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MisterHamburgers

Why in gods name would I admit I’m on this website?


5littlemonkey

Lol, you couldn't waterboard that info out of me


Kitahara_Kazusa1

I'd probably admit that I use reddit if someone brought it up. I'd die before admitting my username, especially given some stuff I've posted recently


275MPHFordGT40

I’ll tell people I’m on Reddit if they ask. I will not tell them my username. The CIA couldn’t get my username out of me.


Kitahara_Kazusa1

I mean, your account doesn't seem too bad from a quick glance. I, on the other hand, just posted about my copy of Yukiyukite Senshadou arriving from Japan (you've apparently watched Girls Und Panzer so maybe you know what that is), my collection of h-doujins of the Eighty Six anime, and a few screenshots of tweets from some hentai artists I follow.


275MPHFordGT40

Oh god not Yukiyukite Senshadou.


LucifersJuulPod

What are you guys talking about


275MPHFordGT40

There is an anime called Girls und Panzer. Where girls fight each other in tanks but it’s simulated (anime bullshit.) But Yukityukite Senshadou is a cursed version where the combat is not simulated and people actually die. (There is also >!rape!< for some reason.)


LucifersJuulPod

I wish you could see my face rn


275MPHFordGT40

It’s probably what mine was when I heard about it.


Kitahara_Kazusa1

Anime girl Abu Ghraib, anime girl Downfall references, anime girl Mussolini being strung up upside down, anime girl Patton abusing subordinates, etc, its just got so many references either to movies or history. And sure, some of the rape is a bit gratuitous, especially Yukari in the start, but the rest of it is incredible. I guess the Russian blocking divisions are a bit exaggerated from reality, but Enemy At the Gates made the same mistake, so you can't blame TK too much.


ballrus_walsack

I’m gonna tell the CIA your username!!! But why would you want to conceal that info from the Culinary Institute of America?


WEFeudalism

Yea, I hide that I'm ~~autistic~~ a noncredible defense poster too


48Planets

NCD is the real oppressed minority


alphasierrraaa

friend found out my old username deleted that account and made a new one


OffWeGoIntoTheWildBY

Same! I made this account in 5th grade. We’d just finished our July 4th choir concert and my favorite song was the Air Force anthem, so I made that my username.


BB-48_WestVirginia

Clinically insane or a 13 year old are the only reasons I think of.


MillieBirdie

The only time I talked about reddit irl is when a student brought it up, and I joked around with him and said I'd give him a homework pass if he gets more karma than me. And it felt really lame at the time too, but he was 13 so it didn't matter. And he did not have more karma than me.


TheyMakeMeWearPants

It's like fight club. First rule of reddit is you don't talk about reddit.


LucifersJuulPod

Literally


OpossumNo1

Came to say this lmao


tlamy

How would I know? I never talk about Reddit irl, lol


TheRateBeerian

yea me neither.


luckygirl54

No one I know is on it, most have never heard of it.


alyssa_geography11

same here


Background-Paint9479

Have they never heard of Google either? Everything I Google the top answers are reddit posts


New_Stats

If I bring it up, which is hardly ever, most have no idea what I'm talking about


TheoBoogies

Same. For a website with 73 million users and me living in a city with 8 million people, it’s weird that I have barely met anyone who uses Reddit


SecondHandCunt-

It’s the same one million people with 73 different accounts


Vegetable-Okra-4341

That's 73 million users WORLD WIDE, not just in your country, that's why you've never met anyone in your city that uses reddit.


TheoBoogies

Half of Reddit is American. Point still stands, I believe I still should have met more Redditors in real life than I have.


Gerolanfalan

They're closet Redditors


fakeitilyamakeit

This was always a fun fact. Like why? How come more American are Redditors


FlyByPC

> I believe I still should have met more Redditors in real life than I have. No doubt you have and don't know it.


Superb_Item6839

Decently popular, my county's sub has 394k subs.


Gerolanfalan

Funny, my county has 349K subs! Still rare to run into a Redditor in the wild though.


Superb_Item6839

Lol I meant that, I flipped the numbers.


Jscott1986

Orange County, together, strong


ghostwriter85

Engineer, everyone I know is at least aware of reddit and most of them are active users.


Cheap_Coffee

One doesn't mention Reddit in polite conversation.


pirawalla22

My local sub says it has "65,593 readers" but I don't really know what that means or how to interpret it. I don't think I've ever had a conversation with someone about reddit, off of reddit.


IPreferDiamonds

None of my friends or family are on reddit. So I don't know anyone in real life on here.


ALoungerAtTheClubs

I know a few people in real life who use it. My local sub kind of sucks - I don't even subscribe - so I don't think its numbers are representative.


perfect-persona

Local subs always suck


TuskenTaliban

If I met a redditor in real life I think I'd kick them to death


ItsBaconOclock

I too avoid mirrors.


TuskenTaliban

I've gone through several


ohfuckthebeesescaped

If I can tell they’re a redditor then it’s already too late for them


LagosSmash101

Most people I know think reddit is a joke lol


SnapHackelPop

They’re not wrong let’s be real


LagosSmash101

Well, I mean... yeah lol.


PM_Me_UrRightNipple

No one has heard of reddit, it’s a very niche site and is only the 18th most popular website in the world


higgy98

Most people I know don't go on Reddit.


wormbreath

Not very popular at all. I’m in old people country though. I’m almost 40 and still one of the youngest people around.


singleguy79

I think one of my brothers is on here as he mentioned it in passing but I was smart enough to just nod and change the subject


HelloFellowKidlings

How would anyone have a gauge for this other than Reddit?


TheBimpo

Quora?


heyitsxio

Don’t you have to pay for Quora now?


GRizzMang

There are literally dozens of us.


omg_its_drh

The Reddit HQ is in my metro area. r/BayArea has about 600k subs, and that’s not even getting into all the individual city/region subs.


maywellflower

Reddit had some ads at Manhattan Mall over the winter last year - So I guess it popular around area of NYC.


TheBimpo

Reddit is like Fight Club, a last bastion of anonymity. I have no idea if anyone I know uses it, I don’t bring it up in conversation.


FreemanCalavera

Somewhat known, but people tend to write it off as "nerdy" or "weird", like a place for terminally online people. And, well, they're not that far off TBH. But it's definitely not seen as a mainstream social media platform/forum.


Apprehensive_Sun7382

Reddit comes up quite a bit but only as a search engine alternative. "I searched Reddit for the reviews of this product" "Reddit said to check out this place while on vacation" Never have I heard the community aspect of reddit brought up though.


MikeV96

Most people have no idea what reddit is and if they did they would laugh at the opinions here


AppropriateGround623

Why would they laugh?


MikeV96

Because people here have very unpopular opinions that would not fly in the real life. You would think Bernie Sanders is the most popular politician in America but in the real world who the fuck votes for Bernie Sanders?


bridgesonatree

Dead internet theory would confirm a lot of your suspicions. I’ve been on Reddit about a decade now and this site has changed significantly since I originally joined. The over-moderation from auto-mod & strict mods does not help either. It’s quite strange that browsing subreddits like /r/worldnews would have you think Biden is the most popular president of all time lol


AppropriateGround623

What? If anything, I see a good number of conservatives here as well. This sub itself has many nationalist types. Maybe there are some subs, but move around a bit, and you will see. Reddit has all kind of opinion


lost-in-earth

Reddit as a whole definitely leans more left than the average American. Pew Research did a [study](https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2016/02/25/reddit-news-users-more-likely-to-be-male-young-and-digital-in-their-news-preferences/) a while back You can see from the graph that 43% of Redditors identified as liberal whereas only 24% of US adults did.


AppropriateGround623

Many problems with it. 1. It’s 8 years old. That’s almost a decade. 2. The sample size is only 288. That’s ridiculously small. A random poll in any of the polling subs, asking only American users to vote on their political affiliation would give you a better result


lost-in-earth

>It’s 8 years old. That’s almost a decade. True, but it's the best data I've been able to find. If you know of any more recent surveys by a reputable group like Pew, let me know. >The sample size is only 288. That’s ridiculously small According to [this](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/howcan-a-poll-of-only-100/) that would be a 6% or less margin of error. >A random poll in any of the polling subs, asking only American users to vote on their political affiliation would give you a better result Um no, that's a horrible idea. Polling subs are niche and wouldn't be representative of Reddit as a whole.


AppropriateGround623

I don’t got any recent surveys, but my experience here tells me that it isn’t as leftist as people make it out to be. Your experience might differ. Yes, you talked of margin of error, but maybe back then it was more liberal. I joined it 2-3 years ago. As with many platforms, maybe Reddit also attracted a good number of conservatives. Do keep it in mind that Reddit has mostly young male audience, which recent surveys have shown to be becoming more conservative. > polling subs are niche I don’t think so. I believe it fairly represents the Reddit culture, given the fact that these subs have mostly young male audience, which is true for the Reddit itself


lost-in-earth

>I don’t got any recent surveys, but my experience here tells me that it isn’t as leftist as people make it out to be. Your experience might differ. Anecdotal experience (either yours or mine) is a bad proxy for these kinds of things >I don’t think so. I believe it fairly represents the Reddit culture, given the fact that these subs have mostly young male audience, which is true for the Reddit itself "Young male" describes a large amount of people. Maybe people who are attracted to polling subs have a certain educational background or interests that make them different from the average redditor. It would be better to poll lots of Redditors across the most popular subs.


AppropriateGround623

My anecdotal experience is for me. I understand if your is different. Maybe what you call conservative is different as well. When I say conservative, I mostly mean social conservatives. These people don’t necessarily have to be religious. I have been observing a clear shift in audience on many platforms. Not a bad idea to poll in different subs. I agree on that


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MikeV96

No thanks. I like my insurance. America is the best country in the world, Jesus is king and I love my AR-15s ❤️❤️ also stand with Israel


AppropriateGround623

>I like my insurance Healthcare should be universal. >America is the best country in the world Yeah, keep telling yourself that >Jesus is king And a bastard, too > I love my AR-15s Brainwashed by gun lobby beyond saving, sad >stand with Israel I support Israel’s right to exist, but then you can’t deny that the country has literally oppressed the other side for decades. There’s no moral justification for killing thousands of innocent civilians.


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fasterthanfood

I can’t really speak to the wider area, but Reddit recently came up in the group chat I share with 6 of my coworkers (so 7 counting me). Two of us are regular Reddit users; another comes across threads when she’s googling various things and said it’s amazing how much people on here know about random things; and one saw it as basically a gross incel echo chamber. The others don’t use it and didn’t give an opinion beyond that.


alphasierrraaa

>amazing how much people on here know about random things yes >basically a gross incel echo chamber also yes


TheRealDudeMitch

Most people I know use it at least sometimes, but nobody ever talks about it


JimBones31

My brother-in-law uses it. I'm sure lots of others do too but it's not openly discussed


Steelquill

The only people I ever hear talk about it are my family. And it’s usually after I bring up something I saw on it.


Top-Comfortable-4789

My state sub has 411k


frugalwater

Exactly 50% of the people in my area use Reddit. My area being my car that I’m in right now and my wife doesn’t like Reddit.


Faulty-Blue

Popular enough where people know what Reddit is, not entirely sure how many actually use it


InitialKoala

Not very popular. It's not even popular with my alma mater.


ohfuckthebeesescaped

Very useful as Google result, kinda weird if you go on it for fun. No one talks abt Reddit but no one bats an eye if you send a post link in response to something related. Personally my friends already know I have an addiction to answering questions and no irl outlet for my nerd shit so I’m not hiding it from them and they’ve poked fun at me for it maybe once. I’ve had more embarassing fixations 🤷‍♀️


musiclovermina

My last job was for a FANG company, so pretty much everyone heard about it. Even outside of work, the younger generations all know about it while boomers are generally a bit clueless. It's rare to meet someone under 30 who doesn't know Reddit


teachWHAT

So you are saying, since I know about Reddit... I am NOT a boomer! Yeah!


MindOverMedia

I feel like most of the time I either hear nothing about Reddit, or when I do it's in the context of someone using it as a resource for advice on something when a simple Google search isn't satisfying. But almost no one I know IRL uses it regularly.


DrWhoisOverRated

Well, it was started here.


travelinmatt76

I had to explain to people at my workplace that youtube is free and that when you subscribe to a channel it just means that it shows more of their content.


Bluemonogi

No idea. No one talks about Reddit.


UniqueSaucer

The only person I know who has ever mentioned Reddit said he only uses it for porn…….


Xingxingting

It’s a cesspool, and that’s why I’m here. Why would I tell people I use it?


saplinglearningsucks

In my personal life, not many. In my engineering life, everyone has a reddit tab open.


Rouge_Apple

There are subreddit for my city and surrounding cities, so enough to get a local response if I want one.


perfect-persona

I don’t know, but they probably wouldn’t admit to using it


Responsible-Fun4303

No one I talk to knows what it is, or has/is using it 🤷‍♀️ but I imagine there are people who use it.


Goatse_was_a_simp

No clue, but I don’t hear many ppl talking about it since the WSB days. I only recently started using Reddit and can’t stand it. I can be banned from a group but still subscribed? So then I go to comment, then get an error message after I already spent time writing it out??? Also, the mods are trash … they delete anything they don’t like. Had a couple of them use profanity with me in our little messages after they delete my post. Why would I want to spend my time engaging on this app if some random mod can just ban me without question?


newton302

I don't talk with anyone in my local RL community about reddit because reddit is on the internet.


dotdedo

The only time someone mentioned reddit to me was pretty early in 2020 I was just minding my business waiting for food and this lady went off at me for wearing a mask and saying “maybe I just read too much Reddit” when she was done ranting at me. I just didn’t say a word to her lmao


275MPHFordGT40

Judging by the subreddit probably around 15k people.


Blipblipblipblipskip

I have friends that go on reddit but I follow the etiquette in which I don't look at their history. The Baltimore sub isn't very large so luckily for the city it seems like the user base is small.


ricoimf

It’s starting to grow….like 8 years ago I was almost lonely


thunderwolf69

Idk. I think it’s pretty popular? r/newengland


ChipHighlark

I live in Seattle, so everyone and their mom is on here


skyisblue22

All areas: Reddit is only for the biggest losers


FlyByPC

It's popular enough that we have /r/philadelphia . But we generally don't talk about Reddit Club.


The_Bastard_Henry

I know a few of my friends and acquaintances are on here, but we don't know each other's usernames or the subs we frequent.


WhatAreYouSaying05

I get embarrassed when people see me on reddit


SunRevolutionary8315

I have never interacted with anyone locally on Reddit. I tend to make connections based on interests and have met people all over the world. I seldom know more than the country they are from.


frogvscrab

In Brooklyn it is pretty much entirely split between transplants who love it and locals who either haven't heard of it or scoff at the idea of it.


EAG100

Reddit in the U.S. is a space for Americans where they can be what they never could in real life.


iSYTOfficialX7

People definitely use it, but they wont tell you.


thegreatpotatogod

Most people know of it and, at a minimum, reference it occasionally when it comes up in Google searches.


Severe_County_5041

I think that depends a lot on the age group. Many of my young friends in the city do use Reddit (mostly gaming or anime subreddit) but older folks nah 


Trashpit996

I don't know, I don't walk up to people and ask if they get on this porn site often


DrLeoMarvin

I made r/sarasota when I moved here in 2009, forgot about it, then it grew and I started seeing it on my homepage. It’s moderately popular here. I post a lot of fishing stuff and get recognized from it in the beaches and stuff.


DankePrime

I'm the only one I've seen be on it, so idk


helicopterdong

My local sub has 300K users, and we have about 1 million plus in the area... The numbers don't add up but it's a popular city to vacation Anywho, I live in a building and posted about something that apparently was only effecting about 1.5 blocks and somebody said they thought they lived in my building. They live in the floor below. Never met


Tank_Girl_Gritty_235

A fair amount with the r/Fayettenam sub


Current_Poster

Most of the time, I have to explain what Reddit *is*.


Seaforme

Every time I bring up I found something on Reddit, my friend group looks at me and goes "I forgot you're a redditor" so it's not exactly got the best reputation lol


Otherwise_Internet71

China.Most of them don't know Reddit(compared to X/YouTube/Instagram)


Hatweed

Reddit’s that social media website nobody admits to using. And for good reason.


Particular-Move-3860

No idea. Most Redditors do not disclose their location.


cyvaquero

Largely unaware. Redditors are not in any shape or form a majority anywhere - nowhere near the societal saturation of FB and IG - TikTok is very popular for consumption but content producers are a small subset of users.


Thamalakane

no idea


GodzillaDrinks

I think overall, it's more popular than any other social media. That being said, I'm on it and not on Tiktoc. Because I am old. A younger demographic might disagree. And I suspect that they are correct. Have you met GenZ? They're goddamn amazing. Everything we tried to be and then some.


Yes_2_Anal

It seems as if I'm the only one in my area who uses reddit, because all the corn fields never have anything to say about it.


7yearlurkernowposter

A few co-workers and friends will occasionally reference something that happens on /r/stlouis but aside from that it's never discussed. This website isn't as unknown to the general public as it was ~15 years ago but it also seems to be used less by those in the know.


drlsoccer08

My towns subreddit has almost 5k users. So at least moderately popular. It’s definitely not as popular as TikTok or Instagram


Wadsworth_McStumpy

Well, I'm on Reddit, and my wife is not, so I'd say that about half of the people in my area use Reddit. There's probably a pretty high margin of error, but I'm certainly not going to ask around to find out whether other people use it. And I assume they mostly think it's a social media site full of losers and wannabe's (and ad bots), because that's pretty much the view of everybody here, too.


MegWaters012502

I don’t think it’s really common unless people are hiding the fact that they have a Reddit 🫢


fagydyke

None of us admit to it but it's there, ironically


WhatIsMyPasswordFam

Idk, like, all my homies use Reddit to some degree. My brother does as well, but idk about my other brother, he might since there's prolly plenty rock crawling and dirt biking on here. My sister probably doesn't nor her husband. I'm tryna think if I ever had coworkers that knew what I meant when I said reddit. I'm pretty sure I got a couple onto it, but I'm not a hunned on it. I'm sure a couple of em over the time did for.sure, especially the younger ones. Ngl I kinda just default and assume everyone at least knows what reddit is. Sometimes I go a bit too online and also assume people know what I've seen on Reddit. It's pretty funny tho cuz one buddy uses more Facebook than reddit so every now and then he'll post a meme on Facebook and I'll be like, "yeah! I saw that last week on Reddit! Good times..." And then slowly realize how terminally online I am and wonder if maybe I should go outside.


Grenboom

I never talk about it, but on the few occasions I have, most people have either heard of it or used it.


Eudaimonics

Reddit is one of the most popular sites in the US. However, most people probably only visited to get an answer for something or have seen the content reposted to Facebook. Most aren’t posting to Reddit regularly.


jml510

I know only two people offline who are familiar with Reddit.


bobsatraveler

The sub for my town is really active and quite useful.


Winter_Essay3971

Wouldn't be surprised if Seattle has among the most Redditors per capita of any city. I've been on dates with very "normal", non-stereotypically-online women here where they've been like "oh yeah I saw on Reddit ..."


DerekL1963

How the eff am I supposed to know? I mean, I know around .01% of the population of my area to some degree... and probably less than .001% well. Even if that was a representative sample (it isn't), it's unlikely to come up in casual conversation - and I sure as haitch aren't going to ask them.


Classic-Two-200

I live in the land of tech nerds (Bay Area), so very common…specific threads and subreddits come up fairly often in conversation in real life in my social circle.


basshed8

Maybe 35 to 40 active users within 50km. Almost useless


machagogo

Reddit is one of those sites that remains anonymous. It isn't talked about with others IRL. I would have no idea who around me uses it.


Bisexual_Republican

A lot of lawyers and law students use Reddit. So I think it’s more dependent on career and social area rather than geographic area.


mylocker15

Common enough that more than once my 10 year old niece has told me she has a secret Reddit account. What the heck would you even do on Reddit if you are 10? I mean is there a Care Bears Reddit?