#INTERNET ICEBERG REDDIT SERIAL#

Rabbit holes are what make Beauty YouTube such a colossus, why the Ask Science subreddit has 16 million subscribers.

#INTERNET ICEBERG REDDIT SERIAL#

Between their massive tents and their ease of use, Reddit and YouTube tore away the guardrail that had always stood between serial hobbyists and oblivion. Then, on opposite sides of the country, two different small groups of twentysomething dudes created twin engines of infatuation. They didn't fully open the floodgates to minute details and the masses yearning to pore over them. You had options before that, blogs and message boards and Usenet forums, but they weren't exactly magnets of cross-pollination. That's the year Reddit and YouTube launched within months of each other, and obsession became centralized. Hey, you know what the internet is really good at? Enabling singular, insatiable appetites.Įspecially since 2005. Trust that I've already made them all myself.) Whenever my interest attaches itself to a new thing-which has happened my entire life, cyclically and all-encompassingly-I tend to develop a singular, insatiable appetite for information about that thing. And if they're anything like me, those subscriptions also tell the tale of a life spent diving down rabbit holes. It's all there: their passions, their hobbies, their ideological leanings, their love of terrible haircuts and sublime anonymized cringe. You want the real windows into someone's soul? Look at their Reddit subscriptions.

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