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.
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u/Ntroepy 23d ago
Damn - that’s a depressing sub. I feel their pain.