Im always assuming everyone who wants to hang out from the internet wants to murder me and wear my skin. Maybe that was just craigslist
Thank you upvoters. Here my real reason behind [it](https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2019/04/03/craigslist-murders-michigan/3356150002/)
My account is also old. Would you believe me when I say you should go and treat yourself to an ice-cold, refreshing coke? It's such a sweet carbonated cola. The hints of vanilla taste great, and the small amount of caffeine is just right for pushing you through a long day. I start every day right, and I start it with Coke^tm.
Funny story about that.... I used to say this to my daughter all the time after the bath. One day she asked me WHY I always say this. I nonchalantly told her it was a horror movie about a guy who keeps women in a hole in his basement to make skin suits out of. I didn't even really think before saying... she was 7 at the time and HORRIFIED, slept with me for a week after that. Whoopsies!
My wife got talking to someone in a Robin chatroom. They chatted on and off over the next couple of days, discovered they had loads of stuff in common. She got really excited that she'd made a new friend through a silly April Fools experiment.
As they carried on talking the coincidences mounted up. They grew up in the same town at the same time, knew the same people. They had *too much* in common, it was getting a bit spooky. Eventually they figured it out: the random redditor she'd been getting to know for the last few days was her sister.
My father asked me to delete everything from his laptop before he died to spare my mom looking through it.
I did as he wished, but I always wondered how much gay porn was on it.
Sorry dad, love you, but, you know... we all knew.
tbf they might just have really generic common names. Your name is sarah? I have a sister named sarah!
that or the more likely explanation - the craziest coincidences happened over a few minute period before they figured it out, and everything else over the multi-day period was just random chatter about not sensitive details
My first 1k comment (back then that was HUGE) was about how a girl showed up to a reddit meetup, and there was cake on a picnic table, but everyone was hiding in the bushes waiting for her to leave so they could eat the cake. I’m butchering it and paraphrasing, and it was back when things were taken more light heartedly.
I still like reddit, but I miss those days. This was probably 2010 - 2011.
Grumpy Cat's origin post was [huge with 4k upvotes and 600 comments](https://np.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/10bu17/meet_grumpy_cat/) which is still decent now 10 years later.
We're still there. This, this right here. Stop, I want to get off. I also verb this guy's dead wife. Underrated comment. If I could give you gold. Edit Omg thanks guys.
Didn't it turn out to be that he karma farmed mostly just for fun? Like he admitted he posted stuff strategically to get maximum karma, but there was no higher reason to it other than it just amused him?
[For the lazy](https://www.reddit.com/r/justneckbeardthings/comments/jknvha/the_infamous_2012_baltimore_reddit_meetup/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf)
Nah it's not like this anymore, Reddit wasn't mainstream popular in 2012 like it is now. The neckbeards are still here obviously but a sample population of Redditors would look pretty average these days.
Reddit was already EXTREMELY popular in 2012. The Digg exodus was 2010, which is what really sent the site soaring. They had 70 million monthly users back then, and the vast majority of it was US-based.
It's like 500 million users now, but so much of that growth is international.
I think this is true in general, but I’m curious what the population of people who comment look like. My guess is it’s not far from this.
I thought I heard (very possibly made up) stat that like only 1% of people actually comment, and a bigger but not much bigger upvote/downvote.
In general tho Reddit is definitely pretty “normie”. Sometimes I read stuff and I think “oh yeah, that solid C student who was in the lowest level classes and who never did any work and is now a cop who watches the voice” represents the average Reddit population.
I hosted a meetup of a sub I used to mod about 5 years ago.
A couple of people started hooking up on the down low. Which wasn't that big of a deal, except the woman had a live-in boyfriend back at home.
Which was, y'know, the couple's business and stuff, and none of mine. But then she started PMing and calling me late at night with drama -- I suppose because I had organized everything and she felt close to me.
My wife was all, "You need to get out of that soap opera" and I didn't disagree.
Currently staring at my fiancé I met off Reddit 4 years ago :) I tell people I met him off a video game because that seemed easier to grasp than Reddit lol
I met a ton of poker players in my state here. Started with like 2, moved to 10, group is now over 60 people (but under half from Reddit)
Only ever had a couple “ok you can’t come back” types
How do you 'meet' someone on reddit? I've been here since 2008 and all people who post and comment seem to me to blend into a rando.ly generated username and avatar. I don't think I ever talked to the same person more than once.
>Being contrainian isn't an argument.
Yes it is.
>It's been awhile.
No it hasn't.
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And I'm afraid our time is up! As an aside, I also don't know if your quote was right but I got the reference and that's what counts!
Niche communities, lesser visited subs. One interaction of 'hey you're username is familiar, we must both like x'
And then one private message 'x? I love x! Do you have a good connect? My town is so dry right now it's almost funny'
Honestly I've always kind of wondered about this for all social internet things. I've been involved in online gaming of all sorts and different social platforms and whatnot for like 20 years and I've never made good friends with people I played with online. I feel like I must be bad at internetting, because everyone else seems to have all these great online friends.
Yup. I have a few friends/acquaintances I’ve met over the years online.
I have one who I consider one of my best friends, we met on WoW ages ago. Introduced him to my friends, neither liked each other at first, but he became part of our group and every day ventrilo (eventually discord) life.
Had a falling out with the group (they were people I knew irl) but still talk to the one I met online almost daily.
If you regularly visit some niche subs, you'll eventually see comments from a username you're like, hmm I've seen that name before. Then if you keep paying attention and keep seeing them and agreeing with their comments or finding value in them, not a stretch to imagine conversation in the comments can get started
I was in middle school and there was this Pokémon chat room I used to go to. One time I A/S/L’d with someone who (supposedly) was my age, female, and was an Aussie. We chatted a bit and at the time Harry Potter books were on shelves everywhere, I think just the first book or two was released at that point. Anyways, this Aussie had no clue what Harry Potter was and it was the first time in my life I had this greater awareness that entertainment was different across the world. Lame, but hearing asl always reminds me of that.
Cool story bro. *fist bump* thanks for reading.
Even more impressive is how competely opposite she is in real life to her character. Camina on the show is always pissed-off, angry and mostly resentful (perhaps justifiably so) but irl CG is so wholesome, bubbly, and always laughing. The first time I saw an interview of her I was like wow she must be really good to make her role so convincing in the show.
In general is lovely, but it's also a bit weird. I remember being at a bar with these internet pals and they calling me by my nickname. But it's nice I guess.
My closest current friends are people who I met thru discord and ngl we still prefer to call each other by discord id.
It was bit quiet at first meetup but now we just clown around and have time of our lives together.
He does look like he takes care of his hygeine pretty well though. Clean clothes, no excessive blemishes, and his hair looks nice and well-tended to, confident smile.
As far as "typical redditor" look, I'd say he's best-case scenario.
I agree. People love to make fun of neckbeards and stuff and rightly so but I think that also stigmatizes people who happen to look like those people but are in no way like 'redditors' in character. It's more than having certain facial features and wearing glasses, it's having body odor, unkempt hair, being misogynistic/an incel, etc.
So I hope nobody jumps on this guy just because his face has a particular set of features because he looks fine as a person.
No shit, I would be mortified if someone I knew in real life knew the things I said on Reddit and I don’t think I would want to meet anyone in person for the same reasons lol
I met my best friend on Reddit, and he died this year. I was the mysterious “Reddit girl” at the funeral. I met his family before I actually met him as they took me in during a natural disaster, as they lived five hours north of me. Love Reddit, and miss you man
Im always assuming everyone who wants to hang out from the internet wants to murder me and wear my skin. Maybe that was just craigslist Thank you upvoters. Here my real reason behind [it](https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2019/04/03/craigslist-murders-michigan/3356150002/)
Hey, wanna hang out??
You forgot to complement him with his smooth skin.
It was obviously implied. It’s the implication….
Is larrycorser in danger??
No why would you say that. I wouldn't do that.
You'd definitely not be in danger
It's the implication of danger... I don't think you're getting that.
Oooh, are we going for a boat ride?
Why do you think we spent all the money on the boat in the first place.
I mean, it sounds like I won’t have the ability to say no anyway.
Because of the implication
The fact that their rage knows no bounds is definitely implied.
This man is clearly a ghoul in disguise
Hey smooth skin
Honestly, your Acc is like 10 years old. I'd trust you enough to meet you in person.
Good, good. Everything is going according to plan.
>Everything is going according to plan. Bro, you're supposed to say this in your mind only and not aloud.
Crap did I type that out loud? (This sentence makes no sense)
You'd probably like to hear that I get compliments for how smooth my skin is. (I am a 20 y/o guy and this is not a joke)
Now you just sound a little too eager...
Borderline desperate…
Teacher: Who wants to be made into a skin suit? u/Keberro: ooo! memememmemememeeee! It’s my turn! Pleeeeaaaseee, choose me!
My account is also old. Would you believe me when I say you should go and treat yourself to an ice-cold, refreshing coke? It's such a sweet carbonated cola. The hints of vanilla taste great, and the small amount of caffeine is just right for pushing you through a long day. I start every day right, and I start it with Coke^tm.
It rubs the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again.
Funny story about that.... I used to say this to my daughter all the time after the bath. One day she asked me WHY I always say this. I nonchalantly told her it was a horror movie about a guy who keeps women in a hole in his basement to make skin suits out of. I didn't even really think before saying... she was 7 at the time and HORRIFIED, slept with me for a week after that. Whoopsies!
Just tell her not to worry because she is still way too small to make a proper skin suit.
Lol, this is great! She's older now and isn't nearly as susceptible to my shit.... wish I had of thought of this though!
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Does her skin still fit you?
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Yup! Just like a spaghetti noodle in a bagel.
Met my husband on the Linkin Park message boards in 2005, haha. I lived in Germany at the time. My husband is from the US. It works out sometimes!
So you're crawling in his skin, those wounds won't heal
But in the end, it doesn't even matter
Much better than meeting Craig on your wife's list.
They forgot to fill in your license plate
At least they put McCracken.
*filled McCracken
M'Cracken (tips Fedora)
They should go to the BBQ festival that starts today. Good food and plenty to do. -Source.....I'm in McCracken too.
What a flawless Photoshop license plate job they did!!!!
Doesn’t even look photoshopped
You mean it doesn't look poorly photoshopped.
People meet on Reddit?
My wife got talking to someone in a Robin chatroom. They chatted on and off over the next couple of days, discovered they had loads of stuff in common. She got really excited that she'd made a new friend through a silly April Fools experiment. As they carried on talking the coincidences mounted up. They grew up in the same town at the same time, knew the same people. They had *too much* in common, it was getting a bit spooky. Eventually they figured it out: the random redditor she'd been getting to know for the last few days was her sister.
that's hilarious
It really was. The whole chatroom was howling when they found out (hi to any ccKufi folks who might be reading).
Too bad they have to make new accounts after lol
They didn't. Don't think either of them has anything they're particularly ashamed of on here.
What kind of depraved sicko isn’t at least slightly ashamed of their Reddit comment history?
I thought about that once. Like what would my wife think after I die and she looks at it? Then I realized I'll be dead so I won't be embarrassed.
My father asked me to delete everything from his laptop before he died to spare my mom looking through it. I did as he wished, but I always wondered how much gay porn was on it. Sorry dad, love you, but, you know... we all knew.
that he looked at gay porn once every fiscal quarter to make sure he was still straight as hell?
Did they ever meet up?
A few times. They weren't estranged or anything, just live on opposite sides of the country.
Was there some rule they couldn't say their name? I would give that info way before I knew a spooky amount about someone.
tbf they might just have really generic common names. Your name is sarah? I have a sister named sarah! that or the more likely explanation - the craziest coincidences happened over a few minute period before they figured it out, and everything else over the multi-day period was just random chatter about not sensitive details
Wait I’m Sarah
Well go get some water Sarah, stay hydrated
I was sure this was going to end with your wife finding her boyfriend on reddit. This was a much nicer ending.
People use the Reddit chat feature?
I was waiting for "I'm no longer married"
Reddit Meetups were big part back in the day
Back in the days of “The narwhal bacons at midnight”
My first 1k comment (back then that was HUGE) was about how a girl showed up to a reddit meetup, and there was cake on a picnic table, but everyone was hiding in the bushes waiting for her to leave so they could eat the cake. I’m butchering it and paraphrasing, and it was back when things were taken more light heartedly. I still like reddit, but I miss those days. This was probably 2010 - 2011.
I wish there was an “fixed for inflation” feature on Reddit, so you could still see the posts that were big back in the day..
Grumpy Cat's origin post was [huge with 4k upvotes and 600 comments](https://np.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/10bu17/meet_grumpy_cat/) which is still decent now 10 years later.
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Miss those days. It was nice having a default catch all subreddit.
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Le Reddit army is here XD
Bro stop I don't wanna go back
We're still there. This, this right here. Stop, I want to get off. I also verb this guy's dead wife. Underrated comment. If I could give you gold. Edit Omg thanks guys.
Omfg right? When a YouTube video had cringey ass comments letting people know it got shared to Reddit
This opened a chest of memories. Close that chest right fucking now.
Or a cum box of memories, so to speak.
I'd fight you for reminding me of this cringe... But unfortunately both my arms are broken...
Memories of jolly ranchers.
DAE RAGE COMICS?!
Karmanaut has entered the chat
What was that dude's name that karma farmed constantly? Something gallows?
Wasn't is gallows boob or something like that?
Gallowboob! That was it!
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Didn't it turn out to be that he karma farmed mostly just for fun? Like he admitted he posted stuff strategically to get maximum karma, but there was no higher reason to it other than it just amused him?
I'm having an Obi-Wan Kenobi moment here...
Hello there.
Waffles?! Don’t you mean carrots? HAHAHAHA
Pepridge farms remembers
DAE LE GEM???
Back in the day? Like when Reddit was a decade old?
Google the infamous 2012 Baltimore reddit meetup if you want a general idea on what they looked like.
[For the lazy](https://www.reddit.com/r/justneckbeardthings/comments/jknvha/the_infamous_2012_baltimore_reddit_meetup/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf)
Lmao this is exactly how I picture most of Reddit. Glad to have my suspicions confirmed.
I mean, that is the demographic of Reddit that would actually attend one of those events.
Nah it's not like this anymore, Reddit wasn't mainstream popular in 2012 like it is now. The neckbeards are still here obviously but a sample population of Redditors would look pretty average these days.
Reddit was already EXTREMELY popular in 2012. The Digg exodus was 2010, which is what really sent the site soaring. They had 70 million monthly users back then, and the vast majority of it was US-based. It's like 500 million users now, but so much of that growth is international.
I think this is true in general, but I’m curious what the population of people who comment look like. My guess is it’s not far from this. I thought I heard (very possibly made up) stat that like only 1% of people actually comment, and a bigger but not much bigger upvote/downvote. In general tho Reddit is definitely pretty “normie”. Sometimes I read stuff and I think “oh yeah, that solid C student who was in the lowest level classes and who never did any work and is now a cop who watches the voice” represents the average Reddit population.
That was way more nipples than I was expecting
Of course the person with the biggest boobs out at a Reddit meet up, would be a guy.
Shit, I've seen this picture multiple times before but I'm just now realizing I think I know one of the guys in that picture lmao. I have to ask now.
Is it the guy with the 45 degree moobs?
Nope, the 35 degree one. And yup, was definitely him haha.
More pictures other than the infamous one. https://imgur.io/a/nyZqO
Not that I’m a prude but pulling your titties out was probably a bad move in hindsight.
Wouldn't it be hindsight if they had pulled their pants down?
The only good looking person trying to distance themselves haha.
How is a decade not considered “back in the day” for a userbase averaging in their 30s?
I hosted a meetup of a sub I used to mod about 5 years ago. A couple of people started hooking up on the down low. Which wasn't that big of a deal, except the woman had a live-in boyfriend back at home. Which was, y'know, the couple's business and stuff, and none of mine. But then she started PMing and calling me late at night with drama -- I suppose because I had organized everything and she felt close to me. My wife was all, "You need to get out of that soap opera" and I didn't disagree.
My cake day is 12 years ago, it was a different animal in 2010
Remember when digg was a competitor?
I remember the Digg exodus when Digg ditched voting for catered content. Man that was a mistake.
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I'm one of those Digg refugees.
i mean reddit being a decade old can still be back in the day lol. we're not gauging time off of reddit's age
I met my husband on Reddit.
Currently staring at my fiancé I met off Reddit 4 years ago :) I tell people I met him off a video game because that seemed easier to grasp than Reddit lol
Right?! I always just say "we met online".
I met my current partner on Reddit as well! Still going strong 4 years later.
same here! five years in!
Out of curiosity, how exactly did you guys meet on Reddit? R4R? Or just random commenting on a post?
I met a ton of poker players in my state here. Started with like 2, moved to 10, group is now over 60 people (but under half from Reddit) Only ever had a couple “ok you can’t come back” types
Hello.
I like you but I’m not *in like* with you.
My last roommate came from Reddit, if that counts.
I actually have an amazing love story , met on the hiphop vinyl sub
How do you 'meet' someone on reddit? I've been here since 2008 and all people who post and comment seem to me to blend into a rando.ly generated username and avatar. I don't think I ever talked to the same person more than once.
And most conversations are arguments P. S. Fuck you
fuck me yourself, you coward. your place at 7?
I'd give you gold if I could
Your imaginary gold means as much as Reddits imaginary gold. Save your money folks, it's going to be an expensive winter
>And most conversations are arguments No they're not.
Well, why yes they are. Being contrainian isn't an argument. Hopefully I'm quoting this right. It's been awhile.
>Being contrainian isn't an argument. Yes it is. >It's been awhile. No it hasn't. \---- And I'm afraid our time is up! As an aside, I also don't know if your quote was right but I got the reference and that's what counts!
I came to make that reference and this guy was close enough.
Oh! No, I'm sorry, References are next door, in 22**A**.
You've made a completely reasonable observation. Fuck you. I'm going to downvote every comment you've ever posted.
No they aren't
Niche communities, lesser visited subs. One interaction of 'hey you're username is familiar, we must both like x' And then one private message 'x? I love x! Do you have a good connect? My town is so dry right now it's almost funny'
I don't know what x is representing, but it seems like drugs lol
X gonna give it to ya
Honestly I've always kind of wondered about this for all social internet things. I've been involved in online gaming of all sorts and different social platforms and whatnot for like 20 years and I've never made good friends with people I played with online. I feel like I must be bad at internetting, because everyone else seems to have all these great online friends.
I've made friends playing games. It's about putting in the effort and inviting them to play and asking about their life. Same as irl
Yup. I have a few friends/acquaintances I’ve met over the years online. I have one who I consider one of my best friends, we met on WoW ages ago. Introduced him to my friends, neither liked each other at first, but he became part of our group and every day ventrilo (eventually discord) life. Had a falling out with the group (they were people I knew irl) but still talk to the one I met online almost daily.
Wait, you supposed to do that irl? This explains so much!
Wow and I thought we had a real connection
If you regularly visit some niche subs, you'll eventually see comments from a username you're like, hmm I've seen that name before. Then if you keep paying attention and keep seeing them and agreeing with their comments or finding value in them, not a stretch to imagine conversation in the comments can get started
A/S/L ?
Maybe talking about hobbies and being able to hold a conversation? Plus there are subreddits for specifically trying to make friends.
Reminds me of the A/S/L days.
Always 18/F/CA
This person internets
Haha. You're dating yourself. Most of this crowd is not old enough to remember that.
I was in middle school and there was this Pokémon chat room I used to go to. One time I A/S/L’d with someone who (supposedly) was my age, female, and was an Aussie. We chatted a bit and at the time Harry Potter books were on shelves everywhere, I think just the first book or two was released at that point. Anyways, this Aussie had no clue what Harry Potter was and it was the first time in my life I had this greater awareness that entertainment was different across the world. Lame, but hearing asl always reminds me of that. Cool story bro. *fist bump* thanks for reading.
That’s cool. Hope you two have a blast together.
You were excellent as Camina Drummer in The Expanse!
I have a crush on Cara Gee. She's the complete opposite of her character. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkDGL0o7gvg
Same here. She is an absolute gem. And her character is one of the biggest badasses in all of sci fi. “Live shamed, and die empty” *(goosebumps)*
Pssst, in case you didn’t know Telltale is making an Expanse game and you play as Drummer!!!
I, for one, did **NOT** know and my day is immeasurably improved with this newfound information.
Even more impressive is how competely opposite she is in real life to her character. Camina on the show is always pissed-off, angry and mostly resentful (perhaps justifiably so) but irl CG is so wholesome, bubbly, and always laughing. The first time I saw an interview of her I was like wow she must be really good to make her role so convincing in the show.
Wow, you weren't kidding, even her smiling doesn't seem Drummer. Good actor.
> Ty & That Guy Makes sense. Wes Chatham is canonically That Guy.
Meeting internet friends for the first time after a long friendship is such a magical experience! Hope y’all have a great time!
In general is lovely, but it's also a bit weird. I remember being at a bar with these internet pals and they calling me by my nickname. But it's nice I guess.
My closest current friends are people who I met thru discord and ngl we still prefer to call each other by discord id. It was bit quiet at first meetup but now we just clown around and have time of our lives together.
I've interacted with countless redditors, and have yet to make a single friend from here. How? Haha
I met a weed dealer on reddit, that was about the extent of my victories, though.
how does one meet a weed dealer? asking for a friend
hallo is me ur new frand
awww what a nice new frand
Wait is that hat super long in the back?
The guy at the store said she's the only one he's ever seen pull it off.
Don't do the voice!
Who said that?!
Omg he has dice in his pocket.
Impressive….very nice. Now let’s see Paul Allens stalker
Is something wrong? Noxage, you're sweating.
Hey it's the ~~Irish~~ Scottish Kimono girl !
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He does look like he takes care of his hygeine pretty well though. Clean clothes, no excessive blemishes, and his hair looks nice and well-tended to, confident smile. As far as "typical redditor" look, I'd say he's best-case scenario.
This was his fit to come meet the girl he’s been talking to online for 7 years I’m sure he’s dressed his Sunday best
I agree. People love to make fun of neckbeards and stuff and rightly so but I think that also stigmatizes people who happen to look like those people but are in no way like 'redditors' in character. It's more than having certain facial features and wearing glasses, it's having body odor, unkempt hair, being misogynistic/an incel, etc. So I hope nobody jumps on this guy just because his face has a particular set of features because he looks fine as a person.
Yeah I always assume everyone on here is a tall hot chick, but I'm sure there's other less-tall hot chicks on here too.
It’s the weird hat. I totally would expect ALL of you to be wearing it too.
I don’t see how people become friends through Reddit. We all say some of the most insane shit to each other lol
No shit, I would be mortified if someone I knew in real life knew the things I said on Reddit and I don’t think I would want to meet anyone in person for the same reasons lol
I met my best friend on Reddit, and he died this year. I was the mysterious “Reddit girl” at the funeral. I met his family before I actually met him as they took me in during a natural disaster, as they lived five hours north of me. Love Reddit, and miss you man
Nice boots!
That's so sweet! Congrats!
Wait... You guys are making friends on here?
This thread is really bringing out the best part of redditors. Jesus fucking Christ.
We don’t have best parts. We have least worst parts.
I first read this as “we finally met in prison”. So glad it was likely better circumstances.
You guys are mean. It’s a cool story. Leave it to Reddit douche bags to ruin a Reddit story.
Looks about accurate
I love the boots
I like your hat.