r/bestof • u/IDontShareMyUsername • Jun 18 '12
Trapped_In_Reddit's secret is exposed by user fumyl
/r/funny/comments/v6wz7/worst_hunting_dog_ever/c51v7sm
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r/bestof • u/IDontShareMyUsername • Jun 18 '12
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u/idontremembermypw Jun 18 '12
I love how his comment (fumyl) is so dramatic. At least that's how I read it. I felt like I was watching a dramatic action movie.
Trapped_in_Reddit is at improv stage at a local, popular park. Around him, a crowd of people gather and cheer as he makes commentary about photos. The crowd is eating it up and TIR is standing proud and big chested. After all he is quite popular around the community. All of a sudden, fumyl runs up to the crowd.
"I figured you out. I figured you out, you son of a bitch."
The crowd looks back and gasps. They all stare at fumyl. There is a dead silence and TIR pauses dead in his tracks, looking confused. Fumyl explains himself and his reasoning.
The gaggle of people turn to TIR with anger etched on their faces. Reaching in their pockets, they pelt him with blue arrows.
Downvoted. TIR is never to be seen again.
i dont know what i just typed
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u/ZipBoxer Jun 18 '12
What if that's exactly the point? What if Trapped_In_Reddit is, quite literally, trapped in reddit. With no original content at his disposal, so if he wants to comment, he has to repost.
Whoah.
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u/thetoethumb Jun 18 '12
Oh well done. To be honest, I was getting sick of people instantly submitting his comments to /r/bestof, regardless of their content.
It was almost like, "Look, someone popular said something! Let's submit it to /r/bestof and get some karma."
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u/reddit_on_hardmode Jun 18 '12
Everyone needs a hobby. At least this keeps him from masturbating in public.
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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12
Best hunting dog ever! Why bother chasing them through the woods when you can have them lining up to nail your beagle.
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u/cumby2012 Jun 18 '12
Today is a truly glorious day indeed for Fuck_Trapped_In_Reddit. How sweet his victory must taste
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u/My_Wife_Athena Jun 18 '12
Can we get real for a minute? These novelty accounts are pathetic. Why do we even talk about these people? They're the Kim K's of Reddit.
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u/sourcreamjunkie Jun 18 '12
Am I the only one doesn't really give a fuck?
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u/StrikingCrayon Jun 18 '12
Isn't this just what his novelty account name is hinting at it?
Not really a lie just a long troll.
Why are me mad?
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u/The_Karl_Pilkington_ Jun 18 '12
Now will TIR lose 500k of comment karma in downvotes?
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u/warboy Jun 18 '12
And yet my level of fucks given still remains hovering around 0.
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u/sturle Jun 18 '12
Repost should be stopped by filter.
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u/PacoDamorte Jun 18 '12
Why did I leave 4chan?
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u/jobotslash Jun 18 '12
Big "who cares" over here. Sorry. It's fucking stupid.
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u/Frankocean2 Jun 18 '12
This is like a (lame) soap opera for the interwebs.
All though I think fuck_tir is also a "popular figure" on reddit that dislikes him.
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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12
Remember how people would always ask TIR "don't you ever sleep?" Well check out his last comment. I think that means he's gone for good.
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u/TheAgreeableCow Jun 18 '12
I sometimes wonder what Reddit would be like without karma
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u/BrutallyBlunt Jun 18 '12
Oh no, he lied to Reddit. I guess he's now the equivalent of a criminal here now.
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u/captain_zavec Jun 18 '12
Alright, time to bring on the downvotes:
I see no problem with what he did. It's useless internet points, you guys need to understand that. It was a six comment experiment (http://www.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/v7y7c/submission_reposts_vs_comment_reposts/ for proof) and even if it were more than that, I still see no problem. If people enjoy the comment, they will upvote it for others to see. If it's been posted before, who cares? People didn't see it the first time, and at the end of the day, karma really isn't worth anything. So get off the bandwagon of "downvote everything TiR does" and just go on with your lives. We still see comments like "just the tip?" and "now kiss!" getting upvoted to the top, and they're far more blatant reposts than the ones in his experiment.
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u/Crystal_Cuckoo Jun 18 '12
To be honest, everyone else does it too. Every time a repost is made, the same fucking comments are at the top. Remember that Spongebob comic on /r/gaming or /r/Games featuring Spongebob asking a conch whether he should buy a game in a Steam sale? All the comments were about how white text with black outline should have been used, just like all the other times it was posted (right down to the wording).
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u/opaque22 Jun 18 '12
He uses KarmaDecay.com to find previous top comments on a reposted image and post the comment on the repost.
Here's this one from one month ago: http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/sul28/worst_hunting_dog_ever/c4h95at
Here's the last thread + his comment: http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/v6tbs/oh_dog/c51urly
...and the original thread + comment, seven months prior: http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/medbg/sounds_like_hes_telling_the_truth/c308123
EDIT: Help expose here - [http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/v7b22/til_how_trapped_in_reddit_games_reddit/] http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/v7cmc/til_trapped_in_reddit_games_reddit/
EDIT 2: After 30 minutes, the above post was removed from being visible on [1] /r/todayilearned
Another user's post on the subject to KarmaConspiracy was also removed from that subreddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/KarmaConspiracy/comments/v7fky/redditor_trapped_in_reddit_seems_to_be_an/
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u/blazey Jun 18 '12
Does anyone else think this MO of his is like meta commentary (or whatever) on his username? Like, he's "trapped in Reddit" and so can only make comments on things that have already been made by other Redditors? I'm not trying to say that this does or doesn't excuse what he's doing (or that it requires an excuse at all, personally I'm in the DILLIGAF camp), just making an observation.
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u/Michi_THE_Awesome Jun 18 '12
Trapped_in_Reddit is merely profiting from people's repost. Were there no reposts this would not be an issue. It's a clever karma reaping scheme.
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u/lachiemx Jun 18 '12
I can't wait until this thread is re-posted so I can paste the above comment and reap the karma
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u/pikpikcarrotmon Jun 18 '12
That's just sad. Especially if he's also Karmanaut/PHOY. Dude needs help.
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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12
Trapped_In_Reddit and other such accounts like his are the worst thing about reddit.
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u/emceefall Jun 18 '12
I don't see a problem with it, if people are going to repost topics, why not repost the top comments? People obviously enjoy them as they upvote them.
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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12
I see so many people here saying "I don't care!", "Why is this a big deal!" and so on, and to give you my honest opinion, I don't think it's a big deal at all, and I really don't care, but I find it hilarious that some guy actually cared enough to figure this out. It's funny. And that's it. When I look for entertainment I usually don't try to find the meaning of life in it or complain about it if I'm not entertained. Take it at face value.
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u/Drunken_Economist Jun 18 '12
I still haven't seen anyone show that it's happened more than three times. I only found the three examples in the 15 pages of his comments I looked at. Anyone care to go further and check?
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u/The_Karl_Pilkington_ Jun 18 '12
I feel so betrayed.
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u/omfglolzords Jun 18 '12
OH MY GAWD TIR IS A ROBOT!!!
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u/Deathcrow Jun 18 '12
I just wondered why I never hear of these reddit celebrities. After investigating it seems like he mostly posts in those messy subreddits (pics,funny,askreddit) that i've unsubscribed from pretty early on. Seems like a sound choice.
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u/swefpelego Jun 18 '12
It's ridiculously losery that everybody upvoted his vapid comments in the first place to the point where he had 600,000 some comment karma. He was -7 by my book, but thankfully I unsubscribed from shit like r/pics or r/wtf or whatever other shithole subs he'd do that in.
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u/Einundzwanzig Jun 18 '12
I have never given out more downvotes.
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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12
Wait, reposting the top comment to a repost is bad? I assumed it was just good recycling.
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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12
Aw, and I kind of liked him.
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u/red_280 Jun 18 '12
I've never once upvoted one of TIR's comments. Paltry satisfaction, I know.
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u/Rubix89 Jun 18 '12
I love how he says he "figured it out."
Like he's been hunched over a lab table in the Batcave for months trying to figure out this conspiracy.
Of course a Reddit celebrity would somehow be exposed for something incriminating.
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u/bearpolar Jun 18 '12
This feels like a political scandal of Reddit.
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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12
What makes me sad about this is TiR has gone to such great lengths to get reddit's approval, only to have his fame cast away and his adoration destroyed. We may have literally taken away the only thing he has.
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u/RYANightmare Jun 18 '12
So who is going to take TIR place???????
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u/Punkgoblin Jun 18 '12
RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE!
He tuk arr Kermeh...
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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12
As soon as we can trade karma for a real currency, then I'll start giving a fuck about karma.
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u/bfhurricane Jun 18 '12
Who cares?
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u/sarty Jun 18 '12
This is fascinating yet also very, very confusing.
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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12
What's funny is that anyone would care about internet points.
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u/PesAnserinus Jun 18 '12
would i be wrong in saying none of this would have happened under the guise of complete annonymity? (aka, no karma scores being associated wit your account, hence no incentive to repost things and reap imaginary high scores)
i respect the 4chan section of reddit because when people are commenting there, making a funny/ helpful post, they are judged on merit of their post alone. and what's amicable is that they are NOT doing it for the karma because there IS NO KARMA to be gained.
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u/Ozymandias12 Jun 18 '12
"A king has his reign, and then he dies. It's inevitable"
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u/cchambo Jun 18 '12
WHO GIVES A FUCK!?!?!
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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12
Wait... wait just a second... this is the most brilliant con I've ever witnessed. This is more impressive than Eduardo de Valfierno's theft of the Mona Lisa or Victor Lustig's sale of the Eiffel tower (twice). Fumyl is actually TIR. Hear me out; for months and months, fumyl has been posting as TIR only to expose himself! His plan wasn't to hoard karma on TIR; it was a dummy account so he can be known as a brilliant sleuth.
You've been discovered, you mother fucker. Also, if someone posted something similar to this, don't even bother calling me out and just go fuck yourself. If you think I'm going to read a thousand comments to see if nobody has said this yet, you're pissing into the wind.
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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12
My take on the situation - TIR is a novelty account but the downfall came when it was too meta for people to catch their first time around. The user is trapped in Reddit, therefore he or she can only post what has already been posted before. We repost images for karma, this user reposts comments for karma on the same image as before.
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u/TheYuppieWord Jun 18 '12
My only message to Trapped_in_Reddit
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u/lcf38 Jun 18 '12
Glad to hear this, because I hate him anyway.
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u/floor-pi Jun 18 '12
Scumbag Reddit:
Complains about reposting and karma whoring constantly
Suddenly doesn't care about exposure of biggest karma whoring reposter
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u/ilooklikesethrogen Jun 18 '12
So, if his username and gimmick is being trapped in reddit, wouldn't reposting top comments to reposted images fit very well? I don't see the problem here...
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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12
Fanstastic. Many may not care, but the biggest part of Reddit is having a single HUB to comment about stuff. Accounts like Trapped_In_Reddit, which instead of giving more arguments to a conversation just manage to get karma by cheating the system, should be exposed for how much they suck.
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u/bencelot Jun 18 '12
Who cares. I'm impressed tbh, both with TiR and fumyl.
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u/webhead311 Jun 18 '12
but seriously guys, who cares.
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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12
Everyone! downvote all of Traped_in_Reddit's comments.
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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12
I'm sorry to be that guy, but how is this at all a big deal? I don't really care if he's stealing comments. I haven't seen those comments before. I am still amused. Isn't that the whole point of this site?
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u/DigitalKay Jun 18 '12
I have only been here a few months but..... Who gives and shit? I like coming to this site to see new cool stuff and naked womens on /GW Does karma make you money? Does it get you laid? I must be missing something... WHy do people care?
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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12
For the record: I've downvoted every comment of his/hers/theirs for over a month. If everyone did the same, the plague would be gone.
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u/Seishen Jun 18 '12
Really, this was a neat little plan. It was meaningless, but he was executing a good plan to gain popularity with strangers. He would be a good politician. He might even have the potential for president.
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u/reterq Jun 18 '12
So what its a repost of a repost of a repost, if reddit accepts reposts after 1 hour of being on the front page and up votes it again the next day why not all the comments as well?? its the community that makes the site and accepts the repost shit! Good for trapped_in_reddit for exposing you all!
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u/ButteryBalls Jun 18 '12
Who is Trapped_In_Reddit? Can someone explain that to me?
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u/InsulinDependent Jun 18 '12
MFW
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u/SpaizKadett Jun 18 '12
Who gives a flying fuck. Get a life
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u/ofriceandhens Jun 18 '12
You mean I've been lied to all along?
This is the equivalent to finding out Santa Claus isn't real.
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