• Riffraffintheroom [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    23 days ago

    They are very very obvious attempts to keep the culture war alive IMO. They were trying it with a new black twitter sub a few months ago but then half the comments were about capitalism and suddenly that sub stopped making the front page.

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      23 days ago

      I never saw the boydinner posts until more recently, they had to push that also because half the girldinner posts I would see would be like “is this man I’m dating psychologically torturing me?” Or something worse. The boydinner shit is pathetic because what I’ve seen seems like it’s on the level of "my girlfriend got mad I played video games during her birthday party rage-cry "

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        23 days ago

        You think so? The average boydinner I’ve seen has been like “I’ve spent 19 years continuously drunk and reality is setting in now that I’m losing the house”. Well, either that or “she’s cheating.”

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          22 days ago

          I probably haven’t seen enough to have a good basis, that was what sort seem to be popping up when I’ve noticed it but yeah I’ve seen what you mention as well

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          I’m not sure what you mean, it’s just funny reddit pushes them both, and the comparison of what the popular issues are for people/bots who post there is interesting to me. I’m agreeing with you that it seems artificial, to push the culture war angle.

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      23 days ago

      They are very very obvious attempts to keep the culture war alive IMO

      EXACTLY. I mean, truly what /r/popular subreddit isn’t (the sipstea one, fauxmoi, etc etc) but still…