Its incredibly depressing how popular “Creative Writing: The Subreddit” has become.
Am I The Asshole? How judging other people’s dirty laundry became the internet’s favourite pastime.
Submitted 4 days ago by 101@feddit.org to technology@lemmy.world
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Warl0k3@lemmy.world 4 days ago
AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 3 days ago
I posted a bullshit story on there once. Watching people discuss and argue over a fake story was good fun.
exanime@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I found this sub entertaining for like 2 days after I found it…
Later it was clear it was full of people fishing for praise, people rage baiting or just assholes
In any case, like 99.9% of Reddit, it was clearly not good use of anyone’s time
Soup@lemmy.cafe 3 days ago
Spot on 100 percent.
JigglySackles@lemmy.world 3 days ago
It was fun when it started. Once it devolved into that bullshit you listed I quit going.
scytale@lemm.ee 4 days ago
It’s gossip, just online. Gossip has been a human past time ever since language was created.
n3cr0@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Are the bots now overtaking the world by controlling the people’s thoughts?
Rider@eviltoast.org 4 days ago
Yes.
frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml 4 days ago
was in 1990s tv too
IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world 3 days ago
That sub always seemed like a honey trap for Reddit’s dickhead community.
bigkahuna1986@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
AITA for beating my wife to death because she burnt my steak?
NTA, cooking a steak is basic knowledge and you told her not to burn it
- Reddit, probably.
pastermil@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
ESH
zecg@lemmy.world 3 days ago
technology
it’s “your lifestyle and reddit” slop
son_named_bort@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Kick em when they’re up, kick em when they’re down.
Soup@lemmy.cafe 3 days ago
I’ve always said… “if you legitimately post in AITA, then yeah. YTA.” Because even if you’re the clear and obvious innocent victim in your little story, you’re an asshole for making it up to take advantage of people for upvotes.
Same with the “am I overreacting” bullshit.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 4 days ago
We need AmITheAsshole for Lemmy!
Telorand@reddthat.com 4 days ago
There’s at least eight AITA communities.
AA5B@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Open one more, and you can post “aita for ignoring eight existing aita forums and starting a ninth?”
Spacehooks@reddthat.com 3 days ago
Bestlemmyupdates?
grue@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Second-favorite pastime, you mean.
Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 4 days ago
It’s simply ragebait. It’s a global phenomenon but I’d say Reddit embraced it as their primary feature, even more so than gd Facebook.
I’m not immune to it either, though my brand of ragebait is more in the /collapse and /antiwork spheres.