Petrarchive – redscarepod ruined my life.

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No.11471 Anonymous>>11592
redscarepod ruined my life.
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I met with a group IRL for a while. This was about three years ago. Those people, their tactless bullshit, their careless, self-centered decisions, have tanked my life completely. I have been spiraling into addiction and homelessness for all this time. Those people are all I think about and all I have been able to think about. I cannot feel any positive emotion. I cannot imagine anything worth looking forward to in my life. I have genuinely nothing to lose. All I feel is hate, hate, hate. I want those people dead so badly. I have been so deeply angry for so long.
No.11477 Anonymous>>11479
LET ALL OF THAT GO AND YOU'LL FEEL AS IF YOU HAVE SO MUCH POTENTIAL
No.11479 Anonymous
>>11477

I’m really trying. It’s so much harder than I thought it would be
No.11482 Anonymous
How is that even possible
No.11502 Anonymous>>11527
wtf lol what happened? more details plz. how did a red scare pod meetup group traumatize you so badly
No.11508 Anonymous
People in the redscarepod sphere have some weird trauma bond that makes it impossible for them to leave. Every time I decide to look in on the subreddit it's mostly people just bullying each other like they're in high school. It's not surprising that it's not any different IRL.
No.11527 Anonymous>>11592 >>11885
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>>11502

there were/are meetup discords for cities all over the country. they hit their stride in 2023ish - philly, chicago, and one of the west coast ones (can’t remember which) got a lot of attention. in the early days it was always 50/50 men/women. nobody was ever outright ugly. and EVERYONE was at least slightly spergy. hand on the bible, i swear it’s true.

lots of the reddit RSP types were loners who didn’t have a “scene” before this. it felt electric to be a part of. everybody really clicked. it was a way for pretentious internet addicts to feel normal, to get a taste of a full social life. it felt like crack

over time the newcomers got more reddit-y. gamer nerd loser types, exclusively male. it all faded away pretty quick after that

everybody who was a part of it genuinely misses it. the drama did tend to get intense. messy hookups were a problem. bullying/catty behavior went too far at times. i’ve read rumors of two suicides, each in a different group, but i cannot confirm and i don’t want to be the asshole who asks.

fun stuff but yeah i understand why it haunts some people.
No.11592 Anonymous
>>11471 (OP)
which city?
>>11527
i was in the minneapolis group and it was much lower-key than this, mostly movie nights and casual outings. it also faded due to increasingly spergy vibes and the de facto leader bowing out, but it was chill while it lasted.
No.11629 Anonymous>>11704 >>11940
They've been increasingly overrun by actual Redditors who use the sub(s) as places to be actual pricks for no reason. This has really killed the community and quality of discussion on them.
No.11704 Anonymous
>>11629
You seems familiar with them. Any stories?
No.11738 Anonymous
Not the fellow above, but the sperg vibes only increased in 2022 till it became unpleasant so I dipped out
No.11880 Anonymous
I have used the redscare podcast subreddit for many years now. Recently there has been an influx of leftists from the reddit front-page, promoting wokeness, transgender, DEI, and open borders, and theh are diluting the purity of one of the only true right wing spaces on the internet, where one is allowed to speak against insanity.
No.11885 Anonymous
>>11527
Nice Instagram meme retard. No wonder you got one-shotted by baby's first scene drama.
No.11886 Anonymous
Chillllll bro
No.11940 Anonymous>>11942
>>11629
I miss the years when you could write more than a paragraph without someone immediately responding with "okay but you gotta get over it"
No.11942 Anonymous
>>11940
That's endemic to the younger generations in general. Before it was bad with dismissive retorts about how you should "take your meds" (I got hit with that one on /pt/ too by the way), now it's apocalyptic because anything over a few sentences will elicit "you wrote this with AI". That AI charge is only going to get more ever-present as people forget what it's like to write longform.