There is a specific type of Redditor, age ranging between 35 and 65, who posts judgemental comments to the point of complete indifference as to whether someone lives or dies and then also posts on the subreddit for their own specific car and /r/personalfinance. When there’s a story about someone’s rural property burning down, these guys are always the first ones to comment that the owner should have known better than to have built a wood house inside of a forest.
I’ve seen this archetype in all sorts of subreddits, from lots of different countries (most Anglophones, some Latino), both genders, both childless and with children. My theory is that these are people who have spent 20 years doing work they didn’t particularly enjoy in order to get ahead and now make up for lost time by taking out their misery on others as a means of affirming to themselves that they made the right choice.
I’ve seen this archetype in all sorts of subreddits, from lots of different countries (most Anglophones, some Latino), both genders, both childless and with children. My theory is that these are people who have spent 20 years doing work they didn’t particularly enjoy in order to get ahead and now make up for lost time by taking out their misery on others as a means of affirming to themselves that they made the right choice.