Don't worry, you aren't going to have to live in that world because it's never going to exist. At least, not in the capacity that Reddit claims stuff like that happens. That's such a weird, prevalent circlejerk and I don't understand why, gatdam. It doesn't happen nearly as often as they think it does. Yeah, it happens. Lots of shitty things do. But it's easy to expand those instances and make them stand out as something that happens repeatedly. Pablo, my man, you're going onto Askreddit and thinking the stories are true? For shame. I bet 10 minutes in this guy's post history and there's a 90% chance I could prove this dude isn't even an adult and is some 17 year old perpetuating the circlejerk. By which I mean, take a deep breath. You're letting Reddit get to you. I don't recommend it.I shudder and I grimace at the thought of living in a world where I have to be afraid to talk to kids, or compliment a little girl on her shiny fucking boots.
a man was accused of pedophilia for spending time with children at a friends' gathering.
Word. I'm just getting paranoid over reddit. Whew.
I realized I was getting too paranoid about Reddit when I started wondering if r/GameofTrolls (and subsequent iterations - don't bother trying to click into them, they're all private or banned, but it's a troll-reddit ring, ironic because it appears based wholly within reddit - hence the subreddits) was really just an inside game set up by the admins in order to give people who had been on reddit for 2+ years something to do or be entertained by once the initial "OMG REDDIT IS SHINY AND GREAT" had worn off. There's so much interior reddit drama and so little need for any of it that I began wondering how manufactured it was and if that was really what was bringing people back to the site over and over, since the quality of submissions and links is pretty shitty unless you're diligent about picking up & dropping the right subreddits.
