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I wasn't active in the community, but I believe r/fatpeoplehate was mostly unsolicited photographs ("creepshots") of overweight people and making fun of them.

by dtjb 5y ago

I wasn't active in the community, but I believe r/fatpeoplehate was mostly unsolicited photographs ("creepshots") of overweight people and making fun of them. It appears r/hermancainaward is 100% based on posts that the deceased willingly shared with the public. I think that's a meaningful difference.

hunterb123 5y ago
So as long as you obtain the obituary from the public and obscure the name, you're totally fine with making fun of people dying, got it! So much better people on Reddit. Much compassion, such intelligence. So advanced.
- dtjb 5y ago
  This doesn't seem like a productive conversation. Peace.
  - hunterb123 5y ago
    Have a nice day!
BitwiseFool 5y ago
I think that r/HermanCainAward is actually quite sinister and designed to normalize and reinforce dehumanization of "the other side". The whole point of the subreddit is to showcase people who've had strong political convictions, then died as a result of them. You're supposed to feel a sense of comeuppance that these people who don't believe in the vaccine or dismiss the severity Covid died as a result of their beliefs. There is no shortage of mockery involved, either. It is disguised as simple schadenfreude, but I sense the subscribers are actually reveling in the deaths of others.
- iaml 5y ago
  There have been threads there where people say they would prefer that sub wouldn't exist at all, those preventable deaths and misery fading from existence. I don't know whether they do it for laughs or are just burnt out from people choosing to make a point of politicizing not wearing a mask, probably a mix of both. I don't know how to solve that problem either, some of the posts there contain straight up insults towards people who vaxx/wear masks, this feedback cycle of radicalization is self sustaining at this point.
xtracto 5y ago
> It appears r/hermancainaward is 100% based on posts that the deceased willingly shared with the public. I think that's a meaningful difference. Just a minor correction there: The majority of posts from the death people in HCA are from Facebook. I think that normally, people posts would only be shared with their Friends (unless you specifically change it to be public). In that respect, posters in HCA would be publishing posts that were originally not meant to be public. As an example, I might write a post in Facebook about me and my wife going on vacation to X place for 1 week. While it is OK for me for my friends to know that, I may not want this information to be public for fear of my house getting robbed while I am gone. Although I completely agree with the sentiment and main point of HCA (and I actually have enjoyed the schadenfreude of some of the awarded people there), I concede that it is definitely a subreddit that is of quite bad taste and brings the worst of the "pro-vaccine" side of the argument.

by dtjb 5y ago

hunterb123 5y ago

So as long as you obtain the obituary from the public and obscure the name, you're totally fine with making fun of people dying, got it! So much better people on Reddit. Much compassion, such intelligence. So advanced.

dtjb 5y ago
This doesn't seem like a productive conversation. Peace.
- hunterb123 5y ago
  Have a nice day!

BitwiseFool 5y ago

I think that r/HermanCainAward is actually quite sinister and designed to normalize and reinforce dehumanization of "the other side". The whole point of the subreddit is to showcase people who've had strong political convictions, then died as a result of them. You're supposed to feel a sense of comeuppance that these people who don't believe in the vaccine or dismiss the severity Covid died as a result of their beliefs. There is no shortage of mockery involved, either. It is disguised as simple schadenfreude, but I sense the subscribers are actually reveling in the deaths of others.

iaml 5y ago
There have been threads there where people say they would prefer that sub wouldn't exist at all, those preventable deaths and misery fading from existence. I don't know whether they do it for laughs or are just burnt out from people choosing to make a point of politicizing not wearing a mask, probably a mix of both. I don't know how to solve that problem either, some of the posts there contain straight up insults towards people who vaxx/wear masks, this feedback cycle of radicalization is self sustaining at this point.

xtracto 5y ago

> It appears r/hermancainaward is 100% based on posts that the deceased willingly shared with the public. I think that's a meaningful difference. Just a minor correction there: The majority of posts from the death people in HCA are from Facebook. I think that normally, people posts would only be shared with their Friends (unless you specifically change it to be public). In that respect, posters in HCA would be publishing posts that were originally not meant to be public. As an example, I might write a post in Facebook about me and my wife going on vacation to X place for 1 week. While it is OK for me for my friends to know that, I may not want this information to be public for fear of my house getting robbed while I am gone. Although I completely agree with the sentiment and main point of HCA (and I actually have enjoyed the schadenfreude of some of the awarded people there), I concede that it is definitely a subreddit that is of quite bad taste and brings the worst of the "pro-vaccine" side of the argument.