u/GabeReddit2012

I may not know what this "lore" thing is despite having heard it a few times in 2022, but I'm just going to post here to see if anyone remembers this subculture I used to be in from 2020-mid 2021.

I remember 5-6 years ago being part of a subculture on websites like Roblox and Scratch, a weird subculture about alphabet-related shows where every character was related to the alphabet or some part of it like phonics or dialects. Shows like these included Alphabetons, PhonicFriends, Alphabuddies, Nooalf Friends, etc. and it was weird TBH. Most of the characters were based on objects that would also match with their letter (e.g. A in Alphabetons/PhonicFriends was an apple, and A in Alphabuddies was an axe for some reason), though a few of them like Letter People (IIRC, not to be confused with the thing from the 80s) were basically just anthropomorphic letters with limbs. And some things were quite interesting, like B (a ball) in Phonicfriends was literally based and modeled after the Pixar ball. But these shows had tons of flaws.

Looking back, many of them weren't even that good, given that rather than creating original episodes for them, they just remixed remakes of popular scenes from popular shows like SpongeBob. It felt fun at first, but it became repetitive later on. Some users were nice, but others felt pretty toxic. The Discord servers for them were even worse, as I remember being in one of them, and one of the admins actually said the N-word uncensored and banned me for calling him out, even though a while later, that admin did apologize to me for his behavior and thankfully, he improved and doesn't say the N-word anymore, but that incident was unacceptable.

Ever since late 2021, this subculture seems to have been on a massive decline, as people have moved onto other communities/interests/subcultures, like Polandball/Countryhumans, Object shows, Gacha Life, Times Square Ball Drops, and of course, Alphabet/Number lore and the several various shows that were based off them. I eventually left this community in mid-2021 due to me realizing how toxic it was and how the "shows" they were making felt cringe. I'm only asking here to see if some people do remember this very weird (but also pretty bad) subculture I was in before Alphabet Lore was created and popularized. Now, this wasn't as huge as the Lore/Friends stuff are, as it was pretty niche and was only known if you were on sites like Scratch and DeviantArt.

These subreddits are very toxic and fights will break out against fans of specific decades like the 70s, 80s, 90s, 2000s, etc. and people will keep arguing about nonsense logic, why a decade is "bad", cultural trends, etc.

And people will often judge or harass others based on what generation they were born in, or otherwise, what year they were born in. Some 1970-born who was 10 in 1980 will say they're superior to a 1980-born that was 10 in the 1990s with the 90s were their childhood. Or otherwise, the younger people tend to be even worse than the older people on there.

Stuff they say is often bullcrap and nonsense.

Examples of stuff:

"Baby Boomers is the best decade ever, and I wish most of us were born there. No more working jobs, we are all elderly, and we are literally boomers."

"I am a 1994 kid, but I have the soul of some 10-year-old in the 1980s. I may've actually been born in 1984. I was clerically assigned the wrong birth year."

"You were born in 1983, but you were born in the 1970s, since the 1970s lasted from 1967 to 1984, and the 1980s was 1984-1986. 1987-1989 are 90s kids, given that the 1990s lasted from 1987 to 2004."

"The Millennials are the most intelligent generation ever. Gen X, Gen Z, and Gen Alpha are dumb, because they have letters in their names. Millennials is not Gen Y, so we are literally super smart."

"The 70s was truly the best decade ever. Everything in the 1980s and 1990s was just straight up boring, and nothing has been fun since the 1970s. I wish we lived in a time before video games existed, and TV was barely a thing."

Mine has to be any "unpopular opinion" subreddits or subreddits dedicated to posting opinions. UnpopularOpinion, TrueUnpopularOpinion, The10thDentist, ChangeMyView (CMV), ControversialOpinions, etc.

Most of them are already bad by now and they have become massive echo chambers. People on these subreddits will often post unhonest opinions or logically wrong facts for the sole purpose of karma farming. Political posts on them are an absolute nightmare to read. Like with TUO and CMV, when you allow political subreddits, stuff start to become worse. Defensive arguments can easily break out and can make the environment worse. A lot of the opinions aren't even "unpopular" or need a "CMV" and their take is actually colder than what they think it is.

The actually unpopular opinions will often get downvoted, while the popular opinions often get upvoted. The comments can also be rowdy on them as well. I do sometimes look at "hot takes" on specific, topic-related subreddits, but for the best, I avoid general opinion subreddits and don't look onto them anymore.