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For those thinking of going back to reddit. Gaze upon this comment section and reconsider. (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
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[–] 33 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Oh God

Were we that cringy?

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  • [–] 41 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    One time I went to a local Reddit meet up. Yep, it was all that cringy

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  • [–] 41 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Reminds me of the reddit meetup in 2014?

    It was at a tech office on a Saturday.

    I got a free beer. But I literally smelled the atmosphere, and realized it was gonna be a Magic the gathering/nerd expo but filled with angry drunken weirdos and I left.

    The next day, the organizers sent a mass email asking for people to chip in. Someone broke the pool table. Someone ripped pages out of a manual. Someone stole name plaques from a managers office.

    They complained about having to clean up vomit and we can "do better redditors!"

    I think about that a lot.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    a local reddit meet up? i have never heard of something like that. do reddit users go outside?!?!?

    edit: "users" is plural. i, for some reason, used does instead of do.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    God it was so awkward, it must have been like 2011 because I was freshly 21. And it was at this local bar. And everybody greeted eachother by " the narwhal bacon's at midnight" and it was just fucking weird. For a while our local subreddit was running a monthly one and then it just kind of stopped.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Is this "the narwhal" thing worth looking up?

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Probably not. Old piece of Reddit history. Gist of it is there was a discussion on how to identify a redditor in real life, and the favorite response was saying that "the narwhal bacons at midnight".

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Please, elaborate, I have only read about these meet ups, but never actually got to know, how they were...

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago*

    I went to one 10 years ago and it was fine just a bunch of normal dudes and a few women drinking beers talking about random stuff, for what it's worth. I wouldn't dare go to one in 2024 I could only imagine what I'd see.

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