My fellow le gentlesirs, does the narwhal bacon at midnight?
lol, upvote if you understood the reference!
Le upvotes to the left!
My only regret is that I can only upboat this once, good Sir.
Even more than a decade later, that stupid meme still reminds me of one of the worst social events I ever had the mispleasure of attending. Can’t have been later than 2012.
I was making small talk, and I referenced an interesting article that had been on the Reddit front page the day before. “Oh, I was reading an article yesterday about blah bla-”. This nerdy, but until this point socially concious guy interrupts everything for that stupid meme. “gasp DO YOU KNOW WHEN THE NARWHAL BACONS?!?!” “Yes. So as I was saying-” “But. Do you know. When the narwhal BACONS?” Everyone is looking at me like I’m responsible for whatever the fuck is going on now. “Yes, I found the article on Reddit. It was-” The man cuts me off again, “WHEN DOES IT BACON?” You motherfucker I attended the goddamn Jon Stewart Rally to Restore Sanity and have the Reddit and Colbert complimentary T-Shirt only handed out on-site to prove it and now is not the time I am attempting to be a normal human being with more diverse hobbies than staring at a screen all day don’t you take this from me.
The answer was midnight, by the way.
What I find weird, is why people would comment that kind of worthless stuff when they could just give an upvote. It doesn’t add anything to the discussion. It is just worthless fluff.
I guess lots of people just like to talk.
And writing responses like that comes close to that. I understand it, kinda, because I use to do the same. When somebody writes me some message or sth, I often reply with a short (but still unnecessarily long) text. I even do this when I wasn’t directly talked to. So that’s a habit.
But did you make comments like that in public discussions?
I truly think that most reddit comments (including those pictured) are from bots who use upvotes and downvotes to train an LLM.
I LUVE DIS COMMETS!!
Because points.
He’s highlighting how many comments are just bots.
So they have a chance to get upvotes of their own.
Surprised the top reply wasn’t “this”
Haha! Yes! So true! This! This right here! 😂😂😂
This
All I see is cherry picking random dumb comment thread and trying to spin it as if it defines the whole use base / experience and thinking Lemmy is used by the most sophisticated intellectuals.
This place thinks it’s so damn intelligent and above everyone else. Bunch of fuckin’ Brian Griffins here.
IDK if Lemmy is sophisticated sophisticated, but I have yet to see a comment chain that is just top 40s song lyrics.
Pedantic and shallow
We’re no strangers to love…
No.
… do I (Do I)
Hold my butthole, I’m going in!
Hold it like with pinched fingers or a cupped hand? I don’t want to fuck this up again.
We just don’t have the population for it
This is the real difference. Just above this comment there’s a couple of people trying the same thing, we just can’t keep it up.
I think OP just misses the fun they had over there but can’t go back on principle.
What song is this from?
I absolutely have seen that here. I’ll have to see if I can track down the chain, of course i wasn’t offended by it either.
It looks like Markov Chains to me
Yeah my guess is that these are accounts currently being farmed. I actually bought a reddit account once and its history was full of this kind of stuff
Why did you buy a reddit account?
nunna yer beezwax
Fair enough. lol
Not to mention that amitheasshole is the biggest collection of validation seeking goobers on reddit. We really aren’t better than redditors, we are the same people, we just have principles that led us to seek the same experience uncompromised elsewhere.
This needs a coffee mug.
This just became my new favorite saying.
Hell yeah!
found the contrarian in the comments who thinks he’s NOT Brian griffin lol
Sir, this is a Reddit post.
I left in the big exodus and never considered going back. There’s really only one community (r/Fantasy, because so many actual authors regularly post) I am really missing, but life continues without it.
I’m still reading (mostly for r/ukraine), but I haven’t posted anything since the great exodus. Also the old UI finally helped me in overwriting all my posts and comments to my own posts the other day. Now I try to overwrite & delete a few comments every day that I made to not-my-own posts.
I read some shit, logged out with ad blockers. But I don’t participate.
I’m going to block you just for posting this. You’ve wasted everybody’s time who had to scroll past this, and we are all now dumber. May god have mercy on your soul.
Bots or well trained users?
yes
lol … this is like the trash can problem they had in national parks that had to design bear proof trash cans
They had to design trash cans to trick the smartest bears yet be easy enough to use for the dumbest humans … the problem became in realizing that there was a small segment where the two groups overlap.
The same thing is happening online … we can no longer tell who the smartest AI are or who dumbest humans are.
Oof, that overlap will only grow as the tech inevitably improves.
When compared to bears … I think that overlap appeared pretty fast and it didn’t take much time to blur the line
The Venn Diagram is quickly becoming a single circle
Just before the API drama, the instance r/Mexico started censoring insults to politicians and mostly to the president. They started trying to monetize something (I’m not sure how) and they didn’t want people screwing things up. They started censoring a lot of content and I abandoned that subreddit. The alternative was a trash place, with racism and general LGBTfobia. Then the API drama started and I just left.
Well, this will obviously be a hot take, but I didn’t leave reddit because I hated the comment culture. It was actually a bit endearing to me.
yeah most people came here because of the third party app bs from reddit, theyd probably be perfectly fine in reddit if the api changes didnt happen or were reverted
Those have to all be bots, right?
If you have to ask that question … chances are … yes
Meh, sounds just like the general internet stranger rhetoric here too. If you don’t like Reddit… stop posting about Reddit?
Without context this means nothing.
Pretty sure we cam cherry pick dumb comments from various lemmy instances and do the same thing
I might not disagree with the original comment depending on the game. It’s the botlike replies that turn me off.
I feel bad for the AI this is going to be trained on this.
