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• Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Reminds me of the reddit meetup in 2014?

  It was at a tech office on a Saturday.

  I got a free beer, smelled the atmosphere, and realized it was gonna be a mtg filled with angry drunken nerds, I left.

  The next day, the organizers sent a mass email asking for people to chip in. Someone broke the pool table. Someone ripped pages out of a manual. Someone stole name plaques from a managers office.

  They complained about having to clean up vomit and we can “do better redditors!”

  I think about that a lot.

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  • SkippingRelax@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    We did it reddit

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• oatscoop@midwest.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The narwhal bacons at midnight.

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• tubaruco@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  a local reddit meet up? i have never heard of something like that. does reddit users go outside?!?!?

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  • TheaoneAndOnly27@kbin.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    God it was so awkward, it must have been like 2011 because I was freshly 21. And it was at this local bar. And everybody greeted eachother by " the narwhal bacon's at midnight" and it was just fucking weird. For a while our local subreddit was running a monthly one and then it just kind of stopped.

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    • Trainguyrom@reddthat.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      To be fair I was pretty cringeworthy on my own at that age

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    • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Is this “the narwhal” thing worth looking up?

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      • feannag@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Probably not. Old piece of Reddit history. Gist of it is there was a discussion on how to identify a redditor in real life, and the favorite response was saying that “the narwhal bacons at midnight”.

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• kratoz29@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Please, elaborate, I have only read about these meet ups, but never actually got to know, how they were…

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  • arefx@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I went to one 10 years ago and it was fine just a bunch of normal dudes and a few women drinking beers talking about random stuff, for what it’s worth.

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