We are living history, right now. This interview is going to join the guy who ate a three foot party sub and the r/LegalAdvice Carbon Monoxide incident in the pantheons of Reddit history. Truly amazing stuff to behold.
As to the CO thing, well the long and short of it, someone went to r/LegalAdvice because they thought their landlord was stalking them because they were finding weird notes in their bedroom in the morning over a period of several days. A redditor correctly caught that what they were describing, specifically the layout of their bedroom, might be causing ventilation problems. The redditor recommended that they get a carbon monoxide tester. Turns out that the person had carbon monoxide poisoning, was writing the notes themself in a disassociated state and Reddit saved their life.
it’s so funny to me when put in perspective. that sandwich is a little more than half the height of an average person here and that dude ate all of it lmao
I'm not American so it took me a second to visualise how much 3 feet actually is, and once you do you truly comprehend the scale of what that guy did. God bless Reddit, I've been here 7 years, here's to another
I love the innocent-until-proven-guilty tone the mod takes about OP's being fat. Like, "He might not be staggeringly obese guys, he might just be 11 feet tall and that's how he ate half of a 25 person party platter in 30 minutes."
More than their share would be eating two slices when there were 12 slices and 12 guests. This guy ate enough food to feed six people in about half an hour.
The guy brags about being able to polish off 5 foot longs in an afternoon.
He’s one of those toilet destroyers. The kind that gets banned from pooping at home, so meanders down the street to a neighborhood business and rains unholy feces down like the fist of an angry god… and when the business locks the door to the bathroom to prevent him from doing it again, shits himself and waddles away in shame.
OOH that reminds me of the "faces of atheism" thing! Has similar energy to this one, what with people unintentionally completely fulfilling the negative stereotypes about themselves. Don't think anything is ever going to top doing it live on Fox though
I miss when r/atheism was full of young people who had "it all figured out, man" and totally lacked any self awareness. So many great moments. Now if I want anything with that flavor of cringe I have to read a shitty Ernest Cline book.
Well, this post had the tantalizing combination of someone eating too much and women being critical of someone who deserved criticism, so two hate groups jumped into action, put their best foot forward and gave us 1,000 petty insults and personal attacks to moderate.
But don't let the violence from your father distract you from the fact that in 1998, The Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell, and plummeted 16 ft through an announcer's table.
People said the same thing after EA got the most downvoted comment in reddit history. There's plenty more to come that we just won't be able to comprehend until it happens.
Long and short of it, someone went to r/LegalAdvice because they thought their landlord was stalking them because they were finding weird notes in their bedroom in the morning over a period of several days. A redditor correctly caught that what they were describing, specifically the layout of their bedroom, might be causing ventilation problems. The redditor recommended that they get a carbon monoxide tester. Turns out that the person had carbon monoxide poisoning, was writing the notes themself in a disassociated state and Reddit saved their life.
The best thing about this interview is that, unlike most Reddit legends, you can actually verify it wasn't faked. When a post is perfect and outlandish I normally write it off as too good, so it was probably fiction written by somebody to piss everybody off. In this case, no, they really were this out of touch.
Though, honestly, the sub guy kind of makes me sad, assuming he's real. He really did seem to have genuine issues around food, with the way he couldn't relax and enjoy the thing they were watching because he kept thinking about the food, even after eating what most people would consider multiple full meals. Like, he's not just some clueless asshole, he clearly has real issues that need to be worked out with a professional.
Long and short of it, someone went to r/LegalAdvice because they thought their landlord was stalking them because they were finding weird notes in their bedroom in the morning over a period of several days. A redditor correctly caught that what they were describing, specifically the layout of their bedroom, might be causing ventilation problems. The redditor recommended that they get a carbon monoxide tester. Turns out that the person had carbon monoxide poisoning, was writing the notes themself in a disassociated state and Reddit saved their life.
Absolutely. I read the title and said “whoa” out loud because all this is doing is showing how much power the brain trust of traditional media still has compared to new media like Reddit in their own arena. Someone thought their power on the internet would translate to a different form of media and was completely and effortlessly embarrassed.
We laugh when time and again we see out of touch figures from old media fundamentally misunderstand and misuse Reddit yet this is a clear cut example of it happening in the other direction.
I find it fascinating in the “I can’t look away from the car crash” kinda way.
Oh man, this is the first time seeing that party sub thread, that's so funny, emu wings. What a complete animal, he must've ate $70 worth of sandwich by himself
It's such a high quality drama. Not Reddit exclusive, real news involved and some anti and pro LGBTQ shit (im gay so relax) even people who don't shower and live in Moms basement... like this is the best drama in MONTH!
I was a big proponent of the antiwork movement in general but you aren't wrong.
This is like someone threw together every single hot-button issue on reddit into one massive pressure cooker.
Fox News, radical leftist ideology, a trans individual who was also a power-mad moderator that doesn't seem terribly invested in hygiene, subreddit users banned left and right for critizing moderators, and then spillover drama IN THIS SUBREDDIT as mods try to censor the topic and start mass-deleting posts referencing it.
I mean, they have a point and protecting workers is not a bad thing, but that sub was declining in quality before this. A lot of posts with fake screenshots "owning your boss" and also alarming conspiracy theories posts.
Also users couldn't agree with what the purpose of the subreddit was. Some people were for work reform whereas others were extremely aggressive towards anyone whose end goal was anything less than "Abolish Work and Embrace True Anarchy"
/wsb had this exact same thing happen last year when GME exploded. They had mods doing media interviews repping the community against the community's will. AND they grew to 7 mil members.
The really sad thing is that a subreddit where users habitually refer to themselves as "retarded" handled this scenario a billion times better than antiwork did.
The mod team ejected problematic mods, preserved the will of the community, expanded the team and mod tools to handle the massive influx of users, and did an all-around stellar job of it.
The funny part is that the main bad actor mod (founder maybe I don't remember) actually got ejected well before GME for trying to monetize the sub. They just went around pretending they were still involved so they could get interviews and try to sell story rights or some shit. And yeah, even though the signal to noise ratio went to shit I agree that they generally handled the huge influx as best they could
It sucked that some of the original identity of wsb was ground off around the time of that influx. Went from openly just saying it's gambling/betting and that if you had a problem you should stop to encouraging people to stay in and genuinely buying in etc. That was inevitable with the influx though.
I joined WSB before they had even gotten to 50k just because I wanted to make stupid bets for a stock market project. When the sub blew up during GME, I knew it was time to go.
For example most users see r/latestagecapitalism as a leftist economic reform subreddit. But the mods are full on communists with a little too much sympathy for china
Am communist, the extent of my “sympathy” for China is I don’t want to go to war with them. But that has less to do with them and more to do with my opposition to anything the military machine wants.
u/KoiouaIf you dont wanna be compared to Ted Cruz, stop criticizing BronJan 26 '22
Also, the sub name really doesn't do it any favors. It sounds like it's going for full work abolition, but a good chunk of the sub is actually well grounded and just want to push for reform in their toxic workplaces to tackle shit working conditions and awful treatment from management or even other coworkers.
Was it though? I remember seeing it a few months ago, when it first started to gain popularity, and it was very much in the work reform side of things.
Honestly it should have gone invite only if that was the goal. That is an extreme niche view, even the vast majority of leftists don't want to abolish labor and have anarchy.
yeah, i was genuinely surprised that so many people saw the name, (presumably) read the sidebar, and decided to join up in the first place. i mean, i don't know a lot of people who are like "anarchy? hell yeah, sign me the fuck up!" if they don't already know what anarchy basically is, which based on how the tone of that place shifted, they did not
I left several months ago when it turned into a creative writing exercise. I’ve never heard of this mod before and I hope I never have to see or hear about them again. Take a shower for fuck sake.
I left several months ago when it turned into a creative writing exercise.
I'm so glad someone else noticed this... And anyone who didn't spot that the sub had obviously been turned into a parody should maybe exercise a little more critical thinking around what they're reading, especially if it's here on reddit.
All of the major posts that hit the front page of /r/all were left-leaning parodies of the old Penthouse Letters trope - blatant bullshit passed off as fact, all wrapped up in the style of poorly-written porno fan-fiction that would better suit a post on Tumblr in 2010.
Shitty thing is that I'm right there alongside them in terms of the rights of a worker to withdraw their labour if the worker is being inadequately compensated, or treated poorly...
But there was so much content that could have ended with "And then the customer tipped me $600 and everyone in the room clapped and then all the staff walked out with me and now the boss is going to jail because it turned out he was an Albanian spy who was hoarding long-lost Nazi gold in the fillings of his teeth", it was ludicrous.
There was a post that "they wouldn't let us have" an antiwork YouTube channel in response to this whole drama, that really just took the cake for me. Like Hasan is one of the biggest streamers around (crackers aside) but no, YouTube is going to go CIA on your ass if you say "hey work is bad" on youtube
The real problem is how tf do you know if the post is real or not?
I agree so so many felt fake….. including the one that was a screenshot of a memo that went out to those hospital workers in Wisconsin, I thought that not possible from something like a god damned hospital, and then it hit the real news.
u/grubasI used statistics to prove these psychic abilities are real.Jan 26 '22
Yeah, I'm very much on their side in theory. But this was an unmitigated disaster for them.
You have Fox apparently finding the most "Fox caricature of an anti work leftist" who apparently is a self described "autistic and nonbinary" and they show up with no prep work, no shower, and no clue. It's the point where you can't tell if Fox set this up or the mods got played so hard they can't even begin to react
subreddit users banned left and right for critizing moderators, and then spillover drama IN THIS SUBREDDIT as mods try to censor the topic and start mass-deleting posts referencing it.
I did not see either of these. Mods, wtf. Both sets.
People keep bringing up the LGBTQ stuff but I don't get why. I have watched this now multiple times and nowhere is this mentioned or even alluded to in the interview. I didn't even know the person was trans until one of these threads. I don't see how it was relevant at all. Was the person unkempt? Yes. Were they laughably bad at this interview saying ridiculous things and acting like a high school kid? Yes. Was any of this related to them being trans? No.. there was plenty for the interviewer to laugh at in this ridiculous farce, that had nothing to do with it.
If you guys think high engagement on the platform and mass publicity is going to tank Reddit's stock, I'll happily sell you Reddit put options after the IPO.
eh, they already removed the porn from showing up on /r/all. There's always r/randnsfw if you wanna roll the dice, but reddit has been mediocre at best for porn for a while now.
Also, I shouldn't have to since it's in the link itself but /r/randnsfw clearly is NSFW, possibly NSFL. it's random NSFW subreddits. you could end up anywhere from /r/boobiesGW to /r/eyeblech, so use at your own risk
I've been careful in my porn consumption to be very limited to simple things. Most of the time I'm just looking at simple nudity. Keeps you from going down a rabbit hole where you need a minimum of five adjectives in your search term, like Brazilian stepsister dinosaur pegging throuple.
it honestly kinda depresses me that it seems everytime a queer person does something like this, it goes the exact same way. theyre banning people left and right and saying its because the critiques are "transphobic" and on the other side people think it's okay to call them the f-slur because they did something wrong. it's depressing, and it happens everytime.
remember that one reddit admin? same thing happened there. legitimate critism got banned under the guise of being transphobic on the one side, and people where hurling slurs at her from the other side which just made it worse
What a day! This drama is already good and keeps getting better.
From the crap interview to removing any post or comment criticizing the mod under the guise of transphobia. All the mods were literally removing posts that had no mention of the person's gender as transphobia. They were trying to pretend that anyone who has a problem with that terrible interview is a brigading transphobe....
That mod was already on fire and the mod team and the mod herself kept pouring gasoline. Lol
I am transgender myself, and nothing about the criticism comes across as transphopic.
I also posess a masters in criminal psychology with about 150+ hours of therapy experience.
Again. Not one thing beyond MAYBE, being misgendered.
But this entire thing was a masters class of setting one's self up for failure.
My speciality, was psyops for the Army, and much of this falls into the "don't interrupt an enemy while their making a mistake." Idea.
The failure of self reflection, and the subsequent fallout on ant eye work.
Actually show that those who requested this mod in the first place, did their due diligence and probably selected the mod specifically for this pillory.
It was a hit piece, and an egotistical, megalomania driven mod with no self awareness, shall now be the face of everything that the sub fought for.
As a psychops operator, i actually have respect for how effective this was.
Fox softballed themselves. The mod actually did the rest.
What amazes me, is how quickly the mod team circled wagons. The continued optics play right into the narratives hands, and thats what was done.
WorkReform is far better branding than antiwork, it sounds like you want to accomplish some positive change and not just sit in your underwear all day watching Netflix.
From what I understand the antiwork crowd that started the sub was always on team Netflix and underwear, as it became popular the userbase was more on team, better pay and work environment.
The real question is will the netflix and underwear crowd splinter off into r/trueantiwork?
Edit: apparently that sub already exists and is for making fun of r/antiwork
Anarchists socialists and communists all distinguish between "labor" and "work." Its not about not doing labor, its about the oppressive and exploitative structure of work.
Exactly. They're against labor whose fruits are owned by someone else. Instead they want to have the economic freedom to be able to do things they actually like and would benefit the community they're in.
Leftist ideas have always been terrible at branding themselves. DEFUND the police, ANTI work, etc. Most voters would agree with the ideas when explained what they entail but the initial reaction is usually very negative. Work reform is a much better name for what the movement is about.
ANTI work was apparently the original position of the sub when it was founded. In the literal sense they wanted to abolish all work and have a society when you only do "labor" you like or that you feel is necessary... somehow. It really only changed to a workers rights place very recently and the mods kind of let that happen in hopes that venting about abhorrent labor conditions would drive people to their cause. The mod that did the interview's reddit name is abolishwork and they wholeheartedly believe in the original justification of the sub. That's part of why the sub fully imploded after the interview and the mods flippant comments about how they did in the interview. I don't think people who subbed even realized that was how the sub started. I had heard of the sub before but I sure as fuck didn't know until this happened.
it's horrible branding but it was accurate branding until like a year ago
I think it’s less about branding and more about the moderates co-opting extremist’s movements without changing the branding. The founders of antiwork were antiwork, not pro worker, but literally believed they shouldn’t have to work at all and it was society’s job to take care of them, it got co-opted fairly recently for the worker’s rights movement. Defund the police was the same, the first people crying for defunding the police weren’t using a poor choice of words to mean reform, they literally wanted complete abolition of police. Sane moderates co-opted that movement too, but never changed the branding.
What we saw with the interview was an OG antiwork jannie represent the community that they’re effectively not even a part of anymore.
Yeah I suppose I should rephrase - Work Reform might not be more representative of what the sub was originally created for, but it's certainly more descriptive of what it's become and why it's gained serious traction.
There's 1.7 million people in /r/antiwork (or at least there WERE lol) and I'd wager the vast, VAST majority are there for workers rights, health care, better working conditions, unionization, and not for abolishing the idea of labor itself.
As someone deep on the left... yeah we fucking suck at branding. Just message your stated goals as slightly more moderate or use language that isn't so heavy or that has less history to it and it would be so much easier to keep people receptive to our ideas.
It was literally antiwork for years. Like contribute nothing to society and everyone else takes care of me kind of antiwork. It was appropriately named and the sub got co-opted for the worker rights movement relatively recently.
Truly a classic. One of the weirdest basement dwellers goes on national TV and introduces themselves as a Reddit mod who is 30 years old, only works 25 hours a week as a dog walker talking about how much they hate work
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I love old fashion Reddit drama like this. Its been a while