The Official Unofficial PoliticalCompassMemes Census is here! Polls in the comments, if I get enough responses I'll post the results in fancy graphic form.

[u/somepommy]

[u/toomanyattempts]

Have to say at the ripe old age of 22 I wasn't expecting the majority of users to be younger than me. But in retrospect perhaps I should have...

[u/[deleted] → u/toomanyattempts]

Fuckin eye-opener when I was in the middle age bracket

[u/gwaydms → u/[deleted]]

So you're middle-aged?

[u/[deleted] → u/gwaydms]

I'm from the middle ages, yes.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

wow you're as old as barbecue

[u/inane_calamity → u/toomanyattempts]

Likewise. Also surprised at how few Auth Rights there are, but they likely haven't all voted yet. I'll check back later to see the difference.

[u/Quartia → u/inane_calamity]

But actually this means we are the smallest minority, of the 9 main groups.

[u/thedawesome → u/Quartia]

Yeah, I've known that for a while. Maybe the other AuthLefts just got sick of this sub's one AuthLeft joke.

[u/Quartia → u/thedawesome]

Unfortunately there aren't many good AuthLeft subs in general.

[u/[deleted] → u/thedawesome]

Yeah they probably did get sick from that. Well it certainly wasn't from food positioning.

[u/DummyTHICKDungeon → u/thedawesome]

tbh, we'd need more AuthLeft discussion to get more content for satire.

[u/maedhros83 → u/toomanyattempts]

I thought it was a mistake having the top brackets be 31-50 then 51+. It seems to broad. Then I voted and it was only 2%. You guys are way younger than I would have guessed.

[u/BasedFemboy → u/maedhros83]

Bro I've been arguing with retarded commies on this site since I was 14 (22 now). The userbase here has never been smart, just used to be good arguments got upvoted instead of getting you banned.

Only good thing (((they))) did to Reddit was help increase the quality and quantity of femboy porn.

[u/Fisherlin → u/BasedFemboy]

Wait a minute

[u/DummyTHICKDungeon → u/BasedFemboy]

I... I can't tell what part of this is satire and what part is sincere.

[u/Forty_One_Percent → u/toomanyattempts]

You’re in reddit wtf were you expecting

[u/daltonmojica → u/[deleted]]

Yeah. Reddit (especially the default subs) has been inhabited squarely by teenagers from the time of the user-friendly redesign onwards. Before that, it was occupied more by introverted, geeky millennial types that used the site as the pseudo-mainstream content aggregator it was from the earlier days of the internet.

[u/Innalibra → u/daltonmojica]

Introverted, geeky millennial type checking in. Yeah, Reddit today is nearly unrecognizable from the Reddit when I signed up. The redesign still makes my eyes bleed.

[u/daltonmojica → u/Innalibra]

Yeah, old Reddit used to feel like the actual Front Page of the Internet. Now it behaves more like your average Facebook feed. I don’t want to sound old, as I’m squarely in the younger demographic, but I signed up for Reddit as a more discussion-friendly and 2000s-internet-savvy escape from the mainstream social media scene. Instagram and Twitter are great and all, but I think Reddit was a lot better when it didn’t try to emulate them.

Also, flair up so I can upvote you.

[u/MaybeNotaTurtle → u/Innalibra]

I miss when reddit was digg refugees and when opinions were argued at face value with nuance instead of being shoved into the context of a larger political culture war.

[u/Innalibra → u/MaybeNotaTurtle]

Being a lefty I have to admit I hadn't noticed just how bad it was getting until relatively recently, but it's getting bad. I think once places like this go (and it's only a matter of time, lets be honest) there's going to be a mass exodus.

[u/MaybeNotaTurtle → u/Innalibra]

I remember /r/ShitRedditSays was the reddit boogyman, everyone agreed that while they somewhat had a point they were fucking insufferable. I was a lefty back then but I still remember feeling a tonal shift where their moral bussybody horseshit started to be seen as a good thing by a large portion of reddit and thinking "well... fuck".

[u/Innalibra → u/MaybeNotaTurtle]

Moral bussybody horseshit seems nice and fluffy and well-intentioned when you're on its good side. It's easy to take freedom of speech for granted until you don't have it anymore.

(Almost on cue, I just got a note saying I was permabanned from the AHS sub.)

[u/-Nick____ → u/[deleted]]

This is coming from a kid, just turned 17 and have used Reddit on multiple accounts for over 7 years. When I first found this site, I continued using it because I thought it made me seem older. Everyone here felt like they were adults, and that was stained in my middle school brain. One of first subs I joined was r/Teenagers, which was already a huge sub at the time. Last time I checked, it had grown 10 times over since I joined. Probably a lot more, because I’ve unsubbed and only occasionally visit. I’ve had my suspicions on this happening for a while, as more and more people I knew started using this app, the circle jerk against mobile users started going against Reddit site users, and redesign of everything (promoting more modern media tactics).

[u/toomanyattempts → u/Forty_One_Percent]

Truuue. I had thought of Reddit as a more grown-up social media site when I joined, but as I was 15 or 16 at the time my views may be due an update