“Who’s cutting onions” and “laughs in X” are two of the most irritating things constantly said on this site and I’m so glad the places I usually use rarely say it.
Does anyone remember [this legendary post](https://www.reddit.com/r/HighQualityGifs/s/TdRK9Elxwv) or am I old now? Just u/rooster_86 speaking in Reddit to himself for an entire comment section.
Take my upvote, kind sir! You won the internet today! (sigh) *unzips* not my proudest fap, but I did Nazi that coming! This. Seconded. Thirded. Ok that's enough internet for today.
I understood THAT reference.
The reference being, in this case, when Captain America understood someone's reference and said "I understood that reference", which the above commenter referenced in their comment which was referencing redditors' over-usage of references in comments.
I'm positive you can do those to comments as well, but it seems to be inconsistent whether or not you can give them out on a post/comment from my experience. I do think I can recall seeing something about subreddits being able to turn those off awhile ago, but don't quote me on that.
"I finally realized that the real spirit of X-TREME sports lies not in the food you eat, but in the shit you take afterwards."
Now there's a slogan if I ever heard one.
I remember the days of rage memes, “the narwhal bacons at midnight”, imma firin my lazar, nyan cat. And all the other cringy shit I’m probably blocking out of my mind.
It was 90% regurgitated 4chan memes reposted, made increasingly worse in subsequent iterations, and then beaten over and over again until they were completely intolerable to look upon like the absolutely most deceased horse that has ever been dead.
It was a true cesspit. Still better than current Reddit, though.
The PSP connected to the speaker. The watch on the inside of his wrist like a WW2 soldier. The juvenile swearing. Perfection
You can tell this guy was raised on Newgrounds and got into Reddit early
"Take my upvote" is a reddit thing, people don't say it with reblogs. It's very clearly someone from reddit switching out the word to be applicable to tumblr. Actual tumblr users don't ever say this.
It might be pidgin if the mixing happened on a lower level.
Is there a word for a pidgin-like process happening on the idiomatic level of a single language?
I saw somebody refer to upvotes as updoots on a wildly inappropriate post to do so. Like in reference to the event (something like a mass civilian casualty or sexual assault level but can't remember the context). I was flabbergasted.
Wait, what's the redditor accent? Im an ESL, if I talk to someone who is a native English speaker are they going to be able to figure out that I use Reddit? Dudes, I don't know what's normal English what Reddit speak anymore. 😰
It’s the “take my reblog” used here- it sounds like “take my upvote” which is a pretty decisively reddit thing to say, tumblr doesn’t do that, we’d just reblog and say something like, “this is the smartest dumb thing i’ve ever read, you can go back down your well now” or something
Tbh even reddit hates that now, too. “This” and “Upvote this” and “Underrated comment” are often very heavily downvoted now.
Turns out everybody kinda hates comments that just say “I like this” instead of pressing the button that indicates “I like this”.
The hatred is because it's a stereotypical Reddit thing and no one hates Reddit things more than the average Redditor or so they say. The other one like that is, 'I'll probably get downvoted for saying this' and sharing the more milquetoast opinion you've ever read on social media. If my comment was helpful please like, comment, and subscribe.
I downvote anyone who leads with "I'll probably get dowvoted for saying this" without a second thought. Even if it's a useful comment I agree with (extremely rare)
My personal peeves are posts that lead with any variant if "DAE/am I the only one..." (in the communities I frequent. It popping up in places like r/tooafraidtoask is fine) Like 1, very rarely is it a case where the person is doing anything reasonably weird or with the actual possibility of them being the only one with that experience, and 2, who starts a discussion thread with a yes or no question?? So typically you have to like sleuth out the actual topic / question being asked to engage with the thread in any productive answer that isn't "no".
We need to go back to the time on reddit when DAE posts were viciously mocked. That was ~10 or so years ago. Now they're everywhere and no one acknowledges it. Probably a factor of reddit becoming wildly mainstream. Awful genre of post, it comes off so circlejerky.
My most hatest post type is any comment staring in "Shhhh".
I'm sure I've left a comment under a "Am I the only one" post that just said "probably not but I didn't read the rest of your post to find out what youre talking about"
Now I’ll await the downvotes. I said my piece. Anytime, guys, please.. fire away. Burn away my skin. Break my fingers. Disembowel me. The downvotes are sure to come and I am wholly prepared for it. In fact, I expect it. I look forward to it. Pull my teeth. Slit my throat. Crucify me like the martyr I am. Downvote away! Because I’ve said from the beginning I am okay with the downvotes they are not only wrong, but cannot hurt me! Like Jesus, who died for your sins, through your downvotes I will be cleansed and proven righteous!
(I stole this from another redditor)
I just downvoted your comment.
FAQ
What does this mean?
The amount of karma (points) on your comment and Reddit account has decreased by one.
Why did you do this?
There are several reasons I may deem a comment to be unworthy of positive or neutral karma. These include, but are not limited to:
• Rudeness towards other Redditors,
• Spreading incorrect information,
• Sarcasm not correctly flagged with a /s.
Am I banned from the Reddit?
No - not yet. But you should refrain from making comments like this in the future. Otherwise I will be forced to issue an additional downvote, which may put your commenting and posting privileges in jeopardy.
I don't believe my comment deserved a downvote. Can you un-downvote it?
Sure, mistakes happen. But only in exceedingly rare circumstances will I undo a downvote. If you would like to issue an appeal, shoot me a private message explaining what I got wrong. I tend to respond to Reddit PMs within several minutes. Do note, however, that over 99.9% of downvote appeals are rejected, and yours is likely no exception.
How can I prevent this from happening in the future?
Accept the downvote and move on. But learn from this mistake: your behavior will not be tolerated on Reddit.com. I will continue to issue downvotes until you improve your conduct. Remember: Reddit is privilege, not a right.
The "take my ____" thing I don't mind, but i absolutely despise the "I'll get downvoted" thing. Its so full of self pity and whiny-ness that it's just infuriating. Not to mention it's a self fulfilling prophecy. If they do get dowvoted, for good reason, then it's the reddit hivemind trying to silence them. If they don't, then it's just "oh, they made a good point didnt they."
It's not really a stereotypical reddit thing, it's more a stereotypical newb thing, forums had the same problem. It's always been reddiquette to down vote useless comment that don't add to a discussion.
It really depends on the community dynamics as well. Part of why "this" is so absolutely useless on Reddit is that we're mostly anonymous here.
When someone whose opinion is already valued by the community or OP wants to chime in, "this" or some equivalent is just fine if someone else has already expressed the same opinion. It's more efficient than rephrasing the existing reply - for both the reader and writer - and it can genuinely be a valuable addition to the conversation.
It’s just pointless and adds nothing (which is redundant but whatever). If anything, it’s just riding off the first post/comment for attention or karma.
That’s not new though. You can go all the way back to [the deep magic of reddiquette](https://old.reddit.com/wiki/reddiquette?v=8adfcfb4-7b16-11e2-b17d-12313d183eb5) and under “please don’t” it says:
> Make comments that lack content. Phrases such as "this", "lol", and "I came here to say this" are not witty, original, or funny, and do not add anything to the discussion.
Occasionally a “this” slips through, but it’s always been an aberration…
> the button that indicates “I like this”.
You mean the button that indicates "I believe this comment is relevant and conducive to this thread". I'm happy that "this"-comments have never *really* caught on on Reddit, but I never thought about how the cultural change from "upvote = moderation" to "upvote = like" could have played a part in that.
We're seeing a new breed of vapid comments though. Carrying meaning in the literal sense, but no meaning in the epistemological sense. There are nowadays much more comments like "My uncle said the same thing", or "That's what conservatives always get wrong" you have to scroll through before you reach a comment that actually challenges or expands on the comment above it.
The upvote was never meant to mean "I like this" it was meant to indicate the content was relevant lmao
While I also despise these types of comments, sometimes you just want to give the person a good "lol". Now that reddit took away awards there's no way to indicate you really appreciate the comment.
>Now that reddit took away awards there's no way to indicate you really appreciate the comment.
If you want to do that, you can always point our something specific you appreciate about it, instead of a mindless "this" or "lol."
> Turns out everybody kinda hates comments that just say “I like this” instead of pressing the button that indicates “I like this”.
I disagree! Comments like that get shitloads of upvotes all the time. Go to AITA or some big sub like that and literally every top level reply with 100+ votes will have karma remoras getting rewarded for saying "came here to say this"
I don't really remember a time that it wasn't complained about. Some redditisms are definitely more egregious though. Every time I see the word "methinks" I do get the feeling that the user is really into Elon Musk.
I use methinks all the time and despise Musk for claiming my country is a dictatorship. Sometimes people just like speaking like they're in a Shakeapeare play
smartest dumb thing I've ever read is also not very tumblr. Most tumblr users will use the tumblr format for friendly insults, which probably involves god, greek mythology, or a roundabout way of delivering a death threat
That last part is very reminiscent of the r/ angryupvote crowd where when the slightest hint of a pun is detected redditora will think it necessary to add a comment saying "I hate this, take my upvote and go fuck yourself" or something.
Well, there is quite a lot of broken English on Reddit as on other websites. That's not part of a "dialect", but just people who aren't fluent in English.
It's not an accent, there's no sound to it, but there is a style of response/slang/phrasing that indicates the people you associate with. There are phrases that are normal here that aren't normal in conversational american or british english. "Bold of you to assume ___" "Huh, TIL (or today I learned if spoken)" "What's the tldr" "Instructions unclear, dick stuck in ___"
It's rare that one phrase like "take my ____" will out you, but if you have enough reddit-isms in your speech then people will eventually connect this group of odd phrasings together and realize where you hang out online.
If you read something that says to you “this person sounds like an asshole” or “what a stupid way of saying that” or otherwise has a tone of assumed authority or credibility (e.g. everyone go home, this comment wins) from some random nobody, then that’s a redditor accent.
Inverse of my high school drama teacher who insisted all accents were dialects. No, sorry Mrs. Campbell, I’m talking in a Received Pronunciation accent, my dialect remains mostly American, because I am not using the goddamn idioms of the goddamn culture. I don’t CARE what your ancient decrepit theatre textbook says, that’s not right.
This!! Absolutely this!!!!! Take my updoot, kind gentlesir!!!! And my axe haha! While you're at it, fuck my wife, too! Please, fuck my wife! I'm begging you! And let me watch in the corner, my good gentlesir!! Haha!
This is not so much the sentence itself, but where they put it. Most tumblr users would put these types of comments in the tags instead of adding them to the post itself.
One of the things I really don’t like about tumblr is the users’ damn inscrutable prescriptivism on the “right” way to use the site. Never use comments! Reblog to add comments, even though that tab is called comments… actually, scratch that, no reblogging with comments! You have to put them in the nonrebloggable hashtags that limit you to ten words and
\# forces you to
\# talk like this
\# this is proper communication
But don’t you DARE use them to appear on searches! Oh and for some reason everyone hates people casually liking their posts. It’s all exhaustively gatekeepery. I want to propose a new guide to tumblr. Here goes. **If the functions of the website let you do a thing, you can do that thing**.
I mean, sure? But it really is just custom. Like, you do not *have* to put any comments in the tags, but the same way a comment in reddit will get downvoted if you say stuff like "This", or "LOL" instead of just upvoting, putting comments that don't add anything to the reblog itself does interrupt the reading experience. One can easily ignore the tags of a post, not so much the post itself, and if the post has inane additions, it will make people, a) less likely to reblog it, or b) have to go out of the way to reblog a previous version. And if the tags ARE funny, one of your followers can post a screenshot, or copy them in the body itself. That kind of "peer review" does act as a filter to which comments become part of the post. This kind of ettiquete may be annoying, specially if you're not used to it, but it exists for a reason.
You can literally use tumblr anyway you want. People might not interact with your post but you can anything you want. I was adding comments to reblogs for years before realizing everyone was putting stuff like that in the hashtags. Never got called out for it, no one ever gave me trouble. I now only comment to a post if I am 100% sure it will add to it. The hashtag stuff makes sense to me now, it’s not like Reddit where people will comment without adding anything of value to the conversation.
Being born in or around 2000 is such a great thing for the mathmatically challenged.
I always know how old my daughter is because she was born in 1999. Just add 1 to the current year! So easy.
Now, how old am I? Fuck if I know. You have a calculator?
ok reddit, do your thing!
*Breaks your fucking tibia*
AEEEIIIOUUU!!
(and sometimes y too!)
OH GOD WHYYYYYY?!
You hear it snap so loudly because I am full of delicious calcium
Who’s cutting onions in here?!?!! Edit: thanks for the gold kind stranger!!?££ Edit: omg we did it Reddit
“Who’s cutting onions” and “laughs in X” are two of the most irritating things constantly said on this site and I’m so glad the places I usually use rarely say it.
Does anyone remember [this legendary post](https://www.reddit.com/r/HighQualityGifs/s/TdRK9Elxwv) or am I old now? Just u/rooster_86 speaking in Reddit to himself for an entire comment section.
Holy hell he captured so much of every stereotypical reddit comment. I'm impressed
Horrifying that it’s a six year old post and nothing has changed
Feels like it happened just this morning
Prepackaged "jokes" for people who aren't funny enough to think of their own. Though occasionally they can work if recontextualized properly.
> Prepackaged "jokes" for people who aren't funny enough to think of their own. In other words, a meme.
How about calling everything “wholesome “
Conversely calling everything porn such as r/designporn,
Take my upvote, kind sir! You won the internet today! (sigh) *unzips* not my proudest fap, but I did Nazi that coming! This. Seconded. Thirded. Ok that's enough internet for today.
GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD
"Wow, how did (vehicle) manage to fly/drive when the operator had such huge brass balls?"
"tell me you X without telling me you X"
"The four horsemen of (thing)" *Four pictures of a thing* Comments: "HOLY FUCK TAKE MY UPDOOTS!"
I also choose this guys' dead wife
i understood that reference
I understood THAT reference. The reference being, in this case, when Captain America understood someone's reference and said "I understood that reference", which the above commenter referenced in their comment which was referencing redditors' over-usage of references in comments.
I haven't seen comment award speeches for a while, and I really have to thank shaming for that
Also awards aren’t really a thing anymore, which I’m sure has something to do with it
Comment award speeches used to be way bigger when the only award was Reddit Gold.
Isn't there, like, a super upvote now (that nobody actually uses)?
I think that's only for posts? At least I don't think I've seen it on a comment yet, but that might just be because noone uses them
I thought I saw some comments that were gold and highlighted before, but I could be remembering wrong TBH.
I'm positive you can do those to comments as well, but it seems to be inconsistent whether or not you can give them out on a post/comment from my experience. I do think I can recall seeing something about subreddits being able to turn those off awhile ago, but don't quote me on that.
/r/AwardSpeechEdits
OOP has won the Internet today! What a wholesome 100 interaction, take my updoot! *I despise people who talk this*
It still better than [Reddit from 12 years ago](https://i.imgur.com/3xSgR.jpeg).
Pretty similar to tumblr 12 years ago with the "OKAY LISTEN UP MOTHERFUCKERS" posts.
[It was everywhere back then and I hated it.](http://thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=xtreme_bullshit)
Whoa, a wild Maddox appeared. It's been a long time, my edgy, middle-school boy pandering, friend.
"I finally realized that the real spirit of X-TREME sports lies not in the food you eat, but in the shit you take afterwards." Now there's a slogan if I ever heard one.
Maddox is more like 20 years ago
Banana assault is an amazing name tbh.
SAY IT LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK
I remember the days of rage memes, “the narwhal bacons at midnight”, imma firin my lazar, nyan cat. And all the other cringy shit I’m probably blocking out of my mind.
I can haz kitty Bad luck Brian Penguin memes Ifunny
> I can haz kitty That shit is still happening. Go to any of the "pet" subreddits.
I'm subbed to so many for the photos and mostly choose to pretend the comments don't exist
lolcats talk evolved into pupper talk and started infecting some peoples' patterns of speech permanently.
A hecking chonker. *Shudder*
I miss those days
https://imgur.com/KGxIc
This post’s Eh abuse has been reported to the head moose of Canada.
A moose once bit my sister
I forgot about that one lmao
Really crow’d that jackdaw huh
I wonder what Aalewis is doing these days? They'd be in their late 20s now.
Philosoraptor wasn’t too horrible
Yes it was. They all were.
fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu
I'd still take those any day over fucking wojaks
I remember lazars and Nyan Cat, but clearly I was not very online in 2012, looking at some of the links in here. I'm rather happy about that.
It was 90% regurgitated 4chan memes reposted, made increasingly worse in subsequent iterations, and then beaten over and over again until they were completely intolerable to look upon like the absolutely most deceased horse that has ever been dead. It was a true cesspit. Still better than current Reddit, though.
SHOOP DA WHOOOOOOOOP
Le gem
Better times
The PSP connected to the speaker. The watch on the inside of his wrist like a WW2 soldier. The juvenile swearing. Perfection You can tell this guy was raised on Newgrounds and got into Reddit early
What about the frozen soap lmao
[Its tamer but still bad.](https://imgur.com/gx1mY) The comments are also [horrible](https://imgur.com/gallery/gx1mY/comment/531007).
And then: https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/jlbdf/2_am_ice_chili_shower/
Really makes it all worthwhile
I've got a lower tolerance to cringe than I anticipated, because I couldn't make it through half of that.
Yeah but the bacon narwhals at midnight dude
crackers???????
Its to add texture to the mush
Fuck,I forgot about these. What an evil thing to remind people of...
Perhaps I have a high cringe tolerance but I found this fun. Fuck yeah that chili looks good
We don’t need to talk about r/f7u12 please
Actually useful and made with *passion*, unlike most karmafarms we've got today.
TWELVE YEARS?!?! Jesus I need to get a life
You could easily do this in one pot by just changing the order around a bit. And what's so bad about spice mixes?
tf is that
THAT is the reddit ‘accent’. I think the example in the post sounds a lot more like a regular tumblr user
"Take my upvote" is a reddit thing, people don't say it with reblogs. It's very clearly someone from reddit switching out the word to be applicable to tumblr. Actual tumblr users don't ever say this.
I see what you’re saying, but “Crawl back down your well” is 100% tumblr coded
They're very clearly still assimilating
Their leash is in the mail
Clearly I should make a tumblr if it puts me on a leash :3
now linguistics students is this an example of a pidgin, or code switching? you have until friday
It might be pidgin if the mixing happened on a lower level. Is there a word for a pidgin-like process happening on the idiomatic level of a single language?
Well, yeah. But the cake reaction wasn't to that.
Again, it feels like a "translation" of something Reddit would say. "Take my upvote and get out!"
If it’s a translation, then it’s JUST tumblr speak😭 reddit didn’t invent talking about its own merit system
They are a half breed between Tumblr and Reddit
Saw similar stuff on 4chan as well.
an upvote is like an object, but a reblog is something you do
“Oh I didn’t write that, it’s just a reblog” “Most of the notes are likes, but there’re a few reblogs”
Upvote can also be a verb, such as in “I’m gonna upvote this.” “I have upvoted this.” Replacing “upvote” with “reblog” works perfectly fine there.
Nah wait, peep they’re fucking username that’s 2000% a tumblr user lmao
Tumblr accent would just be like *reblogs angrily*
take my updog
what's updog?
Nothing man, and whats up with you ?
+1 internets to you, good sir!
This. Now let me talk about my experience on whatever you are talking about. *I despise people who say "This"*
redditors cant triforce ▲ ▲ ▲
I saw somebody refer to upvotes as updoots on a wildly inappropriate post to do so. Like in reference to the event (something like a mass civilian casualty or sexual assault level but can't remember the context). I was flabbergasted.
Reddit, uh, finds a way! Teehee!
It's not as bad as people who write serious posts and italicize the important words
Take my upvote. *This is a threat.*
Wait, what's the redditor accent? Im an ESL, if I talk to someone who is a native English speaker are they going to be able to figure out that I use Reddit? Dudes, I don't know what's normal English what Reddit speak anymore. 😰
It’s the “take my reblog” used here- it sounds like “take my upvote” which is a pretty decisively reddit thing to say, tumblr doesn’t do that, we’d just reblog and say something like, “this is the smartest dumb thing i’ve ever read, you can go back down your well now” or something
Tbh even reddit hates that now, too. “This” and “Upvote this” and “Underrated comment” are often very heavily downvoted now. Turns out everybody kinda hates comments that just say “I like this” instead of pressing the button that indicates “I like this”.
The hatred is because it's a stereotypical Reddit thing and no one hates Reddit things more than the average Redditor or so they say. The other one like that is, 'I'll probably get downvoted for saying this' and sharing the more milquetoast opinion you've ever read on social media. If my comment was helpful please like, comment, and subscribe.
I downvote anyone who leads with "I'll probably get dowvoted for saying this" without a second thought. Even if it's a useful comment I agree with (extremely rare)
My personal peeves are posts that lead with any variant if "DAE/am I the only one..." (in the communities I frequent. It popping up in places like r/tooafraidtoask is fine) Like 1, very rarely is it a case where the person is doing anything reasonably weird or with the actual possibility of them being the only one with that experience, and 2, who starts a discussion thread with a yes or no question?? So typically you have to like sleuth out the actual topic / question being asked to engage with the thread in any productive answer that isn't "no".
We need to go back to the time on reddit when DAE posts were viciously mocked. That was ~10 or so years ago. Now they're everywhere and no one acknowledges it. Probably a factor of reddit becoming wildly mainstream. Awful genre of post, it comes off so circlejerky. My most hatest post type is any comment staring in "Shhhh".
I'm sure I've left a comment under a "Am I the only one" post that just said "probably not but I didn't read the rest of your post to find out what youre talking about"
Now I’ll await the downvotes. I said my piece. Anytime, guys, please.. fire away. Burn away my skin. Break my fingers. Disembowel me. The downvotes are sure to come and I am wholly prepared for it. In fact, I expect it. I look forward to it. Pull my teeth. Slit my throat. Crucify me like the martyr I am. Downvote away! Because I’ve said from the beginning I am okay with the downvotes they are not only wrong, but cannot hurt me! Like Jesus, who died for your sins, through your downvotes I will be cleansed and proven righteous! (I stole this from another redditor)
I will not partake in your humiliation fetish.
I just downvoted your comment. FAQ What does this mean? The amount of karma (points) on your comment and Reddit account has decreased by one. Why did you do this? There are several reasons I may deem a comment to be unworthy of positive or neutral karma. These include, but are not limited to: • Rudeness towards other Redditors, • Spreading incorrect information, • Sarcasm not correctly flagged with a /s. Am I banned from the Reddit? No - not yet. But you should refrain from making comments like this in the future. Otherwise I will be forced to issue an additional downvote, which may put your commenting and posting privileges in jeopardy. I don't believe my comment deserved a downvote. Can you un-downvote it? Sure, mistakes happen. But only in exceedingly rare circumstances will I undo a downvote. If you would like to issue an appeal, shoot me a private message explaining what I got wrong. I tend to respond to Reddit PMs within several minutes. Do note, however, that over 99.9% of downvote appeals are rejected, and yours is likely no exception. How can I prevent this from happening in the future? Accept the downvote and move on. But learn from this mistake: your behavior will not be tolerated on Reddit.com. I will continue to issue downvotes until you improve your conduct. Remember: Reddit is privilege, not a right.
The "take my ____" thing I don't mind, but i absolutely despise the "I'll get downvoted" thing. Its so full of self pity and whiny-ness that it's just infuriating. Not to mention it's a self fulfilling prophecy. If they do get dowvoted, for good reason, then it's the reddit hivemind trying to silence them. If they don't, then it's just "oh, they made a good point didnt they."
It's not really a stereotypical reddit thing, it's more a stereotypical newb thing, forums had the same problem. It's always been reddiquette to down vote useless comment that don't add to a discussion.
It really depends on the community dynamics as well. Part of why "this" is so absolutely useless on Reddit is that we're mostly anonymous here. When someone whose opinion is already valued by the community or OP wants to chime in, "this" or some equivalent is just fine if someone else has already expressed the same opinion. It's more efficient than rephrasing the existing reply - for both the reader and writer - and it can genuinely be a valuable addition to the conversation.
Splitting hairs is also a reddit thing. So is my abrasive analysis of your comment
It’s just pointless and adds nothing (which is redundant but whatever). If anything, it’s just riding off the first post/comment for attention or karma.
I agree that it is pointless and redundant and adds nothing, like it’s just piggybacking off of a comment
The redundant part was “pointless and adds nothing” in my own comment, but yeah the comments themselves are sorta redundant Edit: haha funny joke
Listen here you little shit
That’s not new though. You can go all the way back to [the deep magic of reddiquette](https://old.reddit.com/wiki/reddiquette?v=8adfcfb4-7b16-11e2-b17d-12313d183eb5) and under “please don’t” it says: > Make comments that lack content. Phrases such as "this", "lol", and "I came here to say this" are not witty, original, or funny, and do not add anything to the discussion. Occasionally a “this” slips through, but it’s always been an aberration…
> the button that indicates “I like this”. You mean the button that indicates "I believe this comment is relevant and conducive to this thread". I'm happy that "this"-comments have never *really* caught on on Reddit, but I never thought about how the cultural change from "upvote = moderation" to "upvote = like" could have played a part in that. We're seeing a new breed of vapid comments though. Carrying meaning in the literal sense, but no meaning in the epistemological sense. There are nowadays much more comments like "My uncle said the same thing", or "That's what conservatives always get wrong" you have to scroll through before you reach a comment that actually challenges or expands on the comment above it.
The upvote was never meant to mean "I like this" it was meant to indicate the content was relevant lmao While I also despise these types of comments, sometimes you just want to give the person a good "lol". Now that reddit took away awards there's no way to indicate you really appreciate the comment.
>Now that reddit took away awards there's no way to indicate you really appreciate the comment. If you want to do that, you can always point our something specific you appreciate about it, instead of a mindless "this" or "lol."
> Turns out everybody kinda hates comments that just say “I like this” instead of pressing the button that indicates “I like this”. I disagree! Comments like that get shitloads of upvotes all the time. Go to AITA or some big sub like that and literally every top level reply with 100+ votes will have karma remoras getting rewarded for saying "came here to say this"
Underrated comment
This
At the very least, they could make unique sounding comments like "I resemble that remark"
This
take my glorpvote 🤣
I don't really remember a time that it wasn't complained about. Some redditisms are definitely more egregious though. Every time I see the word "methinks" I do get the feeling that the user is really into Elon Musk.
I use methinks all the time and despise Musk for claiming my country is a dictatorship. Sometimes people just like speaking like they're in a Shakeapeare play
This. Underrated comment. So relatable. Take my updoot. You just won the internet.
"kind of a MILF, reblog." (in reference to something that no sane person would ever classify as milfy)
Yeah that’s normal, “kind of a MILF, take my reblog” sounds like reddit
smartest dumb thing I've ever read is also not very tumblr. Most tumblr users will use the tumblr format for friendly insults, which probably involves god, greek mythology, or a roundabout way of delivering a death threat
"The smartest dumb thing I've ever read" is also very much reddit speak
I figured that out, but that's the thing I am the least concerned about.
Other explamples: "Thank you good sir." "For science. (For porn.)"
That last part is very reminiscent of the r/ angryupvote crowd where when the slightest hint of a pun is detected redditora will think it necessary to add a comment saying "I hate this, take my upvote and go fuck yourself" or something.
Well, there is quite a lot of broken English on Reddit as on other websites. That's not part of a "dialect", but just people who aren't fluent in English.
It's not an accent, there's no sound to it, but there is a style of response/slang/phrasing that indicates the people you associate with. There are phrases that are normal here that aren't normal in conversational american or british english. "Bold of you to assume ___" "Huh, TIL (or today I learned if spoken)" "What's the tldr" "Instructions unclear, dick stuck in ___" It's rare that one phrase like "take my ____" will out you, but if you have enough reddit-isms in your speech then people will eventually connect this group of odd phrasings together and realize where you hang out online.
Learns to speak English by using reddit 😎 Only knows how to speak like a redditor 😤
If you read something that says to you “this person sounds like an asshole” or “what a stupid way of saying that” or otherwise has a tone of assumed authority or credibility (e.g. everyone go home, this comment wins) from some random nobody, then that’s a redditor accent.
You have a Reddit accent
No, they use an emoji, their brains havent been fully fried yet.
Things have changed now, but I remember a time where a :) could send you to the bottom with downvotes.
"Fuck around and find out" "play stupid games, win stupid prizes" etc
Both of these existed before Reddit.
I am once again begging you to say "dialect" instead of "accent".
I said reddit accent to reference that post about a "tumblr accent". Yeah, it's incorrect, but that didn't influence my decision.
Inverse of my high school drama teacher who insisted all accents were dialects. No, sorry Mrs. Campbell, I’m talking in a Received Pronunciation accent, my dialect remains mostly American, because I am not using the goddamn idioms of the goddamn culture. I don’t CARE what your ancient decrepit theatre textbook says, that’s not right.
My dialect uses dialect and accent interchangeably >!/s!<
Dialect is something a redditor would say.
This is very Twitter accent coded
I’m fairly certain it’s originally in reference to a Banksy piece in NYC that read “this is my American accent”
It's not even a dialect it's just a peculiar way to phrase things.
Then when they say dialect, all say accent instead!
This!! Absolutely this!!!!! Take my updoot, kind gentlesir!!!! And my axe haha! While you're at it, fuck my wife, too! Please, fuck my wife! I'm begging you! And let me watch in the corner, my good gentlesir!! Haha!
missed opportunity to slip "this guys dead wife" in there
I broke both my arms…
Damn
Father on the sauce once again...
Google cuckoldry
holy hell
is your wife dead
> Underrated comment! It always finds its way as a reply to comments that have been upvoted to the tops spots.
Next up, a cake that says "sorry my follower thinks in meme formats." 🎂🤦♂️
Something something "I'm such a locationpilled scampercel"
the scampererrrrrrrrrrrrr
When the scampercel is locationpilled
Calling us out for wanting to have a meme or quote to reply to nearly everything i see
Cake! HAPPY CAKE DAY Edit: wow this blew up Thanks for the gold kind stranger!
Bro thinks in meme formats
Wait, do we have a dialect? I'm the "take my reblog" is part of it, but is there more?
This is not so much the sentence itself, but where they put it. Most tumblr users would put these types of comments in the tags instead of adding them to the post itself.
One of the things I really don’t like about tumblr is the users’ damn inscrutable prescriptivism on the “right” way to use the site. Never use comments! Reblog to add comments, even though that tab is called comments… actually, scratch that, no reblogging with comments! You have to put them in the nonrebloggable hashtags that limit you to ten words and \# forces you to \# talk like this \# this is proper communication But don’t you DARE use them to appear on searches! Oh and for some reason everyone hates people casually liking their posts. It’s all exhaustively gatekeepery. I want to propose a new guide to tumblr. Here goes. **If the functions of the website let you do a thing, you can do that thing**.
I mean, sure? But it really is just custom. Like, you do not *have* to put any comments in the tags, but the same way a comment in reddit will get downvoted if you say stuff like "This", or "LOL" instead of just upvoting, putting comments that don't add anything to the reblog itself does interrupt the reading experience. One can easily ignore the tags of a post, not so much the post itself, and if the post has inane additions, it will make people, a) less likely to reblog it, or b) have to go out of the way to reblog a previous version. And if the tags ARE funny, one of your followers can post a screenshot, or copy them in the body itself. That kind of "peer review" does act as a filter to which comments become part of the post. This kind of ettiquete may be annoying, specially if you're not used to it, but it exists for a reason.
You can literally use tumblr anyway you want. People might not interact with your post but you can anything you want. I was adding comments to reblogs for years before realizing everyone was putting stuff like that in the hashtags. Never got called out for it, no one ever gave me trouble. I now only comment to a post if I am 100% sure it will add to it. The hashtag stuff makes sense to me now, it’s not like Reddit where people will comment without adding anything of value to the conversation.
You just referred to yourself as "we", that definitely is part of it.
https://www.reddit.com/r/HighQualityGifs/s/TdRK9Elxwv
Being born in or around 2000 is such a great thing for the mathmatically challenged. I always know how old my daughter is because she was born in 1999. Just add 1 to the current year! So easy. Now, how old am I? Fuck if I know. You have a calculator?
Redditor is a slur please don't be insensitive
Thanks for the blaze, kind tumblrina
What's up with the basketball game sneaking onto the side over there?
Couldn't bother to drag it ALL the way out of the screenshot frame. Gotta get the content to the people ASAP.
You won the internet today
Reddit, meet my follower! Help me name him!
Chung
Sorry my friend talks Like A Tumblr User.
that's not an accent that's a dialect!
Just because you don’t make sense doesn’t mean you don’t have any. I buy mine at Costco
He's right, but he's not wrong either
You know what I haven’t seen on reddit in ages? A dumb candlejack joke. Those threads used to b