manbuns.... sorry but at least where I'm from if you have one good luck finding any professional medical or business job. It's such a hipster thing.
Wilhelm_Amenbreak · 2 points · Posted at 03:38:29 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Using "as fuck" as an intensifier in every sentence. "That meadow was peaceful as fuck!"
ohwatever · 2 points · Posted at 03:41:55 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
MAN BUNS. NO. JUST, NO. Specifically the undercut manbun. Pterodactyl egg shaped looking hair-do that so many celebrities get. (Sam Papper) UGH. I hate it.
soymik__ · 2 points · Posted at 03:53:46 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
The condom challenge
slimey_frog · 2 points · Posted at 04:28:37 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
dont know if it was exclusiveness 2015, but the fucking fire challenge is pretty fucking stupid.
The basics (from what I know) is you set yourself on fire and see how quickly you can put it out...
merkellius · 2 points · Posted at 05:17:39 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
RIP 2015 2015-2015
funkyfishician · 2 points · Posted at 05:34:06 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Global warming
SaltGuy402 · 2 points · Posted at 05:37:18 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
The share for a prayer or don't scroll past without commenting amen. I hate seeing that crap.
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True_Dovakin · 1 points · Posted at 16:06:58 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
But it's honestly not. Most of it is advocating for equality in the judicial sector and debunking fallacies of third-wave feminist arguments, using government and independent sources. Some do it as a joke, but a lot of it is striving for improvement in the way males are treated societally and judicially.
Korawri · 0 points · Posted at 12:19:10 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
The word feminist doesn't apply to only females
Clicktrack01 · 3 points · Posted at 14:46:45 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Not that it started in 2015, but the whole cunt/twat british name calling. Seriously, it's beyond old and run it's course. Let it go.
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 16:35:05 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMN DANIEL.
mondayschild · 3 points · Posted at 17:08:17 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Gamergate, and online harassment in general.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 18:19:26 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The bucket of ice water challenge or whatever the fuck. That shit brought try-hards and tools out of the fucking woodwork
doittuit · 1 points · Posted at 00:13:22 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
It started for a good cause...then turned into a one up contest with no one donating to als
DakotaN2895 · 0 points · Posted at 04:47:05 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yeah, god forbid my Facebook feed gets a little cluttered while people raise $100 million for charity. Assholes and try-hards, all of 'em /s.
gambit_world · 3 points · Posted at 21:39:55 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Specifically in 2015 I noticed a trend towards everything I wanted to read being in video form. I'd see an interesting headline on CNN, for instance, and it links to a video with no supporting text. So I'm wondering, is this a cultural trend towards general illiteracy, or is it truly easier to plan, record, edit, and upload a video than it is to just write 500-750 words about it?
systemlord · 1 points · Posted at 11:19:17 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Why would you copy and paste one of the top comments on the thread?
richj43 · 6 points · Posted at 15:30:01 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Frozen. Everything to do with that movie. Everyone should take the advice and "let it go."
thehairybrain · 8 points · Posted at 14:17:08 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Putting a transparent image of the french flag on your facebook profile picture. That's got to be it.
Ozwaldo · 24 points · Posted at 15:43:52 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Totally, the worst trend in 2015 was showing support for the victims of a tragedy in a benign manner.
lifeonbroadway · 1 points · Posted at 18:32:26 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's good for awareness I suppose...
Hight5 · 1 points · Posted at 20:31:49 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
That's all it was for sooooo...
thehairybrain · 1 points · Posted at 20:52:06 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)*
The fact that it can actually be called a "trend" is absolutely disgusting to me. Why isn't there Belgian flags on everyone's profile now? Why wasn't there support showed for Turkey and Beiruit (two places that were attacked on the same day as France) on facebook? The fact that many people haven't done that same 'benign' action makes me think that the national flag profile pic was just a sick fashion trend for likes or that France is the only country in the world. One or the other.
Ozwaldo · 2 points · Posted at 20:56:17 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
well no, it totally was, but the worst one in 2015? Seems hyperbolic
thehairybrain · 2 points · Posted at 21:01:02 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
How is it exaggerated in any way? Name a trend that was worse please?
Ozwaldo · 2 points · Posted at 21:35:56 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Okay scroll to the top of the page and click on the link that says "What were the worst trends of 2015?" This will take you to a page where people have submitted their idea of the worst trends of 2015. Other people have voted these ideas up or down within the thread. I agree with the voting for the most part, so take your pick of anything voted higher than yours.
(Also, take note of the fact that my sarcastic reply to your idea currently has almost 3 times as many upvotes, indicating that the majority of people agree with me that your idea is certainly not the worst trend of 2015.)
thehairybrain · 2 points · Posted at 21:48:03 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I don't use reddit religiously but i know how to post a comment. I'm guessing that was sarcastic also then? I contributed to you having more upvotes as I've upvoted every response from you thus far. I'm just happy to converse. You on the other hand seem somewhate spiteful and after already agreeing with me that my post was a 'sick' trend! The fact that you havent answered the question I asked of you makes me think that it still is the worst trend. Prove me wrong before falling back on upvotes from other people who can't argue properly.
Ozwaldo · 2 points · Posted at 21:53:54 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Dude if you need me to arbitrarily espouse some other trend worse than people posting pictures on their facebook, then whatever, you win. It's the worst.
thehairybrain · 2 points · Posted at 22:00:13 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm not in it to win anything/ have more upvotes. I'm just curious as to what others think. Currently I have no idea what you think though because you're agreeing and simultaneously disagreeing with me. I'll definitely take the win though. Every other post I've read on this thread (not all of them by the way) have either been truely benign (e.g John Cena, selfie sticks, song references) or one's which i would not consider to be a trend (like racism, islamophobia etc), I feel like my suggestion is sound. I was only asking for you to present your thoughts on the worst trend. excuse me.
kalligreat · 3 points · Posted at 13:10:38 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Obsessiveness when it come to complaining about celebrities. Kanye West is one that comes to mind, people always say they hear about him so much but their complaining is how I hear about the guy. It seems like people don't realize that celebs act dumb for the publicity.
lecho182 · 5 points · Posted at 12:45:52 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Development of nationalism in Europe and USA
[deleted] · -6 points · Posted at 15:50:54 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
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[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 17:14:01 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
What do you mean by 'strong nation' and a 'strong culture'?
[deleted] · -2 points · Posted at 18:50:01 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
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[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 23:14:28 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Doesn't multiculturalism strengthen culture as it promotes different perspectives on life and seeing the world?
What do you mean by culture within the context you've used it in?
WholeGrainPoseidon · 2 points · Posted at 23:33:35 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I mean it strengthens the culture of the region, for example Japanese culture is very unique and plays a very strong role in Japan, thanks in part to nationalism. I think that this could be good for America because it would promote unity amongst America and her people, and would give us a more unique culture.
I support nationalist ideas all over the world for the same reasons.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 01:01:17 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
What kind of things would you be referring to when you mention culture with respect to Japan? What Japanese cultural traits are due to their nationalism?
When we were originally referring to nationalism, I assume you meant preventing immigration of people from other countries in order to forge a homogenised identity?
From how you have described Japan, I assume by culture you are referring to is by its common meaning of 'the customs, arts, social institutions, and achievements of a particular nation, people, or other social group.'
In such a case, do you not think the uniqueness of Japanese culture has more to do with its history as opposed to the present? In that in a globalised and connected world, you cannot develop a particularly unique culture because ideas and information can be spread so easily?
Also, from my point of view, the richness of American culture is in part due to Irish, Italian and other european immigrants as well as the diversity of people living across regions of the United States (such as the deep south) which makes it rich.
WholeGrainPoseidon · 2 points · Posted at 01:45:45 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
The uniqueness of most cultures is to do with their history and traditions. Nationalism would not develop a culture so much as it would preserve it, and while a conmected world will expose us to different cultures that's not a bad thing at all, being aware of and open to other cultures is different from adopting them. The most important aspects of a nation's culture in my opinion are traditions (such as holidays and rituals) and social traditions, being proud of your nations accomplishments and history is also a big part of nationalism.
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From being on the other side of the pond to United States, our perspective of you guys is already a country which celebrates its traditions as well as being proud of your accomplishments.
Would you not think that culture is preserved with or without being nationalistic, and the differences only lie in the kinds of things (which forms culture) that would be preserved?
I think Japanese customs, cultural norms and social traditions appear as unique as they do because they are so different from Western culture. Japanese culture does appear less unique against a backdrop of Korean culture and Chinese culture.
From here in the UK, it doesn't appear nationalism would be able to unite America since there are so many divisions ranging from religious, racial, regional, political and so on which appear to be divisory.
lecho182 · 1 points · Posted at 11:13:39 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_war_crimes
lecho182 · 8 points · Posted at 15:59:28 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
We have good examples what nationalism did in Europe: persecution of minorities, genocide, massacres, two world wars, concentration camps etc.
[deleted] · -3 points · Posted at 16:22:57 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
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kiddo51 · 5 points · Posted at 19:53:24 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
You generally can not look back at history and attribute events to single causes. You can't deny that strong nationalism was one of the hallmarks of Nazi Germany, essentially a catalyst to WWII, and one of the root causes of the Holocaust. You have shown you have at least a high-school education on world history. That's great, but don't rebuke others with information that doesn't fit your narrow view of history.
Porphyrogennetos · 0 points · Posted at 05:05:06 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
That was communism. Big difference.
lecho182 · 1 points · Posted at 11:13:02 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)*
No good in history? Communism did also this?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srebrenica_massacre
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_Genocide
ColonelSanders_1930 · 8 points · Posted at 12:30:49 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Political correctness
Jfern77 · 2 points · Posted at 15:55:30 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I went to a presentation yesterday and all of the presenters introduced themselves with their names followed by "my pronouns are she, her and hers." I didn't even know this was a thing and if not for 4 extra points on my final grade for attending, I would have walked right then.
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Jfern77 · 1 points · Posted at 20:04:17 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yeah they were both very clearly females. It was like they wanted to say it just to say it
Joeycapkid · 4 points · Posted at 19:51:58 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Dude, if I had that option those four extra points could go fuck them selves.
Hijacker50 · 1 points · Posted at 21:09:09 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Even worse though, there are those who don't say anything and then get pissed at you for unknowingly using the incorrect pronoun. There was an instant while I was participating in High School Mock Trial, and all of our team made use of female pronouns for someone who identifies male, and then -he- got salty about it, complaining whenever possible.
veetack · -4 points · Posted at 14:41:04 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
You're probably going to get downvoted to hell for this, but you're right. And you're not right because people shouldn't be courteous to one another. You're right because in 2015 it seemed that it was the popular thing to find ANYTHING at all offensive. Everyone seems to want some sort of special status, or wants to give a reason why saying even the most mundane thing is "problematic." It's not showing signs of stopping, but it certainly needs to, because it's fucking retarded.
Nomulite · -5 points · Posted at 15:22:47 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Ooooh boy Rick I don't think you're allowed to say that word anymore.
veetack · -11 points · Posted at 15:27:37 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
That's exactly why I said it. PC culture is the gayest thing ever.
Ravinac · 1 points · Posted at 22:28:04 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Is it gayer than 8 dudes blowing 9 dudes?
veetack · 1 points · Posted at 01:17:05 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Gayer than 20 bowing 25.
Muffinzz · 5 points · Posted at 15:03:42 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
syrian refugees being referred to as sub-human was one of the worst media trends last year
[deleted] · -1 points · Posted at 20:20:47 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Where the fuck do you live?
Muffinzz · 3 points · Posted at 20:25:38 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The UK.
bucketfullofsardines · 4 points · Posted at 12:36:29 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
does click baiting bullshit titles count.. i mean it was happening in 2015!
ulmxn · 3 points · Posted at 14:35:45 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Rape and genital mutilation in the Middle East.
ibegross · 3 points · Posted at 21:09:09 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
That's been going on for thousands of years
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 00:32:47 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
College students wasting everyone's time by demanding that the world be this unicorns and sparkle ponies mythical safe space where no one makes them feel in the slightest bit uncomfortable.
They need to get out of their dorms and talk to old people about real macro-agressions that actually happened so all their tut tutting and fussing about people disagreeing with them online can be put in perspective.
myheadfire · 3 points · Posted at 12:41:35 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Stupid people entering the presidential race.
inspiredredditer · 3 points · Posted at 14:55:09 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Man Buns......one of the worst hair trends of all time
EwokieYouTube · 2 points · Posted at 15:52:25 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The only time it makes sense is if you're a Viking, that's literally it.
demon310 · 4 points · Posted at 16:17:59 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Or if you're from feudal Japan.
flutterguy123 · 1 points · Posted at 19:54:30 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I like it. Long hair on guys is awesome.
morerokk · 2 points · Posted at 15:33:13 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Man buns and clickbait, though clickbait was also a thing in 2014.
ktnlo · 2 points · Posted at 15:33:39 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Man buns
mwill140 · 2 points · Posted at 16:44:15 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The trend of captioning every photo with "when you..." and then just describing what's in the picture. What is the point.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 17:09:51 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
xenophobia
RemnantHelmet · 2 points · Posted at 17:19:06 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Deez nuts, what are those, left shark, crave that mineral, etc...I consider 2015 to be the year of dead memes.
Aeleas · 3 points · Posted at 18:29:32 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Deez nuts is (are?) way older than last year.
Norgenigga · 2 points · Posted at 17:42:09 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
ITT: it's the kids who are wrong.
roadrunner440x6 · 2 points · Posted at 17:56:39 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
brah breh broh brih brough? braugh?
stenseng · 2 points · Posted at 18:09:33 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Donald Trump
NotObsoleteIfIUseIt · 2 points · Posted at 18:22:56 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
John Cena
and of course these
basskiller32 · 1 points · Posted at 00:39:18 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Nuts I'll see myself out now.
MikoSqz · 2 points · Posted at 18:32:09 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yeezys. I didn't know you could make shoes that ugly and cheap-looking, but there you go.
ToiletSafetyAdmin · 2 points · Posted at 18:48:11 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The HAES movement
Trent_116 · 2 points · Posted at 20:49:16 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
John Cena. Why does that one has to appear everywhere? "You can't see him" I go like:"Why can't we just comment about the actual post?" I'm at the point where I'm not even checking facebook comments.
Hominid77777 · 2 points · Posted at 21:01:13 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Donald Trump.
TheRyanatorM8 · 2 points · Posted at 23:16:41 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
the stupidest fucking trend of all time, is that dress blue or gold? People must not have anything else better to do
MmmmapleSyrup · 2 points · Posted at 03:09:50 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Trigger warnings, safe spaces and micro aggressions.
cndpr · 2 points · Posted at 03:35:28 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
True Detective Season 2. It was awful, shit, and so bad.
catgirl1359 · 2 points · Posted at 04:53:51 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Someone decided to bring the 70s back. Let that godawful era, that blight on fashion, die. Please.
Zoklett · 2 points · Posted at 05:56:55 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Fucking Minions. I don't get the appeal at all. Any adult I see sporting anything Minion related by choice (i.e: not their kids sippy cup or something, which I also find tacky) I just assume you are tacky, completely void of creativity, lack a decent sense of humor, and are incapable of thinking above a toddler level.
NoahTheBerg · 2 points · Posted at 06:02:35 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)*
People carelessly sharing every video they see on Facebook so every time I get on there it's just a bunch of random videos I don't give a shit about or videos I already saw on reddit a week before
Facebook should just get rid of the share button or stop autoplaying every video in my feed
NowURgonnaGETitBOBBY · 2 points · Posted at 13:56:28 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Damn Daniel.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:22:37 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
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[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 16:36:55 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yes. I got annoyed by everyone saying "eyebrows on fleek"
judeatwork · 3 points · Posted at 16:54:57 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
KamikazeWizard · 1 points · Posted at 19:22:43 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
EDM has been around since the 90's
judeatwork · 1 points · Posted at 19:39:52 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It caught on heavily in 2015 though.
iyaerP · 1 points · Posted at 20:30:33 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Donald Trump.
Bigcat09 · 2 points · Posted at 12:56:54 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Waste his/her time 2016
glyix · 2 points · Posted at 16:55:55 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The whole "organic" trend. If you want to eat a healthy, more well balanced diet; great. But don't advertise it to everybody. It seems to me that every other woman is all about the 100% all natural locally grown organic gluten free raw vegan yoga/crossfit lifestyle. That shit is so annoying, keep it to yourself
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 20:51:37 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
"Safe Space" that censors all speech
chrichap · 1 points · Posted at 21:07:36 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
"Safe Spaces"
Onmytablet2 · 2 points · Posted at 23:08:57 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Social Justice Warriors.
I have no issue with civil rights movements or activism, but 2015 seemed to be the year that people claiming to support these ideals went full retard.
Roman_Statuesque · 0 points · Posted at 04:17:08 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Being open minded about things is good. However, it is important to make sure that in the process of being open minded that your brain does not physically fall out of your skull.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 02:38:00 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Bernie Sanders for president / rich white kids being self proclaimed "socialists" while typing on macbooks and sipping Starbucks lattes.
screenwriterjohn · 4 points · Posted at 16:21:13 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Caitlyn Jenner is not good. Can we all agree?
[deleted] · -7 points · Posted at 11:39:16 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Skinny jeans on men, a continuation of the worst trend of the year before that, and the year before that, ad infinitum.
SolidCake · 15 points · Posted at 13:01:31 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Nah i disagree. Skinny jeans look good if they're not skin tight. Baggy jeans just look awful
[deleted] · 10 points · Posted at 12:43:53 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
If you've got any sizeable leg muscle they always look uncomfortable and ill fitting, and if they do fit you you're just advertising the fact you've got very skinny legs. I don't get it.
NeonFeet · 9 points · Posted at 13:04:46 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Pretty much all jeans are skinny jeans on me thanks to my massive quads :(
[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 13:21:27 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
im sure they are lovely quads.
NeonFeet · 5 points · Posted at 13:31:01 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I like them
I-PLUG-LSD · 1 points · Posted at 16:25:42 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Most people don't care about not having huge quads, though.
Juswantedtono · 3 points · Posted at 16:01:48 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Skinny jeans look great imo, but I don't like skin-tight or "super skinny" jeans.
su5 · 7 points · Posted at 12:37:30 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
If we had to go in one direction, I will take them over JNCOs
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 19:05:02 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
One Direction. Another awful trend of 2015. The boy band I mean.
Novazilla · 6 points · Posted at 12:43:57 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Would you rather they be baggy?
coldmtndew · 1 points · Posted at 13:30:17 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
This has been a thing for like 5 years now
Juswantedtono · 1 points · Posted at 16:02:07 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
More like 9 years I'd say
goldgibbon · 1 points · Posted at 19:43:59 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
tell us more, are you a guy or a girl? Straight or gay? Maybe skinny jeans aren't meant to be attractive to you
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 13:07:27 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm short and I've always worn skinny jeans, now if I wear anything other than skinny jeans I just look like I'm a child in grown up clothes.
hahehaho · 2 points · Posted at 14:01:20 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Bitching about the words "Bae" "fleek" etc... Who fucking cares
izzitphuck · -1 points · Posted at 15:25:29 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Linguists and English People (If said English person is not a linguist)
RatherReptilian · 1 points · Posted at 14:17:19 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm fairly certain linguists love slang. It's how language evolves.
hahehaho · 1 points · Posted at 15:36:33 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's just slang.
lifeonbroadway · 0 points · Posted at 18:37:12 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
So were a lot of words in the dictionary before they became part of everyday nomenclature... Personally it all reminds me of newspeak but I'm just paranoid...
hahehaho · 3 points · Posted at 18:52:30 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Complaining about popular slang is still idiotic to me.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 14:44:33 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
People. #1 trend
Bubtheworker · 1 points · Posted at 15:22:53 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm chill with manbuns. Buuuut freaking topknots are the wooorst.
allenme · 1 points · Posted at 15:28:02 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The Strong and Great and Powerful Overlord Felicity
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:45:46 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
expensive scooters. like the kind for kids but they cost more. everyone had one.
bigsticksoftspeaker · 1 points · Posted at 15:53:24 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Salmon color shorts
UseApostrophesBetter · 1 points · Posted at 15:54:19 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The news media referring to any picture that wasn't taken with a DSLR as a "selfie", even if it doesn't have a person in it. I heard my local weather station refer to a viewer-submitted picture of fucking clouds as a "selfie-style photo".
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:03:49 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Caitlyn Jenner
Tubnub · 1 points · Posted at 16:06:54 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Joining ISIS.
zoeisabitch · 1 points · Posted at 16:08:32 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Suh dude
jennycakes69 · 1 points · Posted at 16:23:05 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
video/gif recipes
Arkillion · 1 points · Posted at 16:54:46 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Just in case it wasn't posted.. those fucking ridiculous top knots.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:02:26 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Murder in Indianapolis. People were getting killed all over the place. Not a good trend.
Miiich · 1 points · Posted at 17:28:29 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Blue hair, fashion overal. But above all EDM.
CAKE_EATER251 · 1 points · Posted at 17:58:15 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Hover boards
coffee_creamers · 1 points · Posted at 18:04:57 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Jogger pants.
lifeonbroadway · 1 points · Posted at 18:17:48 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Vines/Snapchat. People making snaps of random people on the street, the guy in the window at McDonald's, holding their phone directly in a lead singers face during a performance (saw that one personally). I don't understand their incessant need to constantly document the most benign and irrelevant activities. Not realizing they have the attention spans of goldfish because they never watch anything longer than 5 minutes. It's sad, I don't think any of the sci fi and dystopian writers foresaw a world filled with so many truly apathetic people.
And "Suh dude". Don't get me started...
strokesfan91 · 1 points · Posted at 18:22:44 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
that logan paul dude on vine. total douche.
Slightly_Stoopid_ · 1 points · Posted at 18:22:59 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Pants, I mean like come on! http://i.imgur.com/hQkHtG7.jpg
Connaugh · 1 points · Posted at 18:38:00 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
pran... s..social experimenting.
powerspyin1 · 1 points · Posted at 18:42:12 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Cheeky Nandos with the lads
Parad0xurus · 1 points · Posted at 18:48:37 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Glitter everthing. You can go blind w/ that crap
0food · 1 points · Posted at 18:52:35 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Beards and man-buns.
Never again, world. Never again.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:56:35 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Reddit
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:02:54 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Everybody on the Baltimore Ravens wanting to be on IR.
SlowJoeSlojokovitz · 1 points · Posted at 19:05:37 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The new overly simplified website style. How will I ever find the info I'm looking for? My only option seems to be to click on random unidentified buttons with non-standardized symbols, which take me to equally useless pages. But it doesn't matter - because the info I'm looking for is no longer there to navigate to anyway. Annoying! Your web site is a waste of time!
Am I old?
quickclickz · 1 points · Posted at 19:08:23 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Price of oil.. awful trend
Acquilas · 1 points · Posted at 19:10:31 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The posts on Facebook like: "I left a nail gun on the floor and my child shot himself in the foot. Warning to all the people out there about how dangerous these items are". This however is just an on going trend
noisyturtle · 1 points · Posted at 19:10:45 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The repost situation on Reddit has hit an all-time high. I cannot remember a single day in the last year or so where the front page has not been littered with at least a dozen reposts. And not things that were posted once a year ago, no, we are talking about reposts of posts from the previous day or even that day. Reposts of gifs older that Reddit, or shit that you see on a weekly or biweekly biases and the lazy mods don't do shit about.
CyanManta · 1 points · Posted at 19:14:32 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
ISIS.
dramboxf · 1 points · Posted at 19:26:27 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Man buns.
BlackManMoan · 1 points · Posted at 19:35:11 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Slide-out menus on websites. Not sure exactly what they're called, but it's beyond annoying when I'm on a website and it has a bar on top that slides out when you hover your mouse over it. Half the time they won't slide back either.
BarracudaNas · 1 points · Posted at 19:36:45 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
In the german part of the world every damn facebookpage had "facts" in its name menfacts, carfacts, gamerfacts i hated it.
Emohdee · 1 points · Posted at 19:55:36 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
"Adulting" "I don't want to adult today" etc
math-yoo · 1 points · Posted at 19:57:28 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Nineties alt rock.
TheAnsweringMachine · 1 points · Posted at 19:58:42 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
All those stupid shit like planking and ice bucket challenge.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:02:12 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
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dubsnipe · 1 points · Posted at 02:11:55 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Canadians?
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:07:45 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The sparrow lips that replaced the duck lips. I can't stand women who do this!!! You look narcissistic and silly.
twoliterdietcoke · 1 points · Posted at 20:11:12 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
bae.
Rigg_Enderslaye · 1 points · Posted at 20:11:40 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
21 = Twenty Juan!!!!!!!!
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:33:04 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
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Rigg_Enderslaye · 1 points · Posted at 22:17:54 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Ran into 2015 i think
_coyotes_ · 1 points · Posted at 20:19:41 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Vine Memes.
Once is funny enough. The Internet and people I know are capable of turning something that was funny just once into a putrid waterfall of never ending shit.
"What are those?" was pretty bad. I saw it once and thought "That's pretty goofy." then I saw more references to that. And more. And more. And people at school were shouting "What are those?".
"Deez Nuts". I watched the original video. Not very funny. I mean I guess it's the way he says "These nuts" but Vine had a bunch of posts on it. So awful.
"John Cena" is probably the worst. The Internet made a once funny video into a big coagulated bowl of suicide cancer. I watched the video, I laughed. Then I saw it become a trend, vines were posting this like mad and some fucknuggets on here posted it several times, gaining massive amounts of upvotes. As painful as it is to hear someone yell "AND HIS NAME IS JOHN CENA", it hurts even more when I hear some dipshit YELL the trumpet sound effect, "DO DO DOOT DOO!"... Eat shit and go prolapse yourself
FederalReserveNote · 1 points · Posted at 20:22:57 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's gonna be YUUUUGGEEEEE.
cjkomando · 1 points · Posted at 20:24:26 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
JOGGERS
gonzoplease · 1 points · Posted at 20:28:29 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Terrorism, western fascism starting to reimerge and Islamophobia
Masoo2 · 1 points · Posted at 20:29:06 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)*
Reaction channels on YouTube
No, not the FineBros, but guys like h3h3, Leafy, (modern) Pyrocynical, etc...
I still don't understand why people watch them. They seem so much more "cancerous" than the videos (pranks, for example) they are reacting to.
Also, I really dislike the sudden trend of hating fake pranks. So what if they are fake? The vast majority of movies are fake, as are large percentage of books. Sure, some pranksters might have taken it a bit too far, but that's just cherrypicking a few extreme examples out of the thousands of prank videos on YouTube. That same claim could be said about any community, yet the internet is only getting mad about pranks.
BurbankCinemaClub · 1 points · Posted at 20:33:38 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
vibes #mood
waltron1000 · 1 points · Posted at 20:34:58 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Top knots
Metaphysicalz · 1 points · Posted at 20:36:48 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Frosted tips. Looks like your tied a dead animal to the top of your head.
amybris · 1 points · Posted at 20:40:19 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
"Life hacks"
BiffSniffer · 1 points · Posted at 20:43:14 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Media worthy cool event happens. I go to YouTube to watch said event. The first 10 videos are just amateur TMZ type reporters talking about the event and never showing said event at all. INFURIATING!
jham1022 · 1 points · Posted at 20:43:17 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Terrorism
G0T0 · 1 points · Posted at 20:44:42 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
vaping
Joenz · 1 points · Posted at 20:48:55 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Youtube Drama. It looks like it's continuing into 2016 though.
thatgerhard · 1 points · Posted at 20:51:09 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
obamagate
underhunter · 1 points · Posted at 20:52:44 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
dabbing
machiabekki · 1 points · Posted at 20:54:00 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Boob challenge Clavicle/collar bone challenge Kylie Jenner lip challenge Basically all of those dumb, teen challenges
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:55:53 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The following emojis: "100" "smiley crying face" "fire"
GamingfulLuke · 1 points · Posted at 21:00:01 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Comment your last 3 used emojis!
NikoRainboW · 1 points · Posted at 21:07:31 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
• "Pizza Rates😍", "Fast Food Rates😍", "Shoe Rates😍". Rate images in general.
• Don't judge me challenge, more like "Show how much of a superficial cunt you are Challenge"
• Silentó and Whipping, seriously, the guy has no talent at all and the dance is fucking stupid.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:08:55 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Not really a trend, but I joined Imgur and Reddit last year, and my friends all didn't and they would show me pictures on iFunny. I would always be like: "yep, seen it, seen it. That one's been on Imgur for 5 years, seen it, seen it."
pratorian · 1 points · Posted at 21:09:57 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
How have I not seen "Suh Dude" yet? I want to say "Damn Daniel" as well. But that might have been early 2016. Fuck both those things though.
fnhs90 · 1 points · Posted at 21:13:57 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
"Keep calm and X"
Xen4 · 1 points · Posted at 21:29:53 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Every pranking video,drop crotch pants,and all of these holy shit stop.
ScottyUrb · 1 points · Posted at 21:35:07 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Certain media outlets' fascination with Donald Tr-
BlazeBro420 · 1 points · Posted at 21:35:12 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
White IT workers pretending to be black people on the Internet
DankMemeTrainV2 · 1 points · Posted at 21:36:12 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Buzzfeed or should I say ClickBait Generator
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:38:25 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I would say the use of the term "savage", but by how the term it's used, it can often be a good indicator of people you don't like..... especially in school..
ilove60sstuff · 1 points · Posted at 21:41:55 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
All of them
East_c0ast · 1 points · Posted at 21:42:33 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Hoverboards.
mutemoo · 1 points · Posted at 21:44:39 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Terrorism. Like come on, we get it already, you can stop killing people now the joke isn't funny anymore.
puskathethird · 1 points · Posted at 21:45:53 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Suicide bombs
fusionfreak · 1 points · Posted at 21:51:19 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Manbuns
Zombito13 · 1 points · Posted at 21:57:41 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
You get ad revenue on your page and then on the video itself. Also bonus of it's on youtube. I hate them, I just don't click on those sites I recognize to do this.
weRtheD · 1 points · Posted at 22:06:13 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
.#themost#annoying#shit#intheworld#yolo#fuckmylife
mollypop94 · 1 points · Posted at 22:06:20 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
This still goes on to this day, but it seems that the trend kicked up last year. When shitty 'memes' are used, people will use that infuriating laughing-crying emoji. I don't know why, but I fucking hate that emoji so fucking much.
djalley22 · 1 points · Posted at 22:08:08 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I never understood the "Straight Outta" meme. I understand that it was a very successful marketing tool but basically it was people putting their hometowns. Nobody thinks your "Straight Outta Manhattan, KS" is a clever profile pic, sorry.
RisingBlackStar · 1 points · Posted at 22:11:21 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
IDGAF if I was late, but Slim Jesus trending made me feel sorry for Hip-Hop in 2015 despite last year being a very good year for Hip-Hop in general.
kaihatsusha · 1 points · Posted at 22:22:02 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Unicode EMOJI. Color characters in a typeface.
BelieveInRollins · 1 points · Posted at 22:22:32 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
i don't know if this counts but the damn daniel thing was horrible.
BlueNinja23 · 1 points · Posted at 22:22:37 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Bit strips
kyperion · 1 points · Posted at 22:27:19 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
kys
You know society and especially people who spend most of their life pandering on social media have really become inbred when they need an acronym for kill yourself.
Wildecc · 1 points · Posted at 22:31:36 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Cancer
Dashashound · 1 points · Posted at 22:37:08 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Ghetto exploding segway.
daygomel · 1 points · Posted at 22:44:56 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
THE DRESS IS WHITE AND GOLD.
HellaNahBroHamCarter · 1 points · Posted at 22:49:19 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Bomber jackets. And the style of clothing people who wear bomber jackets wear. I never seen anyone wearing a bomber jacket who doesn't look like an asshole
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:50:33 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Nobody cares what color the fucking dress is!
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:50:57 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
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ScorpionX-123 · 1 points · Posted at 23:13:51 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I thought that was in 2012.
phantompath · 1 points · Posted at 23:09:44 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Professional online editions of highly reputable newspapers using clickbait headlines. sigh
DuhKoolAidGuy · 1 points · Posted at 23:17:48 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The 2016 election.
berryflash · 1 points · Posted at 23:25:16 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Since everybody told about 2015, the worst and most weird challenge of 2016 is "The Condom Challenge" -___-
TheChroniclesOfTaint · 1 points · Posted at 23:41:56 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
"Comment "'117'" and a green bar will appear if you've been hacked 😱😝🙋"
Edit: One spelling mistake.
MacDoesReddit · 1 points · Posted at 00:02:33 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Dabbing, Whip/Nae Nae, and BuzzFeed.
DarkWanderer18 · 1 points · Posted at 00:05:53 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Damn Daniel got fucking annoying fast and lasted longe than it should have.
TheCertifiedRogue · 1 points · Posted at 02:34:15 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
That was 2016 and it didn't even last a week
ToKenDabs · 1 points · Posted at 00:06:43 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Man buns. Enough said.
Skull-Demon · 1 points · Posted at 00:25:46 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Whip and Nae Nae. Just kill me, I don't want to live in this planet anymore.
Imadamnhero · 1 points · Posted at 00:33:03 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
EVerythinghashtags
raine13 · 1 points · Posted at 00:38:08 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
whip and nae nae....if i never hear that song again
AndroidIsAwesome · 1 points · Posted at 00:40:17 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Those so called "hoverboards"
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 00:54:40 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
All of them.
TheJester73 · 1 points · Posted at 01:07:33 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Reddit
ConnyWilly · 1 points · Posted at 02:52:24 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
HOO TF UP? BETTA HIT THAT MOTHAPHUKKIN LIKE BUTTON 😎😩😈💯💯👍🏼😷
RectumCheese · 1 points · Posted at 02:54:32 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
All of them.
mardfet · 1 points · Posted at 02:57:21 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Youtube channels all having these stupid click bait titles.
2013:
Let's Play Minecraft! Part 3 - blah blah blah
2015:
CRAZY MINECRAFT PRANKS! WORST SANDWICH EVER! THE END OF NINTENDO! NINTENDO NX REVEALED! WTF?
so sick of it
ian8288 · 1 points · Posted at 03:04:14 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Vines that spawn any type of joke.
For more clarity, I teach in a middle school, and the amount of time I hear things like "lebron James, Pearsss, 21, ect.." or that crap drives me crazy
AgentJin · 1 points · Posted at 03:06:03 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Pretty much anything started by vine, Instagram, and pretty much the entirety of social media.
i_dont_give_a_care · 1 points · Posted at 03:06:59 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
People speaking in formulas. Facebook is just a hole where people insert words into the same sentence everyone is using.
For a little while it was along the lines of: post a picture of an animal making a funny face, "When your in-laws come by unexpectedly."
Now it's that formula just to describe what's actually happening. A picture of a girl tanning at the beach: "When you're tanning at the beach."
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 03:21:58 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Is no one gonna say selfie sticks??
NonObeseClown · 1 points · Posted at 03:32:00 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Hoverboards
The_D0ctah · 1 points · Posted at 03:37:27 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
WHAT ARE THOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSE!?!?
F4cetious · 1 points · Posted at 03:38:22 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
"Yaaaaaas" has been a thing for a couple years now, but I feel like it really spread a lot in 2015. It's occasionally funny or fitting, but mostly it sounds silly as fuck.
assumetehposition · 1 points · Posted at 03:40:38 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
"Disruptors". We get it, you have a great app and you're going to get a Kickstarter going, raise 3 million dollars for your product launch, "disrupt" the whole industry and leave a trail of dead century-old companies in your wake. And you know what's going to happen after that? You're gonna sell the beautiful thing you, your best buddy and his nephew who knows how to code hastily built in your basement to one of those century-old companies for a half a billion dollars because they can't afford to compete with people who don't care if they make a profit and because that's the new American dream. Congratulations. You disrupted.
nofapaccounthere · 1 points · Posted at 03:51:43 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
The constant use of the word epic.
scsmith83 · 3 points · Posted at 04:06:04 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Wasn't that like 2012?
soymik__ · 1 points · Posted at 03:55:50 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Obama singing to 'Sorry' or some other songs
RATDUCKS · 1 points · Posted at 04:07:12 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Those damn tiny man bun things.. God I hate those!
reyalSdrateRehT · 1 points · Posted at 04:11:25 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Reddit.com
mikebritton · 1 points · Posted at 04:15:00 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Wearables and beginning every sentence with the word "so."
1hundopercent · 1 points · Posted at 04:21:23 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Hillary Clinton
TheSubtleSaiyan · 1 points · Posted at 04:43:32 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
"Flaking"
Not exclusively 2015, but it is certainly on the rise.
Aziz Ansari sums it up nicely here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RbMv7HUiO4
ifyouwanttosingout · 1 points · Posted at 04:47:28 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
IQ tests or prove how smart you are tests that are complete bullshit but allow dumb people to feel smart for a few minutes.
Dodge_Viper2015 · 1 points · Posted at 05:10:40 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Tai Lopez
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:35:29 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
All of them.
janejo · 1 points · Posted at 05:55:50 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
The god damn rolling hi hat trap beats
punisher2404 · 1 points · Posted at 06:57:13 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Growing societal apathy and a disgusting level of myopic self-absorption culminating from social media imbalance, narrow mindedness and a total lack of compassion and empathy for our fellow human beings.
rustcohle17 · 1 points · Posted at 07:09:12 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Being on fleek.
coocooforcapncrunch · 1 points · Posted at 07:34:00 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
______ and chill
BillyBaka · 1 points · Posted at 07:35:46 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
The A4 paper challenge, the Dress photo, and the shark thing....uuuuh???
SpookyDissonance · 1 points · Posted at 07:48:03 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
The Undertale fandom became some really cancerous shit.
nofapaccounthere · 1 points · Posted at 07:56:24 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
And it's still being said
Luckynumberselvin · 1 points · Posted at 09:57:18 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Oh lord I thought every other week people were cutting up words to make them cooler. Ex. Cray, ham, fam, fleek.
Edit: I'm sure there's more than I can currently think of so add on lol
whiskerbiscuit2 · 1 points · Posted at 10:01:02 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Smh tbh fam
RealCS · 1 points · Posted at 11:08:18 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
"LIKE THIS FOR X" "SHARE THIS FOR X" "COMMENT THIS FOR X" "IGNORE AND GET A BOTTLE OF BEES UP YOUR ASS"
SpeedyEdie · 1 points · Posted at 11:38:11 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
All of those damn Buzzfeed videos/Buzzfeed copycat videos.
"14 struggles __________ people know too well." "10 reasons why _________ is the best."
It's just a bunch of videos trying to relate to everyone on the planet, in order to get views. They have videos about short, tall, skinny, fat, Jewish, Christian, big boobed, small boobed people. It's ridiculous.
KingreX32 · 1 points · Posted at 12:18:55 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Twerking. I hate it. I hate people that do it.
CynicalEyeball · 1 points · Posted at 12:44:43 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Drake.
BL00DRAINE · 1 points · Posted at 12:45:10 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Repeating /r/AskReddit questions. Apparently it hasn't been fixed yet.
Chronogos · 1 points · Posted at 12:59:28 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Every webpage is now "20 reasons why X did X" instead of being a normal article. Even worse the motherfuckers thought it would be better to have each sentence on it's own page
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 13:51:39 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
The whole LGBTQXYA.... Whatever trend. I'm a guy. I identify as male. I am white. I will always be that way. I want to stay that way.
Now stop telling me I should identify as something different.
Note: Yes, I know the LGBT community has been around for years, and I'm okay with them. Just stop saying that everyone has to identify as something different from their actual gender.
KeFFFF · 1 points · Posted at 16:31:25 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
man buns
ayoh-river · 1 points · Posted at 16:56:50 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I hate the articles or videos that are titled "She/he does a thing, and you'll never believe what happens!"
Tulemasin · 1 points · Posted at 16:57:50 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I hate that back in the day when you saw something funny/weird happening and you wanted to film it you did it traditionally holding your recording device with the lens end of it pointing at the happening.
For some reason people find it necessary to do this half selfie video where half of the picture is the face of the author doing stupid faces like telling "you dumb fucks don't know how to react to this weird shit so I'm gonna cover half of the footage with my ugly expressions"
oh, and I HATE selfies. if you want to look like a complete retard, do selfies. in public. and 100 of them in a row. I remember when taking a picture of yourself was looked as you were the "forever alone" guy.
level92wizard · 1 points · Posted at 17:59:37 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
bleeding into 2016...DABBING
rich815 · 1 points · Posted at 20:36:27 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Man buns
Monaroob · 1 points · Posted at 20:45:39 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Not just 2015, Guys taking selfies. Or as many photos of themselves as teenage girls. And mirror selfies. I don't want to see your phone/dslr in the mirror f*ckwit
Macks_Favorite · 1 points · Posted at 21:51:12 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
The freaking ugly man-bun, oh god make it go away!
CaptainTeo · 1 points · Posted at 01:00:13 on March 26, 2016 · (Permalink)
People taking a Vine, posting it on Tumblr with an awful caption (with gratuitous emotes), then recording the whole thing as a separate video and posting it to Facebook.
BigOldCar · -2 points · Posted at 00:01:22 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)*
Black Lives Matter. It was little more than an excuse for entitled black college kids to ruin events and stage small riots and feel justified in doing so. Rejecting "all lives matter" shows what they were really about: demanding race based special treatment.
Related: the phrase "unarmed black man" used to describe every dangerous thug who was shot dead while attempting to kill or menace. As if somebody needs a firearm to be dangerous, or brandishing a replica handgun makes it okay.
GraspingPhilosopher · 6 points · Posted at 00:34:58 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
How can you say that while also knowing about all the videos of police unlawfully killing black people..? What about Tamir Rice?
BigOldCar · 0 points · Posted at 01:29:01 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I know of one. The cop in South Carolina who was videotaped shooting the guy in the back and then setting up the scene to make it appear to have been justified.
That's one. And that guy is rotting in prison now, probably for the rest of his life. As he ought to be.
You point a gun at a cop, you get shot. Everybody knows that. When I was 12, I knew that. My friends all knew that. Everybody knows that. When I was a kid, we played with toy guns. We NEVER made like they were the real thing by waving them around at strangers.
This kid wanted to come off as a bad dude, waving his replica gun around at passers-by in the park, and sure enough the cops got called. He reached for his "gun" and he got shot. I'm supposed to be mad at the cops? Why, because they didn't wait to get shot at first in order to verify that the boy was in possession of a real weapon? Nah. It's like they say: play stupid games, win stupid prizes. I have exactly zero sympathy for little Tamir Rice.
GraspingPhilosopher · 1 points · Posted at 01:42:55 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
A shining example of willful ignorance. I don't know why it's so hard for people to admit that the police mess up, it's a rediculously hard job, and you think they are somehow immune to criticism. You'd rather blame a 12 year old boy who had a toy gun than the police who shot him head. Wtf dude.
Here is a list of unarmed black men that have been killed by police officers, very easy to find and investigate if you actually gave a damn. You're telling me that in every single one of those cases the police acted justifiably...?
Do you think if I swing at a police officer the police officer has the right to just shoot me dead, no trial, no consequences...?
BigOldCar · 1 points · Posted at 01:55:58 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
You asked about videos. I didn't say the police were immune to criticism. I gave you a specific example of one who was 100% wrong.
Tamir Rice was complicit in his own demise. Why are you so anxious to absolve him of any responsibility for his own actions? Are you trying to say that black people are so incapable of reason that they have to be tended to and looked after, that they can't be held to the same expectations as everybody else? That responsibility must always lie somewhere else, that blacks are always the victims? That's a pretty damned racist view. Why are you focusing on the statistically minuscule occurrence of white-on-black killing while ignoring the prevalence of black-on-black killing?
Get a grip on reality, son.
Oh, and by the way, Michael Brown was another one who was to blame for his own death. He wasn't a martyr, he was a thug and a criminal who got shot trying to take the gun away from a cop. Good riddance to bad rubbish.
GraspingPhilosopher · 2 points · Posted at 06:14:17 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)*
Okay let's get this straight. Tamir Rice got the cops called on him and the caller told the dispatcher that the gun was probably fake and he was a kid. Secondly, the police shot him within 2 seconds of arriving on scene.
You really think that Tamir Rice deserved to die? He had it coming? He was complicit in his own death...? The stuff you're saying is just compassionless and sickening. If this was your son do you think he still had it coming?
This just seems like the most obvious case of police neglegence and you still won't budge one inch.
BigOldCar · 0 points · Posted at 13:00:46 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)*
Do I think he had it coming? Do I think he was complicit in his own death? Yes and yes.
As for two seconds, how long does it take to point a gun at somebody and kill them? How long does it take to put your hands in the air? It's not a game. Waving replica guns around at strangers is not a game. When the cops show up it's not a game.
What if it were my own son? It wouldn't happen, because my son--like me, like my friends when I was 12--knows better. Play with fire, get burned.
However, if, in some moment of colossal stupidity, my boy DID lose his fucking mind and start playing pretend public menace and ended up getting shot by the cops, YES I would still be saying the same things. I'd be saying them with tears in my eyes, but WHO the deceased is doesn't change the FACTS of the incident.
I'm not lacking in compassion. I save it for when it is appropriate.
GraspingPhilosopher · 1 points · Posted at 19:29:56 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Two seconds literally isn't enough time to resonably assess the situation. It's not enough time to ask him to put it down. It's not enough time to say put your hands up.
They never tried to deescilate the situation, they just opened fire.
Take them and then think about the malitia members who took over the federal building in Oregon with guns. They painstakingly did everything they could to not escalate the situation and the people were in there for a month!
White malitia members get a month to stand down, Tamir Rice gets 2 seconds. How the fuck is that fair?
BigOldCar · 1 points · Posted at 02:49:16 on March 26, 2016 · (Permalink)
The federal building in Oregon should have been stormed and those jokers shot dead. The FBI was fearful of creating martyrs out of the occupiers. They were afraid of the aftermath given that, among certain populations, Ruby Ridge, Idaho; Waco, Texas; and, yes, Ferguson, Missouri have become symbols of a trigger-happy, overzealous government. While I agree that police response has to be reasonable, the kid gloves treatment that was afforded the Oregon occupiers was way too lenient.
NegativeGaz · 1 points · Posted at 12:31:52 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Glitter hair parts and glitter armpit hair. Just, why? It looks like the reincarnation of Martha Stewart as a rat's nest. Just stahp.
[deleted] · 17 points · Posted at 13:32:16 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
omg. People who say stahp. STOP!
NegativeGaz · 0 points · Posted at 18:32:26 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Can't stop. Won't stahp. Also, it's phonetically closer to how the fuck I actually speak the word, so, come at me. ;)
[deleted] · 10 points · Posted at 13:40:30 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Come again?
TheEpicEpileptic · 3 points · Posted at 14:42:02 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
No thanks. Once is enough.
panamaspace · 2 points · Posted at 14:43:32 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Again? Not even once.
funkyfunkyfunkk · 4 points · Posted at 13:54:59 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I think I missed this trend but I'm glad I did. Glitter is herpes of the art world! It never goes away lol
t31os · 1 points · Posted at 16:15:52 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
So send it your enemies! (there's a website for that).
Sevrek · 2 points · Posted at 14:25:53 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Can we kill the stahp trend? Makes you look like a 14 year old on myspace
NegativeGaz · 2 points · Posted at 18:42:06 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
That was definitely insulting. Good job. Now I'm bound to reconsider my personal vocabulary. Thank you, stranger.
PurpleOnSmite · 1 points · Posted at 13:07:34 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Anything that involves a song having its own dance. Gangnam style, Harlem shake, whip. The worst part is it continues into 2016.
SantaCheese · 6 points · Posted at 13:39:40 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
None of those have continued to 2016
Maryann182 · 2 points · Posted at 13:52:30 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
There will be new ones!
CanisArgenteus · 3 points · Posted at 14:54:16 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The Hustle, The Twist, The Charleston...
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 12:25:20 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
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agarret83 · 10 points · Posted at 12:35:59 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
was a thing way before 2015
laterdude · 5 points · Posted at 13:20:35 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yes, it peaked in 2013 with Miley at the VMAs.
Natem0613 · 2 points · Posted at 13:52:48 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
That was 3 years ago?!
Man, time really flies
Fatmanhobo · 0 points · Posted at 15:27:21 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Peaked? Most people didnt know it was a thinkg until then. Id say it peaked about a month after before people realised it was stupid.
Sandisk4gb4 · 0 points · Posted at 16:21:36 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
K-pop.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:41:01 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
People becoming more and more politically correct, and overly sensitive about too much shit
[deleted] · -5 points · Posted at 12:23:34 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
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[deleted] · -1 points · Posted at 13:08:28 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I like Man buns. I don't like that shaved on either side with a tiny little 'on the top' knot.
whoops519 · -3 points · Posted at 12:52:34 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
But I like it! :( My boyfriend's hair is twice as long as mine.
[deleted] · -4 points · Posted at 13:42:16 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
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whoops519 · 5 points · Posted at 16:09:27 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
But she cute
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:02:57 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
- geek chic still existing
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 16:27:02 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
what is geek chic? like fedora bros?
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:33:01 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Geek chic is "in 2005 I called you a stupid fat nerd for playing Magic the Gathering but now I have 7 different comic book t shirts, comic book memorabilia and instantly love anything that is 8bit, comic, gaming, or anything remotely related to any of those things"
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 16:37:22 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
If that's what you're talking about, "Geek chic" took off in the early 2000s with the rise of Web 2.0. Comics becoming popular is its own thing and I kind of attribute that to Christopher Nolan's Batman tbh
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 16:42:22 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
An interesting take, as I feel it is far more tied to the Marvel cinematic universe, staring in late 2000s with Iron Man
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 16:46:02 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Batman Begins came out sooner, and I feel like it had more universal appeal. Iron Man was certainly popular and it jump started the insanely popular MCU but Batman movies have always been known as cheesy easy money makers and I think Nolan played into that while also classing the genre up into something even people who don't know Batman could watch. By the time Iron Man came out, liking Batman was already "cool".
UseApostrophesBetter · 1 points · Posted at 15:56:31 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm voting for him, but every time I hear "FEEL THE BEEEEEERN" it makes me fucking cringe.
I was sent three bumper stickers by his campaign before I got one that didn't say that on it, so it took that long to have one that was acceptable to put on my car.
BrokenFood · 1 points · Posted at 17:42:54 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Drake
Equinoqs · 1 points · Posted at 21:26:30 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
SJW
Yet another label to plaster onto people you disagree with.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:29:44 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I could go for less Muslims shooting people, but thats just me.
lollielu · 0 points · Posted at 03:18:52 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Upvote for common sense.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 11:49:28 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
[deleted]
goldgibbon · 1 points · Posted at 19:45:31 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
You just need to make a vine that goes viral
coldmtndew · 1 points · Posted at 13:32:21 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Vine was actually good when it first came out
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 12:13:38 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Flakka. Crocadile. Don't do it.
hometown_holly · 4 points · Posted at 14:11:04 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
You talking about krokodil?
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 14:39:19 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Omg had to look at your post history to confirm. But I thought you were a chick named Holly that went to the treatment center I just got out of. She fucked with flakka and krok and that just mind fucked me for a minute.
But alas, you're not who I thought. And to answer your question, yes. I'm talking about krokodil.
hometown_holly · 1 points · Posted at 14:42:51 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Nope, username actually has to do with the old professional wrestler, hardcore holly lol
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 19:28:15 on March 31, 2016 · (Permalink)
You mean Thurman "Sparky" Plugg?
hometown_holly · 1 points · Posted at 20:57:42 on March 31, 2016 · (Permalink)
Thats the one!
bonejohnson8 · 1 points · Posted at 16:15:31 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
This reminds of when I got out of rehab and posted on the opiate recovery sub and a guy who was in there with me asked me "were u in room 17?"
Mindfuck.
Tsquare43 · 1 points · Posted at 13:07:29 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The nae, bae or fap or dab, whatever it was
bonejohnson8 · 2 points · Posted at 16:30:21 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
You do the nae nae with your bae but you better not fap when you dab, because it will be hard to see whether your coming or going.
theJLP · 1 points · Posted at 14:14:55 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
who up clicc dat mf like button
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 14:17:33 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Killer apps.
gunnerpad · 1 points · Posted at 14:21:38 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Anything Kardashian related
The_Eggsecutive · 1 points · Posted at 19:21:55 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I feel like thats every year
Theres_A_FAP_4_That · 1 points · Posted at 15:27:14 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The population of OPisFagistan grew tenfold.
Ralph-Hinkley · 1 points · Posted at 15:36:07 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
YAASSSSS!!!!!
Shisno_ · 1 points · Posted at 15:55:24 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The Kartrashians, and Kanye.
itspearljam · 1 points · Posted at 16:27:52 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
pearl jam
BladeString · 1 points · Posted at 19:19:04 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
What color is this dress!?
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:48:15 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
man buns
strong_grey_hero · 1 points · Posted at 21:00:03 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Being offended.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:05:51 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Trigger warnings.
Sanstheprotector · 1 points · Posted at 21:06:08 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Selfie Sticks, i mean seriously, just use your damn camera if you're gonna take a picture, that's kinda what they're for
antieverything · 1 points · Posted at 21:48:37 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
ITT: things that predate 2015
SebsSkaar · 1 points · Posted at 21:49:28 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Being offended.
PixelNotPolygon · 1 points · Posted at 23:07:47 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Not exclusive to 2015 but definitely the apex of it: identity politics
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 01:45:16 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
The SJW trend
GrumblesFTW · 1 points · Posted at 02:31:51 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Uggs.
devonha · 1 points · Posted at 03:06:31 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
The girl's hair trend that was half up in a bun, half down. It looks so stupid
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 03:53:28 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Crybullies suppressing alternative points of view.
SatanKebab · 1 points · Posted at 05:29:47 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
PRANKS GONE SEXUAL IN THE HOOD COPS CALLED SEXUAL ASS KISS PRANKS BOOBS SOMEONE DIED GUN PULLED
ShayminKeldeo421 · 1 points · Posted at 06:02:22 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Vine, I thought people sould realize it is for morons but they don't. What quality content can you put there in 6 seconds? None, so people make money by screaming "WHAT ARE THOOOSE" or some stupid shit in a funny voice, then repest it literally everywhere else until a new one comes up.
fartloud · 1 points · Posted at 13:10:42 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
third wave feminism.
[deleted] · -12 points · Posted at 14:26:21 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Bernie sanders.
ThatGuyThatSaysMeh · 14 points · Posted at 14:56:46 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Ah yes, getting young people excited about politics. Truly a travesty.
Will admit it's a bit overboard on reddit though.
queenofshearts · 1 points · Posted at 12:48:41 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Those fuckin manbuns. Everywhere.
Golfer1414 · -1 points · Posted at 12:58:02 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Talking about whether or not migrants/refugees should be let into our country.
Ahhmyface · 0 points · Posted at 19:03:32 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Muslim hatred
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:34:31 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Social justice warriorism. Forced white guilt. Third wave feminism. BLM.
There is a way for people to win without putting down others.
Trainasauruswrecks · 0 points · Posted at 00:09:20 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
The word "privilege."
toolfreak4157 · -3 points · Posted at 13:16:02 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Being offended by absolutely everything.
[deleted] · -1 points · Posted at 13:05:22 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)*
Ridiculous 'dances' for poor excuses of 'songs'
Edit: didn't realize people love repeating 'yeet'
Ambererri · -1 points · Posted at 17:02:36 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)*
"I'm offended" "that offends me"
Edit: since I'm getting down voted for this, maybe I should explain a bit. I'm not talking about things that are actually offensive. More of the whole: "I like the color blue" That's offensive, blue triggers me. My dad wore blue the day he died. Blue stands for cops, you're offensive.
[deleted] · -6 points · Posted at 14:37:06 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
SJWing
jonas83 · -1 points · Posted at 17:10:40 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
College safe spaces, hands down the worst trend of all time. FUCK SAFE SPACES, nothing makes me want to spit on people more than seeing this shit on campus
holtzachary · 6 points · Posted at 17:41:03 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Didn't go to a real college.. What are they?
Ravinac · -3 points · Posted at 22:38:36 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's basically a space were people can retreat to and not have their ideas challenged. There are gendered safe spaces, colored safe spaces, trans safe spaces. The only people not permitted to have a safe space are white males, because apparently the world is their safe space.
anothercharlie · 0 points · Posted at 17:46:24 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
When was the last time you set foot on a college
Ravinac · 0 points · Posted at 17:56:20 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Wednesday.
Edit: let me be more specific so that I am not misunderstood. Wednesday, March 23 2016.
anothercharlie · 0 points · Posted at 18:19:50 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
These are nowhere
Ravinac · 0 points · Posted at 19:14:24 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I almost hate to tell you this, but not quite so I will do it anyways. Yes the regressive leftists have started setting up safe spaces. Now not all colleges officially endorse them, but they are usually tolerated, as long as they don't become a problem.
scottmcdribble · -3 points · Posted at 18:44:33 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Black lives matter
mgsmaster2000 · -1 points · Posted at 18:11:33 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Feminism.
RogerKickass · 0 points · Posted at 16:21:50 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Political correctness on steroids.
Broseph_Smith · 0 points · Posted at 19:02:26 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
PC douchebags. Oh wait, that's still sorta going on...
godwings101 · 0 points · Posted at 23:58:21 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The ramp up of crybullies on college campuses ruining the livelihoods of professors and other students.
Slick_With_Feces · 0 points · Posted at 03:41:16 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
"Safe spaces"
[deleted] · -5 points · Posted at 18:38:47 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
[deleted]
hushzone · 7 points · Posted at 19:21:26 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
On the other end of that, white defensiveness. Black lives matter is not an attack on you and talking about privilege isn't calling you a slave owner
ezrasharpe · 4 points · Posted at 06:40:54 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Exactly; that's an extension of everyone finding something to be offended about instead of seeing that Black lives matter is about equality, not an attack on white people.
hushzone · 5 points · Posted at 07:08:34 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
huh never thought of it that way.
Kougeru · 0 points · Posted at 18:45:46 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I hope this ends soon
Bigcat09 · -3 points · Posted at 12:56:32 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Damn Daniel
We_Are_The_Waiting · 6 points · Posted at 13:05:10 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I think that was this year.
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 13:06:37 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
that was like 3 weeks ago, no?
Joed112784 · 8 points · Posted at 13:15:04 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Memes are pretty much already not cool once they get popular. 3 weeks is like an eternity in a meme's lifetime.
flrfmp2yashit · 9 points · Posted at 13:44:04 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
okay but 3 weeks ago was still 2016
Obradbrad · 1 points · Posted at 13:31:10 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Yeah but I think his point was that's not from 2015
Joed112784 · 1 points · Posted at 13:33:16 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Oh ya, true.
Winstonpentouche · 2 points · Posted at 13:20:29 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
To me it has existed for centuries!
coldmtndew · 0 points · Posted at 13:29:43 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Back at it again with the white vans!
IAmClaytonBigsby · 0 points · Posted at 17:05:46 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Social Media Outrage
Nyter · 0 points · Posted at 19:34:13 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
NOTALLMUSLIMS XDXDXD
CarpeCyprinidae · 1 points · Posted at 20:27:15 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Actually I think the last 2 people who were using that tag blew themselves up in Brussels earlier this week
LedZeppelin1602 · 0 points · Posted at 19:38:07 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Slutwalks and "BAE"
rusty2fan86 · 0 points · Posted at 23:13:47 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Taylor Swift's new album. Her music literally gives me fucking headaches.
MisterUndestructible · 0 points · Posted at 23:31:04 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Watch me whip/nae name won song of the summer which just proves how dumb our generation is getting.
MisterUndestructible · 0 points · Posted at 23:31:23 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Watch me whip/nae name won song of the summer which just proves how dumb our generation is getting.
naycherboy · -4 points · Posted at 17:07:12 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Skinny jeans? Ladies, if you want to make your legs look like pointy sticks and you ass flat as a pancake, wear these pants.
FUGLY!
And don't get me started on "males" who wear them. Sad.
da_nie11 · 4 points · Posted at 17:49:20 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Keep wearing your chub-and-tuck sweatpants. They suit you
naycherboy · -1 points · Posted at 18:15:56 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
lol
[deleted] · -2 points · Posted at 19:53:13 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
blacklivesmatter
coldmtndew · -9 points · Posted at 13:26:06 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Bernie Sanders
veetack · 0 points · Posted at 14:43:21 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
He's just this election cycle's Ron Paul.
bbplay_13 · 3 points · Posted at 22:06:51 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Ron Paul is a lot better than Sanders.
veetack · 2 points · Posted at 22:09:20 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I only meant it in the "This guy has no chance of getting elected" sort of way.
bbplay_13 · 2 points · Posted at 22:17:13 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
That is true.
ZombieGoast5757 · -3 points · Posted at 16:30:23 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Bernie sanders
Trosso · -3 points · Posted at 16:57:24 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Black Lives Matter movement made me want to kill myself.
desunoto101 · -3 points · Posted at 13:40:42 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Oil prices.
Natem0613 · 7 points · Posted at 13:53:38 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Gas prices here in the US are pretty great right now
desunoto101 · -1 points · Posted at 13:57:28 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Not if your economy is based on it. Most of my friends and family lost jobs.
cacalol · -5 points · Posted at 15:16:32 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
the fucking "welcome refugees" retardeds
HUETT · -1 points · Posted at 13:40:41 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Cut for bieber or cut for one direction, whichever it was. That knocked my faith in humanity down a bit
Gemuese11 · 5 points · Posted at 14:14:52 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
that was january 2013 though
HUETT · 1 points · Posted at 16:36:52 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
oh I had no idea, thought it was more recent.
Gemuese11 · 3 points · Posted at 18:16:04 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
internet time is distorted anyway.
tkpantol · 1 points · Posted at 17:03:39 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
That was a hoax started by 4Chan
HUETT · 1 points · Posted at 17:13:28 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
damn kids/4chans and their social media, I can't keep up :\
prizefyter · -1 points · Posted at 15:50:24 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Was "Coming out live on YouTube" a thing in 2015? If it was, will 2025 be about, "Mom... Dad.................. I'm straight." Tears. Laughter. We still love you. Happily ever after.
tta2013 · -1 points · Posted at 19:05:18 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
SJWs
thejoedude · -1 points · Posted at 19:43:23 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Political correctness
MisterUndestructible · -1 points · Posted at 23:30:40 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Watch me whip/nae name won song of the summer which just proves how dumb our generation is getting.
[deleted] · -1 points · Posted at 03:19:01 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'll go with all the emoticons and emojis replacing actual words. Guys, especially, should not be doing this.
Akredlm · 1 points · Posted at 03:36:08 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
I get hating emojus but why guys specifically
Beefmittens · 4 points · Posted at 03:57:03 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Dude don't you know that if you're too expressive it's girly? /s
dusty_chowders · -3 points · Posted at 17:03:59 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Safespaces
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 15:07:44 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Deez nuts
HandSack135 · 0 points · Posted at 15:43:16 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
What was that BS Mexican ghost thing that lasted for 3 days
Batt_Hazzard · 0 points · Posted at 16:20:06 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Bacon.
Rando9 · 0 points · Posted at 18:09:10 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Those stupid Tasty videos.
Hattless · 0 points · Posted at 18:25:06 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
The phrase "It's twenty fifteen!" which does more than just reiterate an apparent context.
steven-glansberg · 0 points · Posted at 18:27:36 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Dabbing
ThatguyMalone · 0 points · Posted at 18:56:41 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Un-embossing every logo so it looks flat and "clean". Motherfucker, it doesn't look clean; it looks bland and half-assed as hell. I like big, bold logos with a lot of detail and a 3 dimensional look.
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 19:08:10 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
2015? The election. Everything about it.
Seasp0nges · 0 points · Posted at 19:16:15 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
DJ Khaled's snapchat
tubewatch · 0 points · Posted at 19:55:20 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Protesters protesting anything for something to shoot their selfies with a cool background.
ImJustPassinBy · 0 points · Posted at 21:15:51 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Being from Germany, the refugee crisis has to be up there.
Tokyo_Echo · 0 points · Posted at 21:44:19 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Bae
Solctice89 · 0 points · Posted at 21:49:56 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Donald Trump
JimminyBibbles · 0 points · Posted at 22:48:15 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Trump
just_had_to_comment · 0 points · Posted at 22:56:49 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
its not new by any means. but the media has gotten really bad with wording things just right to spread misinformation and have gotten exponentially more bias
fallstreak80 · 0 points · Posted at 02:37:26 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
the skinny jean trend, though i am not sure if it started earlier than 2015 it is really annoying. seeing someone with a seven hundred dollar or more device in there back pocket and then sitting on it and wondering why i broke.
i_dont_give_a_care · 0 points · Posted at 03:09:24 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
The phrase "so that's a thing".
Khurau · 0 points · Posted at 03:11:00 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
YOLO
lgeezuz · 0 points · Posted at 03:26:20 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Ripped jeans
[deleted] · -4 points · Posted at 13:03:44 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
"Swag"
Wendy9OutOf10 · 8 points · Posted at 13:25:54 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
That's from at least four years ago.
coldmtndew · 6 points · Posted at 13:31:41 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I haven't heard anyone say swag in 3 or 4 fucking years
GLOOTS_OF_PEACE · -3 points · Posted at 13:33:07 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Thats not a trend thats our culture embrace it grampa
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 14:02:05 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I'm 28. And it's a trend, chump.
shanulu · -3 points · Posted at 17:03:41 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Acceptance of socialism.
uwagapies · 4 points · Posted at 17:12:32 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
As a Socialist, boo you. This is our time.
HRxPaperStacks · -5 points · Posted at 04:23:01 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Can't do just one.
BlackLivesMatter: Right, because your life matters more than everyone else. Perfect.
Everyone being (insert whatever you want here)sexual. A 10 year old should not be able to be transgender. They don't even have pubes yet.
Caitlyn Jenner: BUCKLE UP, BUCKAROO!!!
"Whip, neigh neigh," and all the other shitty music that isn't words. It makes me want to set myself on fire.
[deleted] · -3 points · Posted at 14:21:32 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Donald Trump
msipes · -2 points · Posted at 19:01:00 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Bernie Sanders
A8Warmonger · -2 points · Posted at 19:13:37 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
President Obama was the worst trend of 2015... And 2nd pkace goes to the woman in Kentucky kr wherever who went to jail for refusing to approve gay marriage licenses.
11lusiveMan · -2 points · Posted at 04:13:34 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Liberalism and all that it entails. It's about time we drop it people. It's idealistic at best, steaming bullshit at worst.
Willydangles · -5 points · Posted at 16:32:13 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
This PC bullshit has gotten out of hand
KMFDM781 · 3 points · Posted at 19:44:19 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I agree...consoles 4 lyfe
[deleted] · -7 points · Posted at 13:53:05 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Hotline Bling. People need to realise what real music is.
Gemuese11 · 2 points · Posted at 14:21:52 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
yeah. we need a new taytay album to remind them.
Juswantedtono · 2 points · Posted at 16:04:18 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Real music is whatever you happen to like, right?
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 21:06:14 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
In my opinion real music is music that is made out of passion and love for what they do. Drake is just money hungry and his music is just... Shit.
culohands · 2 points · Posted at 20:55:26 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
/r/lewronggeneration
--Kimberly-- · 1 points · Posted at 13:58:26 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
It's because that song is addictive.
UWcontroll · 1 points · Posted at 15:40:01 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
I will agree, but all the photoshops and memes that spawned form that were hilarious.
zephyrIT · -4 points · Posted at 15:32:25 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Bernie Sanders
JasonStatham111 · -1 points · Posted at 13:44:34 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Selfies and the Selfie Stick
MayorDiggles · -1 points · Posted at 19:46:49 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Bitches transcending to a new level of Bitch this year wasn't enjoyable. Go skip through a field of dicks.
148-3369 · -1 points · Posted at 21:20:19 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Joggers
neoj8888 · -1 points · Posted at 04:37:23 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Trans_______
rkt3dZu · 3 points · Posted at 04:46:32 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
Trans Pacific partnership
neoj8888 · 1 points · Posted at 08:55:41 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)
That's definitely one of them.
donfart · -1 points · Posted at 04:58:47 on March 25, 2016 · (Permalink)*
Do you mean what were the worst trends that were first world problems? There aren't nearly as many mentions of life & death matters among the answers.
[deleted] · -5 points · Posted at 12:59:02 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
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thatwasnotkawaii · 7 points · Posted at 13:28:41 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
YOLO hasn't been a trend since 2012
chinchillahorned · -5 points · Posted at 15:06:57 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Sanders
[deleted] · -2 points · Posted at 16:26:40 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Shooting at civilians in Paris
Mr_Biscuits_532 · -3 points · Posted at 13:06:51 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Everything
dontcallmeunit91 · -3 points · Posted at 18:19:39 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Bernie Sanders.... GIVE IT UP YOU HIPPIES!
kingdowngoat · -4 points · Posted at 16:39:26 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Bernie Sanders, and it's leaking into 2016.
ColonelSanders_1930 · -8 points · Posted at 12:36:14 on March 24, 2016 · (Permalink)
Popeye's chicken