Reddit gold was the beginning of the end. I've seen the cycle before on older forums

Not rage, more disapproval or disgust. And I had to think why it's so unsettling first, but I think I got it:

Because of the vanity of making it about themselves.

Doesn't help that most of the time they get so many upvotes exactly because so many people think the same thing. Simplified, someone posts "what is your favorite color", and they get thousands of upvotes on a comment that says "red". That's not about cumguzzler69's comment writing career.

But no, this is their peaking in highschool moment, gotta make thousands more read some useless fluff text showing they are under the impression everybody thinks they are so great that it warrants an award speech.

That's why it's not the same if it's a long comment where somebody put some real effort into explaining something from their area of expertise, and things like that.

Cuz their acting like this is something to be proud of. It's really not.

It's cringey but maybe because I never really took imaginary points and likes seriously.

So I had a significant event happen to me recently that made international news. I also run an email service that I’m trying to get off the ground. A few of my friends asked why I didn’t promote my business since I was all over the news. I don’t have a better explanation than I would be disgusted seeing someone do that, so I wouldn’t do it myself.

They've seen it more than once.

Being trained on a mainstream internet built on flashing novelty in front of our eyeballs every 0.006 seconds, seeing something said similarly in multiple places begins to fill them with rage.

Lol 🧂