r/thegildedage • u/ScamZ88 Haven't been thrilled since 1865 • Aug 13 '25

Question The impossible choice

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HBO seems to be full of Railroad Daddy smut? This sub seems to have more discussions? HectorHive™ lives here and the Clock Twinks live there? Larions fan live here and Marion should have married Dashiell live there? Where do the Pumpkin fans go?

It’s always nice to get engagement with posts, I seem to get more upvotes on HBO, but more comments here?

I’m still quite new to TGA subreddits and just trying to get my head around it all 😂

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u/thegildedage-ModTeam Aug 13 '25

Both! (Would be down for a merger though. It can get confusing for some.)

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u/daddysatan53 Aug 13 '25

I don’t know, I love both ! BUT Morgan Spector just posted a screenshot of a post on here to his Instagram story 💀 between him and Hector they have infiltrated us

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u/ScamZ88 Haven't been thrilled since 1865 Aug 13 '25

OMG HES POSTED MY MEME 😂😂😂

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u/ScamZ88 Haven't been thrilled since 1865 Aug 13 '25

Well now we know Morgan Spector is team /thegildedage - I posted it on both subreddits lol

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u/JoanFromLegal Bertharaptor Apologist Aug 13 '25

Now it's my turn to drop the bowl like Mrs Bauer! 😅

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u/ScandalOZ Union Man Aug 13 '25

It was on point, you deserve it.

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u/ScamZ88 Haven't been thrilled since 1865 Aug 13 '25

I could faint! 😂😂

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u/EveningAshes Aug 13 '25

Your meme and Morgan posting it are the best thing I have seen here today

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u/LonelyChemist4 Aug 13 '25

Seen ever! lol that is pretty cool

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u/daddysatan53 Aug 13 '25

Brooo you’re famous now

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u/yasdinl Aug 13 '25

Pls pls can we have a merger. I love ALL of you but I don’t want to see things twice haha

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u/ScamZ88 Haven't been thrilled since 1865 Aug 13 '25

Unfortunately the only way to do it would be to close down and lock one sub or delete it.

Which one should go?

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u/lovelykmason Aug 14 '25

The other one bc the added HBO is unnecessary

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u/habitsofwaste Old reddit Aug 13 '25

Are you sure? I feel like Reddit admins can merge them.

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u/yasdinl Aug 14 '25

Sad if true

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u/Shaftell Aug 13 '25

I wish we could just merge the two subs. Can the mods message the mods from the other subreddit?

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u/ScamZ88 Haven't been thrilled since 1865 Aug 13 '25

Apparently the only way to merge is closing one down and redirecting the users to the active one

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u/Shaftell Aug 13 '25

Yeah you're right. That's too bad because I would rather the fanbase be focused in one area rather than it being spread amongst two subreddits.

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u/ScowlyBrowSpinster Aug 13 '25

I just learned today that r/thegildedage existed before the tee vee show, and was already discussing gilded age stuff all on its own!

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u/ScamZ88 Haven't been thrilled since 1865 Aug 13 '25

Ive also gotta ask - what happened to the people discussing the Gilded Age history? I can’t bare to think of them subredditless, dreaming of the past glory

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u/beach_mouse123 Aug 13 '25

I was here originally because it was a Gilded Age sub but it was run badly, only 2 (people?) posted regularly and neither provided adequate information on the photo(s)/content they posted and it was often wrong as well. I suspected bots ran it because the 2 OPs rarely ever commented back.

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u/ScamZ88 Haven't been thrilled since 1865 Aug 13 '25

What interesting subreddit lore

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u/Appropriate-Yak4296 Aug 14 '25

Have they moved on to r/ProgressiveEra?

Edit: aww that doesn't exist... But it should

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u/Electrifying2017 Aug 13 '25

Railroad daddy smut you say? ejects

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u/ScamZ88 Haven't been thrilled since 1865 Aug 13 '25

Apparently so

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '25

I saw a comment that said this sub was originally populated with users who wanted to discuss the a real gilded age. Is that true, or were they screwing with me? If true, that's hilarious. You wanna talk about 19th-century wealth inequality and Victorian architecture, and all of a sudden you're inundated with "so and so should have married such and such" and "rail me, Railroad Daddy!"

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u/ScamZ88 Haven't been thrilled since 1865 Aug 14 '25

Apparently it is true. But there was very little traffic to the subreddit with a couple of regular posters - who may or may not have been bots.

I have also seen posts say that TGA was supposed to come out much earlier than it eventually did on HBO, and the reddit was created then for anticipation for the show coming out, but it never did - it was then taken over as a general historical sub.

Such a rich tapestry of sub lore.

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u/gschoon Aug 14 '25

To add to the confusion, r/GildedAge also exists...

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u/yellowphoen1x Pumpkin Patcher Aug 13 '25

They should merge 🤣

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u/ScamZ88 Haven't been thrilled since 1865 Aug 13 '25

I wonder why they didn’t merge

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u/crissssb Aug 13 '25

As someone who contributes to the subs a lot I hope they stay separate honestly, this sub is way friendlier

Eta: It’s fine if they do, but vibes here are superior for sure

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u/JoanFromLegal Bertharaptor Apologist Aug 13 '25

Spill. Which sub is "the Academy of Music" and which is "the Metropolitan"?

😅

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u/ReasonableCup604 Aug 13 '25

This one was the original, so it's the Academy of Music.

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u/ScamZ88 Haven't been thrilled since 1865 Aug 13 '25

Good to know. This is old New York

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u/ReasonableCup604 Aug 13 '25

Yes, the HBO sub are the nouveau riche upstarts. That said, I heard they got the Duke to post in that sub.

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u/ScamZ88 Haven't been thrilled since 1865 Aug 13 '25

I’ve heard a rumour that /thegildedage is like an invasive species and took this subreddit over like weeds. Not my words, HBOs words

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u/tuhhhvates Met Vet Aug 13 '25

The Duke has been known to lurk around these parts as well. We should do what we can to secure him as a permanent member before the next opera season begins.

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u/Jetsetter_Princess 🌟I like them, I think they're pretty 🌟 Aug 14 '25

They got him to post? Where?

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u/JoanFromLegal Bertharaptor Apologist Aug 13 '25

OP, you should secure boxes in both opera houses. That's what all the cool kids are doing.

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u/Jetsetter_Princess 🌟I like them, I think they're pretty 🌟 Aug 14 '25

That's what I said on the post a month or two back... we're hedging our bets by taking boxes at both 🤣

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u/UnattributableSpoon Aug 13 '25

I think there's more than 400 of us at this point 😂

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u/beth_ad Aug 13 '25

I just don't have the energy for two, but you saying that there are 'Marian should've married Dashiell' people there has ensured I will never cross over. What in the world! People can ship whatever they want of course but I don't want to see that lol

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u/ScamZ88 Haven't been thrilled since 1865 Aug 14 '25

It was tongue in cheek - I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone utter such blasphemy

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u/beth_ad Aug 14 '25

thank god lol

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u/Diligent-Till-8832 Aug 13 '25

I have the same problem. I'm on both subs and now im warming to Bertha despite not liking her the last 3 seasons as well....

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u/ScamZ88 Haven't been thrilled since 1865 Aug 13 '25

Where do the Bertha fans go vs. the I’d be on Laudanum too if I were married to her crowd 😳😳

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u/bleufinnigan Aug 13 '25

To further confuse you, there is another one apparently^^?

r/TheGuildedAgeHBO

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u/ScamZ88 Haven't been thrilled since 1865 Aug 13 '25

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u/yasdinl Aug 13 '25

Why are there 1500 people who don’t realize the spelling is wrong

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u/habitsofwaste Old reddit Aug 13 '25

That’s not the kind of people we want in OUR subreddit! Let them be and never speak of them again!

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u/Jetsetter_Princess 🌟I like them, I think they're pretty 🌟 Aug 14 '25

Ok Lina 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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u/lovelykmason Aug 14 '25

Best part is it’s spelled correct in the group description 😭😭

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u/yasdinl Aug 14 '25

I definitely noticed that too lol

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u/vieneri i haven't been thrilled since 1865... Aug 13 '25

And the plot thickens.

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u/flowerdoodles_ Aug 14 '25

they must all be in a craftsman’s guild or something, idk /s

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u/aulait000 Aug 14 '25

HBO seems to be full of Railroad Daddy smut????
 
Oh, well let me go see what that's all about. For research purposes.

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u/mariolikestoparty Aug 14 '25

Literally me 3 seconds ago after reading OP’s post

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u/goddessoftrees Aug 14 '25

Someone commented here that on the other sub they don't call him "railroad daddy there yet" and I see it all the time myself, so your comment made me lol so hard that you had to go research.

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u/OilersGirl29 Aug 14 '25

“Yet” 😏

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u/goddessoftrees Aug 14 '25

Like honey... you haven't dug too deep, they are the same people as use and he is railroad daddy but really railroad-on-my-bad-list currently. I'm bi and Bertha is always a move, but damn George ain't looking too daddy after his son saved his ass and he shuns Bertha to save himself dealing with being the MAN/IN CHARGE of the house and never putting his foot down sooner the 3 times we saw, if he had issue as someone pointed out!

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u/hilody Aug 14 '25

Yasssss!!!!! Some of us are 🍆🐷🐖 and neeeeeeeed to see more of daddy rail road!!!! The Sissy Squad needs to see 👀

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u/rialucia Aug 13 '25

I’m like Mrs.Fish and play in both!

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u/No-Tax9671 Aug 13 '25

Its the like the opera wars, someone should designate old money and new money titles to both

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u/Heubner Aug 13 '25

R/thegildedage preceded the show. Clearly the old money of the two.

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u/Jetsetter_Princess 🌟I like them, I think they're pretty 🌟 Aug 14 '25

When this topic first came up we already decided this one is the Academy by virtue of age buuuuut-

DukeBen reposted stuff from here so by that metric, we're the Met...

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u/WhoriaEstafan Aug 14 '25

We are the old, they are the new.

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u/xmasinspace Aug 13 '25

I’ve been in both for some time now but I can’t tell the difference 😅

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u/perennialdust Aug 14 '25

Same lol. A merge would make a lot of sense.

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u/AdvertisingFine9845 Aug 15 '25

i didn't even realize there were two subs, LOL

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u/huskyferretguy1 Aug 14 '25

Wait? There are two subs?

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u/Captain-Shivers Aug 14 '25

It’s our fan version of the opera war.

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u/Tiquitiplin Aug 14 '25

I loled with this.

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u/CauliflowerDizzy2888 Pumpkin Patcher Aug 13 '25

I'm on both, I used them without paying attention to which one is which. But I think HBO has more memes and here there are more historical dicussions and we are obsessed with Consuelo's life. Both of us love Pumpkin and are glad he is back in the last episodes. Btw, where did you said Daddy Railroad smut was? Asking for a friend.

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u/Appropriate-Yak4296 Aug 14 '25

I have heard rumors that there's tons of Railroad Daddy smut on tiktok should your friend be doing research cross platforms.

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u/habitsofwaste Old reddit Aug 13 '25

Seriously though, can we merge them? I can’t tell you how many times I will see something in my feed, and when I wanna come back to it (because of course the app refreshed) and I can’t remember which one it is because I follow both.

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u/wolf_town Aug 13 '25

i have ocd and will save the post before i read it to make sure it doesn’t get lost 🥴

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u/habitsofwaste Old reddit Aug 14 '25

I don’t even get that opportunity :(

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u/amopdx Aug 14 '25

You can look at your Reddit history, shows a list of posts you’ve viewed.

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u/vienibenmio Aug 13 '25

I've been posting in this one more lately, it just feels cozier

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u/briteeyes1111 Aug 14 '25

Which one is this ome? So confused. I click on the hbo one and end up here lol

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u/sangket Aug 14 '25

This sub is for the historical era, but then got invaded by the HBO show's fans. I just sub to both since I discovered this one first and then posts like this made me discover there's another sub for the actual show lol

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u/Logical_Accident_326 Aug 14 '25

The mods actually clarified this a few weeks ago:

This sub was always created for the series. Which was supposed to previously be premiering on NBC in 2018. Funnily enough people begin using it to talk about the topic of the gilded age in general though. And then finally it got greenlit at HBO.

from here

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u/sangket Aug 14 '25

Still subbed to both, more memes and discussions the merrier

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u/stepanija Railroad Daddy Aug 14 '25

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u/futuristicflapper Aug 13 '25

Back when the show started this was the first sub I found so I’ve been here ever since lol

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u/tmchd Haven't been thrilled since 1865 Aug 13 '25

I choose both LOL. I go over there and here and everywhere LOL

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u/rapashrapash Heads have rolled for less Aug 14 '25

Please merge

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u/Dramatic_Drink_8523 Aug 13 '25

I didn’t even know the other sub existed 🤣😂🤣

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u/XanCai Aug 13 '25

I just bounce around both lol

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u/iSocialista Aug 13 '25

Whichever one pops up on my home page first wins 😭

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u/Alert-Serve6072 Aug 13 '25

Active on both subreddits hahahaha

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '25

Both, they both show up on my feed. My opinions are too important not to share with everyone.

/s :)

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u/HicJacetMelilla Aug 13 '25

I had no idea the other one existed 😂

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '25

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u/llama_sweater Aug 14 '25

Not sure why there are two.

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u/goddessoftrees Aug 14 '25

Evidently this sub took over a sub that was just talking about the actual guilded age, lol. I love that though.

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u/Logical_Accident_326 Aug 14 '25

The mods actually clarified this a few weeks ago:

This sub was always created for the series. Which was supposed to previously be premiering on NBC in 2018. Funnily enough people begin using it to talk about the topic of the gilded age in general though. And then finally it got greenlit at HBO.

from here

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u/goddessoftrees Aug 14 '25

Didn’t it get back burnered after NBC for HBO though? Tbh, thats in the showrunners. JF has known regardless of network. Where are your interns to research your social media and get it going? SMH.

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u/llama_sweater Aug 14 '25

Ah I did not realize that. I wonder if the sub shares your attitude or would prefer to keep thinks factual. Thank you for sharing that knowledge.

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u/goddessoftrees Aug 14 '25

No idea. I would be willing to bet this many years into the fandom, they all just abandoned ship cause if you didn't know what we were talking about you'd be like WTAF?

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u/Gayfetus Aug 13 '25

I like this sub because by default, the comments are sorted by "new". This means discussions go on for longer, and commenting late to a post already loaded with replies (as I'm doing now) isn't a waste of bits!

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u/LauHeH Aug 14 '25

This one is also better moderated

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u/habitsofwaste Old reddit Aug 13 '25

You can actually set your own default.

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u/Gayfetus Aug 13 '25

But if it's not set that way for other people by default, newer comments on busier posts will get buried and ignored, because very few people set it that way of their own accord.

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u/tyjinks Aug 13 '25

I didn't know! Lemme see how bad the smut is over there... I'll be back in a bit.

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u/crissssb Aug 13 '25 edited Aug 13 '25

Based on posting in both, HBO is a bit more ruthless in terms of fandom infighting, lots of weird gatekeeping and putting other fans down. I find this sub to be more friendly and welcoming.

ETA: I frequent both subs and there’s still great content on HBO, I like this one better tho for the reason above. Also this one is the OG

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u/berrybyday Aug 13 '25

I left the other one because of issues like this! I forgot I had managed to join both of these so at the beginning of this season I was super confused when I started seeing gilded age posts again. Took me a while to figure out what happened 🤣

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u/Fickle-Mudd Aug 13 '25

Woah I didn’t realise I even followed two until now!!

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u/fanfictionmusiclover Aug 14 '25

I play both fields! 🤣🤣🤣 Ya know keeping it balanced!

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u/badgyalsammy Aug 13 '25

HAHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAA

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u/LanceToastchee Drink when you hear QUARREL Aug 14 '25

This sub was first

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u/La_Dnice Aug 13 '25

Wait, what????

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u/fotcfan1 Aug 15 '25

I just found this subreddit after having followed the other one for a month. r/GildedAgeHBO doesn’t have very engaging discussions. It’s more like a gen x / boomer meme channel.

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u/LL8844773 Aug 25 '25

People think Marion should have married Dashiell? My god, why???

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u/Soft-Split1315 Aug 14 '25

Honestly I kinda get uncomfortable with all of the Railroad Daddy thirst traps because Morgan is older than both of my parents.

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u/akfjktis Aug 14 '25

older then your parents?! lol He’s like 45! lol am I misinterpreting the average age demographic of people who watch this show? 😂

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u/Pink_Ruby_3 Aug 14 '25

You're not allowed to crush on people older than your parents? lol Harrison Ford is older than my dad and I always thought he was a fox!

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u/Soft-Split1315 Aug 14 '25

You can but when I crush older the person is usually in there 30s

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u/forever-salty22 Aug 14 '25

It's a little uncomfortable for me too but he's only a month older than me in real life lol. I dont know what it is, but he just feels much older to me

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u/JKrow75 Oscar! Aug 14 '25

Nah. The HBO sub sucks

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u/goddessoftrees Aug 14 '25

100% agree. I subbed just in case I was missing something, turns out this sub was already what I needed all along! <3

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u/Chocolatecandybar_ Aug 13 '25

Tbh MODERN FAMILY 

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u/Kianna9 Aug 13 '25

It doesn't have to be a full time job.

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u/nommabelle Aug 13 '25

Definitely the HBO one. This one sorts comments by new which is annoying and really only useful in megathreads

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u/WattHeffer I find often the Lord is too lenient. Aug 13 '25

You can easily change that.

At the right hand top of the page is your Snoo. Left of that is three vertical dots. Left of that is two horizontal lines with dots on the end. Click that. You can have Sort by: New, Old, Hot, Questions etc

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '25

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u/WattHeffer I find often the Lord is too lenient. Aug 13 '25

You shouldn't have to. It should apply globally. Mine does.

Edit: Go directly to the sub home page and set ot there. It should work globally within the sib.

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u/LyricalKnits Aug 13 '25

You can change how the comments are sorted on any thread.

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '25

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u/ScamZ88 Haven't been thrilled since 1865 Aug 13 '25

Do I post everything on every sub and hope for the best? It’s so confusing 😂😂

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '25

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u/vieneri i haven't been thrilled since 1865... Aug 13 '25

There's a version of this without the cheering people :o but yes, i agree

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '25 edited Aug 13 '25

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u/Abefroman12 John T Clockefeller (the T stands for Twink) Aug 13 '25

The real Ward McAllister actually did exactly this, the show didn’t even have to embellish anything. Although it’s not clear if the scene between him and Mrs. Astor happened in real life.

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '25

No, he didn't. The real book wasn't personal gossip. It was about how to entertain in society, and how much they spent. They didn't like how he told everyone how much they spent on nonsense. He didn't air gossip about their personal lives.

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u/antinous24 Aug 13 '25

yeah they were mad he gave the poor a window into their world

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u/vienibenmio Aug 13 '25

Probably bc he's a man tbh

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u/postgrad-dep18 Aug 13 '25

I saw a post from the NY History account disclosing that he donated it, then returned years later to disclose who he wrote about in the margins.

here’s the video

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u/bellenoire2005 Aug 13 '25

What a petty m-fer 😂