Sometimes I legit need the site for niche things. Asked for advice about an AirBNB. This time I had literal fecal water coming up from the shower drain. The host claimed it was impossible. I had him come into my unit and flush the toilet and he saw the water come up.
Half the replies were about me clogging the toilet (lol) so it was my fault. Others were saying plumbing issues can be common and to be patient with the host. Had some other replies just straight up calling me dishonest and saying I broke the drain somehow.
Looked into their profiles, low and behold they were all on real estate subs, wall street bets, landlord subs, air bnb host subs, etc. You get the picture. And there were enough of them to sort of shift the narrative in the replies.
Fucking gross and annoying. Just wanted to vent. Got my host to at least start working on the problem. Based on a little snooping the host is a toolbag who got a little inheritance so that bought a place he can barely afford. So he does the plumbing and maintenance all himself while living here. He can’t actually afford to be doing this, but the profits are too good to pass up!
Reddit is a website designed for people with unlimited free time, which under capitalism means it’s for rich white dudes, but those who are not so rich that they wouldn’t want to accidentally bump elbows with normal people.
While initially that meant it was a haven for techbros and nerdy teens because they were the only ones terminally online enough to spend so much time on a website, as other social media fully captured more people (especially those with nothing to do) it began to attract other groups. Finance dudes. Landlords. Small business owners. Trust fund kids. Feds who are paid to post propaganda. Weird perverts.
A cottage industry of people popped up, producing content specifically for some of the worst people in society. This continued to attract other people who were just there for funny pictures and porn. These people mostly stick to their own subreddits and are mostly “lurkers.” Women are largely relegated to being a posting underclass, they produce content and are seen more as a resource to be mined for content than actual human beings with opinions. Upvote distribution reflects this.
All power posters and generally most posters there are just the dudes with jobs that let them spend the entire workday on Reddit: feds, creeps, and “passive income” ghouls, with an undercurrent of techbros and queer people who got addicted to posting in now-banned or dying communities.
Reddit is a website for landlords.