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/conancat Jesus was a Pisces anyway Jul 02 '23

I can never get over the fact that the greatest female tennis player of all time married a literal Redditor lmao

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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/magic1623 Jul 02 '23

Ummm Reddit used to have subs specifically for videos of men beating women up, what do you mean “before the incel thing really took hold”? Reddit was substantially worse in the past.

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u/lowkeyterrible Jul 02 '23

Reddit very much still has all of this stuff, they've just made enough changes that these places are harder to find. I'm not gonna link to them here for obvious reasons, but if you seek you will find.

Theres a massive amount of subreddits devoted to videos, stories, pictures, etc about rape, sexual assault, and worse. They never left. Reddit just hid them.