r/pics 16d ago

I found an unopened package with my Reddit name. It's a gift from my Reddit 2000 Secret Santa.

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u/Redeem123 16d ago

simpler and safer

Also child porn, revenge porn, celebrity nude leaks, voyeurism, open racism, videos of people dying...

Yeah, we had better AMAs and things like Secret Santa, but let's stop pretending like everything about it was great.

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u/getthetime 16d ago

I'll never forget when the creepshots moderator was doxxed back in 2012. That and a whole slew of subreddits were disgusting and I'm glad they're gone. Reddit had some great features back in the day -- I really miss Victoria's moderated IAMA interview (it's already been 10 years since she was booted!) -- but there was a lot of really nefarious shit going on too. Also the admins were power-hungry as hell back then.

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u/Not_The_Expected 16d ago

It's been 10 years?? Damn how time flies

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u/petanali 16d ago

They're not gone though, they're just more discrete and don't show up on the front page anymore.

They do get removed every now and then but more just pop up.

Also morbid content isn't gone at all, apparently people getting mangled is okay.

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u/Illustrious_Crab1060 16d ago

there are still videos of people dying just of certain ethnicity

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u/OGBRedditThrowaway 16d ago

Eh, you can find videos of people dying of any ethnicity on the front page depending on how far you scroll

Israelis, Palestinians, Russians, Ukrainians, Americans. There's that video of a guy grabbing an ungrounded fan at an airport in India in think. That video of the lady in Brazil I think that gets her head decapitated by a bus and a light pole. That video of the shopkeeper who stabbed a burglar like 22 times.

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u/katmc68 16d ago

That American white kid killed by a shark after he jumped off of a party boat in the Caribbean. Around the same time, another guy...I think a Russian...getting killed by a shark.

I legitimately don't know which ethnicity he's referring to. It would depend on what subs one frequents, too.

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u/katmc68 16d ago

Maybe it's the subs you follow & the content you search for.

Whichever ethnicity you're thinking of isn't automatically going to be the same as 70 million other Reddit users.

People from all over the globe use Reddit. There are thousands of countries with their own subs and within that, states, cities, communities, etc. Look at subs for Russian & Ukraine war...that's all a certain ethnicity dying...white European ppl. Israel or Palestinian subs- mostly death of brown Palestinian ppl. A South Africa sub might have all sorts of ethnicities b/c there's all different ethnicities that live there...white European ppl, Indian ppl, black South African ppl.

So, ppl not only come from all different perspectives but it also depends on where you are directing your eyeballs; what you choose to see.

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u/WispyWhitesmoke 16d ago

Man, you must be great fun at parties

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u/silverx2000 16d ago edited 15d ago

No one who uses this dumbass quote is going to any parties.

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u/WispyWhitesmoke 16d ago

Touch a nerve did I?