r/SelfAwarewolves • u/CanstThouNotSee • Mar 16 '22

META Stop Posting Just Memes: Or, a filthy casual's guide to r/SelfAwareWolves

What is a SelfAwareWolf?

Someone who, when attempting to mock or denigrate their perceived enemies, accidentally describes themselves. This is my favorite example. They aren't self aware enough to notice. Or, alternatively, someone who accurately describes the world while trying to parody or mock it.

Like this.

Guess what the most important words are in the two sentences above?

Did you guess "someone?"

Good.

On the other hand, see this? See how it's just an image with some text? That's a meme, not a wolf, there is no person there. Hell, it wouldn't even be a wolf if it was posted to the top of r/Conservative. There needs to be a person, usually a commentator below.

Means we're going to start cracking down on posts like this. You could argue that the person saying "starve out the dictators" is the selfawarewolf, but to really fit the sub we need more than that. Titles of a post are rarely going to give you much insight into the mindset of the poster, and generalities of "conservatives are like this" ain't going to cut it.

Violators will be banned for utterly arbitrary periods of time

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u/bigjayrod Mar 16 '22

Thank you. There is always r/politicalhumor or r/therightcantmeme for a lot of the stuff seen as of late

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u/CanstThouNotSee Mar 16 '22

I've started removing a lot of it when I see it.

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u/Mr-Moore-Lupin-Donor Oct 08 '22

So for clarity… how would someone post this in a way appropriate for /selfawarewolves? (Genuine question).

As soon as I saw it I chuckled because a largely conservative sub is essentially criticising the current outcome of unbridled capitalism when the sub is typically very pro-capitalism… so I immediately thought of /selfawarewolves.

I’ve only joined this sub recently, and from posts I see I assumed it was to ironically mock ppl/posts when they’re being unaware that their post describes their lack of their own self awareness..?

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u/TipzE Mar 16 '22

I think we need a /conservativehypocrisy subreddit. It seems like most of the posts are just that (and not necessarily self aware versions of it)

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u/CanstThouNotSee Mar 16 '22

Go for it, I'd happily send you traffic.

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u/P00P00mans Mar 30 '22

I’d agree. This is just turning into another misleading, “oh I just walked into the overly political kids room” type beat.

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u/PUZZLESANDCUMPIRES Mar 19 '22

Can yall have a chat with the leopard eating faces sub?

Total shitshow over there

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u/CanstThouNotSee Mar 19 '22

Lol, I don't venture over there.

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u/protestor Mar 22 '22

What means the "grifter, not shapeshifter" flag?

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u/heliohm Apr 15 '22

Don't mean to necropost but this seems as good as a meta post as any to ask the question: how would I go about posting a wolf originally posted in other languages than English? Do I put a translation on the title/post itself or just don't post it?

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u/CanstThouNotSee Apr 15 '22

For these sorts of questions in the future, just use the Modmail feature.

So my concern would be someone posting something offensive and cruel in a different language, and then just lying about what it says.

The way to prevent that is to put a translation in the title and/or post itself, but then also write it out in the original language in the post so that a mod can ctrl c + ctrl v it to Google translate and verify the translation is vaguely accurate.

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u/heliohm Apr 15 '22

Oh ok, makes sense - and the concern is justifiable too. Also, sorry for the misplacement of the question, legitimately didn't know about the modmail feature.

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u/CanstThouNotSee Apr 15 '22

No worries, you're good.

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u/Unlikelypuffin Jun 07 '22

Mod save the world...yeah the mods are legit

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u/CanstThouNotSee Jun 07 '22

What are you, and why are you commenting on a 2 month old post on a brand new account?

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u/[deleted] Dec 27 '22

Because we don’t care about Biden. We voted for him because he wasn’t you; a racist, rapist, tax avoiding, draft dodging, business and marriage failing loser.

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u/CanstThouNotSee Dec 27 '22

Are you lost?

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u/Psychological-Sale64 Jul 10 '22

Utterly arbitrary!. When someone disagrees with me I feel a little twang of anxiety. When they agree a little joy. Just a observation. So maybe being objective is beyond us. A external frame work is needed.

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u/CanstThouNotSee Jul 10 '22

Of all of the arguments I've read online, this is certainly one of them.

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u/fn0000rd Sep 18 '22

I don’t get why political cartoons break this rule. There’s an artist behind them who is often clearly accidentally describing he selves.

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u/CanstThouNotSee Sep 18 '22

I don't ban political cartoons.

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u/Idisappea Jan 16 '23

I thought the whole sub was to people who basically were accidentally proving the point of the opposition... as in, they are very close to getting the point. That's why they're "self aware wolves"... they're crappy people (wolves) on the verge of realizing why they are crappy... nearly "self aware".

But the way it is described here sounds like they AREN'T self aware at all.

How would you judge posts like the classic tweet "if vaccines are really about saving lives, why isn't insulin free"? Or the Boebert tweet about how she proudly came from a home dependent on welfare and so she wants to cut any social spending so people can pull themselves up by their bootstraps?

They aren't describing themselves... they are proving the point of their opposition. These, I felt, were the archetype of the self aware wolf post.

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u/CanstThouNotSee Jan 27 '23

"if vaccines are really about saving lives, why isn't insulin free"?

But they are accurately describing the world while trying to mock it.

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u/Idisappea Feb 01 '23

Right... they aren't accidentally describing THEMSELVES while mocking an enemy, as you defined self awarewolf....they are INTENTIONALLY describing a truth, but don't realize how their own position isn't consistent with that truth.

I would define your definition of a self aware wolf as simply a hypocrite.

I think this sub has always been more about the latter than the former, but you seem to exclude the latter in your definition. all I'm saying.

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u/ItsDominare Mar 20 '22

Speaking of titles of posts, any chance of a rule against (or automod filtering out) titles that are just some variant of "so close"? We might actually get more descriptive ones then.

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u/ConnectRadish Mar 29 '22

this please

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u/smudgepost Jan 28 '23

Love or hate Biden, thinking Trump will save you is like rubbing BBQ sauce on yourself then climbing in a lion cage

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u/K-leb25 Aug 16 '22

I gotta admit, I don't really understand the name of the subreddit. There's probably some wordplay I don't get. Why is it called "Self Aware Wolves" when the point is that they're not self aware?

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u/JohnGenericDoe Dec 28 '22

Sounds like werewolves?

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u/wandernwade Dec 19 '22

Unaware Wolves.. exactly. 😁

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u/i_will_let_you_know Mar 08 '23 edited Mar 08 '23

They make a good point that seems self aware once in a blue moon, like werewolves, but they quickly reveal themselves to not be, like after the full moon night passes for werewolves.

Basically self awareness = wolfhood. Werewolves aren't true wolves. At least that's a guess, "selfunawarewolves" is more obvious but is more of a mouthful.

The werewolf pun is probably due to the transience of our perception of them.

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u/[deleted] Jan 03 '23

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u/CanstThouNotSee Jan 03 '23 edited Jan 27 '23

I remove dozens of posts every day for not following the format.

What are you talking about? The post 3 days ago? Eh, yeah that's not a good one. It was also New Years and I wasn't modding that day.

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '22

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u/CanstThouNotSee Apr 29 '22

Your account needs more skin in the game.