/lit/ - Literature

>>18968586
>le reddit is... LE BAD!!!

>>18968586
The content you see on reddit is based on algorithms of popular consensus, which will naturally lead to a certain degree of uniformity. This is further reinforced by users intentionally embracing that uniformity in their posts in order to appeal to that same popular consensus.

aah yes reddit bad, meanwhile on 4chan:

>>18968607
this but unironically

>>18968586
The way Reddit is set up rewards being a Nice Guy who self-censors their speech to gain gold and upvotes.
Meanwhiles on 4chan you can say NIGGER and your post won’t be removed.
There is no incentive to censor yourself since you are anonymous and there are no rewards for behaving in a socially acceptable way.
The only rewards you get are (You)s, which you will only receive for effortposts, or by posting bait.

The most obvious red flags to me are:
>spacing right before the beginning of a greentext sentence, as in '> I'm a reddit faggot nigger lover'
>spacing between a greentext and its following corresponding regular text, as well as spacing between separate consecutive greentexts
>unironic usage of exclamation marks
>unironic infantile responses such as >>18968607 >>18968641
>iphone image filenames, as well as any other filename of meme images (pepe, soijak, chudjak, etc.) that aren't a unix timestamp number

>>18968681
i wish more places didn't censor racist schizos, it feels like they all congregate on 4chan. instead of upvotes or likes people just say you are based

>>18968702
>tryhard posting on inane thread which has nothing to do with literature
how 4chan of you

>>18968771
>398-2.jpg

>>18968586
Reddit is better (hear me out) for small hobbies and focused interactions. On /lit/, a conversation about Classical Chinese will invariably turn to the posters' opinions on modern China and geopolitics. On Reddit, the mods keep each thread focused on the topic at hand.

>>18968586
When your arguments are weak or superficial, you must add 75% of your personal identity to try to bolster them.
>as a [whatever], my view is that...

>>18968586
They use italics to emphasize the part of their post that they would have said really dramatically irl
They'll make some giant post and then put Edit: and put a bunch more shit at the end of it
Opening posts with "Ah," "Hell," "To be fair,"
Ending posts with ellipses
Unironic use of exclamation points
Making part of the post a diegetic link to a corporate news article
Passive aggression and sarcasm to avoid being banned or downdooted

>>18968586
Because the mods ban people for being uncivil, Redditors always speak in a passive aggressive tone that they try to cover with fake niceties.

>>18968586
because they're bots

Reddit lingo
>it’s called being a decent human being
>y’all
>you must be fun at parties
>as a...
>who hurt you
>wholesome
>it’s almost as if...
Redditors think in clichés

>>18968702
> red flags
Aww did I give you the heebiejeebies? Did I make you feel unsafe? Fuck me in the ass because You! Are! Valid!

i have never once in my life visited reddit.com, i only interact with redditors here on /lit/

>>18969014
4chan lingo
>chud/incel/söy
>kys cuck
>based, cringe
>>greentexting
>I seriously hope you don't do this
>have sex
>>tfw no gfw
>books for this feel?
>frens
>whore, roastie, jezebel, stacey riding chad's cock, cock-carousel, beta simps
>I'm going to say the NIGGER word! fuck NIGGERS
>glowniggers, take your meds schizo
>>NOOOOOOOOO YOU CAN'T JUST POST A LIST OF 4CHAN CLICHÉS NOT THE CLICHÉRINOS
>dilate, tranny/join the 41%
>tfw 29 y/o khhv
>le reddit is... LE BAD!
>jannies/he does it for free
>OH NO NO NO NO BROS WE GOT TOO COCKY
>redpilled, bluepilled
>you don't do X, right?
>b/c/d/l/shr/zoomer
And many many more. 4chan and reddit can both be distilled into clichés

>>18969128
Cum guzzling niggerfaggot

>>18969128
those are all better

>>18969128
"X for this feel?" riles me up so much I wish I could smash the pumpkin-headed faggots who make threads with that headline.

>>18968586
The way that people talk or write on any social media platform and engage with it in general essentially all comes down to the way it's designed. That literally determines almost everything
Reddit is designed around upvotes among many other things so people naturally tailor the way they write to get upvotes.
That's probably the big thing you're picking up on but it's a combination of many factors all of them having to do with the design of the website.

>>18969189
yeah it's the reason the something awful of 10-20 years ago produced a lot of funny posters and reddit never has and never will

>>18968586
>>18968607
>>18969128

>>18968620
Reddit is generally shit, but this is only true of very big subs. The norms of discourse differ from sub to sub if you're not on any of the popular subs.

>>18969128
>oh no no no
>not le heckin
I post both of these multiple times a day

>>18968586
You could say the exact same thing about 4chan. You are not unique. You are barely better than a redditor. You are just as pathetic. KYS

>>18969209
I hail from the BB.com misc forums. I saw the birth and death of Zyzz.

>>18969209
Everybody is unique sweetie

>>18968681
imageboards make me censor even more because I'm scared of people being mean to me

>>18969217
Same

>>18969222
Upvoted

>>18969251
good times

>>18969200
image is missing latinx

>>18968607
You have to go back

>>18968607
That is correct

>>18968681
>Meanwhiles on 4chan you can say NIGGER and your post won’t be removed.
If only…

>>18968681
My post was removed once i got short ban for "Racism outside /b/" when i had a post with nword in it.

>>18969128
But these are funny. The Redit clichés are all just smug and bitchy and really not funny at all.

>>18969128
Take your meds schizo

>>18969317
yeah calling someone a cuck or an incel for the 5000000th time is hilarious. 4chan is absolutely superior to reddit

>>18969342
Oh my sweet summer child

>>18968835
This is why I sometimes check reddit threads when looking for the answer to a specific question I have instead of posting it here.

>>18969342
Tbf chud/cuck/incel are the most cancerous ones. Any political slurs are like that. But there's a certain level of abstraction in 4chan memes that normies can't into and thus will always be better than Redit

>>18968607
Yeah. redditors should burn

Guys, is Reddit actually based?

>>18969383
sometimes. reddit at its best is superior to 4chan but generally inferior

ITT: Redditors come out in force and get ruthlessly called out; they're just a bit too desperate to take a hint. As it was and will forever be.

>>18969296
Meh.. Somettimes a janny will take his job very seriously. But MUH RACISM! Is hardly enforced on this site which is a good thing.

>>18969383
>>18969387
redditors are shit and unbased

I hated reddit even before I developed hatred for reddit users' antics because its user interface and format is so ugly and cringe. And the site doesn't even load well.

Reddit is like if the snitches from school grew up and all got their own website

>>18969445
Indeed. I hate reddit and redditors with perfect hatred.

>>18969223
Then you are truly pathetic

>>18968586
Reddit is consensus driven which includes affect and prose characteristics. Some writing styles will emerge as the consensus and then be mimicked by everyone on the site because the consensus style gets likes.

Jesus fucking… is this person a troon. Please be a troon.
What goes through someone’s head..
>I’ve been a good boy my entire life wahhhh
>I’ve just seen someone say le he king misinformation wahhhhhh
>I’m gonna show them. We are gonna take things straight to the boss wahhhh
>bosss you need to ban these naughty deniers wahhhh
>good golly I think we’ve got even a couple of subs as big as tifu
>we did it guys!!!!!
>grrrr. That’s good and all but Reddit has a long way to go

>>18969416
Racism doesn't exist, it simply can be reduced to aggression of a particular outgroup. The fact that people get banned for that anywhere and not political persecution is selective enforcement and abetting at best.

>>18969296
That rule mostly just exists so you can troll people by reporting them. I dont think it's ever enforced unless reported for. If you want to avoid it, just have like a modicum of human decency

>>18969550
>grr. If those hecking mods would listen to the people and not be greedy capitalis pigs. *waggles finger*

>>18969589
>human decency
Faggot alert

>>18969128
Pretty sure a lot of those come from plebbit users

>>18969604
No I'm just white

>>18969636
Lel. There's moralfagging and then there's also not keeping someone's shitty feelings to themselves; kind of one in the same, in a way. Best to avoid both.

>>18969636
It is literally immoral to not say nigger, you are a bad person

>>18968586
I'm forced to be home today, so I'll dive into it.

For one, they really love infantile name calling. 4chan does too, but here it's more masculine and well-intentioned; it's pretty much locker room talk.
The R*ddit version of name calling is extremely simple and unintelligent, nasty, and mean-spirited at once. Pic related is a perfect example.

>>18969656
All the top comments on news-related subs are either retarded puns, or Bush-era strawmen against conservatives.
These kind of kindergarten-tier arguments not only get tons of updoots, but become a revenge fantasy circlejerk. BTW, this is how you know /pol/ is chock-full of Redditors now: they do the same thing all the time.

I tried reddit back in 2012 and eventually deleted my account. The main reason redditors write different is probably due to how every comment is subject to the judgment of the masses and simultaneously it's impossible to hide your comment history so everyone tries to be overly polite because getting downvoted feels like shit. And it's not like the feeling you are being judged is just a feeling, if people detect a slight hint of anything bad in your comment then someone will call it out and your comment gets a negative score while they get a positive one. That's why the site has this weird feeling you're not talking directly with someone, but rather toward them while everyone else in the room listens in on your conversation and judges it.

When a website works like this but it's just a bunch of computer nerds chatting about tech news in 2008, the system works pretty well. But when it's applied to a site with millions of users, it breaks down a bit and you see its faults. These trifling quirks of the commenting system through an insane amount of repetition go on to make a huge impact in the end.

Anyway, the site was still kinda fun until all the normalfags in America discovered it around 2016. And the massive amount of admin censorship. It used to feel kinda organic and community-driven like 4chan but those days are gone

>>18969296
Just say nigga then. Niggers always call themselves nigga, so I think it's more permissible.

>>18969656
All the top comments on news-related subs are either retarded puns, or Bush-era strawmen against conservatives.
These kind of kindergarten-tier arguments not only get tons of updoots, but become a revenge fantasy. BTW, this is how you know /pol/ is chock-full of Redditors now: they do the same thing all the time.

>>18968586
Whenever you ask a question they'll be like "are you sure that's the right question and the question you meant to ask?" and then go into some rant

>>18969697
>simultaneously it's impossible to hide your comment history
having someone spend time digging through all your comments to find something 'offensive' or 'bad' or 'wrong' you once said when someone disagrees with you is so uncomfortable

>>18969684
Well no shit, after that 2016 election shitshow allot of their faggot refugees starting pouring in here. But in all fairness to /pol/ its full of seething faggots,shills and other kind of niggers who still think they can win over the board and change it from its stormfront origins. Allot of people dont realize raiding this shithole is pointless.
>Pissing into an ocean of piss.

>>18969723
You can just delete your comments ve6ry couple days cant you?

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When does the narwhal bacon?

>>18969715
They literally cannot tell reality from fiction. They love persecution fantasies, because that's the only way they can see themselves as "fighting the system".

>>18969754
>wed all be on house arrest
Top lol

>>18969754
And lastly, they're universally smug. They never present their arguments in a simple way; it's always snarky and angry. Like they were shaking in anger while writing it.

>>18969128
>Look there are phrases you'll find common on this site too
>'books for this feel?' is exactly the same as the obnoxious reddit lingo meant to break down the boundaries of the individual and socially strongarm them into the collective mood, they're both just as bad!

>>18969786
Upvotes/downvotes for that exchange are not what I thought they’d be

>>18969786
>destroy private property to protest the state good
>destroy state property to protest the state bad
I will never understand this

>>18969878
>my people good
>other people bad
It's really not difficult to discern

>>18968681
>The only rewards you get are (You)s, which you will only receive for effortpost
Whose going to tell him?

What I find to be even more repulsive than the reddit prose is the few times 4chan is the topic of discussion on twitter. Twitterfags really feel threatened by this place for some reason

>>18970930
when will cute moon-bunnies stop haunting my dreams? i apparently can't even escape them on /lit/.

>>18970997
You need to read the greeks (and not play on easy modo)

>>18970970
Twitter is a narcissism generator and 4chan is a schizoid dissociation generator so they're somewhat opposed

>>18969754
>They love persecution fantasies, because that's the only way they can see themselves as "fighting the system".
So /pol/?