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Cake day: January 6th, 2026
  • Well I certainly feel older after reading all that garbage. Feel better about yourself now? Might wanna get your memory checked then since you’ve clearly forgotten that reddit predates doomscrolling. It’s absolutely that now, but for nearly a decade it was just a user driven content aggregator forum. Doomscrolling wasn’t a thing. Infinite feeds weren’t a thing. Prior to Cambridge analytica rage engagement feed algorithms weren’t commonplace. I’m not sure why you’re insisting it was always doomscrolling, all of that kicked up from basically nothing into high gear during Trump’s first term.

  • It absolutely wasn’t doomscrolling thirteen years ago. Upvotes took things to the front page if you fucked with that. Otherwise it was just another forum, except it had sub forums for literally everything. One forum to rule them all. It wasn’t even legitimately a “social media” till after they released the official app and “new reddit.” Were you even out of school back when reddit was coming up? It wasn’t an infinite scroll and was intended to be checked once a day. You’d check reddit after your emails while drinking your coffee. Like, it absolutely wasn’t doomscrolling. Doomscrolling wasn’t a thing. It was just a forum for any/every thing and people largely hung out in whatever corners they settled into. Like every post used to be filled with professionals or experts on the subject and there was considerable valuable discussion. Old reddit was very much a remnant of the old internet.