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created by [deleted] on 10/12/2021 at 04:03 UTC
1775 upvotes, 37 top-level comments (showing 25)
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1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
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Comment by postwarmutant at 10/12/2021 at 05:22 UTC
487 upvotes, 17 direct replies
Where’s the part where you see a thousand NTA upvotes on a post where the OP is clearly an asshole and you’re like “am I taking crazy pills?”
Comment by LovedAJackass at 10/12/2021 at 05:54 UTC
137 upvotes, 4 direct replies
And for some of us, another stage: "Banned from AITA for saying something innocuous."
Comment by combatwombat1192 at 10/12/2021 at 09:26 UTC
96 upvotes, 1 direct replies
I don't know about you guys but sometimes when I sort by controversial on AITA and see all the downvoted people calling out fakes and going against the consensus, I feel like the leader of a cell preying on the angry, vulnerable and disenfranchised. All I can see is potential Am I the Angel followers.
"Come with us. We'll look after you."
Comment by buendiamarquez at 10/12/2021 at 11:47 UTC
73 upvotes, 3 direct replies
I remember the sub before it became too popular and attracted masses from r/all. Many of the posts were actually controversial in that you could not actually decide quite easily and quickly. There were many points to be considered.
And most of all, people were aware of the real meaning and the function of the word "asshole." It meant something like "not putting a tiny bit of an effort to make people's lives more comfortable." For example, if someone were to tell a story about how they didn't help their brother who was in need of a place to stay for a few nights because his house burnt down (and no, there is no plot twist such as "he was abusing the OP when they were children"), they would be called assholes because they could have helped someone but they deliberately did not choose to do so.
Now, the sub's general idea is that "you don't have to do anything for anyone, no one is your responsibility. Even if you have the cure for the cancer, you don't have to share it with anyone because it's your personal right" (I am exaggerating of course).
I know it sounds like venting, but tbh, for a while, that sub was one of the most interesting subs out there.
Comment by Jules_Thief at 10/12/2021 at 05:30 UTC
64 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Honestly for me 2 and 3 were kind of switched. I definitely noticed the recurring themes and large amount of NTAs before realizing that it was because the stories are fake.
Comment by [deleted] at 10/12/2021 at 06:01 UTC
25 upvotes, 2 direct replies
Anyone is free to take this idea and make it better than my shitty attempt at a meme
Comment by philadelphialawyer87 at 10/12/2021 at 13:08 UTC
22 upvotes, 0 direct replies
All of it...
The hivemind that relentlessly downvotes all dissenting voices, ridicules them, endlessly argues the same points against them over and over, and questions their legitimacy, often with cutesy poo, repetitive tropes like "We found the (insert alleged 'asshole' from OP's story)!...", etc.
The childish, simplistic, black and white view of morality.
The hieararchy of favored and disfavored persons.
The fake posts, endlessly repeated.
The posts where the OP could not possibly be the AH, and is just karma farming.
The posts where the OP is clearly the AH, and the whole thing is just rage bait.
I have been reading and commenting on "Real Life" ( romantic relationships, friendships, family relations, work and neighbor interactions, etc) type boards for quite a while on the internet. But they come and go, and mostly go. And so I was excited to find a new one, one with so many posts and commenters. But, unfortunately, I got to AITA right as it went to pot! It went from presenting interesting moral and ethical issues, where all sides and every nuance of the situation could be calmly and rationally discussed, to the mosh pit/shit storm that we see today, almost overnight! For a while, I found that by sorting by "controversial" in the "hot" posts, and by otherwise focussing on the "new" posts, one could still find reasonable exchanges of views. But the meat of the subreddit, the main discussions on the hot posts, became simply untenable.
Comment by Fury_Fury_Fury at 10/12/2021 at 14:30 UTC
12 upvotes, 0 direct replies
For me it was opening the sidebar and reading a rule about doubting the authenticity of stories. I was like "huh, that genuinely, officially, is a creative writing sub".
Comment by aranneaa at 10/12/2021 at 04:10 UTC
20 upvotes, 0 direct replies
And between stage 2 and 3, there's that sub-stage 2.1 which is something like "something fishy about this".
Comment by [deleted] at 10/12/2021 at 11:09 UTC
9 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Anyone else remember when this sub had like 2K members?
Comment by TartarusFalls at 10/12/2021 at 12:17 UTC
10 upvotes, 0 direct replies
I got here cuz I found AITA and was talking about it with my brother who’s been on Reddit longer than I have. He told me it’s all fake and to check out this sub. So I basically just skipped all the steps.
Comment by AlpacamyLlama at 10/12/2021 at 10:34 UTC
20 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Stage 5: Ah this sub gets fewer comments than AITA. I'll just post my verdict here instead, and turn it into an offshoot of AITA.
Comment by flamingorider1 at 10/12/2021 at 08:12 UTC
5 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Literally me. Are u watching me?
Comment by FantasyAddict24 at 10/12/2021 at 21:20 UTC
3 upvotes, 0 direct replies
I dont think I would be on reddit much if it weren't for subs like this that exist to make fun of other ridiculous subs.
Comment by Rokey76 at 10/12/2021 at 23:11 UTC
4 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Reddit is populated by assholes. So of course assholes will get lots of NTA comments.
Comment by Not_Obsessive at 10/12/2021 at 06:55 UTC
7 upvotes, 0 direct replies
The influx of subscribers mostly brought a lot of people who discuss the conflict of the OOP for whatever reason
Comment by anar_key3 at 10/12/2021 at 04:19 UTC
10 upvotes, 0 direct replies
a nice diagram to have rn considering this is the first time i've visited this sub
Comment by Draygoes at 10/12/2021 at 18:21 UTC
3 upvotes, 0 direct replies
YTA for reading my mind and making a chart from my experiance. Bad OP.
Comment by Mani_Essence at 10/12/2021 at 23:27 UTC
3 upvotes, 0 direct replies
My main problem, maybe it's cause of the rules of the sub, is that nobody talks like a regular human being on that sub. It's always some narrative longpost drama bs that, like... why?
Comment by Kitonami at 10/12/2021 at 15:48 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Me who found this sub and AITD by searching for AITA
Comment by Ahstia at 10/12/2021 at 23:55 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
There's also that sub's general inability to accept being a partial a**hole. People are either innocent angels or evil demons with nothing in between. Or that people can be an a-hole but still right just as someone can have the moral high ground and still be wrong.
Comment by sarahbee126 at 03/12/2024 at 04:31 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Except Stage 1 for me was "I don't like that mental image, can you say something besides a-hole, and also even if they're at fault or just misguided in this situation doesn't mean they're a terrible person".
Stage 2 should also include the occasional AI written post (so, not just fake but written by a fake person), and obvious double standards between men and women, because you'll see the exact same post but the gender is flipped and so of course the guy is at fault.
And then I skipped stage 3.
Comment by [deleted] at 10/12/2021 at 16:06 UTC
1 upvotes, 2 direct replies
this is great but also entitled transgender people??? I don’t think I’ve ever seen more than two posts like that? weird take
Comment by boluroru at 10/12/2021 at 17:34 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
I used to see this sub when searching for the main one and eventually got curious and came here and.... ended up liking this one far more than AITA
