>>81927840When reddit was really picking up steam it had a problem with content which meant you got a lot of reposting of old content from 4chan.
The stupidest meme loving kid shit was taking image macros and the "faces"(which had both basically fallen out of style for years at that point outside of /b/) and just repost it again and again which I get really hurt the weird pride a lot of idiots here had. Then they made really stupid "memes" (which were just images based on those previous categories that gained traction because ???) and that's basically the era everyone remembers. I mean a good portion of dumb shit on the internet ends up having been some 4chan meme in the first place and while I never had that 4chan pride even I think the reddit thing was a bit stupid. So at worst you have people who viewed Reddit as some literal enemy stealing their "hand crafted" memes and at best people just remember reddit as some shitty site where actual children made really bad jokes.
Which isn't to say reddit hasn't evolved sine then but even now /rgaming is literally unironic skyrim image macros like "Be Dovahkiin kill dragons like a boss" forever at the top.
As a website on its own I don't like it any more than any other forum. On some levels reddit is worse since subreddits for content can be ruled over by a select small group of people so you get "mod drama" and abuse of power. The upvote system is also really stupid as instead of upvoting "good content" reddit very much has the problem where just stupid shit gets the most relevancy and people really do get thrown to the bottom for having conflicting opinions. It also hurts to read since it's not in chronological order.
I guess for many people it's looking into a dark mirror. For the average person who appreciates 4chan's anonymity it's a system of literal good boy points and "you have the same opinion here's reddit gold" and for the meme kids it's "they like memes like me but they're bad memes I guess".
