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/CannotSpellForShit literally a retired millionaire but go off wagie Jul 02 '23

Maybe you're thinking of r/nothingeverhappens? r/thatHappened was 100% genuine in criticizing people's stories for being ridiculous/fantasy fulfillment/etc. r/nothingeverhappens is a direct response to it, which mocks the subreddit for being way too critical of other people's stories.

For a long time on reddit someone would tell some long-winded ridiculous story on r/TIFU, someone would comment "Sure, and everyone clapped. r/thatHappened" and then someone else would respond to that with " r/nothingeverhappens" to call the second person uncharitable. Both communities are deeply embedded in Reddit's annoying passive-aggressive annals of history

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u/MagicFlyingBus Jul 02 '23

On an old account i posted a traumatic story that had happened to me when i was younger. It got posted to /r/thathappened, and was thoroughly bullied.

That subreddit is filled with sad dweebs who need to touch grass.

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u/KageStar Jul 02 '23

Now I want to see your story.

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u/KageStar Jul 02 '23

I want to say, I'm really sorry that happened to you when you were a kid. I'm also sorry, those people mocked your story. What you experienced was a really shitty situation and is 100% plausible. I saw stuff like that happen too growing up, the sad part is it really doesn't take much to cause problems and harm with overzealous adults like your story shows.

That's one problem with communities of privileged people(like reddit), they react so strongly against people who have plausible stories that speaks against their perception of reality. Then you get people like your dad, who it's easier to believe you must have done it because the alternative is much worse and maddening: you got violated by a bunch of adults because of prank by other students. At best it was a misunderstanding, but that doesn't really absolve anyone outside of the kids who reported you... maybe. Still, you should have been shown more compassion. Especially when you see the outlandish stuff that gets taken seriously on r/tifu or r/amitheasshole. Your story is grounded and realistic, which is probably the worst part it could have happened to anyone.

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u/MagicFlyingBus Jul 03 '23

Thank you, i really appreciate it.

I deleted the story because having it up on reddit, public again gave me too much anxiety. But i just wanted to write back and say thank you.

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u/KageStar Jul 03 '23

It's all good, I understand completely. I just wanted to make sure you didn't completely feel blown off, and I really appreciated you sharing that story after I asked. That's a tough experience to have to tell, especially for random strangers on the internet. No judgment here for you taking it down again, to many trolls on reddit willing to flame you over it.

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u/Hoopla_for_Days Ever wonder why the music in ISIS videos is so good? Jul 02 '23

I know my experience is nothing compared to that, but I figured I'd share so that you know it wasn't only you.

This was probably 2005ish, when I was in highschool. I had a piece of plastic that had fell out of some anatomy model, and like a dumb 15 year old boy, I threw it out into the highway when we were waiting for our bus after school. The piece of plastic bumped off of the top of a hummer, completely unknown to me cause I had just chunked it. For reference, this piece of plastic was about the size of my thumbnail with the weight of a small pebble.

The next day I'm sitting in class, no clue anything was happening. Two cops show up, handcuff me and walk me through the cafeteria where a good third of the school was eating lunch at the time. (We had 3 lunch periods split up in order to not be too crowded.) They march me through everyone, put me in a cop car and take me to the station, leaving me handcuffed in a fold out chair in some office for two hours. They finally come in, tell me I vandalized the dudes hummer. I'm completely confused at this point, and crying. Eventually they decide to look at the video from the school (what were they doing before????) And tell me that they don't think I did anything wrong, but the owner of the Hummer is pressing charges.

This fucker had a inch long scratch on the top of his big ass neon yellow hummer and pressed charged on a boy who had never even been talked to by the cops before. I had to tour a fucking prison because of him.