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The article mentions Reddit being the place where C.D. Hermelin was textually abused for being a hipster; or more accurately, accused of being a hipster solely
by xvolter 13y ago
The article mentions Reddit being the place where C.D. Hermelin was textually abused for being a hipster; or more accurately, accused of being a hipster solely because he was using a typewriter. Reddit is the only place where the internet nerds in discussion come from.
Reddit however is not made up of internet nerds. Reddit is made up of average joes who know enough about computers to register at facebook and reddit. The average reddit user is no more advanced than the average 13-year-old nowadays - can browse the internet, turn of a computer and install some games on their smartphone and tablet. They were never made fun of for being internet nerds, because they're not nerds nor geeks. They're just average joes; because as you say, everybody is on the internet nowadays, and those who are the truly advanced users who MAY have been made fun of more because of it generally do not spend their time raging about a hipster. I say may because honestly, geeks are not the object of ridicule as they once were.
- brianpgordon 13y agoReddit is a heterogeneous collection of wildly different subreddits. Some subreddits (/r/pics, /r/funny, /r/WTF) are "average" as you described, but others have different demographics.
- bashinator 13y agoFor example, I would hardly call the typical user of /r/TalesFromYourServer to be a 20-25 year old male STEM-educated nerd.
- petsos 13y agoI'm going to guess that this was not posted in /r/TalesFromYourServer. The mere fact that it attracted so many comments means that it was posted on one of the "average" reddits.
- 013 13y agoIt was posted on /r/nyc. Which isn't a default sub-reddit, but would probably still be subscribed by "average" users.
- zenocon 13y agoUntil I checked the subreddit, I assumed "server" meant a beat up old PC running some obscure Linux distro in a corner of some basement, and I was about to call you out... :)
- HNLogInShit 13y agoReddit is as rife with "hipsters" as any venue. The idea that its community would lash out against a perceived hipster is pathetic self-loathing and projection. After Digg sold out and became a spam site, many of us migrated to Reddit. And then we abandoned it, after a couple hundred "this little guy followed me home" posts about puppies and whatever other attention-whoring crap dominated the front page. Reddit is the last community that should be condemning "hipsters." Talk about hypocrisy. Or should I say hipocracy.
- dobbsbob 13y agoReddit was primarily made up of hipsters who all migrated there to circle jerk from /r9k on 4chan Hipsterdom doesn't even exist anymore, VICE/dov charney declared it dead in 2007. This guy brings a typewriter to the park to get attention and it worked.
- dobbsbob 13y agoOops I didn't read the entire article. /ignore