Sure it's a cringey joke, but I only encountered the narwhal bacon thing as an offhand sarcastic reference like 10 years ago and it definitely wasn't representative of what reddit was to me. Though I will give you that "advice animals" were cringey always.

As for the Ron Paul mania, there were definitely pro-Obama posts as well. And I definitely don't prefer the current censorship enforced hegemony.

Abso-fucking-lutely. Reddit used to be utterly insufferable.

As someone who remembers goatse, lemon party, and rotten.com, I think I'm happier with my kids growing up with narwal bacon and Nyan cat.

Fnord.

‘Toilet paper upwards lolololol’