Every Damned Time Reddit (another viewpoint)

Bearman-Cartoons-Every Damned Time Reddit (an alternative view)This is a response cartoon of sorts.  The other day I was trolling through Reddit.  For the uninformed, Reddit is a social news site, where people can upload pics, news, cartoons etc.  Reddit users can upvote or downvote any entry.    The little white guy with the orange eyes is the reddit mascot.

When I remember, if something strikes me while I am surfing the web, I will post it to Reddit  and admitedly (while not everything) I will post some of my own stuff (probably because I live with a bunch of lazy readers who never noticed the damn share this buttons at the bottom of every post..haha you know I love you).   I am always amazed at the things that get upvoted and the things that get downvoted both of what I post and what others do.  Sometimes, I am “this is so f-ing stupid.  Why is it getting so many upvotes?”  And other times “This is amazing.  Who are these dumbasses downvoting it?”  So I can never figure out fully what people would be interested in.

So the other day I was going through Reddit and found a post titled “Every Damned Time, Reddit”  by a deviantart illustrator that goes by FindChaos.  (Click on his link to find a full size version of the cartoon)

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So as you can see FindChaos finds Reddit so fun to play with forcing him to keep coming back again and again, while I tend to get beat to shit every time and still find my way back there.  Is there a battered redditors support group??

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100 responses to “Every Damned Time Reddit (another viewpoint)”

  1. Nate Fakes Avatar

    I could never figure out how to get things noticed on there, so I went from Reddit to Screwit.

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Now that would be an a great site to create. Add that to YOUR list.

    2. Jillsy Girl Avatar

      HA…I love it! 🙂

  2. Young American Wisdom Avatar

    I love the cartoon but don’t understand the concept of Reddit. I have a Reddit button too…no clue how it works or even how it got there. I’m going to click yours and see how it goes.

    1. Young American Wisdom Avatar

      nevermind…I have Digg not Reddit. I don’t know what that is either, but I still like your cartoon. 🙂

      1. Bearman Avatar

        Same thing. Kind of a news aggregator that is social in the fact that people can upvote items. Typically the more upvotes, the more attention.

  3. Duncanr Avatar

    I have an ambivalent attitude towards Reddit. I check it everyday, looking for material I can perhaps use in MH (e.g., Caption this . . . pics) . And occasionally, I find a gem of a post on current events that I can get my teeth into but mostly it’s full of stuff that irritates me. So many of the contributors, to my mind at least, appear to be immature teens with a grossly inflated idea of their own importance. I much prefer Digg, myself !

    1. Bearman Avatar

      I find Digg to be a little too broad much of the time. I tend to go to the pic, political humor, comic and WTF sections.

  4. SpilledInkGuy Avatar

    I am so out of touch…
    Redtat? Huh? Maybe this is why everyone tells me I need to get out more.
    🙂

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Didn’t they teach you anything in that fancy art school of yours.

      1. SpilledInkGuy Avatar

        I’m just a lowly BA, Bearman…
        no BFA, certainly no MFA… I didn’t even have a concentration. It’s a small miracle I can tie my shoes. 🙂

        1. Bearman Avatar

          We know you don’t have a concentration. You need to get that ADD checked out.

          1. SpilledInkGuy Avatar

            What were we talking about again?
            🙂

        2. Bearman Avatar

          That money you owe me.

  5. DadaHyena Avatar

    That was really, really, really funny. Nuff said.

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Funny because it was funny or funny because it struck a nerve..haha

      1. DadaHyena Avatar

        It’s just funny. I know nothing of Reddit.

  6. Turbo Sloth Avatar

    Definitely find your comic much more realistic than the first one, love it!

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Thanks TS. I feel alot of us have been there.

  7. Chris Howard Avatar

    I have so many wounds from Reddit…

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Our first battered reddit meeting will be at your place then. Make sure to serve the good cookies.

      1. nursemyra Avatar

        the chocolate ones?

        1. Bearman Avatar

          I’ll let you eat those. I want the sugar ones and peanut butter ones.

  8. Tony McGurk Avatar

    I have the sharing buttons but never actually tried any of them. Maybe I’ll go look

    1. Bearman Avatar

      …or maybe I should.

      1. Tony McGurk Avatar

        I signed up for Reddit (sounds like a frog) & Reddited my most recent cartoon to it & today my stats show 26 hits just from Reddit. Now I think I will use it all the time.

        1. Bearman Avatar

          Question is…did it get upvotes or downvotes? I don’t use it for every cartoon. Maybe only 50%

  9. Tony McGurk Avatar

    Oh forgot to say, for such a cute little bloke he sure has a mean streak

    1. Bearman Avatar

      That’s what they used to say about my brother

      1. Tony McGurk Avatar

        That’s what I used to say about my sister…

      2. Cedric the Rat Avatar

        That’s what I used to say about the Chef

  10. Binky Avatar

    I guess I’m a little out of it. I did check it out once or twice, but really couldn’t be bothered with trying to figure it out. Too lazy I guess.

    1. Bearman Avatar

      That’s because there was no chocolate involved.

      1. Binky Avatar

        A chocolate social network would definitely be my kind of thing.

        1. Bearman Avatar

          Surprise Surprise Surprise.

  11. George Avatar

    I haven’t really used Reddit for much. I generally stick with StumbleUpon as su.pr. I tend to get better reaction with them even still.

    I do like your cartoon! I told you how nice your stuff works in sequential flow.

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Yeah, I tend to get most of my fly by traffic from su.pr but for some reason the su.pr shortlink doesn’t provide the stumbleupon toolbar for my posts. I think I have a conflicting plug-in but dont’ know which.

  12. Scott Avatar

    For some reason, I am reminded of “Goofus and Gallant” in “Highlights”. I always knew “Gallant” did the right thing, but had more respect for “Goofus”!

    1. Bearman Avatar

      We were too poor to buy Highlights magazine so I’ll have to take your word for it. haha

      1. George Avatar

        I went to the dentists to read Highlights and Jack and Jill magazine. Man, the price I paid just to read.

        1. Bearman Avatar

          Price your parents paid you mean.

  13. The Good Greatsby Avatar

    Thanks for doing a cartoon with an important message.

    1. Bearman Avatar

      I am hear to stand up for the unheard voices.

  14. Jillsy Girl Avatar

    I have never heard nor been to Reddit…should I even go there, I wonder??

    1. Bearman Avatar

      If you do…make sure you can find your way back.

  15. Rent Textbooks Avatar

    Nice. I have never really even checked out reddit. I am trying to get into social media more but like you said, some of this stuff is just dumb. I guess I really should look into it more, but i don’t have enough hours in a day.

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Exactly…you are too busy finding a decent graphic designer.

      1. Rent Textbooks Avatar

        haha funny. You wouldn’t be laughing if you knew the stuff I deal with. If me getting a banner ad is as hard as, all the other stuff. I am not surprised the stuff they put me through.

        1. Bearman Avatar

          I know plenty of illustrators. So when you are done dealing with your losers, let me know. I have a whole list of other losers.

  16. jynksie Avatar

    I don’t do Reddit, I hear it gives you cooties! o.O

    1. Bearman Avatar

      I am the king of cooties.

  17. Bo Lumpkin Avatar

    I trydit, didit, was confused byit, and I moved on. It’s too confusin’ to me so I just stick with twitter.

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Whatever tends to work is always the right tool.

  18. Bo Lumpkin Avatar

    Oh, You have a share button? Where?

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Look up. Well not literally. When you click on a post, it is right after all the wordy stuff.

  19. tmcelmurry Avatar
    tmcelmurry

    As I share stuff about Rick the Stick I get down voted a ton from reddit, in fact there have been days where I thought about just abandoning Reddit all together, that is until I spoke with Ken and he informed me that he has actually been getting a fair amount of traffic from Reddit. So I continue on with my Reddit posts, but I’ve gotten to where I only visit my past reddits once a week to see if someone commented in order to respond to them, but I quit looking at the 0’s and started looking at the traffic coming from there. So I say to those reddit trolls, down vote all you want, but just keep clicking that link and I’ll be a happy redditor. 🙂

    1. Bearman Avatar

      That was the basis of the post. You go to reddit, get beat to shit but end up happy that someone is paying attention to you, even if it is bad attention.

      Unfortunately, I would prefer some of them would stick around (or at least comment) once in a while.

  20. Frank M Hansen Avatar

    BRILLIANT! I read the cartoon after I read the blog post (something I rarely do) so I had the background in place when I read your comic. Very funny. I can relate even though I don’t use Reddit. Love the way he gets rejected and keeps coming back.

    1. Bearman Avatar

      See I used to post the blog before the cartoon so people could get the background before not understanding the post. Someone called me out on believe it or not…REDDIT, that I should always have the cartoon first.

  21. bschooled Avatar

    Thanks to you, I’ve just become a self-appointed (and trained) “Intuitive Reddit Recovery Coach”!

    Tell your readers to email me for my session rates.

    ps. Since you are the one who inspired me, I’m offering you a 10% discount*.

    *subject to certain restrictions.

    1. lisleman Avatar

      Put me in coach. Your comment got me thinking of baseball.

    2. Bearman Avatar

      Wait a minute, shouldn’t I be getting a 10% cut instead of a 10% discount??

  22. lisleman Avatar

    I was a regular user of delicious until I got gas. No, I found tumblr. I wonder if FB and the company/blog/org pages have lessen the need for these services.

    1. Bearman Avatar

      I haven’t done anything with tumblr and delicious did absolutely nothing for me. Then again neither does digg yet I still have that one up there.

      1. Binky Avatar

        Too many time wasters to try!
        I’ll just eat my chocolate. At least I can see its effects.

        1. Bearman Avatar

          So can the rest of us fatty.

  23. Mark Stokes Avatar

    That little Reddit guy? He used to be a TeleTubbie, but they kicked him out ’cause he’s a mean, unpredictable sumbitch.

    1. Bearman Avatar

      But at least you can tell him apart from the rest of that weird crew.

  24. Jason Avatar

    I need to make time for reddit and the like. I get sucked into the black hole that is Facebook. I’ll carve out an hour for social media and FB eats up around 75% of it.

    1. Bearman Avatar

      I probably spend the least amount of time on Facebook. A little more now using flipboard.

  25. Friggin Loon Avatar

    Sorry for my tardiness Bearman (Loon has a bad friggin cold 🙁 )
    Could I borrow that baseball bat for just one minute so I can use it on some of the other social media sites?

    1. Bearman Avatar

      The only other one you use is Twitter but you don’t even know how to use it to see if someone is saying something to you or retweeting your post so you can at least say thank you. That’s why I took you off my follow fridy list. Damn a ‘thank you’ every once in a while would be nice..haha

      1. Friggin Loon Avatar

        Blahahahaa Bearman. My Tweetdesk had a breakdown …what can I say 🙁

        1. Bearman Avatar

          Excuses Excuses.

  26. Friggin Loon Avatar

    So Bearman, if I hit the button will the red eyed bunny hit you with a bat again? Just curious 🙂

  27. Bearman Avatar

    Only if I animate it.

    1. Friggin Loon Avatar

      Hmm, if you do, you might get some LIKES 🙂

      1. Bearman Avatar

        I animated the orgasm emoticon and that didn’t get me anywhere.

        1. Friggin Loon Avatar

          🙁 Might try assicons (__?__)

          1. Bearman Avatar

            Been there…done that.

  28. Kellie Avatar

    Sign me up for Abused at Reddit Anonymous. I’ll bring Cheetos and Pepsi as a snack. (yes, for everyone…). I lurked there a while and found some fun things — but when I started posting I discovered that if you are “in” (meaning an ego-maniacal grossly immature mean-spirited teen or post-adolescent) its great but if you are “out” (any one else) they just bash and criticize. They are obsessed with “upvotes” and who might committing fraud on one another (“did your girlfriend REALLY make that for you?”).

    I always get the idea most of the guys there now were in the “out” group growing up and Reddit is their big revenge. There is only so much “You’re a F*g” and “I would F that…” I can read as comments and pretend to be interested.

    There are some nice /r pockets on reddit – but its too much hassle to find them generally. It does feel good to see that I am not alone in that experience. Thanks!

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Hey Kellie, thanks for joining in the conversation. And glad you said cheetos because I like those but don’t like the puffed ones.

      If you are the first to post dilbert, SMBC, or cyanide and happiness whether you get them or even find them funny, you are seen as a genius of posting. Otherwise, you may get lucky.

  29. Bo Lumpkin Avatar

    Do you have a special can opener you use for opening up all these cans of worms?

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Nope, I just twist them off and let them go.

    2. Jande Avatar

      Hahah! Good one, Bo!

  30. Arts Web Show Avatar

    Ha ha, that was a knockout

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Thanks Art…but not literally..haha

  31. alecho Avatar

    Hahaha I don’t have Reddit, but I’m definitely upvoting this! 🙂

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Quit…it isn’t doing me any good..haha j/k

  32. Jande Avatar

    Unlike Bearman who seems to have his sticky fingers in every virtual pie, I have never been to reddit. My limited socialising time is taken up with commenting on a few select of the hundreds of comics I follow (including my own) and Twittering in fits and bursts, aside from offline socialising. My sympathies to those desperate (and somewhat masochistic?) ones who are willing to get bashed so they can raise their stats. I will probably soon be joining your ranks if I ever get my online shop going. ;`)

    Love the comic. And the original one reminds me of the work of Jeph Jacques work in his comic Questionable Content.

    1. Jande Avatar

      Oh, I just found the guy’s graphic novel site. Pretty cool! A little scary-weird. Find Chaos Thanks, Bearman.

      1. Bearman Avatar

        Yes very..haha

    2. Bearman Avatar

      Oh and thank you for your sympathies..haha

  33. planetross Avatar

    I can’t predict what other people will like or not like: I’m not a mind or mindless reader!!!

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Don’t put your money in the stock market then..haha

  34. Enkätverktyg Avatar

    Lovely cartoon with a good theme.Really that’s a well sharing.

  35. mackmm Avatar

    I gave up on Reddit. For the exact reason you said in your post I get a huge amount of hits from Reddit to my site but I also get that one negative feedback that is sooooo negative.

  36. mackmm Avatar

    + one of the underlining credos for Reddit is not to Self-promote So I think there are trollers who just bash anyone they find doing it

    1. Bearman Avatar

      No because they bash when I promote someone else