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7d ago

State of reddit comments in 2025

Am I the only one who really hates that comment section is slowly turning into gen-z discord channel where people communicate in reaction gifs?

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Couldn’t resist… the gif suits nearly any situation
It’s this attitude that drives meme culture into the ground. Like no, memes arise because they convey a specific feeling in a specific context. You just want to use the same picture to respond to everything because you have no personality

Hold on while I’m looking for an appropriate reaction gif...

One of my favourite Lemmy features is that you can comment media in every community. I comment GIFs a lot. Haven't heard any complaints about it though. I am Gen Z though so that might be why I don't see the issue lol.
- That was not my point. If we get to the stage where it's often hard to find comments themselves, then I might start complaining about lemmy too
  
  Seems kinda entitled tbh

I can't comment there anymore. However, now and then I check posts/comments that seem interesting to read but perhaps the subreddits I check are different than yours. Also.. the GenZ influence is staggering. I miss the old internet where people just developed a thick skin and still engaged. But then, I am old.

Darn kids should get off my ~~lawn~~ internet!!! 😤
- How boomer of me, wanting to see comments in comments
  
  It's just as worthless as comment chains of songs, which were there before gifs. It's always been shit, it's just a slightly different shit now.
  Hey now, you're an allstar
  
  A picture is worth a thousand words
  
  You sound so Boomerish

afaik on the PC browsers Reddit Enhancement Suite allows further control of how content is presented, but on the app you still have to avert your eyes.

No-one's forcing you to look at them.

Images weren't even allowed in comments until like 2019 or something. I remember being horrified when I first saw one and blocked them in ublock origin immediately.

Reddit comments have always been insufferable, this is just a 2025 makeover.

The few times I visit the page: Not on my front page.
Are you browsing all?
If yes, I know what's the problem.

somehow and luckily images appear as a link(button) instead of directly loading for me on old reddit so i just ignore them.

Fake. There is no bot shilling some SaaS with 1000 paid updoots.

Is it related to SpaceX starship?
- Top comment was something along the lines of "bricks finally seeing sunlight after all these years"
  I would not be surprised if most of those are bots as it seems really easy to automate reaction gifs with help of AI and how upvoted they get. Ez karma farm

Reddit is trash, but gen Z was a mistake
- I wasn't trying to shit on gen-z, just that comments under a submission looking like a gen-z discord channel seems really annoying and unfitting for reddit (and lemmy too, but they're not being overused here). I just turned 30 and myself constantly use reaction gifs on discord, so it's not like I'm against them in general. Different places calls for different ways of communicating.

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