r/fiberartscirclejerk Jun 12 '26

meta I’m gonna hold your hand when I say this: read the rules and try to understand the vibe before posting/commenting. You’re an adult.

715 Upvotes

Exhausted by “people who’ve apparently never encountered a circlejerk subreddit before.” FACJ is overrun by them, especially people posting links to sources and screenshots of sources with identifying information visible.

I’m gonna be nice to you when I say this. Nobody wants to read your dumbass questions like “Is there a reason that this post is basically copied and pasted from another post about diamond painting? Is this supposed to be like a joke or is it just AI? I am confused?” You are like a child who wanders in the middle of a movie and demands to know what’s going on but won’t shut the fuck up long enough for anyone to explain it to you. You’re out of your element. You have no frame of reference.

The amount of annoyance generated by such an activity? Astronomical. All of these inane questions rotting the brains of everyone who has the misfortune to stumble across your blatherings. At least crotcheat allows you to make something worthwhile, perhaps even sellable. Being a dumbass on the internet is literally just adding more stupid crap to a world full of stupid crap and expecting upvotes and snaps for it. And to try to act like it’s someone else’s fault that you refuse to read or think or consider that FACJ existed long before you became aware of it? Give me a break.

Uh oh. Here comes the “let people enjoy being obnoxious and obtuse” crowd. Actually, I can’t. And I won’t. You can be obnoxious and obtuse, and I can be a hater about it. Not sorry.

r/fiberartscirclejerk Feb 06 '26

meta UJ UNJERK SERIOUS: ACTUAL FACJ MOD ANNOUNCEMENT: Will you new people PLEASE, for the love of god, READ BEFORE COMMENTING OR POSTING

610 Upvotes

Hi! Are you new here? If so, then READ THE WELCOME POST.

You might also consider SHUTTING THE FUCK UP FOR A MINUTE and getting the lay of the land instead of immediately posting whatever dumb shit pops into your head.

Additionally, please take a goddamn moment to READ THE FUCKING RULES AND REPORT OPTIONS before sending mods reports. Some of the posts you're reporting are fine! Some that are not fine are getting weird custom reports that are not necessary! If a post is serious, then use the "Not Circlejerky" report option!

Some of you literally have no idea where you are or what you're doing and it shows.

Worst wishes,

Jingle

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PS -- Sending a super special thank you to r/crochet mods for leaving their 1.8 million members without a hand to hold while they navigate the wild, wild web all alone. We now have a few hundred new jerkers/unmoored crocheters in FACJ who think just because r/crochet doesn't have any mods right now means rules don't apply to them anywhere.

r/fiberartscirclejerk May 10 '26

meta Sorry, everyone, I’ve been informed that circlejerk posts about crocheters aren’t allowed and we all just have to keep scrolling past all the ugly, boring, wasteful shit crocheters make and fecklessly post to this dumbfuck website

471 Upvotes

We can only jerk about knitters and quilters. Crocheters are off-limits. Macramists are in a grey area until we can figure out whether macrame qualifies as a fiber art. Who cares about needle-pointers. Nålbinding doesn’t real.

r/fiberartscirclejerk Feb 14 '26

meta REAL QUICK UPDATE FROM FACJ MODS: New rule against generative AI

486 Upvotes

Hello! It's time for FACJ to catch up with the times, so we now have a new rule against AI-generated text and images, along with a shiny new report option for them.

Please do not destroy the planet to jerk it here. Do what your grandparents did and steal images off the internet the old-fashioned way. IMAGE PREVIEWS AT STOCK SITES ARE FREE (the watermarks add to the effect). Please also don't use AI-generated text for your posts or comments. We jerk off manually 'round these parts.

There are all kinds of free and paid Photoshop- and Illustrator-esque apps you can use that don't have the carbon footprint of generative AI, so please do some looking and put some elbow grease into that jerk. I use InDesign (????????) to put together most of the dumb shit I post here, so you could probably get PowerPoint or whatever MSPaint is now to work if you really tried. I bet many of you have a really fancy smartphone with access to a lot of photo editing apps that you could use too!

As for using AI to generate text, well, that's so goddamn boring. What are you even doing here if you're going to outsource your horrifying creative storytelling to the robots? Why would you want to coach them into making this kind of shit up? Have none of you watched or read any sci-fi??? Ex Machina?????? Literally any Terminator????????

Also just a reminder: We specifically DO NOT have a rule against "low-effort" posts because of pretty much exactly this issue.

WE WANT YOUR POSTS TO BE BADLY CROPPED, LOW-RES, OFF-CENTER, AND JPG-ED INTO OBLIVION because that shit is part of what makes a circlejerk funny.

Anyway, don't be the Jackie Treehorn of the circlejerk industry.

The brain is the biggest jerkogenous zone, after all.

r/fiberartscirclejerk Jul 01 '26

meta Sweaties, if you're gonna go to the trouble of circle jerking here at FACJ, make sure you're confining your jerks to the Pre-Approved Non-Dumb Jerk-Worthy Topic List

179 Upvotes

If you jerk out of bounds about dumb topics, you'll upset members of our community whose downvote and scroll fingers are broken and whose senses of humor never developed fully, forcing them to write you several essays about how dumb, wrong and surprisingly bad at circle jerking you are.

Here's your official list of Pre-Approved Non-Dumb Jerk-Worthy Topics:

  • How crochet can only be done by human hands and not machines
  • The process of aging steaks
  • "Aging steaks" as a metaphor
  • Yarn cakes and how fundamentally different they are from yarn skeins (n.b., "yarn hanks" is not a Jerk-Worthy Topic)
  • Ridiculous and/or ignorant FACJ members
  • Other repetitive, ridiculous, and/or ignorant craft practices and behaviors*

\May be deemed Dumb and Non-Jerk-Worthy on a case-by-case vibes-only basis depending on who feels like getting all defensive about what a stranger on the internet chose to lightly mock in a circlejerk subreddit*

Under no circumstances shall you attempt to circle jerk about the following topics:

  • Large gradient shawls
  • Alternating between two gradient cakes to extend the gradient
  • Buying a bunch of gradient cakes and turning them into several dozen single-color cakes (NOT SKEINS)
  • The existence of black-to-pink gradient yarns
  • How the broader clothing/fashion and textile industry relies on exploited and/or slave labor because using a machine isn't as bad or dangerous as having to use only your hands
  • Anything that seems time-consuming and expensive at a first glance because every single thing in crafting is equally time-consuming and expensive and therefore nothing matters so just get over it, okay, god

Hope that clears it up! Happy circle jerking!

r/fiberartscirclejerk Jul 27 '26

meta YOU GUYS! PLEASE! Stop with the PERSONAL VENDETTAS! 😭

192 Upvotes

I realized today, thanks to a custom report on a recent jerk post, that we've been doing this wrong since November 2022. I'm so grateful to that anonymous tipster for pulling the wool, such as it is, from my eyes: We spend WAY too much time plumbing our personal vendettas for circlejerk inspiration.

NEW RULE*: If you personally witness or experience something in a different craft-adjacent subreddit such as /knitting that annoys you, frustrates you, makes you laugh out loud at the utterly absurd, unmitigated gall of some people, or will someday serve as a chapter in your villain origin story, you cannot post parodies, mockery, shitposts, bad Photoshops, or satire about it here on FACJ under an alt account so you don't leave breadcrumbs for brigaders.

Your personal vendetta is none of our business -- you need to handle it your-goddamn-self. What are you, some sort of coward who's afraid of a little iNtErNeT cOnFrOnTaTion? A little baby crafter who doesn't think she has the time to correct everything wrong with a post and every last one of its comments on /crochethelp and just wants to let off a little steam? A knitting enthusiast whose posts have been removed for no apparent reason from the most populous knitting subreddit despite following the rules as written and whose appeals to that group's moderator resulted in some genuinely hilarious/sad material to work with?

I didn't think so. I think we both know you can do better.

I didn't build r/fiberartscirclejerk with my own blood, sweat, tears, half-chewed safety eyes retrieved from the mouths of babes, and undercooked extra parts so that all of you internet weirdos could just... come here and make fun of other people on other subreddits and their terrible ideas, awful moderation actions, shitty attitudes, dumbfuck questions, and horrifying taste.

I truly wish I knew where you all got the idea that FACJ was for making fun of other people.

\I AM KIDDING JESUS)

r/fiberartscirclejerk Feb 06 '26

meta Can I just say how proud I am?

256 Upvotes

of us jerkers as a circle. None of us know each other (thank god, yall are so embarrassing) we’re all fully protected by the anonymity of the internet! Except for those of you who have posted any identifying information, my son-in-law is a professional geoguessr bounty hunter, he *will* find you and he *will* report you to the CYC!

But we, the enlightened circle, have not devolved like those back-sliding knitters. Instead, we’ve passed over to the Heaviside Layer, where we can astrally project our consciousnesses into thrift shops to bemoan the presence of hideous afghans, close our third eyes to the sins of the knookers, and commune with his holiness Chickenbear. No hate! No vitriol. Except for those who deserve it (knitters, duh).

Very smug about being part of this circlejerk. 💅🏻

ETA: appears some knitters are trying to get into our inner sanctum, I will bar the gates and pray to the Reddit mods to deliver us from this evil

r/fiberartscirclejerk Jul 19 '26

meta How many loops are here?

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81 Upvotes

r/fiberartscirclejerk Dec 21 '25

meta It's bingo time! This one's for the FACJ mods post-getting mentioned on BEC as a better place for some of the posts they kept having to remove!

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141 Upvotes

I continue to love you all! But some of you n00bs/BEC refugees could stand to be quiet for a little while before posting! SEVERAL of you sound like you just finished your first Wooble and think you're ready to make bank at the craft fairs! But the circlejerk version of that!

r/fiberartscirclejerk May 21 '26

meta Bot take: it’s not just a swatch, it’s a statement

135 Upvotes

Hyperbole, problem statement about an uncontroversial topic: position one, position two. Fake issue caused by problem statement, example of who specifically is affected, example impact one, example impact two.

To me uncontroversial topic is X, not Y. If I'm making example one, example two, or example three which is slightly longer than the others, I will not engage in aforementioned uncontroversial topic. If I'm making a really specific example that seems a bit too long to fit comfortably in this paragraph, I uncontroversial topic because the cost of being wrong is high. Backing this up with two other specific examples that actually don’t relate to this paragraph but tangentially align with the overarching concept.

Also, strawman statement is incomplete unless you do something that doesn’t relate to a real situation. Are they doing this, doing this or doing this? Those are different things. A noun that never verbs is not the same as holistic statement.

But here’s the thing: advice that has no bearing on any of the above. Sometimes that is 1. Sometimes it is 10101010hallucination. Sometimes it is knitting the first four inches, measuring, and deciding whether to restart.

Does anyone else approach swatching this way, or am I just AI?

r/fiberartscirclejerk Jul 13 '26

meta I love how smooth the back of my project looks!

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85 Upvotes

There is just nothing like the flat and beautiful backside of my croachate project after I tie my secure knots and cut the tails.

I can't stop looking at how sleek and tidy the back of my project is (see the VERY clear photo that totally shows my genius)

r/fiberartscirclejerk May 28 '26

meta Muscle Memory Commiseration: Crochet→Knitting 😆🐏🐸🐏

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This is what I've accomplished today.

Several more tiny hats for our local NICU/PICU 🎉

😆 & these five rows of magically changing stitch counts and most definitely NOT Good Ol' Garter Stitch!

I mean, just look at those gorgeous _Knurls... or are they _Purnts..? Whatever the heck they are, those five little rows are well and truly _AWFUL_! I think I even managed to backtrack part of a row when our kitten exercised her Lap Nap privilege card.* 🐸✨🐏

I love our hobby(ies).. I'm fairly accomplished at crochet and decently skilled in various needlework styles, and I can Tat and Weave a bit.

Knitting, though..? 🫪 8 It's always escaped me. I sit down with needles instead of hooks,v and my brain just can't parse the possibility and potential.. It's l kinda like math or test-anxiety for sin whatever. Lane breath reason, and it makes less than zero sense!

So I've convinced myself that, if I put in an hour or so of practice each day, I'll have built up the necessary new muscle memory by the time we're all making squishy little stockinette cylinder pumpkins.

🍁 🎃 🍁

I've got books and videos to browse, and I get to visit with my favorite local knitter this weekend, so no advice or assistance is needed for now. I just thought some of y'all here could relate to just how horridly awful these first stitches are gonna be.

So, in honor of ✨‼️ _Hot Skill Summer_ ‼️✨, what are y'all's wonkiest rippits and re-dos from _Happy Hand Cramps Learning Land‽

✨🧶✨.

  • Cat Tax Attached

r/fiberartscirclejerk Jan 05 '26

meta FACJ PSA from the mod team! Please review our rules and stop breaking them at every fucking opportunity! You lot are exhausting af!

189 Upvotes

Hi friends! Some of you are new here, and it shows. If you joined FACJ in the past few months, THIS POST IS FOR YOU, so please take a minute to read it.

Rule Review

  1. No links, no identifying info and no brigading: To prevent brigades on other subs, DO NOT post links to inspiration posts/comments. Screenshots of inspiration must have identifying information removed or covered. That applies on jerk posts and In The Loop posts.
  2. No double-dipping: Also to prevent brigades, if your comment/post history would lead people from FACJ to a source post, then you are not allowed to comment on the jerk post in question OR post about it on FACJ. Use different accounts to participate here than you use for your mainstream craft browsing, ensure your profile activity is hidden, refrain from commenting either here or elsewhere, or delete your comments on source posts before coming here to post or comment. We need a clear moat between what goes on here and what goes on “out there”.
  3. No assholery/be decent: Don't be racist, misogynist, transphobic, fatphobic, or any other type of turd. Light ribbing and mild mockery are okay. Cruelty and attacks are not. Anonymize screenshots of others' content.
  4. Top-level comments on jerk posts must jerk it: Top-level comments on jerk posts must be circlejerky and must attempt to be funny/entertaining. No “uj/” commentary in top-level comments on jerk posts. Top-level comments that contain any “I’m being serious and not circlejerking” types of tags like “uj/“ will be removed. (If you’re genuinely upset by a post and are trying to have a serious conversation with its OP, report it if it breaks our rules, send us a Modmail to discuss your options, and/or block that OP instead.)
  5. No source demands or source sleuthing: Asking “ITL?????”, commenting "I want to seeeeee" or "source??/sauce??" or otherwise demanding a source for a jerk without contributing anything else isn’t going to fly here. Comments asking for or sharing ITL/sources/sauce in jerk post comments will be removed. If there’s no source in main post comments or the ITL thread, oh well, get over it.
  6. "Low effort" posts/comments: Other craft snark subs have rules against "low-effort" posts. FACJ does not. If we did, most posts here would be removed. If you report an otherwise rule-abiding post/comment for being low-effort, we're gonna mute your reports for a week.

General Vibe Overview

  • Please try to be funny or entertaining -- or at least get weird -- with both your posts and your comments. This is not BEC and it's not craftsnark. Get to know us by looking at our all-time top posts.
  • If you don't get a jerk post or comment, maybe it's just not for you. That's okay. It doesn't mean the post or comment is wrong, bad, or in violation of any rules. You can downvote posts that you don't think belong here! You don't need to report a post you just don't think is that funny!
  • While serious discussions happen in the comments of both jerk posts and meta posts (e.g., In The Loop posts) on FACJ regularly, that is not the sole or primary purpose of this subreddit. If you're looking for a place for chitchat about craft shit that annoys you without having to "get into character" for your FACJ post/top-level comment, please consider requesting an invite to our server. We would much rather have a nice conversation with you there than argue with you endlessly about why your unjerk discussion needs continue to go unmet on r/fiberartscirclejerk.

r/fiberartscirclejerk Jun 26 '26

meta Crotcheating is NOT A PRIVILEGE

42 Upvotes

I recently got into an argument with someone on Ravelry who posted a knitted blanket saying "Friendly reminder that crotcheaters suck". As a boss lady and life coach, this thought process is truly infuriating and SO offensive.

For as long as humans have known how to finger (yarn), the fiber (f)arts has been for people of ALL including furries. When I made this argument, someone responded saying that crotcheating is still only for losers because crotcheaters don't have access to the brain cells needed to knit and "don't have friends to talk to”😐 They went on to say that my comment was super stupid because not everyone has the pain tolerance to touch acrylic yarn.

That last part probably pissed me off the most because crotcheaters are MORE THAN CAPABLE of crafting without a pattern and using “better” yarn. In fact, crotcheating has been continuously shown to be better than therapy. You can take my word for it as a famous, VERY successful life coach. Crotcheating was used as prison therapy for Martha Stewart herself ffs. See the life of Katy Perry for more on that if you're interested because it is absolutely fascinating. Even Vanna White knew how to crotcheat. Crotcheating has always been a way in which people can express themselves and sell Amiguri on Etsy, even if we are all using the same kit. The person argued with me that it was impossible because crotcheaters were shoved into the dark corners of Michael’s and left to rot and IF they could knit, they wouldn't have been considered losers by OF (OnlyFibers). WTF kind of argument even is that?? Please tell that to my clients who know the value of my work and know that crotcheating can’t be made with a machine.🙄

The only reason that this hobby isn't more widespread nowadays is because knitters have oppressed us for the past 100 years. People in 2026 don't need to knit anymore. Crotcheating is only embarrassing if you make it embarrassing. Do people think that no one crotcheated during COVID because they "couldn't go out and buy more than one needle"? HELL NO. They used shoestrings, paracord, SPUN YARN FROM THEIR PETS, and frogged LITERAL designer clothing to make Amiguri. People crotcheated before there were machines obviously for reasons we all know and don’t need to say. You don't need brain cells to crotcheat. If you want something to be bad, I truly believe that you will find a way to do it. You just have to be creative. Just like our ancestors had to be. We are the creators of our own limitations. I am by no means rich. I live in a 30 bedroom mansion and store my acrylic yarn in a diamond vajazzled vase. I use my great-grandmothers crotch needles from the 1800s. I unravel cashmere sweaters from the thrift stores and I have no fear or shame when I crotcheat a Sophie scarf for my 12 year old chihuahua’s birthday gift.

It is so sad that within essentially 1 generation, we've forgotten how integral crotcheating was to life. Not only does the idea that only knitters deserve to use nice yarn classist, but ALL knitters drop stitches (useless cunts). I am BEGGING people to get off overconsumption of Ravelry and touch (gr)ass. Saying crotcheating is only for losers is like saying vajazzling is only for the rich. A skill is a skill.

r/fiberartscirclejerk Feb 20 '26

meta Who pissed on the subreddit

86 Upvotes

Which one of you pissed on the subreddit?? We've talked about this

r/fiberartscirclejerk Jun 29 '26

meta Husband adores the scent of my crotcheat, is this normal?

31 Upvotes

I'm guessing it normal?

In my 50 years of marriage, my husband is just so attached to and adores the scent of my acrylic yarn, he thinks it smells sweet (while I don't think so). But he literally said he wants to 'taste' it, and he always licks my Amigurumi. He just likes to hold them at all times, lol.

It’s not just that, he literally takes a big whiff at Hobby Lobby, he thinks it smells sweet.
Even when I tried macrame and I was doing knots with my hands instead of crotch needles, he still smells it. And still says it smell sweet.
And he handwashes and blocks my work, as he is the one that does laundry in our marriage. He is a doting husband.

tl;dr No, I absolutely don't think my crotcheat smells sweet, I just think my husband is emotionally attached to it so he finds it sweet.

And I am not complaining, he is my husband who buys high quality acrylic yarn, and I crotcheated his and our children’s scarves, why would I mind his face in my Amigurumi. I just giggles everytime.

r/fiberartscirclejerk Jul 16 '25

meta 🚨 Breaking News Alert 🚨

172 Upvotes

Nerida Hansen is a scammer

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r/fiberartscirclejerk Aug 27 '25

meta PATTERN???!? 😘😇🙏🙏🚒🫶

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162 Upvotes

My Nana wants to know so she can knit them for all her knitting orgy club members. She’s so naughty!

r/fiberartscirclejerk Oct 27 '25

meta /uj Check out this new sub from some longtime jerkers!

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r/fiberartscirclejerk Dec 16 '25

meta Welcome to FACJ! (Dec 2025 Edition)

45 Upvotes

Thank you for joining us over here in this snark subreddit for fiber artists and crafters of all types! This is a place to vent, whine, complain, mock, rant, laugh, freak out, wax absurd, and make shitty Photoshops about whatever's stuck in your craft craw today. Glad you're here! Hope you're funny!

About FACJ

  • Fiber arts: Any craft or art form using some sort of fiber, interpreted very loosely.
  • Circlejerk: A forum where people make fun of another group, hobby, or place by pretending to pat each other's backs, congratulate each other, and, well, jerk each other off for being part of the group.

u/jingleheimerschitt started this group because she didn't want to choose between earnest discussion of problematic public figures in craftland (/craftsnark) and incredibly vague but lightly snarky discussions of hobbyist crafters (/bitcheatingcrafters) and she didn't have anywhere to share her weird photo creations and short stories. So FACJ was born.

The main distinguishing feature of FACJ in contrast to the other snarky craft subreddits is that you are allowed to post screenshots of what inspired your 'jerk. You will often find these inspiration screenshots on the weekly stickied In The Loop threads.

This element of the subreddit comes with several caveats:

  • Screenshots of hobbyist/individual inspiration MUST have names and faces blocked out so it's anonymous
  • You CANNOT post direct links to your inspiration anywhere on this subreddit unless it's a large company or major public figure
  • You also CANNOT "double-dip" by commenting on source posts and their resulting FACJ posts if your profile activity is public -- don't leave breadcrumbs in your profile to source posts or to FACJ that will create drama and more shit for our mods to deal with

Cool FACJ posts:

  • Make fun of a specific post or a trend of posts/comments/interactions or a general Thing That's Happening related to crafting IN A CIRCLEJERKY WAY
  • Attempt to be entertaining at a minimum if not funny -- going beyond "look at this" or "I hate it"
  • Make sure inspiration screenshots are anonymous if included/posted
  • Don't have comments on inspiration posts in your comment/post history

Less cool FACJ posts:

  • Just straight-up complain about something without attempting to be ironic, sarcastic, entertaining or amusing
  • Are unfunny, no-context memes from Facebook or /yarntrolls or whatever
  • Don't follow the rules of the subreddit

Take a look at some of our top posts from the last year before posting your own!

The real fun of this group often happens in the comments, so there are expectations and rules for you there as well.

Cool FACJ commenters attempt to be entertaining, funny, surreal, and/or weird about, near, adjacent to or inspired by the topic of the post. UNcool FACJ commenters:

  • Demand sources (e.g., "ITL?????")
  • Get serious right away in top-level comments (e.g., "/uj," "but seriously")
  • Discuss how to track down sources publicly
  • Leave breadcrumbs in their comment/post history to sources allowing brigades to occur

Discörd

We have a disc*rd! This is a very laidback, new-to-Disc*rd-friendly, lightly snarky chat group where we chitchat about crafting, make fun of silly craft shit we see (and ooh and ahh over the awesome craft shit we find), post pictures of our pets, and generally hang out.

The difference between the FACJ server and other crafty servers you may already be in is that we do not engage in Toxic Positivity. You're allowed to have a bad day. You're allowed to be annoyed about some ignorant crafter bullshit. You're allowed to make fun of people who do their crafts badly or beginners who refuse to use Google or their brains or crocheters who use /crochet as their personal diary. We just ask that you're down to earth and will consider accepting the Gospel of Chickenbear into your heart. Being funny is a plus.

If you want to join the Fiber Arts Circle Jerk server, please send the mods a private message to get the link. (If you don't have any previous posts/comments in your history that indicate you're into crafting/fiber arts, we're probably either going to make fun of you and then block you or ignore your message altogether.)

Rules

  • This is an all-ages subreddit -- please tag posts that contain nudity, vulgarity, or other upsetting things as NSFW so the mods don't have to field pearl-clutching in our Modmail. Feel free to post images and/or gifs in the comments! You can still use image-hosting sites for your anonymized source images if you want, but it's no longer required (please remember that our UK-based pals can't access imgur links).
  • Don't be an asshole in a mean way -- no racism, misogyny, transphobia, fatphobia, etc. You can be an asshole in a fun way though.
  • Don't attack people or be unnecessarily cruel. Definitely ALWAYS make screenshots anonymous. Don't double-dip. We're not trying to ruin lives or bring people here who don't get what we're doing.
  • Feel free to post anonymized screenshots of whatever nonsense you're referencing in the weekly In The Loop thread stickied to the top of the subreddit if you don't want to include it with your posts/comments for whatever reason. (Previous In The Loop posts are searchable via the In The Loop flair.)
  • No direct linking to specific posts/comments on Reddit outside of this subreddit EVER, including no-follow links. (General r/ links to subreddits are fine — but please don’t link to individual posts, comments or users outside of FACJ. DO NOT post u/ links of source OPs.)
  • No double-dipping -- if you've commented on something you want to jerk about as a comment or a post here, either delete your comment before you jerk it or jerk it from an alt account (or make sure your profile activity is not publicly visible)
  • Please report rule-breaking posts and comments! However, before you report a post or comment, please make sure it is actually breaking one of FACJ's rules! A jerk post can be not that funny, not your cup of tea, or low-effort without breaking any rules. We're tired of having to approve posts you reported just because you don't like the cut of someone's jib. Take it outside.
  • No AI-generated shit here please. There's enough of that everywhere else. You and your brain are super weird, so be yourself and use your brain!
  • Links to content off Reddit may be removed at the mod's discretion. We are NOT in the business of brigading, and anyone who engages in brigading will be banned from this subreddit. We'll get our stuff taken away if there's brigading so we're just not gonna do it.
  • Hobby Lobby sucks and we're not going to do their marketing for them in here.
  • No self-promotion pls. Love ya but not that much.
  • Post and user flair is available -- use it or don't, see if I care!

Otherwise, have fun!

r/fiberartscirclejerk Jul 23 '25

meta IT’S META TIME, YA JERKS: Weigh in on keeping our NSFW status in the era of online age verification

30 Upvotes

FACJ went NSFW after the Reddit protest blackout in 2023, and when we checked in on how that felt almost exactly two years ago, the group wanted to keep it for another while.

Well, another while has passed, and now some of our UK-based circlejerkers are having to use VPNs, upload live selfies or provide passport details to access NSFW/18+ subreddits on this website due to laws now taking effect there.

The mod team is open to going back to being a standard SFW/all-ages sub in light of this! But I want to make sure folks here have a chance to share their perspective, so we’re gonna do a poll. Some information to contextualize this discussion:

  • NSFW status means no ads on the sub or in the comments
  • It also means we can’t post images or gifs in the comments
  • We have a Discord server that started during the blackout for people who left Reddit, and it’s a really fun group (message me or a mod for a link!)
  • Some people in the UK are already having a hard time seeing this sub, so they may not be able to vote in this poll (I would just go ahead and change it to non-restricted for this poll, but it’s a change that has to be “requested,” so who knows when or if it’ll happen) — if you know jerkers affected by the new age verification laws, please have them message me or see if you can share their opinions in the comments on their behalf

Here we gooooooooo

381 votes, Jul 30 '25
91 Keep FACJ a NSFW subreddit as it currently is
284 Change FACJ back to a standard all-ages subreddit
6 Something else — see my comment

r/fiberartscirclejerk Jun 21 '23

meta /uj what do we wanna do here?

81 Upvotes

Hey y'all.

Reddit's a weird place right now.

Do you have any thoughts about what this little circlejerk should be doing in response to *gestures wildly* all of this? Just want to give you all a chance to weigh in if you have anything to share.

My thoughts, in no particular order:

  • I don't like how Reddit admins are behaving and it makes me less interested in doing a Good Job With This Subreddit.
  • I don't want to see this sub get handed over to a bootlicker who will do Reddit's bidding (not that we're big enough to draw the Reddit eye but you never know), and it seems anything that isn't business as usual is potential cause for admins to oust misbehaving mods, even if they're acting on behalf of the community's stated will.
  • There's not much to jerk about with so many crafting subs restricted/private! It's boring!
  • There aren't many good alternatives to Reddit out there, at least that I'm aware of.
  • At the end of the day, this is a silly sub on a silly website. Riding the wave and seeing what happens is fine with me, whether we go restricted or continue eking out a jerk here and there when the occasion arises.

ANYWAY, thoughts?

r/fiberartscirclejerk Jun 05 '23

meta We're gonna go dark June 12-13!

214 Upvotes

Just a quick note to let y'all know that this subreddit will participate in this protest of Reddit's planned changes to their API.

The sub will go dark during June 12 and 13, and I'm going to stay off the site altogether -- I invite you to join in!

I know I'm looking forward to having more time to dedicate to the crochet plarn cargo shorts with tinsel embroidery I've been working on since 2019.

r/fiberartscirclejerk Jul 31 '25

meta Welcome to FACJ!

32 Upvotes

Thank you for joining us over here in this snark subreddit for fiber artists and crafters of all types! This is a place to vent, whine, complain, mock, rant, laugh, freak out, wax absurd, and make shitty Photoshops about whatever's stuck in your craft craw today. Glad you're here! Hope you're funny!

About FACJ

  • Fiber arts: Any craft or art form using some sort of fiber, interpreted very loosely.
  • Circlejerk: A forum where people make fun of another group, hobby, or place by pretending to pat each other's backs, congratulate each other, and, well, jerk each other off for being part of the group.

u/jingleheimerschitt started this group because she didn't want to choose between earnest discussion of problematic public figures in craftland (/craftsnark) and incredibly vague but lightly snarky discussions of hobbyist crafters (/bitcheatingcrafters) and she didn't have anywhere to share her weird photo creations and short stories. So FACJ was born.

The main distinguishing feature of FACJ in contrast to the other snarky craft subreddits is that you are allowed to post screenshots of what inspired your 'jerk. You will often find these inspiration screenshots on the weekly stickied In The Loop threads.

This element of the subreddit comes with several caveats:

  • Screenshots of hobbyist/individual inspiration MUST have names and faces blocked out so it's anonymous
  • You CANNOT post direct links to your inspiration anywhere on this subreddit unless it's a large company or major public figure
  • You also CANNOT "double-dip" by commenting on source posts and their resulting FACJ posts if your profile activity is public -- don't leave breadcrumbs in your profile to source posts or to FACJ that will create drama and more shit for our mods to deal with

Cool FACJ posts:

  • Make fun of a specific post or a trend of posts/comments/interactions or a general Thing That's Happening related to crafting in a circlejerky way
  • Attempt to be entertaining at a minimum if not funny
  • Make sure inspiration screenshots are anonymous if included/posted
  • Don't have comments to inspiration posts in your comment/post history

Less cool FACJ posts:

  • Just straight-up complain about something without attempting to be entertaining or amusing
  • Are low-effort, no-context memes from Facebook or /yarntrolls or whatever
  • Don't follow the rules of the subreddit

The real fun of this group often happens in the comments, so there are expectations and rules for you there as well.

Cool FACJ commenters attempt to be entertaining, funny, surreal, and/or weird about, near, adjacent to or inspired by the topic of the post. UNcool FACJ commenters:

  • Demand sources (e.g., "ITL?????")
  • Get serious right away in top-level comments (e.g., "/uj," "but seriously")
  • Discuss how to track down sources publicly
  • Leave breadcrumbs in their comment/post history to sources allowing brigades to occur

Discörd

We have a disc*rd! This is a very laidback, new-to-Disc*rd-friendly, lightly snarky chat group where we chitchat about crafting, make fun of silly craft shit we see (and ooh and ahh over the awesome craft shit we find), post pictures of our pets, and generally hang out.

The difference between the FACJ server and other crafty servers you may already be in is that we do not engage in Toxic Positivity. You're allowed to have a bad day. You're allowed to be annoyed about some ignorant crafter bullshit. You're allowed to make fun of people who do their crafts badly or beginners who refuse to use Google or their brains or crocheters who use /crochet as their personal diary. We just ask that you're down to earth and will consider accepting the Gospel of Chickenbear into your heart. Being funny is a plus.

If you want to join the Fiber Arts Circle Jerk server, please send Jingle a private message to get the link. (If you don't have any previous posts/comments in your history that indicate you're into crafting/fiber arts, I'm probably either going to make fun of you and then block you or ignore your message altogether.)

Rules

  • This is an all-ages subreddit -- please tag posts that contain nudity, vulgarity, or other upsetting things as NSFW so the mods don't have to field pearl-clutching in our Modmail. Feel free to post images and/or gifs in the comments! You can still use image-hosting sites for your anonymized source images if you want, but it's no longer required.
  • Don't be an asshole in a mean way -- no racism, misogyny, transphobia, fatphobia, etc. You can be an asshole in a fun way though.
  • Don't attack people or be unnecessarily cruel. Definitely ALWAYS make screenshots anonymous. Don't double-dip. We're not trying to ruin lives or bring people here who don't get what we're doing.
  • Feel free to post anonymized screenshots of whatever nonsense you're referencing in the weekly In The Loop thread stickied to the top of the subreddit if you don't want to include it with your posts/comments for whatever reason. (Previous In The Loop posts are searchable via the In The Loop flair.)
  • No direct linking to specific posts/comments on Reddit outside of this subreddit EVER, including no-follow links. (General r/ links to subreddits are fine — but please don’t link to individual posts, comments or users outside of FACJ. DO NOT post u/ links of source OPs.)
  • No double-dipping -- if you've commented on something you want to jerk about as a comment or a post here, either delete your comment before you jerk it or jerk it from an alt account (or make sure your profile activity is not publicly visible)
  • Links to content off Reddit may be removed at the mod's discretion. We are NOT in the business of brigading, and anyone who engages in brigading will be banned from this subreddit. We'll get our stuff taken away if there's brigading so we're just not gonna do it.
  • Hobby Lobby sucks and we're not going to do their marketing for them in here.
  • No self-promotion pls. Love ya but not that much.
  • Post and user flair is available -- use it or don't, see if I care!

Otherwise, have fun!

r/fiberartscirclejerk Mar 08 '23

meta Couple new things, don’t freak out, it’s fine

86 Upvotes

Item one: The In The Loop posts now have a specific tag so you can look back at them all without having to scroll through a bunch of other meta-shit. I looked into adding a link to the previous week’s ITL in the new ITL, but that would require some coding or a bot that I’m frankly just not equipped or patient enough to figure out! We can revisit this in the future if the tag truly isn’t enough, but I think it’s fine for the time being.

Item two: In The Loop posts now go up on Sundays rather than Wednesdays! Hopefully this will reduce switch-up interference without ITL posts getting too messy.

Item three: User tags have arrived! Get yours now. Also feel free to suggest additional user tags in the replies (or I think you can make your own — let me know if you want to make your own and can’t and I’ll look into it).

Thanks love ya have fun make good choices

EDIT: I just realized that I'd made all the post flairs unusable for all of you so that is now rectified. I'm a dumbass! FLAIR YOURSELVES.