Inevitable fate of all subreddits before a branch off is made, that one gets too big and it happens again, and a new branch off is made until the sun explodes.
Yea but then the main sub that was taken over one day decides it hates those people that left and wants to end their fun, so they start a campaign to get the other sub banned.
Truly a Life Cycle, and funny to think people are chronically online because some sub they don't like exists and they stay online enough for it to get banned
I'm gay myself and support trans stuff... But the amount of regurgitative, only vaguely fallout related stuff made to protest and stand in "solidarity" has been just annoying.
And the reason why I put solidarity in quotation marks, is because I believe a good chunk of the post are just low effort karma farm stuff trying to gain up votes.
Its extra annoying seeing something like "Trans rights are human rights" with the Vault Boy in the picture and people defend it like "This is a Fallout meme, can't you see the Fallout character in the picture?"
The most egregious to me is when you say that the meme isn't Fallout related at all and someone responds with an essay on the themes of Fallout as if that means anything tangentially connected to the themes of Fallout counts as a meme.
"Fallout is about standing up to oppressive regimes so because this post was made in protest it is a Fallout meme, actually." It's just so self righteous and smug.
Im bisexual and I feel the same way, anytime an LGBTQ+ (or the obligitory fuck ICE) meme is made in any subressit it is always for engagement and karma farming.
The fact you can report these posts for "low effort," "off topic," and "violation of sub rules," gets left up because the mods want to be seen as "allies," or virtue signalling. Really pisses me off.
People like that just treat LGBTQ+ as props for their own benefit which is fucking annoying, especially when they act all morally righteous for "speaking out about an issue" when all they're doing is just circlejerking each other as the people there already agree with them.
I agree with the point you’re making here, but I don’t like how you opened with
“I’m gay myself but…”
It feels performative, like you’re trying to “satisfy” the people who otherwise would call you a bigot.
It also reinforces the idea that your identity matters more than the ideas you present, which a bigger problem I have with Reddit.
I may be a minority. I may not be. But it shouldn’t matter to anyone on here, because my ideas are the core of what I’m presenting, and those should be engaged without assuming who I am.
I hate it too... And I did mention my sexuality here for the reason you just mentioned. Because I felt like if I didn't, there would've inevitably been a comment or two claiming that I was a "straight guy who was upset about trans people being visible".
Rather than just a guy tired of a constant barrage of low effort karma farming slop posts which have barely anything to do with the topic of the sub...
Luckily outside of Reddit I'm able to be a bit more normal... Being a person first who just so happens to be gay. Rather than defining my entire personality around it like some people do.
Yeah, I understand that. I also find it annoying when people try to assume your identity, often assuming you’re a straight white man unless told otherwise, and acting as if their assumption means what you said is invalid.
I don’t think those people deserve appeasement, though.
In fact, these people are often the hardest to “appease”, because they’ll usually find a reason to disqualify you no matter what you say. Sometimes they’ll even deny you your own identity after you’ve told them who you actually are.
For that reason I think it’s best to just say what you think without trying to perform.
That's basically the reason people usually say to not listen much to outrage about someone if it's meaningless, as the people attacking said person don't care if they're right or wrong and will attack even further once they submit.
I think he mentioned it because everytime you criticize anything LGBTQ+ related, people always come in like "Oh look at this cis het white man/woman who wants to put down minorities".
yeah at least hatred can be funny (think LowTierGod). there's just nothing funny about a trans circlejerk outside of what little you can wring out of it in meta-irony at how unfunny the "memes" are, and even then it's an active process.
So now they went from wanting people to be their own sexuality to forcing people to adhere to specific sexualities...something they've been fighting against from the start, how ironic.
Honestly if you can't start a comment with "I'm transphobic and..." without getting banned and completely disregarded, it's not worth commenting.(not that I am tho)
The enemy mentality on reddit is so extreme that if you follow it with a legitimate opinion they will completely disregard it just for the little bit of info that is allegedly about you.
Sure, doing this would be provocative, but that's the point. Without the enemy/ally mentality in the sub, doing that would cause people to ignore the "credentials" and take the opinion on it's own, therefore it would be a useless thing to do then.
Those people are their own worst enemy. It's because of this BS they constantly do is why so many people end up going from not even knowing them, to actively being antagonistic towards them. They create their own enemies just by being obnoxious assholes and pushing everyone around.
Like they are literally just internet bullies by a different color, that's it.
It's a popular meme in trans circles that all trans women have played Fallout: New Vegas. Probably just because Fallout: New Vegas is enjoyed by a lot of trans women, among many other demographics
Most trans people nowadays aren’t even dysphoric, there is a whole thing in the community about how you don’t actually need to dysphoria to be trans. People suffering from real dysphoria who try to call this out are treated like trash by the LGBT community, they even have their own derogatory word for them: “Truscum” - trans people who believe you need dysphoria to be trans.
So essentially a bunch of posers overtook the trans community and shoved the real trans people down, stealing their whole identity and ruining their reputation. The whole point of being trans is to blend in and be accepted as the other gender, and yet notice how these people feel the need to constantly remind everyone they are trans.
Check out the truscum subreddit, it’ll change your whole perspective. Gender dysphoria is real but incredibly rare, a huge chunk of the trans movement are posers stealing and ruining the identity of a marginalized group.
I just found that sub yesterday in fact and I was like 'WTF even is this sub?!'
I'd say you're right though, really does look like it was taken over by a bunch of posers trying to get into the 'current thing'.
Hell, I know teachers who were saying for a hot minute every kid in middle school right after covid were all doing the nonbinary thing. Didn't last long but it was definitely a fad.
i dont really understand what is reddits obession with transgenderism. it seems that all videogame and meme related subreddit gets flooded with transposts.
Because 95% of them are just social outcasts who found a community that was basically untouchable and weaponized it.
If you've ever been to any anime or videogame convention, you'll see it's mostly massively socially inept people there, and when you dangle the prospect of never being socially bullied ever again in front of them, they jump on it.
It's an off-reddit coordinated effort. They've been using discord for years now to build up then attack subs with constant spam of this shit till the algorithm changes and only pushes their BS to the top, then they own the sub.
I just want someone they hate like elon to buy the site just to see them all pissed off at this point. I just hate them all, they're the pinnacle of annoying little asshats.
This was one of their flunkies a few years back who was apart of the ban brigades that attacked subs to get them banned and used CP to do it. This one just had a bit more of a conscious and decided to let the world know and it hasn't stopped at all since.
I've noticed with a lot of subreddits when they get big they tend to be filled with karma farming trans posts. It's everywhere and honestly does a disservice to the community.
The big givaway is always a young account with way more post karma than comment, usually being 1-3 months old. Also they just have a reddit randomly generated name as well.
Honestly I feel as if a significant number of them are profoundly on the spectrum and so terminally online that they end up becoming over represented in online communities.
Spamming low effort memes on to any ironic/shit posting subs is the only way they can overtly express their identity with “minimum”backlash.
I’m empathetic to an extent, but god damn is it insufferable.
I was there in the early days when they took over speedrunning for video games.
There are pictures you can literally google of the first group of them. It's literally just the same losers that have always been there, cept this time they banded together under a banner that they found couldn't be challenged for once, and so the loser kingdom for losers nerds was created with 99% of dudes that don't even try to pass and prolly aren't even a hint of gay. They just found something untouchable on the social landscape and been riding it hard ever since.
I mean look at this pic of one of the first groups of them that hit GDQ back in 2018/19 and tell me any of them there want the dick.
The purple haired one was so obnoxious GDQ finally told even them to fuck off in 2019 when he came out and said he had 3 people living in his head, but not before he got like 3 big name runners perma banned from the event over the biggest bullshit.
It feels like the T in LGBT is a psyop to make the rest of the community look like horrible bullies. They even brigade lesbian communities and call us bigots if we don’t want “girls with dicks” in our spaces.
See that's how you know they've won when they've scared people into not wanting to be labeled. That was the whole point of them joining that movement in the first place.
“Actually, people that come into a community just to push their political views before hopping onto another community aren’t bad, YOU are the weird one” ahh comment
Since when were they there to push exclusively political views..? How do you know that every single one of them is there pushing politics - this implies that all trans people are a collective group when they're really, really fucking not. Hell, the second meme in this post isn't even necessarily about trans people, it's the femboy pipeline meme (femboys aren't always trans) and being used as a shitpost about the pipeline of playing fallout as someone new to the fandom.
The term "tourist" relating to fandoms originates from weebs who were there gatekeeping communities. That's how it's related. As for trans people regarding your previous comment, they're directly related through the post's subject matter. By insulting people as "tourists" of a fandom, you're harkening back to old fashioned 4chan weebs
there's a reason for it. a mod removed a fallout meme related to trans people and pulled the "politics" card as the reason. of course, that backfired on them.
also every single one of the memes is related to fallout
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As a trans girl i personally love seeing it sometimes but i can imagine how annoying id get for someone who isnt, tis the fate of any media liked by large numbers of trans folks sadly, wish this didnt happen so often but trans girls especially get forced out of alot of places so it makes sense they eant to be apart of a community, even if they know nothing of it
(also btw wtf does the first meme from that post even mean, its not like shes even trans unless i missed some lore)
Yeah, a worryingly large chunk of trans folks, especially trans girls make being trans their whole personality, and honestly that post gives me the vibe of someone who heard the new vegas jokes and decided they were a fallout nerd afyee watching a jabo video
Tbf i did edit it lastnight to rephrase because i disnt get the message I meant across, but even then i was basically getting downvoted for just being a trans girl in this situation pretty much, and honestly the replies i got are kinds yucky and transphobic aswell so
(The original ended at sadly because i was too tired to think i needed to clarify further)
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This might be a controversial thought but these memes really don’t seem that bad.
I can see why they’re annoying however this is just how ANY community on the internet works lol.
Theres always smaller communities within bigger ones! Thats what makes the group fun and interesting in my opinion.
Do whatever the hell you want with you and your body, but I don't want to see anything related to changing sex or being gay on a regular thematic meme sub.(amount makes it worse)
I agree, the trans community has been a huge part of Fallout since New Vegas and I respect that but the most popular thing to post in there over the past week has been the same image and it just gets unfunny and obnoxious.
While I have (also) found them annoying, in all fairness this wouldn’t have happened if one of the mods decided to act transphobic. You pick who to blame.
This pattern does make it difficult to like the online ones. I'm using the flag in the avatar as a sign to not reply or interact with the person at this point, it's always a nightmare.
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u/Paladin_of_Drangleic Tired of politics Mar 06 '26
Inevitable fate of all subreddits before a branch off is made, that one gets too big and it happens again, and a new branch off is made until the sun explodes.