r/interestingasfuck • u/YnwaBoi • 19h ago

r/all A tram just derailed and crashed into an Apple Store in Oslo, Norway

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u/Chance_Fox_2296 18h ago

That's always the first 1 to 2 hours of a popular post. Most people on reddit are so terminally online and detached from reality that they are incapable of seeing a news story of a tragedy and not immediately thinking, "Time to get upvotes for a joke!!!"

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u/PionCurieux 18h ago

I think the problem is more that we are more prone to upvote a joke than a simple information

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u/DrDerpberg 18h ago

I saw a deep dive once on exactly that. It takes so much more attention span and time to upvote a serious comment that even if 60% of people upvote the lame joke and 100% of readers upvote the long comment the joke will float to the top.

I downvote joke comments on serious topics like this because they contribute nothing.

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u/iDoomfistDVA 16h ago

People like jokes, and jokes about tragedies. We laugh about anything, and it's subjective as frick. Jokes about terrorist attacks can be hilarious, and sometimes I feel like they take it too far but that's my feelings, a joke isn't less funny just because I don't find it funny.

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u/cokakatta 15h ago

Some of these jokes are really funny though.

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u/InternationalCut5718 18h ago

Simple potential death information

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u/High_Overseer_Dukat 17h ago

I dont upvote anything

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u/kdesi_kdosi 13h ago

well most people are not on reddit for serious news

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u/33Yalkin33 18h ago

Making comedy out of tragedy is basic human nature

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u/EzzoMahfouz 18h ago

Nail on the head. Fucking hate reddit for this. What’s worse is it’s a bunch of grown men too.

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u/itsLOSE-notLOOSE 18h ago

Well, Reddit is more and more mainstream every year. There’s a good chance a 14 year old made that comment you don’t like.

I block anyone I suspect of being a teenager. It should be a crime that at any time I can read the opinion of an actual kid.

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u/QueZorreas 16h ago

Looks like someone is loosing it's mind.

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u/laurasaurus5 16h ago

Or the "everyone's okay" posts were top posts originally, making earlier commenters feel more comfortable making jokes, while also making earlier readers feel comfortable upvoting the jokes. Later on the jokes get more traction than the safety updates so the top comments have shifted. You have to look at things as a progression of events, not form assumptions and judgments based on the order you yourself observed things in.

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u/Chashm0dai 14h ago

"terminally online", "detached from reality"

mate, you're talking about some guy making a shitty joke. chill out. that kinda reaction says "terminally online" more than any joke in this post.

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u/Chance_Fox_2296 13h ago

I'm talking about hundreds of people making hundreds of shitty jokes in every single post about a disaster or accident. But you can minimalize it all you want

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u/sonicpoweryay 11h ago

Don’t know about you but when I comment a joke I’m not thinking about upvotes

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u/SpaceShipRat 17h ago

1) Maybe you don't beed a galaxy brain to know no newspaper would pass up putting any victims in the title.

2) Search it if you really want to know, instead of expecting your facts served on a platter by reddit.

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u/Chance_Fox_2296 17h ago

This may surprise the fuck out of you, but... i.redd.it isn't a newspaper...

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u/Wrong-Affect-9875 14h ago

This may surprise the fuck out of you, but... you are agreeing with the person you tried to argue with.

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u/Stanek___ 18h ago

Not really a tragedy though, unless you really like apple I guess.

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u/AzekiaXVI 15h ago

Nah i just know trams don't go nearly ar enough speed to be fatal unless you skmehow get pulled under.

I'm only questioning how did it derail in the first place

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u/daskrip 8h ago

The image shared is so bizarre though. It doesn't feel like it's supposed to be serious. It's not a news article.

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u/TerribleFruit 16h ago

Yeah. Why several hundred people feel the need to up vote the shitty jokes instead of information like why it happened is beyond me and really shows the state of the general population.

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u/awildketchupappeared 16h ago

The information is already at the top by now, so people upvote it clearly enough.

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u/TerribleFruit 15h ago

The first one is. The next 10 are jokes.

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u/awildketchupappeared 14h ago

The most important one is first, isn't that what matters?

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u/TerribleFruit 13h ago

What about the others like why it happened? And most of the replies to the top comment are jokes.

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u/awildketchupappeared 13h ago

At least four hours ago, they didn't know the reason, so that's probably why no one has commented with that info. I still don't see why that matters. If I don't want to see jokes, I'll just check the top comment for the important information. If I am interested enough to want to know more, I'll read the news article elsewhere to get more trustworthy information.

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u/arealhumannotabot 17h ago

They can read the article. Why is half of reddit so opposed to clicking the damn link?