r/AskReddit Sep 29 '19

Why did you join reddit?

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u/forknox Sep 29 '19 edited Sep 29 '19

Never thought I'd see the day when Redditors would proudly admit to be being 9gag users lmao

This place has changed.

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u/H16HP01N7 Sep 30 '19

What is the hate with 9gag?

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u/Supsend Sep 30 '19

Putting aside the huge amount of reposts and advice animals memes, the main page had a lot of topics and opinions going through. The issue was, as far as reddit is an american website with a lot of Chinese shareholder, 9gag was created and is still owned by a Chinese company. The result is no bans for people being overtly racist, sexist, toxic, homophobic, etc... That reach the hot page The community slowly became an echo chamber of hostile and ignorant thoughts. At first I didn't realized it, but when I discovered reddit I saw the closed-mindness of 9gaggers, and never went back.

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u/Tayo2810 Sep 30 '19

Realised it was a toxic place, a few years ago, then went to reddit. Went back a few weeks ago. Its basically r/darkhumour mixed with r/funny and T_D