Casually Explained: Reddit

reddit is one of the biggest websites in the world and is more popular than ever and if someone who's been there almost every day for more than ten years because I can't regulate my own behavior I often see people either confused as to how the website works are unfamiliar with common etiquette that they really need to know in order to fit in and I want to make a bit of a guide so let's start of course with the obvious how do you navigate reddit now you might notice that over here there's a search bar in

the upper right side of the website but it's important to know that the search bar is purely for aesthetic purposes and serves no actual function there's in fact currently no way of fighting things on reddit the good news is that if you'd like to view a post you've already seen before you can simply go to the front page and they'll all be there next as you can see I have the default subreddits along the top and these individuals subreddits act as filters to categorize posts on the website so if you're into movies you can go

to our slash movies if you're into gaming you can go to our slash gaming or if you're into volunteering for children with disabilities you can become a moderator at our slash funny now when it comes to how to use the website instead of making content there are several advantages to maximizing your time lurking and never really posting anything take me for example I now know a small number of incorrect facts about an extremely large number of things but in contrast by posting and commenting on reddit and you're able to accumulate what's called karma or what's

basically a virtual tally of the amount of times people have voted your submissions now the first way to get more karma is by commenting on a post and the good news is that pretty much every thread follows the same formula so I'll let you know what to expect to get you started a really witty and clever comment that you thoroughly enjoyed only to be ruined by an unending rambling of edits as the person mounts their internet soapbox and slowly descends into insanity this is the online equivalent of going to a Kanye concert a concise and

exhaustive summary of the topic at hand that seems brilliantly researched from someone who knows a lot about the subject or reply to that comment pointing out how everything they just said was completely wrong a comment that referenced is a reddit in joke or meta post Colin ones you can throw out in any situation to get upvotes are Jolly Ranchers Doritos comm box coconut today you tomorrow me 7 out of 10 with rice banana for scale or I also choose this guy's dead wife I'll link to a related subreddit that you already know or a hyperlink

to an xkcd comic titled relevant an extremely specific anecdote that relates perfectly to the main PO it seems almost too good to be true until you're right at the end when you remember the fact that in 1998 The Undertaker threw mankind of Hell in a Cell in plummeted 16 feet through an announcers table the 69 gambit wearing a top comment saying nice is followed by dozens of comments replying to it also saying nice every comment will have a few hundred votes except for one that will be at negative three thousand a novelty account that actually

contributes in a meaningful way and every time they appear you click on their account to see if they've been able to transfer their talents to something else because you know they deserve better than this and a terrible pom thread where everyone gets pity karma okay so the second way to accrue reddit karma is by submitting a post to a subreddit of your choosing and of course been making a submission it's important to know your audience now a lot of people criticized reddit is being predominantly male but if you go to the front page is almost

always filled with big titties well that said if you're not familiar with an individual subreddit it can be hard to know the exact demographics as an example if you go to our slash teenagers it's mostly memes made by white kids in high school who want to get laid but if you go to our slash black people Twitter as you might expect it's exactly the same thing as for the individuals sub reddits you need to know what they're about and I wrote about 80 of these but then decided to cut them down to the most popular

ones because I had a bit of a crisis that I made it that far our /aw is where you post a picture of the kitten you rescued from the side of the road after you flew to Hong Kong and saved it from the tyranny of Activision Blizzard our slouch makeup addiction is for makeup and makeup tutorials our slash relationship advice is for breakups and breakup tutorials unpopular opinion is for popular opinions our slash funny links you to your Facebook feat body building is for looking at juicy dudes hit a rear glute spread finally some good

content our slash picks is for creative writing formula one makes you want to buy a Mercedes shower thoughts is for copy pasting something you read in the comments section earlier 3d printing is literally the opposite of printing money our / videos is where I go to remember the good old days our sloshed Enders guys who picked karma over the possibility of love watch it for the plot is only for the most detail oriented movie connoisseurs our slash tree's is a subreddit dedicated to preventing deforestation old school cool is for black and white bikini pictures of

your mom Earth porn history porn human poem and of course animal porn all have cool pictures that you can send to your colleagues male living spaces where you go to flex your $5,000 memes chair in the 30 floor penthouse you rent furnished in your second year of college male fashion advice in our / street wear is for when you can't afford to move out but you can afford a $5,000 outfit ass credit is where people you didn't ask answer a question you didn't come up with gone wild is for safari pictures am i the [

__ ] to get validation for only seeing things from your own perspective our slash politics is the same thing our slush upvoted not because girl but because it is very cool however I do concede that I did initially click because girl is for any activity done by a hot girl futurology is for things Elon Musk said he'll do today I learned is for things you'll forget tomorrow hour / movies is for Disney Sony and universals marketing department explained like I'm v is for massively under estimating how dumb five-year-olds are as science is for left bracket

removed right bracket hour / seduction is if you want to become an Omega [ __ ] Slayer right before College starts an hour / anime IRL for people with the same intentions life pro tips is for little-known real life pro gamer strategies like go to class and drink water hour / music is for posting songs by lesser-known artists such as Arctic Monkeys Daft Punk Queen tame impala and gorillas mildly interesting actually completely delivers and again that's just the main subreddit so there's thousands more but they're pretty much all Instagram memes so at this point it's

pretty natural to ask alright I've been here for years posting every day and commenting on thousands of pieces of content just like you said what can I do with all my reddit Karma and that's a great question now once you've had your fill in reddit you might say to yourself okay I'd like to go now but unfortunately one of the worst parts of going on reddit is that you can't get off not figuratively of course half the web site is porn but in the literal sense because even if you close the browser window and pick

up your phone muscle memory will cause you to immediately reopen the app and once you've reached this point I'm afraid it's too late you've been assimilated you'll start to notice that you're indifferent to everything before Super Nintendo and hate everything after Bakugan you're nostalgic for yugioh Dragon Ball Z and any of the Pokemon up to Ruby and Sapphire and nothing makes you angrier than fortnight tick-tock and rich people you work in IT and do development on the side as when you built your own computer ones you have anxiety and mild depression but haven't tried fixing

it and you're in love with Keanu Reeves and Henry Cavill until a month from now when they make a small mistake now all your real-life conversations start with so is reading this article but you really mean you skimmed the headline and read the comments section you'd rather give out your social security number than your username and despite your best efforts to resist it every time you see the next global calamity gracing the world news you hang your head in shame clench your fists and whisper we did it read it [Music]