Get This: "Not a relationship thread!"

GrinningManiac

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I thought the best way to attract people to this thread would be by advertising it's lack of relationship-ness.

The question I want to put to you, fellow denizens of the Web, is WHY have all these relationship threads popped up NOW?

Sure, there's been a steady flow of the stuff since I joined, but there's been 3-4 every day or week now, and I can't work it out. Late-year Autumnal libido? Relationships forged in the happy hey-days of Summer are now rotting?

Oh, and I searched this and similar stuff came up, but it was largely about people asking other people to stop/put up with relationship threads, or actual relationship threads.

Why are they here now? That's all I want to know

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actually havn't seen any this weekend. But relationships are one of those few things that usually attracts crowds and ppl like attn on the internet so hence relationship stuff.
 
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Threads go in an out of style. Zombie threads last month, and apparently relationship threads this month. It's not that there's more issues, just that once one person has the guts or idiocy (depending on your opinion) to make that first post, someone else thinks 'hey, they got advice, I'll do that too!' and the whole cycle starts...
 

Conqueror Kenny

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Because school started again in September. Where would most teenagers meet people that they would want a relationship with? You guessed it, school!
It's not that hard to figure out really.
 

GoldenCondor

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Someone needs to start a "Do you have an STD" thread. That would be hilarious amongst all of these relationship threads.

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What? I'm not going to do it. I don't have the need for attention.
 

Julianking93

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It was all about Zombie threads the past few weeks, now its about relationships most likely because school's at a point where its not about studying so much as trying to get laid, and people come here to ask.
 

Darth Pope

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Well the religion and zombie threads have run there course, so people have moved on to some other topic to discuss into oblivion.
 

AkJay

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I've noticed an uprising as well. A person makes a thread like that, get's generally OK advice, so another person thinks it's a good idea to copy them.
IMO asking for dating advice on the internet is fucking retarded.
 
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Where one thing drops another surges, though to be honest I'm always seeing relationship threads around.

"I have this relationship problem, and I am hoping that the anonymous, self-centred, misanthropic, unfeeling, cold-hearted, angry denizens of this Internet Forum ( <---- look where I've gone wrong) can help me out."

I keep my shit to myself. So should you. Can't your friends do anything to help? And if not, then no one else is really able, or going to. Ask an Agony Aunt. It's what they are there for. We are here to ridicule, express our opinions and/or argue, preferably whilst expressing our opinions and ridiculing.
 

ArcWinter

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Due to the fact that everything in the universe ever is related, every thread ever made is technically a relationship thread.

The recent influx? I have no idea why they are all popping up now. I do think I know why they exist however.

If you ask people you know about your problems, you're gonna be judged, misled, or even lied to. However, on the internet, you know nobody and nobody knows you. The best advice I've ever gotten was from a stranger on the internet, and maybe these people think the same.
 

bluepilot

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The love that blossoms in spring turns alike to the frost of winter.

Isn`t that an old saying

A least the relationship threads are slightly more torable than the zombie ones.
 

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MelasZepheos said:
Threads go in an out of style. Zombie threads last month, and apparently relationship threads this month. It's not that there's more issues, just that once one person has the guts or idiocy (depending on your opinion) to make that first post, someone else thinks 'hey, they got advice, I'll do that too!' and the whole cycle starts...

it's either this or the fact that the generation that mainly uses the escapist is getting older to the point where they start to think about for want of a better word: procreation


posibly both
 

GrinningManiac

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KillerMidget said:
Where one thing drops another surges, though to be honest I'm always seeing relationship threads around.

"I have this relationship problem, and I am hoping that the anonymous, self-centred, misanthropic, unfeeling, cold-hearted, angry denizens of this Internet Forum ( <---- look where I've gone wrong) can help me out."

I keep my shit to myself. So should you. Can't your friends do anything to help? And if not, then no one else is really able, or going to. Ask an Agony Aunt. It's what they are there for. We are here to ridicule, express our opinions and/or argue, preferably whilst expressing our opinions and ridiculing.
A round of applause for this man, please
 

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For whatever reason threads seem to come in waves on the Escapist, one starts it and heaps emulate it. I'm not sure why that might be, people see a thread being popular and well received and try to badge hunt it or replicate the success, but that's what happens. It has ever since I've been on here.
 

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From the person who makes it his duty to compile every single question from every single relationship thread and answer then all here ---> http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.117161 <---, I can tell you the following information with absolute 100% certainty:

Nothing has changed. I've been here for two years now and there's been a steady stream of relationship threads ever since I got here. Sometimes things go in fits and starts, sometimes it ebbs and flows a bit. Sometimes people also might feel "guilted" into not starting threads due to threads like this one. But that just means they hold off and then make the same threads later, it doesn't actually make any meaningful difference. People will never stop making threads about these things, because relationships are something that affects almost all of us one way or another, whether we're in one or not, so it's a huge area of common interest. Complain about it all you want, but seeking help from a bunch of random folks anonymously is sometimes a very useful thing to be able to do, and nothing to be ashamed of or ridiculed for.

I don't believe that relationship threads are ever started for "badge-hunting" reasons. In any event, even if they are it's a silly reason because the threads always run out of steam after a few pages. Even my own thread isn't THAT long given its purpose. It hasn't gotten me any badges, and probably won't (because it's mainly me posting in it, not others).
 

Woodsey

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Because people have lost their balls and have started acting like pussies.

That's why.