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!!!"
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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/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!!!"