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Lol, I kinda agree, which is somewhat related to another thing I won't miss: The teenagers.
The lockdown + reddit's new direction of becoming more like fb/insta has drastically increased the number of teenagers on reddit. I hate it. It's like an eternal summer-reddit.
The discussions get crappy and stale, they don't follow rediquette, they are insufferably naive but aggressive with their opinions due to twitterification of their online socialisation. and so.fricking.horny. TIFU and Askreddit almost completely became horny fantasy posting, and I blame the teenagers for it.
God I feel like a terminally-online grumpy old man for saying it, but UGH interacting with teens online is like a human rights violation.
Reddit has always been full of teenagers. But it's gotten "worse" over the past few years. Or maybe I (we've?) just gotten older. I don't remember reddit being like this 10 years ago; but I was 10 years younger, and a teen too.
I get it, I was a teen and I browsed reddit too, and enjoyed it a lot.
I definitely think it's gotten worse. Teens used to be more of lurkers in my experience, but that isn't the case anymore especially because reddit is encouraging teens to treat the site more like twitter, and rewarding mindless engagement. I don't remember the content being this mindless, or the teenagers being this vocal.
Or maybe we're just grumpy old people now idk anymore man