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Why does everyone suddenly seem to think it's ok to say the R word again? I feel like I hadn't heard it in years and suddenly everyone around me is using it, and I see it on Reddit all the time. Am I imagining it? Is anyone seeing this? I don't even know what to say when it's suddenly just everyone in a group and everyone acts like it's normal.

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[โ€“] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I don't see it. But then, I haven't been on Reddit for almost a whole year now and by all accounts, it's devolved into a right-leaning, bot-filled shitbox even more than it was when I left. The WSB crowd never had a problem with that word before, and by now those are the only type of user truly left there that isn't some kind of AI.

The WSB community and related ones used the r-word self-referentially for the most part.