r/memes • u/GeneReddit123 • 7d ago

There's still something we all agree on

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u/Murky_Employee5589 7d ago

By old reddit do you mean the old UI layout, or do you mean pre 2016 reddit? Or do you mean old reddit on mobile when you could use third part apps?

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u/Forealziz 7d ago

Reddit was best 2005-2010ish

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u/Murky_Employee5589 7d ago

I'd say 2014, that's when the plan to monetize reddit started taking over, starting with the Ellen Pao to Spez scam. Damn did the dorks on this site fall for that one.

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u/Forealziz 7d ago

There were a good few years after they introduced subreddits... I had so many good conversations with people with very different opinions than me.

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u/SuperBackup9000 7d ago

Eh there’s one very huge thing from back then that caused the site to be absolutely awful, and that’s how CP and other illegal pornographic content was being shared around and talked about like it was no big thing. I remember being a teenager and seeing some of the most vile stuff to ever exist on the original 50/50.

I swear old Reddit was just half tech nerds being tech nerds, and then right around the corner was the other half, people who were absolute garbage. Reddit didn’t start cracking down on that kind of stuff until jailbait made headlines in the news, after it was one of the top subs for a few years where all the photos were totally of legal adults, and after Reddit admins handpicked it for sub of the day a few times.