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That's the subreddit I'm missing here...
... the orphan-crushing one?
r/OrphanCrushingMachine was a popular subreddit inspired by this tweet
Haha oh boy, I had no idea, and it took almost a day before anyone mentioned it. Now I know.
!orphancrushing@lemmy.world
What's a subreddit?
What’s Reddit, you mean?
It's an advertising platform masquerading as a forum trying to be a social media site.
What's Red?
What?
Wha?
W?
V?
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IV?
Reginald Albert "Red" Forman is a fictional character on the Fox sitcom That '70s Show, portrayed by Kurtwood Smith.
Ah u know... That thing. That thing that... Ah never mind.
The problem with these rage inducing subreddits is that they seldom seem to propose or encourage any solution or alternative. So it ends up becoming a kind of circle jerk of learned helplessness.
It seems like a common internet thing. Rage bait and learned helplessness. We learn to accept that there's nothing to do because people and politicians are idiots because "look at all this stuff".
And often this aligns with advertising tech because it makes us engaged and seeking comfort of continued scrolling when we get a steady stream of anxiety injections. It's low key like an abusive relationship.
God forbid a community focused on showcasing a certain trope actually focus on showcasing that trope...
The old subreddit was associated with leftist political subreddits anyway, so the connection to actual discourse is there regardess
Furthermore, the comments sections always abound with discussions of potential solutions
Respectfully, I don't think one can just suggest a solution to what is fundamentally problem of decades of economic propaganda and miseducation. The number of morons that believe in Adam Smith and market self-corrections like they are forces as natural as the tide is truly staggering insane, ansld is a direct result of generations of neoliberalism seeping into education.
There's no easy solution. There's hardly a hard solution at this point. The solution is to make memes, and to yell, and to make the issue so readily apparent it can be unavoidable and understood by these very same people let down by their education. So subreddits memeing is good, overall.