Its real
https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDramaDrama/
using this as a springboard to educate on the subject of the only site on the internet worse than kiwifarms
for perhaps you have not been introduced to
THE HORROR OF RDRAMAas much as r/subredditdrama may appear to be a place for popcorn to laugh at the rest of reddit, it is in fact the woke, sanitized, "approved" drama board
r/drama is (was) its wild west cousin, whose sidebar clearly states:
Do your part to keep our community healthy by blowing everything out of proportion and making literally everything as dramatic as possible.
to be clear, as often as they might laugh at antiwork goofballs they would also be somewhat cruel and more subversive, and it was one of the most chaotic boards on the site, one of the last remaining after multiple purges of e.g. r/thedonald etc.
over time, other subreddits and reddit leadership became very angry with the board, but they managed to keep ducking new rules and limitations enforced on them
posting in r/drama would flag you as a hateful person and get you autobanned from other boards...no brigading...scrub all personally identifiable information from all posts...no more saying naughty words (users simply started saying r-slur and t-slur)...linking to literally any other location on reddit from r/drama was banned...archiving (via archive.md etc.) was banned
constantly on the verge of having their board shut down by the admins, they took the nuclear option:
users were only allowed to post in emoji, with the reasoning being that if admins are going to ban people for literal smileys, then reddit is truly broken
and this is where the site sits to this day
(by the way,
lol @ one of those links)
but this is not the end of the story of rdrama
for in their final days of text posting, they formed a treehouse site at
rdrama.net and made sure the entire userbase knew about it
and there is some room here to pontificate: was it better to crack down on r/drama and run them off the site to keep reddit pure, or would it have been better to keep them in a place where you can track them, monitor their chats and private messages, ban specific bad users, and overall keep them under control?
because now...
Let me tell you this-- rdrama.net is one of the most malevolent, cruel, coldhearted online communities you'll ever find, and even as a supporter of free speech it appalls me that the internet would allow such a vile, festering hub of bigotry and sadism to exist. You think [slur]town was bad? That website, if you pick up on the dog-whistles (and many don't even bother with that-- say want you want about Stormfront, at least it bans "n[slur]"), will reveal itself to you as the internet's number one hub for the web's most hardened Nazis, Klansmen, Fascists, and Gamergaters. You'll notice on the description that it encourages members to be as dramatic as possible. That's intentional. They encourage arguments in the comments section. That's intentional. You know the Three Minute Hate (it's from this underrated book 1985, give it a read, it's scary how much it parallels our society)? It's like that, they want to stoke the flames of reactionary rage so they continue to dogpile every progressive and minority who enters the website, normalizing these evil feelings. They brigade from website to website, having an entire cabal of admins spanning hundreds of communities, gaslighting lived experiences of the oppressed and unashamedly bolstering the internet's white supremacy movement. They've kink-shamed hundreds of people too, some even... to death. I fear that rdrama.net may be producing an entire army of Dylann Roofs and Elliot Rogers, and I highly suggest that nobody dares visit that horrible website, lest you potentially fall victim to its corruptive aura.
and therefore mentioning rdrama.net anywhere at reddit is banned
here are some other facts about rdrama:
- one of their many hoaxes you may have heard of was the creation of r/txbountyhunters, supposedly for collecting bounties in the wake of Texas's new abortion laws. they fooled a number of major news sites reporting on the "phenomenon"
Update: After publication of this article, a Medium article reported the r/TXBountyHunters subreddit was a hoax created by a group called "rDrama" which starts internet forums designed to troll users. Insider viewed discussions of the subreddit on rDrama's website.
- oddly enough they are equal opportunity chaos and aren't explicitly left- or right-wing, which results in a community constantly at war with itself. if a user is a "rightoid" and constantly rages about identity politics and Biden and AOC, they are forcibly given a sitewide theme in LGBT rainbow colors, and they are forced to include the phrase "trans lives matter" in every post or it will be automatically deleted
- they hold public lynchings, where anyone can nominate another user to be banned from the site and hold a vote to do so
- they are obsessed with the word bussy, and Marsey the cat which I guess is from Telegram, who you will see plastered all over the site like a horrible plague and is sure to soon make the list as an international hate symbol
- they have awards which allow users to break the site in various ways like pin a picture of their choice to the main page, and one notorious award called the Touch Grass Award, which bans the user immediately and requires them to send a timestamped photo of themselves literally touching grass to be unbanned
and this has been your cultural enrichment for the day
