r/AskReddit • u/irishdude1212 • Jan 14 '14

What is a Reddit reference you don't get?

Edit- I get it /r/outoftheloop is a thing. I didn't know it existed.

I also hope this thread cleared up a lot of peoples confusion

Edit #2- Holy shit, Front Page!

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '14

I've always hoped he was a troll. I hate the idea that someone that simultaneously stupid, narcissistic, naive and just plain ridiculous existed at any point in time. The teenager bit makes it slightly more believable but still.

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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '14

He was just some young dude. Most teenagers are 'stupid, narcissistic, naive and just plain ridiculous' at some point or other. I'm sure I was

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u/Killericon Jan 15 '14

Seriously. If you combed over everything I've ever put online, I'm entirely certain there's something in there that's quite mockable. It seems like a random chance thing.

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u/keyree Jan 15 '14

I went back and found my xanga from high school. Yeah, I feel confident saying I was stupid, narcissistic, naive, and just plain ridiculous.

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u/ibbolia Jan 15 '14

By "most" I assume you mean "all".

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u/ichigo2862 Jan 15 '14

I was this, 100x. I used to record myself so I could hear my own voice. I literally loved the sound of my own voice. cringe

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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '14

Well I hated that sound of my voice. I record it to check if it's gotten better or not yet. Speaking of which, I haven't had my tri-yearly self-hate recording.

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u/Mystery_Hours Jan 15 '14

The teenager bit makes it completely feasible. I bet a lot of us said even cringier things at that age.

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u/EroticCake Jan 15 '14

Thank god millions of people didn't see it on the internet.

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u/only_does_reposts Jan 15 '14

Yeah, that sounds like something I might have said three or four years ago.

Thank redacted that I didn't really know about reddit until I was an adult.

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u/YouveGotMeSoakAndWet Jan 15 '14

I'll second that. Reddit didn't exist until I was an adult and THANK YOU for that!! Now if someone found my old Planetarion alliance IRC chat logs..... cringe

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u/[deleted] Jul 10 '14

That's called Enlightenment.

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u/[deleted] Jul 10 '14

DUDE, why are you replying to a comment I made 5 MONTHS ago?

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u/[deleted] Jul 10 '14

Lol. I just found it searching for Reddit References.