What's the most cringy shit you've seen on reddit?

I know everyone here is talking about how they're all racist turbo reactionaries. That's true but what does it for me is when they'll type out song lyrics to one another, line by line, like they're doing karaoke by mail. Not even obscure songs. There are probably at least five comment threads per day repeating the lyrics of Bohemian Rhapsody. Yes reddit I've seen Wayne's World
That's probably what I hate most about reddit. It's how they valorize very well known things but act like they're part of a special club for enjoying it. They will make posts like "Heh, bet none of you will recognize this ancient, forgotten gem of a game: Sonic Adventure 2!" and then they'll all pile in to mention they also remember Sonic Adventure 2 and someone will do a comment thread doing the Live and Learn song one sentence at a time. And they do this every single day clapping like seals at seaworld
- I fucking hate this shit. If you're looking for any good information anywhere on
  , you have to wade through ten pages of people making the same joke back and forth but worse every time, or quoting Super Troopers, or song lyrics, or "I also choose this guy's wife" bullshit. It's on every fucking thread, it's always the top comment(s), and it's always the same.
  
  And my axe!
  Edit: thanks for the gold, kind stranger!
  
  And it's been like that for the last ten years.
- That's probably what I hate most about reddit. It's how they valorize very well known things but act like they're part of a special club for enjoying it.
  Reddit is Facebook for Millennials
- this but at the same time they never follow "this is the way" with "step inside" they just keep saying "this is the way." and if you say "step inside" you get downvoted. Uncultured swine I tell you.
  
  "this is the way" is an instant downvote from me.
  I fucking HATE Star wars and what it's done to our culture. Yes, I'm aware the OG star wars was a Vietnam allegory and is cool and good. Still don't care.
  
  I always thought that was a reference to the Ugandan knuckles meme. Started popping up around that time.

I'm gonna be honest, as an autistic transfem the "bro nod" shit really fucks with me because I'm like "am I demonstrating my ｍａｌｅ　ｓｏｃｉａｌｉｚａｔｉｏｎ right now or is this normal"
- New type of dysphoria unlocked
- I've decided to just own it, I don't even care anymore. I nod at the dudes and wave to the gals.
  I did not know before today that directional nods have different meanings; I have been acting hyperaggressive on the sly towards dudes for years. Their masculinity in shambles.
  
  nah reddit just has no idea what they're talking about. A downward nod is like respect and acknowledgement of the other person, usually towards a stranger. Upward nod is friendlier, usually towards a friend. Downward nod is also friendly, it's just a bit more aloof, like there's more separation between the two people. An upward nod conveys a sense of closeness.
  
  Directional nods do not have different meanings, redditors are the kind of people that watch a movie and take it as gospel. The nod-talk is probably from something like "office space" and now they just believe it
- What is a bro nod?
  
  Basically it's the idea that men greet people (particularly other men) with a slight nod. This is often expanded into an idea of a sort of "nod language" particular to men, where an upwards vs downwards vs left vs right nod have different meanings.
- Everybody nods, redditors do this weird thing where they make a universal thing a male thing, because they don't know any women.

I'll never forget the time I commented on a thread in /r/BreadTube saying simply that Abraham Lincoln was a liberal, and it quickly became my most downvoted comment of all time. There was a response that had like 300 updoots simply saying "nuclear level take" and shortly after I was banned from /r/BreadTube. To this day I still don't know what those people think Lincoln's ideology was.
- Hearing the way Americans talk about Lincoln, you'd think they've got him confused with John Brown or Lenin.
  
  "If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that."
  -Abraham Lincoln.
- Abraham Lincoln was a liberal
  he still is a lib
  
  Was… because he’s dead
- Breadtube got pushed on me on October 8th. Dear fuck...

One libertarian calling another one a tankie because he wasn't opposed to a tax on doordash.
This was a couple years ago before tankie was being used by everyone.

- The worst is when this happens in real life. It's a coworkers delight to bring up some bullshit you just know they saw on the front page like it's hidden history.
  
  I had a friend that did this in real life all the time.
  I remember when we lived together, I used to be really into Beavis and Butthead (for example) and he always made fun of me, until one day, he sat and watched a couple with me, and the next day he wasa super fan and an expert on Beavis and Butthead, and all things Mike judge.
- In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
  Why the fuck do people like that album so much? It's the most boring ass music I ever heard, generic acoustic guitar, and a terrible singer. I guess I'm too much of a pleb to understand it.
  
  The warmth and crunchyness of the production is nice to my ears. I like the horns. The weird imagery in the lyrics hits a vibe with me and although I can see why not everyone would like his voice I don't think you can say he's a terrible singer , he's belting that shit out for some long stretches that are pretty impressive to me. I also will always like a theramin. I think their first album on Avery Island is what I go back to more though and more people should check that one out .
  
  I love prog rock, indie, and artsy stuff, and at best, I find it "meh".

There's a legendary post of a kid talking shit in a thread using the most egregious "As a black MAN" voice and saying racist shit, until someone looked thru his comment history and found an old post of him at prom
Literally a red-headed, baby faced cracker in a Tuxedo with red chipmunk cheeks and the goofiest freshman hair cut, it blew up and even the racist subs were making fun of him, it was around 2017-2018
- Makes me think of the kid that doubled down on not going down on a woman because "squirt is just piss and I ain't getting piss all over my face"
  Then they had to create /r/shittyfemaleanatomy just to pick on losers like him
- Was that the r/hiphopheads one? There was apparently a power user on that sub who one day did a face reveal and was just the dorkiest looking white child in existence. Made some people leave the sub as far as I can recall
- There was something similar at where a kid was talking Black and then he posted him and his girlfriend in HIPHOPHEADS
- Ther was also one where a guy would say stuff like "the streets fuck with Tekashi 69" and then it turned out he was a dancer nerdy looking white guy who was in a Taylor Swift music video.

Here's some low-hanging fruit I can't believe hasn't been mentioned yet: /r/unpopularopinion which is just a soapbox for reactionary hot takes. Speaking of, /r/PoliticalCompassMemes being full of open Nazis
- Nuh uh! They're not all Nazis, that redditor with the username /u/KillTheBlacks1488 has a "lib-left" flair! Why do you hate free speech and the marketplace of ideas?
  
  They have every stripe of political opinion from nazis, to nazis pretending to be liberals, to nazis pretending to be socialists.
  
  "I'm not a Nazi" - Some Nazi, usually
- It's almost come around to the point of being humorous to see what r/PCM thinks are left wing opinions ag this point.
  It's an actual mental exercise to try to figure out why they are saying we're all so mad about certain things.
  An entire subreddit of "I made myself the Chad and you the wojack making me the victor"

Fellas, is it gay to wave hello?
- Yes, the only way for heterosexual men to greet each other is to say "Good evenin" the way Levon Helm does at the start of The Last Waltz.
  
  "Howdy" just hasn't been the same since Brokeback Mountain
- Fraternal kiss is the only non-gay way to say hello

Everything on r/chapotraphouse
- I've never seen so many liberals in one place in my life.

Thanking an SS grandpa for his service.

- "We don't have to make America great again because newsflash, America has always been great! Hey why are a bunch of minorities calling me an idiot obviously because their culture promotes violence as a response to rational arguments."

Whenever any thread is full of shitty puns and jokes and I need to scroll for 20 min before finding someone to explain the context of a post
- It made me hate queen. I already wasn't a huge fan, but all the walking fedoras commenting nonstop queen lyrics chains really left a bad taste in my mouth, and now I can't deal with hearing queen, or any arena rock

Every single AITA post ever posted. Beyond absolute shit.
- Imagine turning to Reddit for life advice...
  I'd rather go to an astrologer, and I hate astrology. Probably get more helpful and well adjusted advice from astrologers too.
  
  Hahaha you’ve made me imagine an astrologer being like “THE WANING OF RETROGRADE MARS SAYS PLAY STUPID GAMES WIN STUPID PRIZES”
- 50% "AITA for eating babies and murdering innocent people for no reason" and 50% "AITA for being the second coming of jesus christ and saving a cat from a tree and being a literally perfect human being (not fake!!!)"
  
  You forget the 1-2% that are people in incredibly abusive relationships asking if they're the asshole for being abused.
- nah those rock. i don't even care if they're mostly fake.

I had a fascist in my local subreddit try to convince me that capitalism wasn't real and is a fiction invented by Marxists
- Marxists, how could you do this to me? Like seriously, wtf
- Of course Marxists invented capitalism, Marx wrote a book called 'Das Kapital', he literally invented it
  
  ... That was literally their argument.
- Reminds me of that time MLK invented racism

The way gaming subreddits talk about devs. /r/pathofexile is full of some of the most entitled g*mers in the platform, which is obviously a bold claim. Minor bug on release day? Mobs dealing too much damage to your character that you rushed through the campaign and early maps with no gear? Worse performance (which is probably just your PC recompiling shaders, and it's gonna end up running the same or better than before)? The devs are clearly useless, China is ruining the game, they hate the players, etc etc.
It's obviously not as bad as how racist and chauvinist other subs get, but it's very cringe to get so worked up over an online PVE game. Get a grip.
- Oh man, the Tencent truthers on that subs are so annoying
  The trade purists are also another particularly annoying subset on that reddit
  
  Hahah yeah the way they compare SSF players to vegans is so accurate, but in the opposite way than what they meant. In fact, I'm pretty sure I'll go SSF next league, last league I got 2 mirrors and the game felt so incredibly meaningless at that level of wealth.
- I'm following a game that is in alpha, with the latest build just beig release under the name [EXTREMELY EXPERIMENTAL AND UNFINISHED.]
  Lo and behold the subreddit is full of nerds complaining about the FREE ALPHA INDIE GAME having minor bugs.
  The way they complain about it is so overdramatic and petty too. "The dev are lazy/ don't give a shit!"
  
  if it helps, remember that most of these people are actually teenagers and children
  
  Happens a lot, sadly. @Frank@hexbear.net has been going at it with the thread explaining reddit gamers' tendency to endlessly complain about easily solvable problems. If there's a game breaking bug it's different, but so many threads ripping on known issues and armchair devs backseating with useless advice is just

Any country subreddit that isn't white and English speaking is just racist white sexpests looking down on the locals and whining about how racist everyone is to white people.
- Any country subreddit that is white is also full of racist white people talking about how much they hate the homeless
  
  In conclusion, marg bar reddit.

The site's logo is the height of cringe.
But probably whenever US army chuds talk about sex tourism, or frankly anything military related. Eeeesh.

"Upvote [thing] so [thing] is first result when people search [thing] on google images" was always just the most dog-brained posts to me.
Apart from that? Yeah the dumbass posts about what women don't understand that are just regurgitating popular culture "Oh sometimes we just don't think, we're just so simple and straightforward, we're really horny" just the least curious introspective shit.
The dumbass chains of stale puns with thousands of upvotes.
The absolute debatelord energy.
The "oh I guess the CCP BOTS ARE OUT TODAY" posts.
The absolute lack of curiosity that oozes from most posts on that site.
Every subreddit for a popular culture thing is just full of people being horny for the characters and any attempt at deeper discourse is actively looked down upon.
Civility fetishism by smug assholes. Same thing lemmylibs do - Show up and say something horrendous or incredibly condescending, but because you didn't use a mean word, then that means you're not actually being shitty. Also linked to lack of curiosity.
- The "oh I guess the CCP BOTS ARE OUT TODAY" posts.
  "-10000000 SOCIAL CREDIT POINTS" posts are totally smart and funny though and you definitely prove something by making them
- "Upvote [thing] so [thing] is first result when people search [thing] on google images" was always just the most dog-brained posts to me.
  The "oh I guess the CCP BOTS ARE OUT TODAY" posts.
  The cringiest thing was the synthesis of these where people would try to upvote pictures of Tank Man to the front page, because Tencent owns something like 10% of
  , so the Chinese would be totally owned, I guess.

when you nod upwards, it means respect, when you nod downwards its aggression
uh and they clearly don't understand the nods. A nod downward is respect and acknowledgement, usually towards a stranger, conveying an aloof friendliness, while a nod upward is like "what's up," often towards a friend, warmer, like the head nod equivalent of dapping someone up

Really, going to Reddit outside of very niche subreddit means you're going to be feeling like you're eternally in 2016. Cringy, obsolete memes and references, the same propaganda being posted every day and getting thousands of upvotes, nothing changing at all.
- Reddit has gone down hill from 2016 too. I genuinely think it's just a big migration pattern from one social media platform to the next. The idiots started in YouTube comments, then Facebook around 2016, Twitter has really gotten fucked since the pandemic, and now it's moved to Reddit. It's in the same vein that chuds simply can't keep to themselves on social media, they have to feel like they're involved in the discourse.
  
  Everybody who doesn't love what reddit is has been spending less time there if not leaving all together.
  All the worst aspects of reddit are getting worse by the day.
  There was a post on the front page of a college lecture hall with a bunch of blonde women in it. Title was "class for astrology majors"
  Literally 10s of thousands of upvotes for the most obviously bullshit "women bad" meme I've ever seen.

Wredditors when woman is on screen:
Other than that, the endless reference threads, "omg ccp shill", "-1000000 social credit", and just the general arrogance.
- Skye Blue appears on screen
  squaredcircle:
  and other unintelligible hooting and hollering
  
  48 downvote comment
  : "yes, i'm a grown ass adult that watches porn. So what?"
  checks user history
  it's literally only that, wrestlefap, and squaredcircle

The shermanposting subreddit. Their hearts are mostly in the right place, but god damn are they severely hampered by nationalist and American exceptionalist brainworms. Actually that dovetails with another cringe redditism: libs calling people traitors and insurrectionists and shit. It's such larping and it only serves to make the target of your ire sound way cooler than you. You can just tell when you read those comments that the people making them are thrilled to have some kind of relief from ppst-end of history alienation, to have some kind of historical conflict to participate in and people to participate in it with through the medium of heroic speeches and shallow redditisms.

The
- The what
  
  It's exactly what it sounds like.

There were subreddits that were creeps taking pictures of women on the street. It was a main subreðit.
- r/jailbait
- Then there was the time the admins took down /r/FatPeopleHate, one of those subs with candid pictures of people, and the fedoras collectively fucked up the whole website with their rage, for days and days. Honestly, I've never even seen such a level of collective activism, of course it would be for the worst thing possible.
  
  That one and some others were deleted by order of then-CEO Ellen Pao, it was like throwing a lit match into a powderkeg. The things r*ddit holds most dearly - misogyny, racism, and xenophobia - erupted from its sizeable population of reactionary neckbeards into a shitstorm of fist-pounding tantrums like nothing the site had seen to that point. The insults and threats of violent fantasies were endless and many were Sinophobic in nature. A few years after it happened I remember a discussion (maybe on /r/ShitRedditSays or similar) around how the bigots who inhabited /r/FatPeopleHate et. al., were heavily overlapped with same crowd who would later be found in The_Donald and related right-wing hate subs.
  NATOpedia has an article for her and there's some detail on this incident if you want more slop on it (I didn't read every word of the article, just skimmed, so can't say whether it's tainted/biased by one of the neckbeard power editors).
  
  Oh god I used to be subscribed to that subreddit.
  The reaction to the removal of an obvious hate sub was what made me re-evaluate my outlook on life. I remember everyone going "we weren't ACTUALLY hating fat people. We were saving their lives by bullying them thin"
  and I thought "wait, but I thought we did hate fat people That's all that was ever posted, I thought we all just agreed that it was fun and good to hate them. Why are you lying?"
  Then seeing all the responses rightly pointing out how fucked up an outlook you'd need to have to hate people for being fat made me reconsider not being a dumb asshole.
  Now I'm perfect of course ✨✨
  
  God the one good thing
  did was to glass those disgusting subreddits and of course the abhorrent people reacted that way against the removal.

The passport bros subreddit.
A hive of racist sexpests. No idea how it's allowed to stay up.
- Because reddit admins are a hive of racist sexpests.
- i didnt know what that was until now. i shouldn't have looked it up.

anything within a light year of "I'm a manly man and this is how a proper man should do sex" type pseudo-ironic-bravado posts
- All of TIFU

Literally anything that even hints at being related to china on reddit.

there was a subreddit called like emojipolice or sth
they would literally just go around rping as cops whenever ppl used emojis and yelling about Instagram normies n shit
extremely odd behaviour
- Oh christ is this real?!
  
  yeahhh
  looked it up earlier, they started like 5 years ago, apparently they did shut down the subreddit but only like 2 months ago lol
- There's a lot of those weird subs, like r/thathappened and one were people just shared posts of screenshots from phones with low charge?
- volcel police is even worse than this tbh
  
  The VOLCEL POLICE are on the scene! PLEASE KEEP YOUR VITAL ESSENCES TO YOURSELVES AT ALL TIMES.
  نحن شرطة VolCel.بناءا على تعليمات الهيئة لترويج لألعاب الفيديو و النهي عن الجنس نرجوا الإبتعاد عن أي أفكار جنسية و الحفاظ على حيواناتكم المنويَّة حتى يوم الحساب. اتقوا الله، إنك لا تراه لكنه يراك.

All the dumb redditisms that get repeated over and over and over ad nauseum but still get upvoted every single time some chucklefuck chokes one out.
- "Kill yourself, and everyone around you!"
  sigh unzips
- Yeah AskReddit became unusable REAL fucking quick after I had seen most of those. And also because every 3rd post is just men asking women inappropriate questions, with 90% of the answers being from men who either pretend to be women or just claim that they asked a "female" and she gave the same response.
  
  Title: "Teachers of reddit, [question]"
  95% of comments: "Not a teacher, but..."

man i been nursing this gripe for a while, but once on the bass sub, someone made a post about how their parents kept discouraging them in pursuing their hobby, and this absolute freak showed up and ranted about how they're a lazy piece of shit who needs to grow up, and anyone who was supporting them just had daddy or mommy issues they need to get over. he was very vehement and angry and would reply to anyone telling him to chill with needlessly personal barbs about how their parents probably hate them for a reason. Of course, as a responsible Chapoposter I checked the comment history, and he had a long history of getting insanely angry and rude over the tiniest disagreement, often accusing other people of being aggro and sensitive.
anyway i found his posts on an incest roleplay sub and linked it to him and that pretty much ended the discussion.
- Taking about fishing, or playing an instrument?
  
  the instrument. admittedly bass players are exceedingly neurotic and insecure, which is why it's all the more important to be nice to us.

- Nothing like white people explaining why minorities support anybody other then democrats by pulling out the calipers and talking about "in their culture" never once considering maybe it's because they've noticed that the democrats have continuously betrayed them for 60 years.
- As a black, queer person whose internalized racism primarily stemmed from this mindset, this hurts. I'm glad you pointed it out, though, because even Redditors need to realize that this mentality isn't as helpful for progress as they would think.

Last week after state of the union speech, redditors were all like, "well this is all the proof we need that Biden has still fucking got it! He could talk coherently, mostly, for over an hour? I can't do that so clearly he'll be a good president and mop the floor with trump." And like 10 variations on that theme. No mention of the policies he's pushing or anything, just redditors thinking back to their ice cream Joe memes and not caring about how everything is falling apart for the bottom 60% of people (probably more and rising). I fucking hope he loses, and dies. I hope America suffers and implodes so the rest of the world won't face the blowback, even though I know it will devastate everything because American tendrils are hooked into everything.

unironicly think people who just post horny memes objectifying and degrading women on like r/animemes or whatever all the time should be taken out and shot
::: spoiler this accidentally turned into a rant about me being creeped on in reddit dms when i was still a minor even worse for people who do that but for femboys / trans people and then expect applause for sexually objectifying queer people instead with this fucking ~~under~~overcurrent of "you should be grateful that i want to fuck you and then toss you aside, the other guys want to kill you". especially bad if the cropped hentai posted is shota or some shit (people used to do this on r/196 in the fucking early days of its creation long before the tankie purge but also before the purge of explicit pedophiles (who iirc claimed that telling them to stop posting lewd drawn images of children was "suppressing their queer identity" which is just such a fucking disgusting thing to say even leaving aside the ammunition it gives to pedojacketer conservatives (the purge did basically nothing though except make them stop openly declaring as i can personally attest given that because i mentioned a few times that i was a femboy and shit i had some late guy in his late 20s start to DM me sexually on there despite it literally saying that i was only 16 or 17 at the time and despite me blocking him multiple times he literally just fucking kept dming me from alts for like two or three weeks or so (no prizes for guessing that he was a
fan)))). anyway that experience basically started me down the path of becoming an unironic misandrist

The deprogram sub. It’s just children yet to outgrow not questioning the nato narrative while claiming to be comrades
- Users here ought to get on there and educate them
  
  I suffer enough already. Let somebody else do it. Gentle correction is not my forte.

An anime meme subreddit decided to ban the use of a specific word as it was seen as a slur for trans people. This sparked a subreddit-wide civil war, and the sub split off into multiple new subs formed on the basis of being the same as the old sub but with slurs allowed. As a bonus, the sub that banned the slur became better, because it turns out exiling all of the people who want to use a slur from your community gets rid of mostly shitty people, although the positive change ended up being temporary as the spinoff subs burned out and everyone came back to the original.
Similar story: /r/hydrohomies was born because the original "drink water meme subreddit" was named after the N word and got quarantined. Same principle applies here but in reverse - all of the people who wanted to use slurs stayed in the original, and the new subreddit was a lot nicer as a result. Although by the time this split happened the meme was pretty stale so the people in the new sub were cringey for a different reason.

I've been nodding the wrong way for my entire life????????????? No one tells me fucking anything!!
- In my neck of the woods, it's nod down for someone you don't know or someone you are being respectful of, and nod up for a friend.
  
  I don't know if I ever learned this anywhere, but I totally do this subconsciously.
- You haven't, it's made up

Asking Rapists why they did it.

For a long time there was a subreddit that named after a racial slur for black people
The most concerning thing about it to me was how some of the most hateful posts were from non white (but also non black) people who were clearly trying so hard to be to be “one of the good ones”
- a subreddit that named after a racial slur for black people
  This does not narrow down which subreddit you're talking about nearly as much as it should.

r/chapotraphouse

when does the narwhal bacon?

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- And then they created r/4tran2, 4tran3 (which got banned for spam), and 4tran4
- oh shit finally what happened

Didn’t some Reddit “detectives” doxx someone incorrectly in a way that got them killed? Maybe “cringe” is too mild a term for that.
- If it's the same incident I'm thinking of, it was during the Boston bombing incident. Random Redditors accused and doxed a random student as being the bomber causing him to take his own life
  
  Yup, that’s what I was thinking of

Back when Fox news did a piece claiming there were Muslim enforced "no go zones" in various UK cities and suddenly every American was an expert on what it was like to walk around these cities.
I had an extended argument with this one guy who insisted he knew more about the place I was living and studying in at the time than I did.
Like, unparalleled levels of smug condescension.

Me a few minutes ago trying to get r*dditors to buy my books.

Where to begin, one of the latest disgusting ones I browsed was a worker on the Dollar Tree sub getting sexually harassed/assaulted while at work and per course misogynist, psychotic, classist redditors come out of the wood work to victim shame her.

the main one that made me want to puke was "when dudes walk by each other and nod"
I still nod at the dudes, actually. I think it confuses them. I never see women nod like that, honestly.

"when dudes walk by each other and nod"
My man!

One I didn't see mentioned yet, the r/jailbait subreddit, a pedo community about posting provocative pics of underage girls.
In 2008 redditors voted it the "subreddit of the year", and it was protected by reddit at the highest levels.
Erik Martin, general manager of Reddit, defended the subreddit by saying that such controversial pages were a consequence of allowing free speech on the site.
It took Anderson Cooper doing a story on it for reddit to finally take action.

as if women dont do the same shit.
I hope they don't, that is some macho dork shit
- I can see Leanbeefpatty doing that, followed by a Jojo pose.
  Wait, it really is a thing!
- I... I do the nod

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Just saw people who play magic hanging their commander from the middle of their deck, and everyone clapping and not offering much pushback... Bout to brew a deck list all about shuffling opponents decks if I see one in the wild... No I will not let people just have fun.

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