Why doesn't Reddit have the same bad rep Tumblr has?

[Silentpony_v1legacy]

Wait, doesn't it? Isn't Reddit where you go to learn to hate creativity and become one with the hive-mind that is Memes, maymays, Today I learned! that people think is obscure but isn't, and of course, the dreaded, the hated, the disgusted and immoral...Blep.

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

It kinda has the same reputation among my friends. We just avoid the sites entirely. Myself? Never got to liking either format of website so I always kinda just only browsed for specific things without ever making an account.

 

[Reasonable Atheist]

Am I the only one here who has no idea what is going on? Who is Chad? What is an incel?

I feel old

 

[PsychicTaco115]

Who is Chad? What is an incel?

I feel old

Chad Thundercock is the guy who fucks your girl

Incel is short for Involuntary Celibate; the archetypal loser virgin

Who is John Galt?

 

[sXeth]

I guess Reddit would be less likely to run into random screwballs cause of the organizational aspects.

Like, I hop on Reddit mostly for gaming stuff, occasionally Wrestling. These exist in communities that are extensively moderated and rarely pull in random off topic discussion.

On Tumblr, anyone can post whatever and its only vaguely categorized by user created tags (AFAIK, I have one but I use it barely ever, usually when someones linked something from Tumblr to twitter).

Then you have the next extreme of 4chan, where everythings just dumped on one page (more or less)

 

[Ogoid]

Then you have the next extreme of 4chan, where everythings just dumped on one page (more or less)

See, that's something that always confuses me... 4chan does have (or at least used to have, it's been a while since I've browsed it) different boards for different subjects, just like reddit. I'm pretty sure they would make that claim themselves, but /b/ is not, in actual fact, the entirety of the site.

 

[MrCalavera_v1legacy]

Reddit doesn't have bad rep? The euphoric capital of internet?



Okay, maybe it doesn't have "the same" bad rep, but people do hate both these sites, albeit for different reasons.
Hell, le reddit army is the only thing that can make your usual youtube comments le less le cancerous by le comparison.

PS. The "Chad Tax" comment gave me some chuckle actually. Now that's a way to convince fedora libertards to socialism.

 

[sXeth]

Then you have the next extreme of 4chan, where everythings just dumped on one page (more or less)

See, that's something that always confuses me... 4chan does have (or at least used to have, it's been a while since I've browsed it) different boards for different subjects, just like reddit. I'm pretty sure they would make that claim themselves, but /b/ is not, in actual fact, the entirety of the site.

Oh they do. They're just basically only populated by like, 1% of the population of /b, which consigns most of them to irrelevance. There are a few that kind of achieve some semblance of a population (/mu for instance).

The thing with that is that they aren't really labelled intuitively, and they're still pretty broad. Reddit tends to narrow down a lot more, which keeps a much tighter focus on individual topics. There's more general use Reddits, but you won't stumble into them unless you want to.

 

[PainInTheAssInternet]

My understanding was reddit is strongly associated with STEMlords and other such smug self-indulgent bastards. Or stolen jokes that are repeated dozens of times per hour.

I can attest after browsing casually for 2 hours that you WILL see a series of common phrases and in-jokes repeated until you genuinely get the hatred for reposts. You can't call them out on this either because then you're just a part of the anti-circlejerk and your criticisms are invalid.

They get pissed at r/science for deleting these jokes even though it's a rule not to do that. Apparently being able to do so in every other subreddit to their heart's content isn't good enough.

The STEMlord thing is also true. Expressing an interest in an arts degree or anything of the sort will award you many messages in your inbox informing you how bad of a life planner you are.

Also a shitload of casual or even aggressive misogyny whenever women come up. It's distressing how easy I find it to predict how a thread will go based on the phrasing and content of a comment.

 

[BreakfastMan]

Um... It does? Reddit's reputation is almost as bad as 4chan's.

 

[Worgen]

Wait, people use tumblr for things besides porn? YOU'RE USING IT WRONG!!!!!!!!!!

 

[TheMysteriousGX]

Reddit desperately tries to quarantine and hide the existence of it's worst subs by making it harder to search for them and not assigning advertising to show there, you know, instead of just excising them. That that only makes using those subs easier and ad-free hasn't gone unnoticed.

Meanwhile, Tumblr does doesn't have said artificial divisions to begin with. Then you have a lot of Redditors taking individual examples, exaggerating them through endless and constant repetition, and assigning them to the entire site as a whole. Which, well, is a recipe for all sorts of stupidity.

 

[NeutralDrow]

I thought Reddit had a terrible reputation. At the very least, I've seen it referred to as "4chan for people who think they're too good for 4chan."

 

[Smithnikov_v1legacy]

I'm rather pleasantly surprised by the answers here, I've learned some things I didn't about the subject.

Damn, how often can one say that these days?

But I will say, the "reddit has an equally bad rep", maybe it's just the circles I talk/run in, but I never hear nearly the complaints about what gender war loony toons lurk on Reddit, only that Tumblr engages in such frothing.

 

[Smithnikov_v1legacy]

Reddit is full of circlejerking attention whores. Not just r/TheRedPill or r/TwoXChromosomes or wherever you got these from.

/r/incel, actually

 

[Terminal Blue]

Any social media service which carries on long enough will develop a shitty reputation. Reddit is garbage, tumblr is garbage, twitter is garbage, youtube is garbage. Some are able to hold off the inevitable tide of garbage for longer than others, but inevitably the garbage will strike and if you live in the garbage too long it gets inside you and you will never be clean again, no matter how much you scrub yourself in the bath while uploading photos of your fucking legs to instagram.

Seriously though, any social media service is going to have its septic tank, and part of the septic tank is going to be full of people declaring that the septic tank on other service is way worse and has far more floating chunks of partly-digested corn than their septic tank.

 

[EbonBehelit]

It's just segmented nature of the site, really - the vast majority of Subreddits are totally fine.

However, since each Subreddit essentially sets it's own rules and has little to no outside interference, there's always going to be a few toxic cesspits to avoid like the plague - r/TheRedPill, r/WhiteRights, r/Gamerghazi... just to name a few.

That being said however, even the most ridiculous forum has a right to exist. In relatively plain sight. Where we can all see it, and laugh. Nothing destroys bad ideas faster than being brought into daylight.

 

[Wrex Brogan]

From what I've experienced Reddit only has a positive reputation amongst people who a) only browse a handful of reddits and thus have zero clue about the mewling shit-heap that lurks below the surface, or b) people who actively use reddit non-stop and are thus neckbeard-deep in the shit-stew they've cooked up for themselves. Everyone else seems to know it's a horrible place, and just browses the subreddits that aren't colossal shitstorms/appropriately moderated.

Tumblr is fascinating since all the channers and redditors keep playing up how they're the ones who hated it first, but honestly having used Tumblr for... fuck, 6 years now, I think, the bad rep of Tumblr comes from Tumblr itself. Everyone on Tumblr knows it's a shit-hole of internet discourse, personal attacks and porn-bots, but since you can tailor it so you only see content you want to see, nobody really cares about all the 14 year olds calling each other 'pedophile' and just follow all the blogs that post cats/pretty art/tits/video games/gardening/frogs/fashion/whatever.

Nobody hates Tumblr more than people who use Tumblr. Nobody. Well, ok, maybe the staff.

 

[Zontar]

If you think reddit doesn't have a bad rap, you haven't been to /pol/ for some time. 4chan, and /pol/ especially, hate reddit with a burning passion. Tumblr is just fun to mess with for raiding, but reddit induces legitimate anger. Being called a reddit immigrant on /pol/ is pretty much one of the highest insults. I actually can't think of many groups /pol/ hates more then r/The_Donald, and it was great seeing them piss off back on the 1st when /pol/ and /mlp/ got merged and half the threads where pony porn.

 

[Tanis]

Because one is the forest and one is the tree?

It's far more difficult to find a rotten tree from the air.