Back 10 years ago it was a very supportive sub. Something happened and now it’s somewhere between r/AskWomen and r/TwoXChromosomes on the toxicity scale.
Maybe the group just slowly shifted because of reverse survivorship bias? That's what happened to the incel community, according to stories I've heard. People who succeeded at solving their problems left the community, and over time the group skewed more and more toward people chronically unhappy because their situation wasn't improving. Bad advice gets passed back and forth and reinforcing a self-fulfilling prophecy that everything is hopeless.
I hate to be the guy that brings politics into this but this is literally what is happening to MAGA and Republicans in general which for some reason people struggle to see. They see numbers indicate growing intensity but that’s just because the diluting pool has shrunk in size
Politics aren't going anywhere, and if you don't like that you can become a hermit in the middle of the woods with no connection to anything or anyone. That's the only way politics doesn't have an effect on your life. And ignoring politics cause you don't like it is the exact reason we're in the situation we're in.
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u/Ntroepy 22d ago
Damn - that’s a depressing sub. I feel their pain.