r/CuratedTumblr • u/Turbulent_League9668 • 2h ago

Shitposting "You are not immune to propaganda"

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u/goblin_humppa27 2h ago

Reddit needs its own novelty accounts who do funny stuff like this.

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u/Mddcat04 2h ago

There used to be a bunch. Think it just got too big.

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u/3pointone415 2h ago

u/shittymorph is still around. He still occasionally does undertaker comments too

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u/captainpantalones 2h ago

It’s been so long, I’ve forgotten what old Reddit was like! The novelty accounts, the site wide lore that everyone somehow knew. It was definitely more whimsical than what it is now. I can’t even remember when I saw someone comment with the Reddit silver jpg

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u/inform880 1h ago

Anyone remember a certain boob? Gallow perhaps?

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u/OldManFire11 1h ago

The CaptionBot vs CationBot "feud" was the funniest thing I saw that year.

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u/yttakinenthusiast 1h ago

i find people doing their own novel thing neat, but sometimes seeing people try to do the same bit someone else already did gets grating.

i'm talking about users on whenthe.

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u/Dependent-Purple9736 2h ago

The jumper cables guy got me every single time

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u/Mddcat04 1h ago

Yeah, that used to happen pretty often. Now it’s been years…

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u/Terminal_Insomnia_ 1h ago

It happened to me recently, actually. I was on a post about some metal band I think, and this guy was telling me about a concert he went to. I didn't recognize him right away because I kinda got sucked into the story. He really got me reeled into it, but before I found out how it ended my dad beat me with a set of jumper cables for spending too much time online. I'm pretty sure that guy was Dave Grohl, I wish I had asked him some more questions.

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u/okurin39 1h ago

I miss that fish fucker dude

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u/quidpro_PRON 1h ago

Oh there's a bunch, but it seems like some people go full on loco for imaginary internet points and views.

One of the big ones was user Unidan

A wholesome one that I believe is still active is user Schnoodledoodledo who writes cute poems about pets and life in a kind of internet spelling aesthetic.

There's also poem for your sprog that also does comments poetry.

User shitty_watercolor has been viral on here plenty of times.

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u/goblin_humppa27 1h ago

Unidan got banned like 13 years ago, dude

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u/quidpro_PRON 1h ago

Lol yeah he did, good times

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u/omyomo 1h ago

Is that second one still doing the "heckin doggo" baby talk?

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u/quidpro_PRON 1h ago

Believe so, I know it doesn't sit well with some people

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u/omyomo 59m ago

I remember it sometimes felt tone deaf, like someone would post a tragic story about the death of their pet and within a few minutes, there'd be the standard "i am le pupper, i hab fren"

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u/quidpro_PRON 56m ago

Oh for sure. It came across to super insincere when the context are those kinds of sad situations you're describing.

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u/PoniesCanterOver gently chilling in your orbit 1h ago

Fuck em

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u/BarovianNights Omg a fox :0 1h ago

Yeah that's the person who writes like they're actively losing braincells

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u/BreadfruitTasty 1h ago

Skeletor is around

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u/Hi2248 Cheese, gender, what the fuck's next? 1h ago

Do roleplay accounts count? If so there's a bunch on various fandom subreddits

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u/goblin_humppa27 1h ago

Respectfully, no they do not count. If the jumper cables guy existed exclusively in a subreddit where you can seek him out, no one would care.

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u/Rakifiki 1h ago

Margaret Thatcher pops up in here occasionally.

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u/Bor-the-Barbarian 2h ago

Okay but according to Supereyepatchwolf’s excellent video essay What The Internet Did To Garfield, Jim Davis doesn’t draw Garfield anymore.

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u/Luckierexpert 1h ago

He didn’t say that. He talked about Jim Davis having a talented team that can draw Garfield in the same way as him, and that Jim Davis may select a replacement at some point. Jim Davis still draws Garfield, just not all of it.

Go to 44:30 on Super Eyepatch Wolf’s video on Garfield, that’s where he talks about it.

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u/JamieD96 1h ago

I despise believable misinformation accounts. It's just not funny to spread lies. That's shit AI does.

Completely over the top misinformation accounts, however, are funny as fuc

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u/AntsAreGreat 1h ago

"That's shit AI does"

Lmao as if humans haven't been making shit up for millennia

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u/thaeli 1h ago

You’re absolutely right! /s

But seriously, yeah, humans have been making stuff up and saying it with a straight face forever. And it’s always been kinda obnoxious when it’s believable, though when the stakes were lower and we were far less flooded with weaponized disinformation, it was often funny.

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u/RikuAotsuki 1h ago

Yeah, jokes stop being funny when they're indistinguishable from an actual problem.

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u/JamieD96 1h ago

Yes, absolutely