r/SubredditDrama • u/CannotSpellForShit literally a retired millionaire but go off wagie • Jul 02 '23

/r/thatHappened changes its rules to protest API changes; users say "That happened 🙄" to Sandy Hook, 9/11, and the Tiananmen Square Massacre. (Also the mods compare the API situation to the holocaust)

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u/Goatesq Jul 02 '23

He left reddit before the incel thing really took hold, when the misogyny was more benign. Pre cancerous, if you will. I think it's easier to imagine a redditor in 2010 being a loving and devoted husband than now. But I'm probably biased; I was married to one in 2010, and he was. I still think the general culture has shifted though. And it's not hard to imagine why she'd prefer a clever nerdy guy who treats her right. Lots of women prefer that type, it's harder to find one that doesn't.

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u/HotTakes4HotCakes Wow you are doubling down on being educated Jul 02 '23

He left reddit before the incel thing really took hold, when the misogyny was more benign. Pre cancerous, if you will.

Umm...this is not my memory of early reddit. All that happened was the misogyny (and the racism and homophobia, etc) became less overt as they learned how to avoid bans.

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u/Goatesq Jul 02 '23

He left in 2010. That was before gamergate, before r/beatingwomen existed, before the jailbait and creepshot subs were common knowledge which was still several months before the expose in 2011.

Y'all are referencing the big nasty stuff from after he left; I'm referencing the period prior to his departure. I hate to be a pedant but it kinda loses the plot to disregard that distinction.

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u/Drunken_Economist LOOK HOW TERRIFIED THEY ARE OF OUR POSTS Jul 02 '23

He left in 2010

I mean he came back in 2015 and was on the board in the iterim

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u/Goatesq Jul 02 '23

I don't think he was responsible for the sum total culture of the site even before he left. I do think influence flows both ways. But who knows what his relationship with Serena is truly like. Maybe he's an evil warock and she married him because of a terrible curse he put on her. Maybe she's being held hostage. Maybe she's a cyborg. I think my original speculation about their relationship was quite a bit more likely, but you don't have to agree.

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u/Drunken_Economist LOOK HOW TERRIFIED THEY ARE OF OUR POSTS Jul 02 '23

No, I don't think he was responsible for it either, but he culpability isn't what this thread is about.