It’s reddit. Unfortunately that problem was pretty pervasive across the entire website. The Trek subreddits, at least comments, were completely unbearable for me. If it wasn’t people screeching “NUTREK BAD NOT GOOD TREK BAD TREK NOT REAL TREK” then it was someone being a condescending asshole. If it wasn’t that then it was just racism/sexism. The insane thing would be that they clearly deluded themselves into thinking they weren’t being bigoted because they’re Star Trek fans. I saw some pretty horrific shit said about Tilly and Burnham that got massively upvoted and praised. Was the most thinly veiled sexism around topped off with a dollop of racism.

I engaged with the Discovery subreddit but only in specific threads because the mods had specifically marked them as places where people couldn’t do their typical “OH MY GOD THIS SHOW JUST FUCKING SUCKS” whinefest. That engagement didn’t last long however. Got tired of being the only one defending the show. Seemed like I was just surrounded by people who were only watching it because they had no personality of their own so they supplemented it with hatred.

As you might have been able to tell from my monthish here, I don’t like giving out that energy. I try to be as positive and polite as possible. Obviously I fuck up and fail sometimes but people there just never even tried. Started dragging me down. I had to leave that place, and reddit as a whole, because I noticed I was starting to get incredibly bitter not just to the people in the Trek subs but the people in every sub and people not even on reddit.