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I Am An Object Of Internet Ridicule, Ask Me Anything

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Re: I Am An Object Of Internet Ridicule, Ask Me Anything

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Post by jlgreco »

agentultra wrote: post #269
pyrocat wrote: post #161

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ageism is dumb, and I rally against it now as an adult as much as I did when I was 15. > "but I seriously haven't really heard someone over the age of 30 or so make snarky remarks about how so-and-so is such a hipster douchebag" Maybe that's because you surround yourself with people who have similar outlooks? That doesn't mean that all people over 30 are above high school bullshit. And it certainly doesn't mean that…

Totally agree that ageism is dumb. I've met plenty of people under 25 who are rather smart, mature, and well rounded people. But I've also met far more who are arrogant, confused, and wistful. It's hard not to make broad, generalized statements when making such observations which is why I felt like I should justify it a bit more. I'm not saying there aren't any adults over 30 who don't act like bullies; the game just…

> I'm not saying there aren't any adults over 30 who don't act like bullies; the game just changes in my experience.

The game doesn't change, it is just played in different arenas, against different 'opponents'.

Re: I Am An Object Of Internet Ridicule, Ask Me Anything

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Post by eagsalazar2 »

Hipster hatred really baffles me. The only thing I've come up with is that hipsters generally are people who actually are trying to live by their liberal ideals of anti-consumerism. Yes they are into fashion as is everyone else, that doesn't make them hypocrites.

People hate them because they make them feel bad by generally doing things most people are too lazy to do themselves, not because they go around telling everyone they are crappy or acting holier than thou. The act of recycling old clothing is what offends people, not hipsters talking about it.

You know what is holier than thou? "Hipsters are hypocritical scum". I've never been told anything like that by someone who is a hipster (except my radical feminist lesbian sister-in-law and it isn't because she's a hipster)

Re: I Am An Object Of Internet Ridicule, Ask Me Anything

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Post by ebiester »

dnautics wrote: post #135
josefresco wrote: post #81

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Author summarizes the rage quite well: "The reaction, then, had nothing to do with hipsters. It was a hatred of people that need to stand out for standing-out's sake. That realization was at once positive and negative—people didn't hate me because I was a hipster, they hated me because I looked like I was nakedly desperate for attention, and had gone about that attention-grabbing by glomming on to marginalized trends…

"It was a hatred of people that need to stand out for standing-out's sake. That realization was at once positive and negative—people didn't hate me because I was a hipster, they hated me because I looked like I was nakedly desperate for attention, and had gone about that attention-grabbing by glomming on to marginalized trends" But that is (one) definition of hipster . Casual speculation: Would the situation have bee…

Eh, I'd think hipster if I saw a pinstripe suit.

Loose fitting jeans and a polo, however, might do it.

Re: I Am An Object Of Internet Ridicule, Ask Me Anything

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Post by drivebyacct2 »

D9u wrote: post #93

I, myself, would have started, and stopped, with the last sentence: I prefer to let these little cesspools of cyberspace fester and then stagnate, forgotten as they should be, secure in the knowledge that I am doing something that matters to me. As reddit is nothing other than a festering cesspool of cyberspace.

>As reddit is nothing other than a festering cesspool of cyberspace.

What possible good or truth can come of making a statement like that? Hopefully you aren't proudly so ignorant as to actually think that's remotely authentic. But then again, most "Reddit is literally Hitler" trolls don't know what they're talking about or sub to any subreddits, so whatever.

Re: I Am An Object Of Internet Ridicule, Ask Me Anything

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Post by zenocon »

bashinator wrote: post #253
brianpgordon wrote: post #238

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Reddit is a heterogeneous collection of wildly different subreddits. Some subreddits (/r/pics, /r/funny, /r/WTF) are "average" as you described, but others have different demographics.

For example, I would hardly call the typical user of /r/TalesFromYourServer to be a 20-25 year old male STEM-educated nerd.

Until I checked the subreddit, I assumed "server" meant a beat up old PC running some obscure Linux distro in a corner of some basement, and I was about to call you out... :)

Re: I Am An Object Of Internet Ridicule, Ask Me Anything

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Post by StavrosK »

adambard wrote: post #82
sharkweek wrote: post #49

The front page of reddit can be a cruel mistress My wife and I had one of our wedding pictures take the number one spot on /r/all one day -- There was some rather embarrassing text super-imposed on it that said "Oh you think married women still give BJs" (google Condescending Wife to find it). Despite some of the comments in the thread being pretty mean, my wife and I took it in stride, we're both internet people, we…

I shaved half of my hair and half of my beard so that I'd have an interesting driver's license, and posted the photos on Reddit. So I can't really complain about someone else appropriating my image. But it did get big in a way I didn't expect. My mother found out when she went to yahoo.com to log into her email and I was on the front page. My father-in-law was watching the local news and saw me giving an interview. T…

That's a very yin/yang cut.

Re: I Am An Object Of Internet Ridicule, Ask Me Anything

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Post by te_chris »

jlgreco wrote: post #244
te_chris wrote: post #237

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Outside of America I can assure that bud and miller both have very negative connotations ;)

Negative connotations as in "these are very bad beers" , or negative connotations as in "anyone who drinks these must be wildly uncool" ? The first exists in the US, but the second doesn't really (outside a few circles typically called 'beer snobs' ;).

The first, it also tends to extend to most american beer (excluding some of the bigger craft ones which have made it out of the states) and cars, in my personal experience. Although for a perverse few who idolise american culture, bud etc are aspirational, so each to their own I guess?
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