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I've been a fan of the idea, but some time after following it I got a strong impression that people started pushing more and more edgy stuff for fun. It felt li

I've been a fan of the idea, but some time after following it I got a strong impression that people started pushing more and more edgy stuff for fun. It felt like either they're made up, or lots of people need serious psych help. (Lots of fairly brutal fantasies of self/others/animal harm) It's been a few years now and I'm glad to see it's mostly back to how I remembered it from the beginning.

Aurornis 3y ago
> I got a strong impression that people started pushing more and more edgy stuff for fun. It felt like either they're made up Reddit’s AskReddit and AITAH are a fascinating example of this. Whenever I’ve browsed it, half the posts feel like thinly veiled creative writing exercises and/or karma farming. Often the accounts are a couple days old with a sudden burst of posts across multiple subreddits. Some of the stories are completely inconsistent with the poster’s past comments. Others aren’t even logically consistent from the beginning to the end of the story. The most fascinating part is that the commenters don’t seem to care, even on the most dubious posts. They only want a creative prompt to comment on and add their opinion. Some times you can scroll half way down and find someone who debunked the post against the OP’s comment history, but it won’t get as many upvotes as the hot takes from others.
- tstrimple 3y ago
  To some extent it doesn't really matter if the situations are real. It's the exploration of moral implications and disagreements and assumptions being made in the comments that are entertaining. It's like some of the funny video subreddits. In literally every post you've got someone being "clever" and stating "this video was staged!" as if that had any material difference on whether the content was funny or not. For all I know I'm replying to a chatgpt bot right now. It doesn't matter. I found the comment chain interesting enough to reply. For all you know I'm a bot. We could all be bots except for you... Does it really matter? What would you do differently?
  - arcticfox 3y ago
    Whether a video was staged absolutely impacts how funny it is
    - tstrimple 3y ago
      Someone should tell SNL that they can't be funny because it's scripted. Comedians all across the globe should be out of a job because scripted comedy isn't funny apparently. This video has no value because it's clearly scripted. No way she actually has a nail sticking out of her head. When will these creators stop trying to fool us!? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4EDhdAHrOg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4EDhdAHrOg
  - viraptor 3y ago
    It makes a huge difference to me. If we have an agreement in watching something staged (comedy movie, skit, etc.), great. If we have an agreement something is genuine (captured because it's partially planned or accidental), great. But if someone claims to post a funny genuine thing that's staged, it's not funny, it's just a lie and pissing me off.
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  - 01HNNWZ0MV43FF 3y ago
    It matters because people instinctively use these subreddits to calibrate their idea of what the rest of the world looks like

Aurornis 3y ago

> I got a strong impression that people started pushing more and more edgy stuff for fun. It felt like either they're made up Reddit’s AskReddit and AITAH are a fascinating example of this. Whenever I’ve browsed it, half the posts feel like thinly veiled creative writing exercises and/or karma farming. Often the accounts are a couple days old with a sudden burst of posts across multiple subreddits. Some of the stories are completely inconsistent with the poster’s past comments. Others aren’t even logically consistent from the beginning to the end of the story. The most fascinating part is that the commenters don’t seem to care, even on the most dubious posts. They only want a creative prompt to comment on and add their opinion. Some times you can scroll half way down and find someone who debunked the post against the OP’s comment history, but it won’t get as many upvotes as the hot takes from others.

tstrimple 3y ago
To some extent it doesn't really matter if the situations are real. It's the exploration of moral implications and disagreements and assumptions being made in the comments that are entertaining. It's like some of the funny video subreddits. In literally every post you've got someone being "clever" and stating "this video was staged!" as if that had any material difference on whether the content was funny or not. For all I know I'm replying to a chatgpt bot right now. It doesn't matter. I found the comment chain interesting enough to reply. For all you know I'm a bot. We could all be bots except for you... Does it really matter? What would you do differently?
- arcticfox 3y ago
  Whether a video was staged absolutely impacts how funny it is
  - tstrimple 3y ago
    Someone should tell SNL that they can't be funny because it's scripted. Comedians all across the globe should be out of a job because scripted comedy isn't funny apparently. This video has no value because it's clearly scripted. No way she actually has a nail sticking out of her head. When will these creators stop trying to fool us!? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4EDhdAHrOg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4EDhdAHrOg
- viraptor 3y ago
  It makes a huge difference to me. If we have an agreement in watching something staged (comedy movie, skit, etc.), great. If we have an agreement something is genuine (captured because it's partially planned or accidental), great. But if someone claims to post a funny genuine thing that's staged, it's not funny, it's just a lie and pissing me off.
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- 01HNNWZ0MV43FF 3y ago
  It matters because people instinctively use these subreddits to calibrate their idea of what the rest of the world looks like