Close Enough
Posted Jun 4, 2011, 4:50 AM UTC
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Somebody posed the question recently: How do you think Reddit will die?
I think this - along with "Reddit Birthday" karma, "This animal will die for some reason if this doesn't get to the front page" karma, "I did (good thing) but (someone) says I didn't do (good thing). Did I do (good thing)?" karma, "Do you remember (very popular toy/video game/tv show) from (5-15) years ago?" karma, "Sensationalist but hilariously inaccurate post title" karma, "DAE do (common thing)" karma, "Here's a comic with the same 5 'FU' faces on every head over and over again" karma............I've totally lost where I was going with this. I hope you get the idea.
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I don't have as much fun on reddit anymore, top comments and stories are so predictable like you said, but I can't really see myself quitting. Where will the people go who long for days of yore? Nowhere. They'll just bitch and be bitter. Like I am.
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Someone ambitious with web design skills will create a new site; excessively focused, elitist and smug. They will be secretive,but word will leak out slowly, and within a year of founding, the site will host the most exclusive compulsive web-grazers. The old guard will complain about the new guard, and stay. Memes will no longer be small in-group clique call-backs, but instead their recognition will be a badge of honour, of identity.
A year after that, reddit will suffer a long server outage/suffer a garish corporate redesign, and the real shit posts will arrive, as the mass-migration begins.
Then the cycle will begin anew.
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Someone ambitious with web design skills will create a new site
Sure, will... The site you're talking about already exists. Kind of.
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..oh?
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I've already grown tired of the site of which you speak. Kindly direct me to an even newer and more stimulating site created by someone with even more ambition. Thanks!
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Browsing comment history for clues...
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Google points me here.
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It's webtoid, isn't it?
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All of this has happened before; all of this will happen again.
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The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. In one Age, called the Third Age by some, an Age yet to come, an Age long past, a wind rose. The wind was not the beginning. There are neither beginnings nor endings to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was a beginning.
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It's like The Matrix.
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I'm already on that site, but I'm not going to tell you the url.
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Unsubscribe from r/reddit.com. Then—every other week or so—browse r/all, find a thread like this and help somebody unsubscribe from r/reddit.com.
Eternal gift!
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I still stay subscribed. There is some decent stuff every once in a while that floats buy. I just stopped my bitching months ago and if I open it and don't like it I quietly GTFO. Come to think of it... Surprissed I made it this far in this one with all of the popcorn gods that yes can be funny but when you see them on most threads and with about 15 different ones in each thread day after day... You get the point.
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It's the summer. High school kids are on the internet more.
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Don't forget to mention the immature college punks, along with other various and assorted whippersnappers. Get off my lawn.
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Summer Fags
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Yes, we are.
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Well excuse me but I am not a high schooler.
Anymore.
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if you're going to derive a novelty account from another novelty account, shouldn't you carry it to completion? plus, you said "excuse me."
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Agreed. But what makes this entire thread even more stupid is that the user "EnjoyMyDownvote" is a karmawhore who reposts old material himself.
http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/hmyng/fuck_man/
A guy who reposts is complaining to another person about reposts. And this garbage still hits #1 on the front page. Yeah. The transformation into digg is almost complete.
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He wasn't complaining to me about reposts. Here is the original conversation. Note that when I made the edit, the comment had negative karma and I was curious about why. I was the one talking about reposts and trying to dispense karma to the person whose content had been reposted.
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I've only been here two months and have already noticed this. But I still come around because there are subreddits for things like fishing and community. So basically what I'm saying is drop all of these stupid popular subreddits and subscribe to the ones that you actually care about. I need to do this too.
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you wrote fishing, I read fisting.... looks like there's an r/ for everyone.
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I did something recently that really helped. I went through my front page reddits and removed the most annoying categories, and tried to really focus on the areas I find interesting. I eliminated areas such as /wtf, /ama, /dae, /imges, /videos, /news, etc. Just generally the catchall categories. My front page doesn't churn as much, and there are fewer overall upvotes on the submissions I see, but the content is a lot more interesting. When I first came to reddit I thought of it as an online community. Now I'm starting to see it more as a cluster of communities, and yeah, you've got to avoid some of the bad neighborhoods.
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When you remove unnecessary communities from frontpage, whole community of reddit could benefit from diverging by not focusing on several subreddits like pics/wtf.. and so on, but on rather specialized subgroups
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If you are into the whole programming, entrepreneurship, and pedantic assholes thing then you may find Hacker News to be exactly what you're been looking for. If you're not then I guess you're pretty SOL. Not to make it sound like a bad thing. I'm a programmer, entrepreneur, and a pedantic asshole and quite proud of all of those.
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There are better (smaller) subreddits. Sites like Hacker News have much of what Reddit lost years ago. Meme threads will get you banned pretty quickly over there. Unsubscribing from r/reddit.com goes a long way though.
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Digg?
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Unsub from the popular subreddits.
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R/truereddit, shhh! ...don't tell the barbarian hordes.
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Bullshit.
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Please say you're not a scary /TrueReddit 'er?
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also the youtube "32 people missed the thumbs up" bullshit is leaking in to reddit, only reddit version of that is: "this needs to be at the top of the page"
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I see it as evolution, not death. What will probably happen is that people will migrate more and more from the super popular generalistic subreddits to the niche ones. There will be less karma whoring and useless posts there and more stuff that directly interests them.
So instead of one big community that inevitably annoys itself, subcommunities with clear mutual interests will gain the upper hand. It's been happening for a while, it's happening right now too and it will continue to happen at an increased pace as long as reddit keeps growing.
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Pretty soon the major subs will be full of nothing but idiots bitching about post quality and karma and "reddit isn't what it used to be blah blah blah" and the rest of us will be off in our nice niche subs having stimulating discussions and occasionally popping in to tell these people that their reddit experience doesn't have to be like this. But they won't listen, they would rather complain.
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That's the way it should be. Reddit is like a continent, room for plenty of ecosystems.
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I appreciate your honest, thorough opinion. As per Reddiquette, you should not be downvoted.
Now, EnjoyMyDownvote.^^^^jk
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I know. I guessed exactly what the response to EnjoyMyDownvote's comment would be.
I think I'm done here.
Edit: Actually, that would be the most upvoted response to his comment, meaning that people actually upvote tired jokes. Even more reason to leave I guess.
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Does anyone know a site similar to reddit but with less of this karma whoring? I would appreciate the input. Thanks. Also, don't say Digg.
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Digg.
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verflucht!
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It's all about subscribing to the more pointed subs. You make reddit what you want from it.
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I'm tempted to delete this. I'm kind of upset that this gets karma when legitimate posts get 3 votes. We need some sort of lurk-the-New-section-and-upvote-real-content movement. Not that I'm going to pretend to be an old hand at reddit, but it's pretty obvious that the same circlejerk jokes get all the upvotes.
Anyway, if it makes you feel any better, the original discussion started when someone declared something a repost and I got negative karma for asking for a link to the original post. Now it's positive, so I just look like an asshole.
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I see arcadeguy has it right here. Look at this comment where he is identifying how Reddit will die. I believe this will be the cause of death, including comments like his, and comments like mine. If Reddit dies, I will have a meal in its honour. Tis been a pleasure, from start to finish, you tiny creature from outer space. Bring home with you, my love and respect to your masters and treat them well, for they will never forget your courage. RIP, Reddit.
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So basically the final days of Digg.
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solution: diversification.
subreddits! use them.
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/b/ was never good.
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You know that you can customize what you see, right? Right.
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You know there is something called "the deep reddit".
These are subreddits that won't make it to the frontpage.
:))
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Karma Unlocked!
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How come this EnjoyMyDownvote guy is always in screencapped comment threads? Or am I the only one who has noticed this?
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Probably because he's the same person who cares about lame shit like karma on Reddit.
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Get enough karma and doctors will cure your lame shit for you.
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maybe he is one of the marketing guys, so being on reddit might be his job
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are you smelling troll?
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No, just updog.
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What's that?
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psssst...you were supposed to say "What's updog?"
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OP and EnjoyMyDownvote are the same person
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We have just lost cabin pressure.
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My cover's been blown! FUCK FUCK FUCK!
This is really going to piss him off.
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(Directed by M. Night Shyamalan)
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Either that or they are bumping fuglys.
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fumping buglys
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That's good enough for me.
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he's a redditor...he's gonna post about it...then bitch that he didn't get to the front page :D
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Grabs popcorn and waits for EnjoyMyDownvote
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Fletcher: "...so what I am going to do is piss and moan like an impotent jerk, and then bend over and take it up the tailpipe! "
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"How do you make the backwards d?"
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I understand the reference, but I still don't get how this is relevant.
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Relevant to what? This whole thread is a circle jerk.
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In that case, I'll get out of the way before your seed splatters on my face.
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Reddit is ruined.
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why do I even bother coming here any more?
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To visit me, duh.
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Get this shit off my front page. Seriously, you guys are up voting this? For shame.
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While its not the most intellectually stimulating content, it is pretty damn funny.
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Settings -> hide after downvote.
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Is it REALLY that freakin' hard to link the original discussion? You'll still get your damn karma.
There's a neat little button called PERMALINK.
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There's not much black wizardry, it's all quite simple. Image links provide thumbnails which will catch people's attention more effectively than some text. For those that use RES or similar extensions there is also a a feature to get a larger image at a single click, right on the page. Getting people to click a normal link is much harder; you have to come up with a witty, catchy, or interesting title, and will then ensure that they actually remember what the tab was about when they get to it.
In other words, it's basic crowd psychology. Make something easy and catchy, and you will get a few upvotes. Make something easy, catchy, then add a few upvotes and you will get a LOT of upvotes. There you have reddit in a nutshell, hope I didn't spoil the secret for you.
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I think part of that is, with RES installed, it's one less page load to see an image than it is to read a discussion. When I get lazy it's basically nothing but r/pics.
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But...but that's not part of THE CHALLENGE!
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I don't even see why it matters. What more could you possibly see that way? TBH, it takes 100x longer for a reddit page to load for me than an imgur hosted pic. And this way the comments can't be altered. I don't get why people complain about this.
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If I permalinked the original discussion, other people would join in the debate and the original discussion would/could be drowned out by other comments.
Edit: Also, I would actually get more karma for linking the original conversation because people would go there in their circlejerk-hivemind frenzy and upvote the comments. Now who wants to see that happen? Not I.
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Perhaps, but I would like to see the original thread and the submission which prompted the discussion.
Most people submit an imgur link and the original thread in the comments.
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Yeah, I really didn't expect any upvotes at all for this, so I didn't think it mattered much. Here you go.
At the time of my edit, I had -2 karma on the comment or something like that. Not a big deal, but I was interested in why someone would dole out a downvote when somebody is trying to identify a repost and give credit to the redditor who deserved it.
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Challenge completed.Congratulation.
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Lets all take our clothes off!
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I very much like this idea! NO-PANTS PARTY!
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Reddit is serious business.
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And now EnjoyMyDownvote's head is going to explode.
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I thought about finding a post from flume and reposting it to continue the circle of karma but don't care enough to expend the energy to do so. Someone else can run with with idea if desired. I'm an idea man. They just come at me from all directions.
Here's one: feed the tunas mayonnaise.
(Fun fact: the Michael Keaton role was slated for Bill Murray who turned it down last minute giving Keaton his first big starring role.)
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Things like this are sinking Reddit.
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What is the close enough bit?
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He challenged him to repost one of his comments, so he just reposted the entire conversation. Close enough.
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He challenged him to repost one of his submissions,
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I'm appalled the top comment is not about MrOhHai.
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Funny thing is, if he were here to answer my original question, we wouldn't even have to be here talking about this. I just wanted proof of a repost so I could give credit where it was due. Of course, now the comment I linked to has positive karma so I just look like an asshole for complaining.
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This is funny
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Are you fucking kidding me. I can't deal with this shit right now. Its 1:45 am. I'll get back to this tomorrow. OP you're dead.
Edit: What the fuck? I went to bed last night and this post had 200 karma. Now it has over 1400???
You guys are asswipes.
Flume, prepare yourself.
http://i.imgur.com/T83Kl.gif
http://i.imgur.com/yFNov.gif
whew I thought this was gonna be a popcorn thread again.
http://i.imgur.com/vp5vx.gif
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Context? Or is he just tripping balls?
I think this was at the Golden Globes for The Fighter.
It was at an awards show if I remember right.
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Michael Jackson as a black man looks a lot like Chris Tucker when he was young.
LOVE this gif. Its my standard 'facebook thread is about to blow up' gif.
http://i.imgur.com/eylXL.gif
WE HAVE A WINNER!!!
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I was already logged in and I downvoted you. But I upvoted the post above. I also upvoted a picture of a cat.
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Stop. Now.
Gotta say, that gif looks pretty good. Prettayyy, prettayyy good.
http://i.imgur.com/b8aWp.gif
http://blahblahblaheatingpopcorngif.forthelulz.gif
What city is that? Seattle?
Yep. We got screwed.
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how's this for a reaction?
http://i.imgur.com/feyXH.jpg
Didn't know Krillin was a Saiyan.
Ever see him when the mooooo----- wait a minute....
In dragonball when Goku was young, the moon was destroyed to prevent this. wasn't there a moon in DBZ? god, this is going to bug me.
It's been wished back and destroyed again multiple times.
And whoever did wish it back saved the planet. If the moon just disappeared the tides would calm. With the seas calm, what's to stop all the previously unseaworthy nations from invading us!? I'm glad someone thought it through in the DB universe.
Being such a fan of the show I'm gravely upset I never thought about this before. The fuck.
In at least one instance, wasn't it just a hologram being projected from Goku's pod?
http://i.imgur.com/iQLRd.gif
That's one way to do it. It is possible to eat with the nose too, you just need the right force.
..and this is a cuter way.
That gif is so well done I watched it about 7 times through waiting for something else to happen until I noticed the loop was only 3~ seconds long.
To give a facial?
EDIT: Look at the guy's reaction and the popcorn flying all over the girl's face. C'mon.
Neomaneul saenggakhaneun gasik girl~
Ouch. Since it's technically not even a repost of your submission... I guess that means you don't get to hurt him?
I'm not a huge rap fan, but Immortal Technique's music changed my world view. Thats strange to type but it's true...
Dude..
I feel like she wouldn't have got Tea-Bagged if it was fake.
I am a shepherd. Follow me. I will show you the way.
for a minute there I was like WTF is going on cause I read that post about an hour ago...well played sir :P
http://cache.blippitt.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Popcorn-09-Psych.gif
http://media.scout.com/media/forums/emoticons/7/ScarJo_popcorn.gif
This is a popcorn reaction shot I can fully support.
I'm ABOUT TO COME... through your window and impale you for making such a blatant sexist comment.
Just watch the gif again, watch her arm press against her left breast as her mouth crushes that kernel, and tell me you don't want to make a blatant sexist comment more blatant than iplawguy.
I'll always love you, no matter what.
Does it piss you off that reposting three of your comments did this? It kind of bothers me that this crap gets to the front page.
Laugh Out -wait for it.......
...DARY!
"high six! ...did she see us? good, let's never do that again"
NIGGERS
...Was that not the right word?
http://i.imgur.com/fewO6.jpg
Four days on reddit, huh? This is your time to shine, possibly-racist novelty account!
Nope... sorry the word was naggers.
It is now!
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Oh my
I was hoping for Sulu.
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Reddit supports parasites!
http://www.tinygif.com/data/media/1/popcorn.gif
At least you're getting comment karma..
http://chzgifs.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/silverfox.gif
You do know you still got a third of his upvotes with that comment?
Comment karma = silver. Link karma = gold.
oh, this is going to be stupendously interesting in a few hours.
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I'm here for yuh, man.
So.. we're at 683 karma right now.
Does that mean you'll hurt flume 6.83 times?
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Please stop.
Yeah dude.. stop.
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http://i.imgur.com/9FgzV.jpg
lol. butthurt over karma.
Toughen up, faggot.