the most Reddit book ever
What does "reddit" even mean anymore? Do you even know?
>>25266777It's a good book. It's a shame the rest of his corpus sucks.
>>25266782It means I have absolutely no identity or personality, I am just a collection of things that I am not.
So it goes
>>25266806Pretty profound
>>25266782We've been over this. Reddit= thing I don't like
>>25266782When you get filtered by something you say call it "reddit" and pretend it was never for you
>>25266798Cats Cradle, Sirens of Titan, Breakfast of Champions and Mother Night are excellent though
Do people on reddit say "X is 4chan?" in the same capacity as people here call shit "reddit?"
>>25266834Cat's Cradle is garbage.
>>25266782Reddit is when you recount your experiences surviving Dresden with David Irving‘s book in the other hand, apparently.
>>25266839Didn't ask
It's reddit but not as reddit as Princess Bride.
>>25266798I liked player piano
>>25266838No but on our Japanese sister 2chan they use "壺" (2channel) exactly like we use "reddit"
>>25266798>corpus
Test
>>25267375For what did you get banned?
>>25266992I'm confused, are 2chan and 2channel different sites?
>>25267379Other people's bullshit. Once for child porn (lol, what?) and one for some retard posting about deviantart on /co/ which is a board I've never even used.The detection system is flawed and weird here. Don't phone post while out and about I guess. Been a weird day.
So it goes.
>>25267384Yes, 2channel was founded in the 90s by Hiro as a text board and when there were rumors that it was going to get shut down some anon made a spinoff imageboard called 2chan. The latter is what moot copied to make 4chan so the layout is much more familiar
>>25267386Mods are weird anymore. You can catch a PERMA for making a JOKE nowadays, used to be you actually had to post some kind of genuinely illegal content to get a perma. All while the motherfuckers on /b/ in the loli threads can literally talk openly of raping kids and face zero reprocussions whatsoever.I have no idea what it is that actually goes through a moderators mind on any given day or how they even make their decisions half of the time.
>>25266777the most 4chan post ever
>>25266782It doesn't mean anything and OP is using this as a piece of bait to serve as a nucleation point for passionate conversation. His efforts have failed and his thread is a cancerous eyesore on our beautiful board. May his nipples chafe on his shirt and his toe be stubbed at least once a month.
>>25267830Nah Vonnegut is pretty reddit in general, I know what OP means. Nothing on the scale of a Ready Player One or Hitchhiker's Guide but it's gesturing in that same direction
>>25266782>>25267830While the word "reddit" as an adjective is really overused, I'd argue it points to a real phenomenon. There is a reason why it's so popular. The problem is it's more "I know when I see it" situation and it's hard to pin a perfect definition, but if I had to say which worldviews and stylistic choices are reddit, I would say:-Scientism, rejection of metaphysics-Belief in technological and scientifical progress-"Optimistic nihillism", belief that nothing matters and that you are free to create your own meaning as long as it makes you happy-Cultural relativism and oikophobia (even though paradoxical), belief that every culture is equal while rejecting its own culture's traditions-Adherence to neoliberal values-Tendency to create echo chambers-Love of popculture and nostalgia, especially of the 80s-Fear of being serious, everything has to be tongue in cheek. Bathos is often used-Use of quips and absurd "lolsorandom" humorNow using the term to describe Vonnegut is a bit anachronistic, but I can definitely understand why would you make that connection, his views and humor fit the bill.
>>25266777On the whole Vonnegut is pretty Reddit and it really pains me to say it, because I must have read all of his novels during that phase, but you can safely skip him. On the flip side he wrote this: “The Client who was about to make Eliot’s black telephone ring was a sixty-eight-year old virgin who, by almost anybody’s standards, was too dumb to live. Her name was Diana Moon Glampers. No one had ever loved her. There was no reason why anyone should. She was ugly, stupid, and boring. On the rare occasions when she had to introduce herself, she always said her full name, and followed that with the mystifying equation that had thrust her life so pointlessly:“My mother was a moon. My father was a Glampers.”Decide for yourself
>>25266777Capeshit, star wars, lotr and vidya adaptations are reddit
>>25266777Maybe not THE most but certainly one of them.
>>25268512Good list, I'll save it for later use
>>25266777Really loved Vonnegut in middle school and still think he has comforting easy reads to this day. When I was 13 the whole "every story has a beginning middle and end just not necessarily in that order" stuff kinda nvked me or whatever
>>25266782It's a very specific very simple quirky snarky ironic holier than thou writing style. Very politically correct and inoffensive jokes mixed with superficial satirical observation about human folly (like, religions are bad, sexism is bad: no interesting or deep sharp insight, or really venomous and cutting satire). Usually there's this undertone that the current scientific paradigm is the absolute epitome of human development and everything that doesn't follow it is wrong and thus open to ridicule (special attention to the current scientific paradigm: the average redditor treats science not as something that may change in a century, but as something that has already reached fundamental insight into reality: it's essentially a religion for them). Think Ned Flanders, but with scientism instead of Christian God and with less humility. You have to stay on Reddit for a while to get a feel for it. It goes very stale and boring and cliche very fast since the room for stylistic and thematic and linguistic maneuvering is very small.Some writers, like Pratchett, are put into Reddit category because they wrote in this style before the creation of Reddit. I think these authors became favourites with the primal Redditors, who in turn used that style to create the Reddit style.
>>25266777I read this book like a year ago, it wasn't bad by any stretch, but after a while I started to get frustrated with how self-satisfied the writing was. There writer clearly though he was far more clever than he actually was, and his smugness positively radiated off the pages in some sections. Its probably a good book to read in high school or middle school, but I don't think theres much to be gained from reading it as an adult.
>>25268925Oh look, you asked ChatGPT to summarize your dumb position! Cute.
>>25268953You still use chatgbt?
>>25268512>Adherence to neoliberal valuesThe most Reddit people I know are far leftists. They also always seem to be obese, lazy, dress poorly and have bad facial hair. You can usually tell someone is Reddit immediately just by their appearance.
>>25268953The anons post fits well within the established parameters of what is defined as the Reddit style.Snarky tone: a condescending tone that positions the responder automatically into a position above the post he's responding to. Expressed most vividly by the beginning and end of the post.Implicit mental superiority: the anon accused the previous post of being AI without presenting arguments for her position. Combined with the snarky tone, it gives the post the feel of condescension with an implicit message that I'm smarter than you even though the conclusion of the post might be erroneous: quintessential traits of the average Reddit user.Safe insults: dumb is a neutral world proper for the Reddit forum where such intense profanities as idiotic, niggerbrained, female hands typed this, troonpilled, jeetcoded, written like a Jeet after eating shit, pederastic, homo, sissy, gay are not only considered bad tone, but bannable, with punishment up to account suspension.The snarky tone, the hasty conclusion with zero argument, and rudimentary safe insults imply the post was written by someone very familiar with the Reddit commentarial culture. On 4chan, it's proper to call Redditors trannies and accompany the message either with a picture of an anthropomorphic cartoon frog offering a noose or with a picture of fat man with purple hair and eyeliner hanging and dangling heavy from a noose, eyes bloodshot and rolled, fat cyanotic tongue out.
>>25266777You've deeply upset the redditors.
>>25266777Well, as long as you read it, you read sómething.I found it an enjoyable read at the time.
>>25266782>thing i dont like
>>25266782Quirk Chungus + Toothless Satire + Faux Edginess. It's basically the opposite of punk rock while thinking it's punk rock. Vonnegut is pretty reddit but I wouldn't write him off as reddit.
>>25266782Reddit means stupid, woke, Karen-coded, and censored.
>>25266838No, they just downvote and ban you. Redditors are too cowardly to confront someone directly.
>>25269171Half of /lit/‘s users are reddit. This might be the most reddit board on this site after /mu/.
>>25266782In this specific context he means it's postmodern
>>25266838Yes, they associate us with nazi incels aka everything to the right of bernie sanders
