• yegambit@lemmy.world
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    19 days ago

    I guess it would be nice to have people think equally of men and women, but I don’t think the better way to do it is to create fake stories on 4chan

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      19 days ago

      The story is absolutely fake, however…

      It’s satirical. It’s basically making fun of something that does occur on the subreddit. There is very much a double standard going on over there, and this story is a satire of that.

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        19 days ago

        Someone up there ^ found the original post but not the gender swapped version. But it’s still a made up dumb story.

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    19 days ago

    I consider myself a misanthrope, but, Reddit showed me my opinion of humanity was STILL too high

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    19 days ago

    AmITheAsshole is 99% rage bait and fan fiction. “Am I the Asshole for letting my wife only sleep with 8 different guys, while cucking myself and paying everything for her? I’m totally unsure if I’m, in this Ludacris Situation in which I’m clearly being abused, being unreasonable… PLS BE NICE, GIVE ME ATTENTION! PLS PLS PLS PLS PLS PLS!!!”

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      19 days ago

      Hot take: AITA (and even moreso those “Reddit Stories” channels on TikTok and YouTube) is just The Jerry Springer Show for Gen Z.

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    19 days ago

    Yes, he’d be an asshole for giving her them as a birthday present, regardless of the fact that he got her other presents as well. Just ask her if she wants them after he gets his new ones.

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      19 days ago

      This is actually what the consensus was in that post, but the 4channer was blinded by his own assumption of “men bAD, gIRls gOoD” rhetoric

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    20 days ago

    Fake, but even if it was true, the problem would have probably been the age change and not the gender change. Teenage relationships and adult relationships have different rules…

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      19 days ago

      And also gay.

      Lemmy dumping on Reddit via a 4chan greentext

      I’m so proud of this community.

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          19 days ago

          They don’t really. They are often learned the hard way, because no one attempts to explain them or just acts like they know but doesn’t really.

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        It depends entirely on the maturity of the parties involved, it’s not really an “older/younger” thing.

        But generally, the less mature you are, the more a relationship is selfish, i.e. you want to be in a relationship for your personal advantage, i.e. “i get sex when I have a girlfriend”. The more mature you get, the more relationships go into the direction of “I want to make the other person happy”. You still get your sex or whatever other advantage of course, but it’s much more fulfilling if you can actually give the other person what they need, and temporarily losing your personal benefit of the relationship doesn’t cause immediate breakups.

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        20 days ago

        Yeah, I have to assume 18 year old women are on average way, way, way poorer than 40 year old men. That’s true regardless of the gender, 40 tends to be a pretty high spot in personal capital.

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          19 days ago

          My eyes rolled so hard on this one lol. An 18 year old woman has 40 year old losers waiting in line to buy them shit. Free drinks in the bar, free vacation, free meals, free shopping trips. 10k a month for “feet pics” on only fans 🤮.

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            19 days ago

            Those are really weird incel beliefs.

            But, for levity, please explain what is wrong with this:

            10k a month for “feet pics” on only fans

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              19 days ago

              It’s weird that you refuse to actively reject reality. Good npc energy yum. Did you notice that only fans made more than the salary of the combined NBA?

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                19 days ago

                What is wrong with making money on OnlyFans? What is wrong with making money in the NBA? I am now more confused.

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                  19 days ago

                  I didn’t say anything was wrong with it. People just seem to think there isn’t any money in being an 18 year old woman they are all broke lol.

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                Experiencing your “reality” that you or some insecure manosphere shitheel just made up to justify hating women, which you wouldn’t know is false because you’ve never in your miserable life actually talked to a woman who was comfortable sharing those intimate details of her personal life with you? No, no I’m not.

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    20 days ago

    This is remarkably accurate actually, AITA is a dumpster fire. And most of the posts are a work of fiction, I suspect.

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      19 days ago

      Sometimes you got people picking up and saying “there needs to be something else to this story”.

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      19 days ago

      I used to love that sub. Then it started to be about legal responsibilities instead of morality… From there it really turned into a dumpster fire

      The only time I’ve ever been banned on a forum because although I said the woman had the right to do what she did and the guy was clearly in the wrong, she needlessly escalated when empathy would’ve led to a better result for everyone

      No explanation, just a temp ban. For advocating empathy and third path conflict resolution

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        19 days ago

        The funniest posts are when commenters get angry OP disagrees with them or makes their own decisions. It’s like they think seeking advice creates a binding contract to follow that advice if it gets agreed with enough.

        If you follow advice that you don’t agree with, you are an idiot, even if the advice is actually good. And disagreeing or arguing when you don’t agree is a good way to resolve it if you don’t see why someone would suggest that.

        People should only go to that sub for entertainment. Or if you bring a real problem there, use it as a way to get a variety of different perspectives while keeping in mind some commenters might be literal teenagers (or even younger) with no life experience and half of the replies will be either projecting their own shit onto your situation, won’t understand what you wrote, or want to play Sherlock Holmes but their version relies on assumptions they pull out of their ass instead of genius level observational skills, logic, and most of all, the favour of sir Arthur Conan Doyle who can write him as smart or as dumb as his plot about a genius detective needs him to be. Oh, and assholes, the real assholes are in the comments.

        And if you scroll down to the bottom of the thread, you get to see some really interesting world views. Or sometimes the rational ones when one of the more popular biases gets triggered.

    • Clent@lemmy.world
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      20 days ago

      Yeah that subreddit in particular went to shit when the news sites started using the posts to generate content.

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      20 days ago

      The AITAH people are nothing if not weirdly observant of what happens on that sub. This would be caught immediately

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        19 days ago

        The text is probably made up, but people have done such swap posts several times before and got similarly opposite results. Usually the posts get removed from the sub when someone eventually notices the deception, but you can still read them if you have a link. It’s a very toxic sub.

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    19 days ago

    Wtf why would anyone (I know, I know, fake story, but hear me out) gift their USED in-ear headphones. I wouldn’t touch that thing with a ten-foot pole, regardless if it was “cleaned”.

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      Yeah, people act like a site with half a billion users somehow is only representative of a very niche population contained within reddit. I also love the “well I saw x posted here yesterday and people loved it! Here it is today, and people hate it! reddit can’t make up its mind!”, as if reddit is a monolith, they took the hive-mind shit-talk literally. Then that same person will complain when that reddit is a hive mind…

      My guy, this is just how people are. You are in a place where the group is large enough that you, in the population statistics sense, are getting a snapshot of humanity.

      • Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org
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        19 days ago

        It may or may not be. I can’t speak to that post, but I’ve seen others pull the same bit with other posts (wait a week or two and repost with a gender swap, then point to the radical difference in response) and usually the gender swapped version gets deleted and the poster banned when it comes out.

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          Yeah always had a good chuckle at the people that would try to point out the echo chamber hypocrisy in a subreddit and be upvoted but yelled at so hard then banned.

          Same story every time.

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        I does have a certain “and then the whole bus clapped” energy to it.

        Good thing they left reddit and went to 4chan where they could get away from ultra thirsty guys acting all kinds of crazy over women.

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      19 days ago

      Are you, like, buying a new spoon every time you want to eat? Are you unfamiliar with the concept of cleaning?

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        In their defense, properly cleaning headphones is kinda hard, especially wireless earbuds.

        Source : Used to work at an electronics repair shop that cleaned stuff, and even clean ‘looking’ (aka externally clean) headphones can have some disgusting junk on the inside.

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          19 days ago

          But the outside part covers the inside and is the only part that goes inside. The inside is still inside while being inside your ear protecting the inside of your ear from the inside of the earbud.

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            19 days ago

            If you look at pretty much all earphones and earbuds, you’ll see they have a screen mesh where the sound comes out. You can remove this mesh (depending on the device, it might take some effort), and very often you’ll find an accumulation of earwax. I had a pair of Galaxy Buds+ that I needed to clean when I noticed the sound was unusually low.

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              Exactly! ‘My headphones are so quiet now, could the speaker be dying?’ is something we got all the time. Most of the time when people clean their headphones, all the do is take a wipe or a brush (if you’re lucky alcohol) and clean the outside of the mesh. Half the time all they’re doing is pushing earwax through the mesh so you get a nice little wax puck when you open them up.

              It’s gross, but it did feel good to be able to tell people they didn’t need new headphones, we just cleaned them for $15.