r/technology • u/marketrent • 28d ago

Social Media Reddit’s automatic moderation tool is flagging the word ‘Luigi’ as potentially violent — even in a Nintendo context

https://www.theverge.com/news/626139/reddit-luigi-mangione-automod-tool
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u/Jabberminor 28d ago

Luigi.

Luigi.

Luigi.

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u/mayoandmustard1 28d ago

If you say it three times into a mirror does he appear?

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u/Extremeblarg 28d ago

He gave me a free E. Gadd brand vacuum

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u/DarraignTheSane 28d ago

Gotta get rid of those ghosts somehow.

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u/Unlucky_Bottle_6761 28d ago

Finally.. the Poltergust 6000

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u/Pyritedust 27d ago

The most reliable vacuum there is for dealing with all the bloody ghosts.

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u/Nok-y 28d ago

Free E and a Gadd brand vacuum ?? No way !!

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u/[deleted] 28d ago

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u/leontheloathed 28d ago

Dude come on I need to sleep and now I’ve gotta stay up all night doing this.

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u/whiplash_7641 28d ago

God i hope so maybe we could make one of those famous sex tapes of his 🤌🏼

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u/seeyoshirun 24d ago

People are joking above about manifesting a vacuum; that's not the kind of sucking I'd be hoping for.

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u/NancyInFantasyLand 28d ago

Who needs a mirror... Just do it Beetlejuice style.

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u/Dick_Dickalo 27d ago

A CEO gets wacked and you hear this.

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u/Sapowski_Casts_Quen 28d ago

Let me check...

FUCK-

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u/hacktheself 24d ago

where did the pixels go

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u/t3hnhoj 28d ago

IT'S A MEEEEE

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u/gatsby712 28d ago

God I hope so. 😮‍💨

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u/Iron_Wolf123 28d ago

It's Showtime!

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u/No-Fly-6069 28d ago

I was gonna say that!

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u/BIGepidural 28d ago

You get a 1 UP

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u/RichEvans4Ever 27d ago

I hope so, then we could bust our boy out.

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u/shticks 28d ago

Prison guards hate this one simple trick!

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u/Otto500206 27d ago

I hope so, would like to meet him.

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u/villings 28d ago

this year's r/place is gonna be great

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u/LinneaFlowers 28d ago

Aint no way in hell are they having an r/place in this current social-political climate.

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u/SnooNarhwal 28d ago

We said that last time. And the time before. Admins unabashedly used backend tools to censor art.

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u/harry_lostone 27d ago

We said that last time. And the time before. Admins unabashedly used backend tools to censor bots.

ftfy

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u/Crezelle 27d ago

FUCKPUTINFUCKPUTINFUCKPUTINFUCKPUTIN

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u/BobZimway 28d ago

Trumpenisface. 

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u/BobZimway 26d ago

Start thinking about grid size.

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u/KirbyDaRedditor169 27d ago

This r/place board is great, so many spots I can r-

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u/_frozety 28d ago

Digg

Digg

Digg

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u/edwardsdl 28d ago

I really hope they don’t fuck it up. Reddit needs a strong competitor.

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u/[deleted] 28d ago

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u/arahman81 27d ago

Especially when the Reddit founder is part owner, and the tagline is just copied from Reddit.

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u/ex0r1010 28d ago

Fark Fark Fark

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u/Crash665 28d ago

Fark looks exactly the same in 2025 as it did in 1998. Kind of impressive, really

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u/dallyan 28d ago

Damn. Is it still going?

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u/AwakeGroundhog 27d ago

I still read/comment on Fark. It is definitely a much more mature audience (in a good way) compared to Reddit.

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u/Think-Hospital7422 27d ago

Stop trying to Farkle and just do it.

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u/Smith6612 28d ago

We digg digg digg digg digg digg digg in our mine the whole day through. To digg digg digg digg digg digg digg is what we like to do.

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u/Butt_Chug_Brother 27d ago

I AM A DWARF AND I'M DIGGING A HOLE, DIGGY DIGGY HOLE, DIGGING A HOLE!"

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u/neoblackdragon 28d ago

trio

trio

trio

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u/finnw 28d ago

Reporting myself for upvoting you

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u/MariaValkyrie 28d ago

Reporting myself for up voting your admission to upvoting banned content.

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u/Kryten_2X4B-523P 28d ago

God damn it, now I got to report myself for a thought violation.

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u/KittenLina 28d ago

Finally. A good ****ing mod.

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u/burn_corpo_shit 28d ago

mysterious disappearance of said mod and sudden aggressive takeover by sub by seeming nobodies is imminent.

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u/LoreChano 27d ago

It's good to know that at least one sub have a competent mod team that doesn't lick Reddit admins boots. I feel like many/most major subs now have people who for one reason or another, decided to side with the stupid censorship philosophy and one sided view Reddit have been pushing on their site in the past few years. I don't think it's just that Reddit employees have managed to infiltrate or take over mod teams across the platform, I think many mods are straight up afraid of losing their subs if they don't follow exactly what admins tell them to do.

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u/TommyTheCommie1986 28d ago

I wonder what else they consider "violent"

And I wonder how quickly they will regret this because that might be more then half of all the users getting warnings

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u/SlashaJones 28d ago

I wonder what else they consider "violent"

Last I had heard, they refused to define what they consider violent content to be, with their reasoning being they don’t want people to “game the system”.

But how can you follow the rules if you don’t know the rules?

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u/Yitram 28d ago

That's the whole point. The "rules" can be made up after the fact. Like China's state secrets law.

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u/scummy_shower_stall 28d ago

This is what the Soviet Union and Russia use to silence their population.

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u/Ksh_667 28d ago

Ppl will always find a way round these things anyway. Refusing to define the rules isn't the win they think it is.

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u/weltvonalex 27d ago

That's the nice thing, you don't but it's still your fault

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u/No-Reply-Needed 28d ago

I just got an automated warning, and my comment removed, for posting a link to a music video by Trevor Moore titled “It’s time for guillotines” - it’s about using guillotines on the billionaire class lmao

Apologies to the folks who upvoted that comment I guess? 🤷‍♀️ 😂 This is going to severely limit what kind of content we can share across Reddit - it’s ridiculous.

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u/24-Hour-Hate 27d ago

I got an actual ban for posting a link to an article about the time an NZ politician got hit in the face with a dildo. It was a mainstream news article. Encouraging violence and violent content is literally anything they say it is. You can get a ban for just talking about or referencing literal events that happened. And your situation suggests we can’t talk about media either. So can’t talk about any tv, movie, song, etc. That has violence.

Of course, we all know this isn’t really true. It’s going to be enforced selectively to suppress whatever they decide they don’t like. Because I’ve reported tons of shit for being violent, threatening, etc. and it never gets removed. Because they are perfectly okay with the right wing fascist shit.

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u/Ninja333pirate 28d ago

I had never seen that video of Trevor Moore's and wow it is so fitting. Thanks for mentioning it.

Also RIP Trevor Moore.

I wouldn't doubt it if he was defenestrated (but off a balcony and not a window) for videos like this and the one titled "Clint Webb for VP" where he essentially calls out politicians. And many other videos.

https://youtu.be/FtJuiTAR29E?si=lizUGkQq0IRw2Ij6

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u/No-Reply-Needed 28d ago

How about this one from Trevor Moore? Let’s see what happens: https://youtu.be/eg3_kUaYFJA?si=tVVwWQzyACjiErmo

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u/Ninja333pirate 28d ago

Right haha, wkuk was great it should have been even more popular then it was. And one of the few comedians that edged the line of speaking out against the shit show that is our government, a lot of celebrities would never go near that subject.

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u/No-Reply-Needed 28d ago

Shit, a lot of our elected representatives would never go near that subject. We’re completely fucked.

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u/Ninja333pirate 28d ago

Exactly, only people that can stand up for us at this point really is ourselves. Might I suggest you look for a booklet that was declassified back in 2008, you can Google it by putting "strategic services field manual no.3" (this is not the title but I feel like the title will get it censored possibly and I think a lot of people should see that book) into Google and download the free copy from the CIA website. It was a manual the government gave out to teach people how to fight fascism from within during the 1940's.

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u/No-Reply-Needed 28d ago

Hell yeah, thanks for the recommendation - I’ll take a look

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u/Marcus777555666 28d ago

Deserved. Wth.... Since when is promoting killing other human beings became a standard 🤔

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u/No-Reply-Needed 28d ago

Probably since they started killing us off. How’s that billionaire dick taste? lmao 🤡

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u/Marcus777555666 28d ago

No one is killing you, sweetheart. Stop being jealous of others.

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u/No-Reply-Needed 28d ago

You’re just one cancer diagnosis and a denied claim away from singing a very different tune. Or maybe not, you seem like a useful idiot.

I have news for you: you will never, ever be one of them. You will never have a billion dollars. You will never be seen by Elon Musk or Peter Thiel. They see you as economic fodder at best.

But hey, keep licking those boots and maybe they’ll tweet some thoughts and prayers at you when you’re on your deathbed.

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u/Marcus777555666 27d ago

As I said, stop being jealous of other people success. And never say never: who knows, maybe I will invent something that will be very useful and make a lot of money. becoming a billionaire is nor my priority at all. If It was, I would have became one already.

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u/No-Reply-Needed 27d ago

Fucking LOL 😂 you really do think you’ll be part of their club one day. This would be sad if I wasn’t laughing so hard at you right now.

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u/[deleted] 28d ago

Do you even really use Reddit if you haven’t had dozens of accounts permanently banned?

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u/Marcus777555666 28d ago

anything that endorses violence/killing another human being, or advocating for what he did. Basically, if you endorse what that murderer did, you are promoting and instigating violence and deserved to be punished.

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u/Hillary4SupremeRuler 23d ago

Wompy wompy

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u/Marcus777555666 23d ago

I am not the one who is rotting in prison xD

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u/Ras_Alghoul 28d ago

I can’t believe igiul is listed as a verb on Wiktionary.

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u/weltvonalex 27d ago

Stone him!! /S

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u/websterhamster 28d ago

Take me, admins! I'm ready!

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u/PM_Me_Some_Steamcode 28d ago

Imma upvote this and see a warning, Arnt I?

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u/Fearless_Attempt_360 28d ago

I thought it was only China that did this thing with Winnie the Poo..

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u/deepmiddle 28d ago

Upvoted! Give me my ban, I’m ready to move onto lemmy 

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u/Medullan 25d ago

Better upvote this because now up voting content that glorifies violence is also against the rules.

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u/Medullan 25d ago

And those up votes are also apparently being censored.

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u/yaoigay 28d ago

Uh oh I just up voted violent content

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u/Just_Another_Scott 27d ago

They're also temp banning people for upvoting his name as it's "violent content" lmao.

https://www.reddit.com/r/PrepperIntel/s/vyoxfGJCZQ

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u/CarverSeashellCharms 28d ago

Aw, now you've done it. He was just popping tiny rich guys in his tiny home town* but now he's full sized and loose on the world. Next CEOs will be frightening people with their eyeballs in their mouths and making new friends in hell.

*Cold and windy but sunny. Like summer after what February felt like. 😖

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u/ItsTime1234 28d ago

Weegee? My good friend Lou Ouija?

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u/reeeforce_rtx 28d ago

Hey he can't say that someone ban him or something

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u/Mediocre_expectation 28d ago

Why is my table floating?

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u/my_name_is_nobody__ 28d ago

Say his name!

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u/zone55555 27d ago

Uh oh, I upvoted this clearly violent content

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u/Omgpawnomgpawn 27d ago

Beetlejuice

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u/Dramatic-Window9019 27d ago

ohh you mean lweejee?

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u/astro_plane 28d ago

Supa Mah dio! Woo hoo!

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u/marklar_the_malign 28d ago

I double dog dare you to go int the bathroom, turn off the lights and look in the mirror while saying that. But only if you are a healthcare CEO.

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u/ghandi3737 27d ago

Damn you! I thought of it first!

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u/Robinkc1 25d ago

Mufasa Mufasa Mufasa!

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u/DXGL1 24d ago

It probably depends on the subreddit.

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u/AromaticMuscle 23d ago

Users are getting rule 8’d for engaging with this content.

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u/JetMan615 23d ago

Stop it Jabber your scaring reddit!

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u/SeanDoe80 28d ago

Straight to jail!

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u/DukeLion353 28d ago

Biggie small Biggie smalls biggie smalls

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u/RollingMeteors 28d ago

¿Did this flag your own moderator tools?

¿Thanks for confirming a flag doesn’t turn into an auto delete?

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u/Powerful_Direction_8 28d ago

Hercules, Hercules, Hercules!

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u/agentchuck 28d ago

Oh crap I upvoted this without thinking. Now I'm on the list.

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u/Spreaderoflies 28d ago

Did nothing wrong

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u/Pravi_Jaran 28d ago

Oh! No! I upvoted it!

With every one of my disposable accounts.

The horror... The horror...

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u/AchillesDragonX 28d ago

OH MY GOD PUT YOUR HANDS UP YOU'RE UNDER ARREST SIR FOR VIOLENCE

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u/halstarchild 28d ago

Naughty mody

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u/Darth_Rubi 28d ago

Upvoted. Let's see how this shakes out

Billionaires quaking in their boots at the idea of class consciousness

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u/Expensive-Ad-2308 28d ago

Love anarchists!!!😁😀😉

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u/MariaValkyrie 27d ago

Fun fact, is Wario counterpart is also flagged.

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u/EnvironmentalDig1612 27d ago

It’sa me, wario!

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u/MondoFool 27d ago

This what chinese people gonna start spamming in our websites to get us in trouble

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u/Comfortable-Pause279 27d ago

Mushroooom. MUSHROOOOOM!

a snake. a snake. a snake. oh it's a snake.

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u/Soft_Indication_9936 27d ago

I dare them to give me any problem. I don't need this fucking app

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u/Key_Lingonberry795 27d ago

gasp how dare you /s

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u/[deleted] 28d ago

Reported for self harm 😂😂😂😂

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u/Real-Boysenberry2312 28d ago

dude cut that out - you're messin with forces you cannot comprehend

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u/Prcrstntr 27d ago

Hope you get the sub banned

hahaha reddit sucks lmfao

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u/artgarciasc 28d ago

I'm not up voting this, but I like it.

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u/guessesurjobforfood 28d ago

Commenting on it is even worse mate, you're done for now. I'm safe because I'm using your comment as a degree of seperation.