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At first it was all about presenting data in an original looking way. In the end it was about pushing political ideas in your throat using a plain bar graph. It was not about sharing something interesting you found but about taking advantage of a captive audience.

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[–] ColonelSanders@kbin.social 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

There's quite a few but I'll give my top 3:

r/TIFU and r/AITA - The former became a repository for preteen fanfiction and the latter became a place for confirmation bias/rhetorical questions looking for validation.

Then there's r/UnpopularOpinion which ended up being an oxymoron unto itself. I honestly don't understand how anyone thought that concept would work given that the literal point of a social media discussion platform, that utilizes an upvote/downvote system to determine visibility, is to push popular (highly upvoted) posts to the top/front. Very few people actually upvoted something that was unpopular and instead just upvoted the low hanging fruit popular opinion posts that were 'controversial' but still blatantly have a clear majority who support that side that OP took.

[–] charcoalhibiscus@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Most of AITA was fanfic too - just a deeply improbable amount of twins, pregnancies, weddings, and twin pregnancies at weddings. Once I stumbled upon a megapost that was all the ones about food, though, and it was great, because nearly no one bothers to make up a drama about lasagna.

The one silver lining was it brought us the glory that was the “everything in this sub is fake” punchline story, if anyone else remembers that one.

[–] Silviecat44@vlemmy.net 2 points 1 year ago

SO. MANY. WEDDINGS.

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