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> People seem to be talking about this much more now because of the prominent placement of the r/fuckcars subreddit's parking lot on the r/place canvas. I don'

> People seem to be talking about this much more now because of the prominent placement of the r/fuckcars subreddit's parking lot on the r/place canvas. I don't think r/place has caused this. There has been a massive increase in an anti-car sentiment in the last few years. Maybe the cause is people staying home more often now, so they care about whether their neighbourhoods are nice?

SteveDR 5y ago
I heard of “r/fuckcars” for the first time a few days ago, and I’ve seen it mentioned ~4 times since then, and I’ve never visited r/place. From my perspective it seems like r/place has boosted this topic’s prevalence. Kinda cool.
- Firmwarrior 5y ago
  r/fuckcars is really suspicious I saw it a couple of times on my semi-nightly super deep Reddit trawls, it was a sub with a few hundred people. Then suddenly a few days later it exploded and took over the site I've only seen that happen before with political subs, and I'm pretty sure those were coordinated offsite by bot armies (at least, I'd assume it's impossible for 50,000+ people to suddenly jump into brand new subs and rocket them to the frontpage a couple of days after they're created without some coordination) edit: Ah, maybe it is organic.. I have to admit that I do really hate cars. If the news blasted us every time someone dies in a car accident the way it does for guns, maybe more people would hate them.
Karrot_Kream 5y ago
That's because there's been a huge, sustained rise in pedestrian and cyclist injury and general reckless driving through the pandemic. Many cities relaxed traffic enforcement during the pandemic because cars are such an important part of the American transportation framework. This lead to predictably horrific consequences for non drivers and drivers alike.

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> People seem to be talking about this much more now because of the prominent placement of the r/fuckcars subreddit's parking lot on the r/place canvas. I don'

by RivieraKid 5y ago

SteveDR 5y ago
I heard of “r/fuckcars” for the first time a few days ago, and I’ve seen it mentioned ~4 times since then, and I’ve never visited r/place. From my perspective it seems like r/place has boosted this topic’s prevalence. Kinda cool.
- Firmwarrior 5y ago
  r/fuckcars is really suspicious I saw it a couple of times on my semi-nightly super deep Reddit trawls, it was a sub with a few hundred people. Then suddenly a few days later it exploded and took over the site I've only seen that happen before with political subs, and I'm pretty sure those were coordinated offsite by bot armies (at least, I'd assume it's impossible for 50,000+ people to suddenly jump into brand new subs and rocket them to the frontpage a couple of days after they're created without some coordination) edit: Ah, maybe it is organic.. I have to admit that I do really hate cars. If the news blasted us every time someone dies in a car accident the way it does for guns, maybe more people would hate them.
Karrot_Kream 5y ago
That's because there's been a huge, sustained rise in pedestrian and cyclist injury and general reckless driving through the pandemic. Many cities relaxed traffic enforcement during the pandemic because cars are such an important part of the American transportation framework. This lead to predictably horrific consequences for non drivers and drivers alike.