collecting skulls of others (including friends, family members, and local celebrities) actually used to be a popular European, especially German, pastime. E.g. Goethe owned Schiller's skull after his passing, it being somewhat of his muse he even wrote a poem about it called "Bei Betrachtung von Schillers Schädel".
It also used to be really fashionable among Catholics to own 'relics' of dubious origin way back in the day. It's kind of weird to think about how all of these practices were completely normal.
Yeah, there have always been ups and downs. Like you've pointed out recently, /r/Drama managed to come through Gamergate without experiencing any significant change in culture.
I guess it just feels like the very nature of the sub is changing. We are seeing a lot more screenshots of tweets, think-pieces, and really short reddit threads that don't have drama but are only linked to because "X sub/ideology we don't like said a thing". That's always been around to an extent, but it feels like the majority of the content now. Multiple times I've ordered the sub by top weekly posts and it's just bad. Comments aren't as funny now either. I don't know.
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1 SnapshillBot 2018-10-05
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1 IqtaKadabra 2018-10-05
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1 YameteOtosanItai 2018-10-05
collecting skulls of others (including friends, family members, and local celebrities) actually used to be a popular European, especially German, pastime. E.g. Goethe owned Schiller's skull after his passing, it being somewhat of his muse he even wrote a poem about it called "Bei Betrachtung von Schillers Schädel".
1 snallygaster 2018-10-05
It also used to be really fashionable among Catholics to own 'relics' of dubious origin way back in the day. It's kind of weird to think about how all of these practices were completely normal.
1 snallygaster 2018-10-05
/r/hobbydrama is actually really entertaining, especially given that /r/drama has been virtually barren of drama over the past few weeks
1 moraigeanta 2018-10-05
ty for introducing this I'm in stitches over this post
1 TheRootinTootinPutin 2018-10-05
That post is amazing!
"Should tampons be hand stitched or is machine sewing okay?"
Christ, those organizers were something else
1 moraigeanta 2018-10-05
The diabetes one had me lol'ing. "Should I just drop dead around dinnertime?"
1 snallygaster 2018-10-05
Damn that's some hardcore roleplaying.
1 DuckSosu 2018-10-05
I have a lot of thoughts regarding the current state of drama, but I'll simply ask if you think we'll ever return to some semblance of the past.
1 snallygaster 2018-10-05
I'm not sure. It goes through ups and downs.
1 DuckSosu 2018-10-05
Yeah, there have always been ups and downs. Like you've pointed out recently, /r/Drama managed to come through Gamergate without experiencing any significant change in culture.
I guess it just feels like the very nature of the sub is changing. We are seeing a lot more screenshots of tweets, think-pieces, and really short reddit threads that don't have drama but are only linked to because "X sub/ideology we don't like said a thing". That's always been around to an extent, but it feels like the majority of the content now. Multiple times I've ordered the sub by top weekly posts and it's just bad. Comments aren't as funny now either. I don't know.
1 thesnakeinthegarden 2018-10-05
killing mean pings killed drama. hobbydrama is truedrama now.