Ask HN: anyone else watching with horror/fascination as reddit turns into /b/? There are almost too many examples to cite (narwhals, 'let me tap that', 'FB girl who loves anal', 'stay hasty' personal army thread, references to pedobear, etc, etc, etc). Don't get me wrong. I love reddit. I also, in spite of myself, like /b/. It can be brilliantly demonic. But I've seen reddit slowly transform into /b/ over the course of the past 2 years - right around the time Anonymous went after the Scientologists. Amazingly, I have never seen reddit mentioned on /b/, but I see /b/ mentioned on reddit quite a bit. So how did it happen? Did reddit discover /b/ or vice versa? Is /b/ the inevitable end result when a bunch of smart, socially awkward, computer savvy teens and 20-year-olds get together online? |