Reddit

[atomicblue]

Any other Reddit users on here?

I've only discovered the site recently but it's interesting; essentially a really huge forum devoted to any topic you can imagine through the creation of "subreddits" (boards, basically). There's a pretty cool subreddit called "IAmA" which often has celebrities come in and chat with users - they recently had Spike Jonze and Bill Murray, and about a year ago they actually had Obama!

Quite a few subreddits are devoted to fashion, too, which is what got me wondering if anyone here is involved with any of that.

 

[LylaScans]

Lurker here since September 2011, I haven't bothered to make an account, but I've bookmarked it!

 

[atomicblue]

Cool beans! I know there's a main fashion subforum (simply www.reddit.com/r/fashion) which would probably suit people from here. They've got links to a lot of the other fashion subreddits.

I also started a subforum recently for fashion photography (www.reddit.com/r/fashpics).

 

[Pricciao]

What the heck is r/memeeconomy

They legitimately are breaking the rise and fall of memes like breaking the stocks. And freaking analysts study the memes like they are on Bloomberg.
Laughing out of absurdity. Best thing happened to me in weeks

 

[Drusilla_]

the female fashion advice subreddits are tragic, they loathe fashion, get offended at everything and have the most contempt for any woman who actually puts time, effort or money (or all three) into how she dresses while also wanting to "be stylish". That's like wanting to be a professional pianist while hating the action of touching piano keys. If any of us went there, we'd be hated to a ridiculous extent for making even a basic observation like X trend is dead, or having an opinion (it's the polar opposite of TFS). Pre-pandemic I actually did see a woman who posted WAYWT pics with slightly high-end outfits (no logos, just recognisable if you look at collections) getting basically run off the sub because people asked what the brands of her clothes were and got angry when she told (lots of "why do you spend so much money on fashion" and acting like they know her tax returns or something).

One thing I worked out fairly sharpish is that reddit as a website has a very male-dominated culture, and that filters through into a lot of female-dominated subreddits too.

 

[tigerrouge]

Like most online communities, reddit has its own culture, where there are specific attitudes that people have to adopt if they want to blend in and be accepted in that particular place.

Anywhere that people congregate will develop its own ways of working. TFS is not twitter, which is not reddit, which itself is not like innumerable other online communities.

You see this in action, when someone starts speaking in one place using the accepted approach of another place, and it doesn't land right, and either the person gets outraged because they're not getting the reaction they'd expect to get elsewhere, or they get ridiculed by the existing members until they either learn the culture, or leave for somewhere that better suits them.

 

[Drusilla_]

Like most online communities, reddit has its own culture, where there are specific attitudes that people have to adopt if they want to blend in and be accepted in that particular place.

Anywhere that people congregate will develop its own ways of working. TFS is not twitter, which is not reddit, which itself is not like innumerable other online communities.

You see this in action, when someone starts speaking in one place using the accepted approach of another place, and it doesn't land right, and either the person gets outraged because they're not getting the reaction they'd expect to get elsewhere, or they get ridiculed by the existing members until they either learn the culture, or leave for somewhere that better suits them.

absolutely - but given that this was a fashion-related subreddit, I wouldn't blame the unwary for not sussing out the culture/attitudes of that place immediately. I've been on TFS (obv), livejournal and assorted other places for fashion-related interests, but it's not just the argot that differs in that subreddit, it's the entire attitude. Thinking about it, it's the only ostensibly-about-fashion online space I've seen that actively seems to hate fashion and start being catty about women who are into it (which, ironically, was very different from the male fashion advice subreddit with men openly discussing their Japanese workwear or Rick or Haider finds without getting verbally spit-roasted for being able to afford them or afford the time to find them). It's just a very strange thing to me.