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Re:I Am An Object Of Internet Ridicule, Ask Me Anything by xvolter on Thursday September 19, 2013 @03:58PM (#6413850)
The article mentions Reddit being the place where C.D. Hermelin was textually abused for being a hipster; or more accurately, accused of being a hipster solely because he was using a typewriter. Reddit is the only place where the internet nerds in discussion come from.

Reddit however is not made up of internet nerds. Reddit is made up of average joes who know enough about computers to register at facebook and reddit. The average reddit user is no more advanced than the average 13-year-old nowadays - can browse the internet, turn of a computer and install some games on their smartphone and tablet. They were never made fun of for being internet nerds, because they're not nerds nor geeks. They're just average joes; because as you say, everybody is on the internet nowadays, and those who are the truly advanced users who MAY have been made fun of more because of it generally do not spend their time raging about a hipster. I say may because honestly, geeks are not the object of ridicule as they once were.

Re:I Am An Object Of Internet Ridicule, Ask Me Anything by brianpgordon on Thursday September 19, 2013 @07:15PM (#6414908)
Reddit is a heterogeneous collection of wildly different subreddits. Some subreddits (/r/pics, /r/funny, /r/WTF) are "average" as you described, but others have different demographics.
Re:I Am An Object Of Internet Ridicule, Ask Me Anything by bashinator on Thursday September 19, 2013 @07:57PM (#6415114)
For example, I would hardly call the typical user of /r/TalesFromYourServer to be a 20-25 year old male STEM-educated nerd.
Re:I Am An Object Of Internet Ridicule, Ask Me Anything by zenocon on Thursday September 19, 2013 @08:59PM (#6415360)
Until I checked the subreddit, I assumed "server" meant a beat up old PC running some obscure Linux distro in a corner of some basement, and I was about to call you out... :)
Re:I Am An Object Of Internet Ridicule, Ask Me Anything by petsos on Thursday September 19, 2013 @08:02PM (#6415133)
I'm going to guess that this was not posted in /r/TalesFromYourServer. The mere fact that it attracted so many comments means that it was posted on one of the "average" reddits.
Re:I Am An Object Of Internet Ridicule, Ask Me Anything by 013 on Friday September 20, 2013 @06:55AM (#6416979)
It was posted on /r/nyc. Which isn't a default sub-reddit, but would probably still be subscribed by "average" users.
Re:I Am An Object Of Internet Ridicule, Ask Me Anything by dobbsbob on Friday September 20, 2013 @10:29AM (#6417889)
Reddit was primarily made up of hipsters who all migrated there to circle jerk from /r9k on 4chan

Hipsterdom doesn't even exist anymore, VICE/dov charney declared it dead in 2007. This guy brings a typewriter to the park to get attention and it worked.

Re:I Am An Object Of Internet Ridicule, Ask Me Anything by dobbsbob on Friday September 20, 2013 @01:30PM (#6419173)
Oops I didn't read the entire article. /ignore