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Reddit is the least countercultural site I can imagine. It's still Top 10 in sites visited, is it not? It's the very zeitgeist of the times. Those examples w
by TimedToasts 6y ago
Reddit is the least countercultural site I can imagine. It's still Top 10 in sites visited, is it not? It's the very zeitgeist of the times.
Those examples weaken an otherwise good article.
- twobitshifter 6y agoMaybe Reddit as a whole, but what are your thoughts on WallStreetBets? It seems that WSB has all of the elements of a counterculture, although maybe diluted after the wide spread GME interest.
- deliveryboyman 6y agoWSB is a shade of its former self now due to the onslaught of new members
- monocasa 6y agoHas a "what was WSB before the eternal September" escape hatch subreddit popped up yet?
- ZephyrBlu 6y agoYes, /r/wallstreetbetsogs.
- ZephyrBlu 6y agoCheck out /r/wallstreetbetsogs. It's an attempt to bring back the old school WSB.
- deliveryboyman 6y agoI tried it out for a few days. It's also nowhere near the old WSB.
- the_only_law 6y agoI remember popping into r/WSB towards the end of the first wave of GME stuff and it seemed to be nothing more that what’s described on reddit as a “circlejerk”. It was also interesting to see a dozen different spin-offs when searching for it. Maybe it was like that before but everything felt forced and unnatural as if the new users were attempting to “fit in” by imitating the culture and vocabulary.
- juststeve 6y agoYeah because WSB uses another language that many do not know, or care to know.
- SV_BubbleTime 6y agoI’m really not sure “diamond hands” and “retard” count so much as another language. I think the big gap between there and other places on the same subject is on “gambling logic”, not right or wrong, I’ve seen more people there admit that than “Wallstreet Types” who would be trillionaires if they actually knew how to win.
- juststeve 6y agoFair. But there is also some assumed knowledge of what futures and puts are, no?
- satellite2 6y agoWSB seems like the definition of a smart hedge fund that managed to manipulate the market transparently. Everything there reeks of fake, manufactured and engineered "counter" culture
- SyzygistSix 6y agoI think the thing that is/was countercultural were the actions taken by WallStreetBets, not the site itself.
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- redisman 6y agoIt used to be fairly "counter-culture"ish back in the day before it was run like a corporation.
- monocasa 6y agoReddit is a meta site. The default subs are of course the default consensus, but you can find subs of nearly every other position under the sun.
- cambalache 6y agoNo. Most "radical" subs will be suppressed or otherwise banned by selectively enforcing the rules. For every rule broken in r/thedonald or r/chapotraphouse you could find dozens of similar examples in r/news and r/politics.
- monocasa 6y agoYou can absolutely find subreddits dedicated to pretty much every extremist position to this day.
- cambalache 6y agoWait for them to grow up to even a modest number of subscribers. First they will be brigaded (with no action from the admins), then they will be quarantined and lastly they will be outright banned.
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