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A Comprehensive Categorization of Reddit Ragebait
Reddit, the world's largest roleplaying community. What once was a niche community for unpleasant nerds has blossomed into a beautiful place where people post the fakest stories that you've ever seen in your life. In this video I aim to give a category to every type of ragebait post that I come across on subreddits like r/AmITheAsshole, r/amiwrong, r/relationship_advice, and other hubs for ostensibly nonfictional posts.
Link to all the bait categories and subcategories in alphabetical order: docs.google.com/document/d/1VlWVt9D00M06o30Tg4KmNUwyznz9c7wIVnESNSvukqk/edit?usp=sharing
Time stamps:
Introduction - 0:00
Principles of ragebait - 4:21
Universal Modifiers - 7:25
Abusive/Toxic Family - 12:23
Abusive/Toxic Romance - 17:16
Angelic OP - 23:03
Bad Pet Care - 25:17
Childfree - 27:25
Children - 28:52
Creep - 30:49
Death - 32:46
Divorce - 35:33
Drugs and Alcohol - 38:31
F**ish Bait - 41:36
Financial Fumbles - 42:09
Incel bait - 45:28
Infidelity - 48:02
In-Laws - 53:17
INTERMISSION: How to Write A Good Bait Story - 55:11
Multi-Parters - 1:00:29
Neighbors and Housing - 1:02:08
Paranoia - 1:05:22
Pop Psych Narcissism - 1:06:44
Pregnancy - 1:09:10
Religion - 1:10:58
Rude/ANOS - 1:12:47
Shitty Roommates - 1:18:43
Step/Adoptive Family - 1:20:14
Toxic Workplace - 1:22:25
Transit and Travel - 1:24:45
Unreasonable Majorities - 1:28:21
Unreasonable Minorities - 1:33:33
Wedding Derangement - 1:41:24
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Link to all the bait categories and subcategories in alphabetical order: docs.google.com/document/d/1VlWVt9D00M06o30Tg4KmNUwyznz9c7wIVnESNSvukqk/edit?usp=sharing
Time stamps:
Introduction - 0:00
Principles of ragebait - 4:21
Universal Modifiers - 7:25
Abusive/Toxic Family - 12:23
Abusive/Toxic Romance - 17:16
Angelic OP - 23:03
Bad Pet Care - 25:17
Childfree - 27:25
Children - 28:52
Creep - 30:49
Death - 32:46
Divorce - 35:33
Drugs and Alcohol - 38:31
F**ish Bait - 41:36
Financial Fumbles - 42:09
Incel bait - 45:28
Infidelity - 48:02
In-Laws - 53:17
INTERMISSION: How to Write A Good Bait Story - 55:11
Multi-Parters - 1:00:29
Neighbors and Housing - 1:02:08
Paranoia - 1:05:22
Pop Psych Narcissism - 1:06:44
Pregnancy - 1:09:10
Religion - 1:10:58
Rude/ANOS - 1:12:47
Shitty Roommates - 1:18:43
Step/Adoptive Family - 1:20:14
Toxic Workplace - 1:22:25
Transit and Travel - 1:24:45
Unreasonable Majorities - 1:28:21
Unreasonable Minorities - 1:33:33
Wedding Derangement - 1:41:24
Join the Li Speaks community!
Discord 💜 discord.gg/EMU5mRuD2z 💜
Patreon 💙 patreon.com/lispeaks 💙
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i played woozworld wheni was around 13-15 and maybe i just got lucky because i didn't experience eclass bullying or anything but rather met many nice strangers who traded a lot of rare clothes with me and i made a lot of friends on there. the edating was rampant tho but at least it was common to find gay couples? lol
First video of yours I've seen, and instantly you're very charismatic and fun to be around (digitally). I'm sold :p
I swear I don't mean this in a mean way but this girl is a quality slampig and I absolutely WOULD
I was also afraid of Jimmy Neutron, but it was mostly because of the fact that it heavily featured that trope of cute things being killed, mangled, disfigured, hurt or turned evil, which I absolutely despised and still hate, even as an adult. not to mention, it just had some downright upsetting imagery and concepts, like... the fact an alien impregnated Carl... AND THEN HIS BUTT GOT PREGNANT! seriously, what the actual fuck were they thinking!?
I’ve posted real life scenarios where I was trying to figure out who the a-hole was, and those posts never get much attention. It’s almost like real life is usually pretty mundane and most people’s lives aren’t Grey’s anatomy level dramatic.
it wasnt grooming (at least, for the most part), but the mention of minecraft and roblox still being used to trap kids today is extremely accurate from my experience, ESPECIALLY minecraft which tends to have no chat filter at all (and ways to get around it such as using books) for kids to be enangered tw for abusive and toxic relationships, fake suicide attempt, and erotic roleplay when i was little, maybe 11 or 12, i had just come out of a friendship with someone. i was a little brat when i was that age and as such it had not been a fun split. due to being so depressed it was extremely common for me to give out my email, as all i wanted was someone to *talk* to, to be friends with, since i could relate to no one around me and found irl relationships rather unfulfilling. eventually i met someone i'll call toff on a minecraft server, we shared emails and began to chat. she was about 15 i think? at least 3 years older than me. toff was extremely emotionally abusive to me, and refused to acknowledge anything was ever her fault. as i mentioned before, i was still a bit toxic, but absolutely not on her level. she was also incredibly unforgiving if i ever slipped up or did something wrong. in particular i remember her mentioning wanting to give me a present for christmas, me joking that i wouldnt give her my address, and her BLOWING UP AT ME and ghosting me for days because of that. i didnt leave sooner bc when she was nice, or even IF she was nice, she would be so, so kind. it was lovebombing, essentially. we even did erp, which while i dont think it had the DARKEST intentions, she was still several years older than me. being a junior in HS now, i can hardly even imagine TALKING to an 8th grader, let alone doing such weird things with them. after a while we finally just stopped talking to each other, but only a couple months later she pretended to be her sister, contacting me through a (semi) mutual friend, saying that toff had attempted suicide and that if it succeeded, she would sue me, even though we literally hadnt talked for months and her actual sister likely knew literally nothing about me, let alone a way to contact me. i wish i saw through it back then, but i didnt. the reason she did this is because i had told some people (in private) about what she'd done to me, and how horrible she was. yikes. either way, its been over a year and i havent been in contact with her since, but something extremely odd happened a while back. she often goes by rather obvious pseudonyms, and one of them was MY NAME. that shook me up for quite a while tl;dr, dont give out ANYTHING personal to people if youre at least under the age of like, 16 or 17, and even then you should probably go by a different name online and not go any further than that. please be safe, or else you might meet someone like her (or worse). i literally wouldnt wish someone like toff on my worst enemy. sorry for ranting, its just something im passionate about.
Never played this. I had msp which was better
I've just been picking random things off this list and putting them into chat gpt
you should study r/caffeine
girls within games. INTERLINKED
Shockwave has crashed [Reload] [X]
I just took about water break like 1 min before you said in the video
A gentleman and a scholar.
Bwen Brace Babriella
I'm kind of tempted to write one that is so obviously fake, something along the lines of "AITA for letting my pet dragon burn down the town jesters home?"
The mcball seems to have similar graphics and font than cut the rope? Am I the only one that sees it?
Why is this actually a well grounded research study haha I love it
I always wondered if Horseland was based on the site. I was a premium player back in the day. ...I was also in my early 20s. Don't judge me. It was pretty entertaining for two bucks a month. Never bothered to check out the show; sounds like I didn't miss much.
This is so good, have sucbscribed. More like this please!
chulip music..................................................................
Be interesting to compare it to the storytelling cultures of tumblr or 4chan. Greentexts are a valid form of literature.
All of these are also very prevalent on Quora. I swear every other post is "my pregnant 12 year old son came back past curfew, I beat him within an onch of his life and kicked him out of the house. Was I in the wrong? Everyone tells me it was too much but I don't think so"
Quora is so much more Reddit than Reddit is, it's unbelievable. Every other question is like the worst of AITA.
This video should be a requirement to watch before anyone is allowed to go on the internet imo
whats the music at 40:16 ? i swear i heard it before but i dont remember what its called
WAIT FUCK NEVER MIND I ALREADY FOUND OUT its "intro 1" from "the town with no name" ost
idk if this getsmentioned in the video, but almost any question on NoStupidQuestions that makes it to the top is definetly just some fetishes the people are living out in the question
I need to say this, because it’s bothered me for literal years. The episode where Pepper gets injured… didn’t Sarah literally tell Zoe that Pepper wasn’t dying? And then immediately afterwards, not even 5 seconds later, Zoe goes “why doesn’t anyone understand that I don’t want to watch Pepper die?” But she’s not?? And you’ve been told that she’s not?? Am I missing something here? Even as a kid, this episode made me so angry because it doesn’t make any sense. “She’s not dying.” “I can’t watch her die!” Huh??
I lost all my compacts but I still have the necklace (from the present era) it doesn't light up anymore
Describing these subreddits as "stealth creative writing subreddits" is honestly the greatest thing I've ever heard. I don't even think that's a burn-- they're essentially built around workshopping your ability to get an emotional reaction.
I was watching this in the background and the way the bad apple jumpscare almost caused me to jump XD love the video tho!
Wait wasn't Can Your Pet also made by PETA?
I'm pretty sure their efforts didn't work as intended on horror game nerds
Thank you, as someone who enjoys going into these sybreddits from time to time, you were able to put into words a lot of stuff i was already thinking, nice job
I hit subscribe the second I heard that content warning song 😭🩷
I spent hours playing Key Quest and Habitarium when I was younger! They def need to bring them back!
I actually remember playing Pokemon Black and Blue as a kid and being absolutely horrified at the slaughterhouse video l'm not vegan/vegetarian but if you really think that shock horror like that is the way to convince people to stop eating animals idk what to tell you tbh
Can’t believe you stole my first name smh
“Can Your Pet” was the worst, man
I REMEMBER I REMEMBER I REMEMBER. I’M A GROOVY GIRLLLL
Li, you have no idea how excited I got when I saw this video title. Observing and studying AITA like it's a terrarium of interesting bugs is one of my favourite guilty pleasure pastimes. As an amateur connoissuir of AITA, I would also like to add: "My girlfriend is too horny" posts. I'd catagorise this as a sub-classification of "author's barely disguised fetish", although some could just be people who have observed the Reddit ecosystem of unpleasant nerds who have never been within 10 feet of a woman who wasn't 2D and are now tailoring their posts to fish for internet attention. Some could be real, but most have exaggerated ragebait vibes. Usually intended to elicit 50+ comments along the lines of, "I don't understand how this is a problem", "she's wasted on you", "how are you complaining?", "other guys would kill for this", "I'll take her off your hands if you want", etc etc. Usually works. Type 1M. "Fireworks vs Dog" or "Fireworks vs Person with PTSD" posts. Reddit is generally pro-fireworks in this situation, so the person complaining is usually voted the a-hole regardless of the perspective it's told from. Exists on a sliding scale of believability depending on how unreasonable the complainer is portrayed as. "Picky eater" ragebait. Reddit HATES picky eaters, and will unanimously vote one the a-hole, usually after going on a very condescending rant about how they're childish, selfish, entitled, spoiled babies who only eat chicken nuggies and cheetos. No, they will not make allowances for things like sensory issues or ARFID. TWINS! Just, as a general trope. Lots of twins. Twins are as common in AITA-land as evil MILs and cartoonishly unreasonable fat people.
I’m not sure if it counts as its own separate category but one of my favorite types of posts is where the general consensus is “you’re not an asshole in this situation, but it does seem like you’re an asshole in many other areas of life”
Thank you for mentioning how obsessed Reddit is with an incorrect understanding of NPD. No one ever brings it up.
On Reddit abuse stories: I’m going to list off just a couple things my INCREDIBLY abusive parents did while I was a child; Forcing my siblings and I to watch each other use the bathroom to prevent us from masturbating, beating us with a 2x4(they called it “spanking”), providing us with bologna everyday for lunch and dinner while they ate steaks and the like, I was once forced to sit on the living room floor for a year and stare at my stepmom anytime I had free time, stole any money that was ever given to me or my siblings, hazing(locked in a cage while my siblings are forced to yell and scream and sometimes throw things at the person in the cage), and the final thing; I was kicked out after being beaten for washing the outside of the house with the rag balled up in my hand at age 15. Idc if you don’t believe me, but I will never call bs on an abuse story, idc how crazy it seems. There are some truly fcuked people out there, and unless you’ve went through abuse as well, I don’t think you have the experience to say that things are fake.
“unreasonable autistic person” “unreasonable trans person” me fr
Someone should write this video as a post for AITAH to go iltra mega meta
hehee
watching this channel has just been gender affirming flashback after gender affirming flashback i love it so much fodijwaoidjowakd
I saw this wild Reddit post a bit ago where a husband was complaining about his wife hyoerfixating on random celebrities or fictional characters, to the point of serious dysfunction, who refused to admit she may have a problem - this all culminating in an episode where she fixated on Brett Hart (the best there is, was, or ever will be) and wanted to divorce her husband because he could never be him. And then, of course, a chase involving knives and some other craziness. It just kept spiraling into absurdity and was genuinely one of the most batshit things I’ve ever read. Every comment was taking it so seriously too.
You had me subscribed at the nations of the world bit. Bravo
seriously thank you for talking about how so many of these stories are fake. I see so many people think they're real it's crazy
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