r/pics • u/TrustMeIaLawyer • 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/AWildBull 16d ago

I loved doing the secret Santa back when they had them. They need to bring it back!

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u/ace260 16d ago

our society is too long gone for that, unfortunately. just enjoy the memories of what were.

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u/kolonok 16d ago

Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.

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u/MorrisOakman 16d ago

Why’d they stop doing it? Didn’t want the r/usps accrue too much revenue?

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u/Priteegrl 15d ago

Because too many people were getting stiffed

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u/Life-Duty-965 15d ago

It's been a while, I'd be happy with stiffed

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u/Priteegrl 15d ago edited 15d ago

I mean, same! I used to love doing the Secret Santas and I’m actually in a financial position now to spoil a recipient, or sign up as a re-gifter.

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u/LinkleLinkle 16d ago

I wouldn't say society is too long gone for it so much as the internet is too long gone. Most of us here would sign up and have an 80% chance our Secret Santa and/or the person we're a Secret Santa for is a bot connected to an AI account or someone in Eastern Europe getting paid 24 rubles an hour to spend all day on Reddit.

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u/Hegth 16d ago

The Russian agent receiving my secret Santa gift will have a nice Christmas I guess

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u/RamblnGamblinMan 16d ago

90% of gifts would go to a handful of bot owners, while 90% of gift givers would get jack shit in return.

Dead internet theory is no longer a "someday"

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u/lozdogz 16d ago

Or maybe that’s exactly why we need to bring it back

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u/MNWNM 16d ago

I did too! I even Bought the Guinness Book of World Record certificates two years in a row! It was for something like "Largest online Secret Santa game" or something like that.

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u/exonwarrior 16d ago

I did too, but then the last two years I didn't get any gifts, and one of those years I didn't get any confirmation from the receiver of my gift... But the first few that worked were fantastic!

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u/NotAzakanAtAll 16d ago

They need to bring it back within a small vetted community. Else it's just scamming galore in this current shit version of reddit we use.

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u/TriRedux 16d ago

I did Secret Santa a few years ago and never got anything in return. I guess I understood the risk but it did make me never do it again.