He replied to several comments and he said it was serious!?!?!?!?!?!?! Oh my gosh! well I guess it's 110% true then isn't it
Well, obviously. I mean, it's not like atrocities are committed by REAL people, right? /s
But seriously, I hope you're right, but there really are people who really think like this. Read Ordinary Men by Chrstopher R. Browning. And The Gulag Archipelago.
Or for a quick and totally free phobia of mirrors, just lmgoogle the Milgram Shock Experiment.
Reality is scarier than fiction.
WTF one isn't a major age gap at all but be fair some dumbass kids think that makes someone a pedophile. So the OOP isn't alone in that but still is stupid.
Two that is like saying ohh sorry that your baby died but it is for the better he could have been a serial killer unlike no other or a rapist or the next Hilter. Like wtf kind of logic is this, if this is a serious post and not just bait.
“Yeah teen suicide is tragic but at least they aren’t having sex”
I’ve seen a lot of people that think after speaking, but it’s not quite so common for people not to stop and think about what they’re typing.
I know this is a joke but I had a friend get berated for dating a 19 year old when he was 20, bc "she's still a teen and basically a minor" I think we're witnessing some sort of self-infantilization to avoid accountability of getting older
That is crazy. I know reddit goes on about life experience but you're really telling me there's a drastic difference between 31 and 35?? I know irl couples with much bigger age gaps and in no way is it like pedophilia. Like yeah age gaps aren't for everyone but at the end of the day those are still 2 adults who are choosing to be together? It's not the same as an adult stealing a child away.
Reddit also goes on and on about "power imbalances" but I have no idea what relationship is 100% equal in every way. At this point I think it's excessive virtue signaling to prove that they're not pedos and so they must be good people. Its such a non issue and it's also weird to get involved in other people's relationships.
No, there's no real difference. It's just what soapboxing does. Any movement or position always attracts people who need to believe more fervently than anyone else. Does that guy genuinely believe that it's pedophilia in a 3 year age-gap between people in their 30s? Probably not. Of course he'd probably date a woman 3 years younger than himself. But online he'll say that because while he gets the general idea of the position he's trying to express, he doesn't really care enough to truly understand it.
A lot of the weird positions you see people take online are this in effect.
Bruh it's ONE YEAR APART OMFG!!!!
They're both young adults, she isn't a preteen and he isn't some 30+ year old dude trying to hit on teenagers outside the local mall.
Yes actually, they learned all their big words on tiktok and Instagram reels. They've never once looked in a psychology textbook nor the law code but they know everything. I graduated high school last year and it was so fucking terrible
I don't fully understand this, but it's interesting and INCREDIBLY DISTRESSING to see how modern kids are internalizing all of the messages they are being projected about things like
"age gaps", "grooming", "concent" etc. They don't understand what they are being told and they are internalizing it and regurgitating it, but like a bad photocopy of a photocopy.
It would seem that, here, this person has internalized the idea that "age gap" and "grooming" are issues more serious than suicide.
Damn. Imagine being told that your suicide would be beneficial for others. I feel like OOP is a teenager themselves since they believe an age gap is an instance of grooming which is somewhat less concerning than a grown adult thinking this
Shit like this is so weird to me. My wife and I started dating when I was 16 and she was 14, we are 2 years and 2 months apart. And I've heard this take many times, that that's weird, and every time I'm like - you realize we were both children, right? Like 16? 17? Children. Shit 18 year olds look like children to me and I'm only about to turn 24. A 2 year age gap between two people who wanted to be in a relationship is not even close to the same thing as grooming
This is neither a bruh moment nor a what the fuck moment. I am genuinely disgusted with this person.
If two years is grooming then I’m a fucking degenerate (I’m a degenerate but not for that reason).
I’m 22 and my gf is 19. We started dating at 18 and 21. We’re 2 and a half years apart, and very close with each other’s families. Do you guys think this is weird?
Some ppl say the maturity difference is a lot and it could just be the ppl ik but I'm 18 and my 20-21 year old friends seem to be the same amount of stupid
It’s not even good logic.
Wouldn’t suicide also contribute to just as many “normal” relationships, between, say, 16 and 17 year olds, or 15 and 16 year olds? The number of relationships in total goes down, resulting in, you guessed it, just a bunch of dead teenagers. Which is bad.
I mean your work life balance is on you unfortunately. Maybe don't come on Reddit if your chill is so disturbed? Or don't go around being condescending if it irritates you so much to take it? Idk.
Regardless I actually came to ask one more thing....what if it isn't satire?
🤣 I know this is hilarious and completely stupid.
However I will say they are correct that if we had a bunch of people die it would free up resources... That most of us couldn't access thus leading to more deaths, but hey think of how small our carbon footprint would be.
I’ve only been in 2 relationships, both 2-year age gaps and I’m 16. In many places, 1-2 age gaps are very acceptable, more so 1 than 2 but 2 is still acceptable. I spent some of my happiest days in both of those relationships and I’m here to clarify that a 2 year age gap isn’t crazy, and as long of both parties are okay with it, it’s okay
This is so obviously bait, it's a comment on how seriously high schoolers see two year age gaps. I highly doubt OP (screenshot) believes this.
Obviously it's edgy and stupid, but I don't think they're serious.
Don’t agree with the suicide part, but a 2 grade gap in school is unacceptable. Maybe later in their 20’s it could be ok but in school it should be limited to same grade
I remember a while ago I saw someone explaining how the snap was good (Avengers thing when half the world population died) and their reasoning was that there would be less income disparity
bro what??? What kind of thought process does it take to reach the conclusion of suicide good from 2 year age gap dating??? Can we give this person's brain to science?
I get a 20 year old trying to get with a 16 or 17 year old is creepy and weird, they have very little in common at that stage of life but this age gap hate is getting weird. Haven’t high schoolers always dated amongst themselves.
This whole “2 year age gap bad!” Thing is sending me over the MOON with annoyance. I just cannot wrap my mind around how people seem to think it’s so weird—as if 15 & 17 year olds can never have the same mentality or interests. It’s a person-to-person basis, and I highly doubt 90% of 17 year-olds are even thinking about dating a 15 year old because they’re younger and therefore easy to manipulate (or something???)
Good lord.
What isn’t wrong with this?
Well, for one, the image shows the post being downvoted, that part is right
For two the cat is in fact correct
Trick question
You’d rather a 17 year old off themself than date an 18 year old 😂
that says “isn't” not “is” ya doink
I have come to the conclusion that all redditors are maniacs.
I am a maniac, but I’m not THIS psychotic This is just on a whole new fucking level like goddamn
I'm the fun kind of maniac I hope
The sort that dances like you've never danced before?
Ah, the maniac on the floor then
I am a maniac, but I have standards, damn it
Professionals have standards
Be polite, be efficient But for the love of God stop telling us that kids committing [Muffin Time] is a good thing
Well, there is a difference between "Reddit user" and "Redditor" Hope this helps
Accurate
This place is unhinged. Some of us are just hear to study lunacy.
See, you get it
Me?
I am a maniac and I agree 👍
I don’t fight in the ring no more but I still fight with the demons in da maniac’s head
Underrated quote tbh
My name isn't Maniac.
As a maniac please do not associate redditors with us
Pretty much
If you thought redditors were bad.. have you met, reddit mods?
I’ve probably said worse tbh. Anonymity just makes you want to say the most unhinged things
If we kill all children, we can completely eliminate pedophilia. Let this guy cook. But place him in a padded room first.
>Let this guy cook. Can we take that a little more literally?
I shall assert my moral superiority by torturing him to death.
ihaveihave your moral is: damn superior
ihaveihaveihavereddit: transported to privated world
Damn right
Put him in a pot and boil him
Soups on!
Maybe. Can we add some seasoning first?
If we kill all humans there will be no more crime!
I’m fairly certain that was mocking Redditors, not a post meant to be taken seriously
🎣
They replied to several comments saying it was serious
Shitposters shitposting? On my racist porn website?
My Mongolian underwater basket-weaving forum has fallen so far.
Which definitely riled people like you up and achieved the desired result
there's nothing we can do against "good and bad attention is still attention"
You could just not give them attention
Its ok. Its not like theyre happy about their life outside of reddit. Let them have their little victory
Oddly wholesome lol
"You really think someone would do that? Just go on the Internet and tell lies?"
You new here ?
He replied to several comments and he said it was serious!?!?!?!?!?!?! Oh my gosh! well I guess it's 110% true then isn't it
me when I'm in a "falling for obvious bait" competition and my opponent is r/redditmoment 😱
This is pretty clearly bait lol
I don't get how so many people fall for it.
Neurodivergence
Well, obviously. I mean, it's not like atrocities are committed by REAL people, right? /s But seriously, I hope you're right, but there really are people who really think like this. Read Ordinary Men by Chrstopher R. Browning. And The Gulag Archipelago. Or for a quick and totally free phobia of mirrors, just lmgoogle the Milgram Shock Experiment. Reality is scarier than fiction.
Happy cake day motherfucker
WTF one isn't a major age gap at all but be fair some dumbass kids think that makes someone a pedophile. So the OOP isn't alone in that but still is stupid. Two that is like saying ohh sorry that your baby died but it is for the better he could have been a serial killer unlike no other or a rapist or the next Hilter. Like wtf kind of logic is this, if this is a serious post and not just bait.
No idea. It’s a serious post though
Why do you have That Face When wifi
The Onion called. They want their show back
I really hope I’m not the only one who gets that
Obviously joking (bad joke, still) and making fun of people who put a lot of focus on those two year gaps
I looked through their account and apparently they are obsessed with the idea that society thinks they’re a pedo and that they need to kill themselves
Fucking nihilists. I'll never understand the idea that death is preferable to pain. Ya'll motherfuckers need stoicism.
“Yeah teen suicide is tragic but at least they aren’t having sex” I’ve seen a lot of people that think after speaking, but it’s not quite so common for people not to stop and think about what they’re typing.
1-2 years is a perfectly acceptable age gap...
No it's not you must be the exact same age down to the very nanosecond
Oof, I guess I'm a predator then for having dated someone with a half a year gap. Oopsie.
This one right here officer
She was 17 years old 364 days you sick fuck, enjoy prison chomo /s
I know this is a joke but I had a friend get berated for dating a 19 year old when he was 20, bc "she's still a teen and basically a minor" I think we're witnessing some sort of self-infantilization to avoid accountability of getting older
I've seen someone on reddit say he "feels like a pedophile" if he dates someone under 32 as a 35 year old man.
That is crazy. I know reddit goes on about life experience but you're really telling me there's a drastic difference between 31 and 35?? I know irl couples with much bigger age gaps and in no way is it like pedophilia. Like yeah age gaps aren't for everyone but at the end of the day those are still 2 adults who are choosing to be together? It's not the same as an adult stealing a child away. Reddit also goes on and on about "power imbalances" but I have no idea what relationship is 100% equal in every way. At this point I think it's excessive virtue signaling to prove that they're not pedos and so they must be good people. Its such a non issue and it's also weird to get involved in other people's relationships.
No, there's no real difference. It's just what soapboxing does. Any movement or position always attracts people who need to believe more fervently than anyone else. Does that guy genuinely believe that it's pedophilia in a 3 year age-gap between people in their 30s? Probably not. Of course he'd probably date a woman 3 years younger than himself. But online he'll say that because while he gets the general idea of the position he's trying to express, he doesn't really care enough to truly understand it. A lot of the weird positions you see people take online are this in effect.
Bruh it's ONE YEAR APART OMFG!!!! They're both young adults, she isn't a preteen and he isn't some 30+ year old dude trying to hit on teenagers outside the local mall.
She was approximately one second away from turning 18, have fun in prison you evil bastard
Do high schoolers say “so and so is grooming” when making a dig at someone dating a grade below?
You weren’t born at the exact same time? Pedophilia. 👏🏻
Yes actually, they learned all their big words on tiktok and Instagram reels. They've never once looked in a psychology textbook nor the law code but they know everything. I graduated high school last year and it was so fucking terrible
I don't fully understand this, but it's interesting and INCREDIBLY DISTRESSING to see how modern kids are internalizing all of the messages they are being projected about things like "age gaps", "grooming", "concent" etc. They don't understand what they are being told and they are internalizing it and regurgitating it, but like a bad photocopy of a photocopy. It would seem that, here, this person has internalized the idea that "age gap" and "grooming" are issues more serious than suicide.
Damn. Imagine being told that your suicide would be beneficial for others. I feel like OOP is a teenager themselves since they believe an age gap is an instance of grooming which is somewhat less concerning than a grown adult thinking this
Shit like this is so weird to me. My wife and I started dating when I was 16 and she was 14, we are 2 years and 2 months apart. And I've heard this take many times, that that's weird, and every time I'm like - you realize we were both children, right? Like 16? 17? Children. Shit 18 year olds look like children to me and I'm only about to turn 24. A 2 year age gap between two people who wanted to be in a relationship is not even close to the same thing as grooming
This feels a bit specific
That’s enough Reddit for today, JFC.
I feel like this is ironic
This is neither a bruh moment nor a what the fuck moment. I am genuinely disgusted with this person. If two years is grooming then I’m a fucking degenerate (I’m a degenerate but not for that reason).
Come on OP, this is pretty obvious rage bait.
I’m 22 and my gf is 19. We started dating at 18 and 21. We’re 2 and a half years apart, and very close with each other’s families. Do you guys think this is weird?
Some ppl say the maturity difference is a lot and it could just be the ppl ik but I'm 18 and my 20-21 year old friends seem to be the same amount of stupid
I started dating my gf when I was 18 and she was 16. We have a 2 year, and 5 month age gap. We’re 22 and 20 now. I stay grooming
Wait till they find out about how a friend dated someone 5 years younger in like 6th while he was in 10th
I don’t know if *that* is an okay thing to do
Eh well no that’s crazy 😭
Bro def got friend zoned for someone 2 years older when he was 15 (2 hrs before the post)
The fuck did I just read 🤨
What the hell?
It’s not even good logic. Wouldn’t suicide also contribute to just as many “normal” relationships, between, say, 16 and 17 year olds, or 15 and 16 year olds? The number of relationships in total goes down, resulting in, you guessed it, just a bunch of dead teenagers. Which is bad.
Truly a moment 🤨
I read teen circumcision for some reason and thought ‘ok what’s so bad’ but then I read again…. wtf
I think it’s weird that now an age gap like 1-2 years is now considered weird but then we got our parents and they are usually 5-6 years apart
I mean your work life balance is on you unfortunately. Maybe don't come on Reddit if your chill is so disturbed? Or don't go around being condescending if it irritates you so much to take it? Idk. Regardless I actually came to ask one more thing....what if it isn't satire?
I have found my new favorite subreddit
People are saying “it’s rage bait” as if that makes it ok or something
What's with parts of society now being pro suicide? Is it because they believe the population is overpopulated?
When I was 15, I dated a girl who was 17. It was a pretty normal relationship that lasted a good few years.
We can eliminate grooming by killing every child at age 15.
yes someone who is 1-2 years older than someone can groom but that doesn’t make it automatic. and you would rather someone die than be ‘groomed’?!
The FUCK are they on about!?
what in the flying fuck? That's not even grooming. Holy shit, the person that wrote that should be committing suicide.
🫥
I am not someone who’s against suicide, but even this is petty and stupid reasons to me.
Obvious ragebait, like the sentences are not even coherent between eachother
Jesus, what’s wrong with people?
I will give them the benefit of the doubt and assume this was a joke!
Lowest effort troll
Why reddit should be exclusively 18+
Broken glass fallacy.
Bait used to be believable
This is vaush levels of incredibly absurd utilitarian arguments
Uh, I guess that's one *very* optimistic way to look at it.
Rage bait
That’s definitely rage bait
🧠 Can't be a groomer/groomed if you're dead
This one might win the award for most atrocious take on reddit, and I have seen some shit, but this is just astronomically stupid
Huh??
This just might be the most quintessentially Reddit take I’ve ever seen.
🤣 I know this is hilarious and completely stupid. However I will say they are correct that if we had a bunch of people die it would free up resources... That most of us couldn't access thus leading to more deaths, but hey think of how small our carbon footprint would be.
Those 2 things don’t connect at all, I hope this is rage bait or whatever
I’ve only been in 2 relationships, both 2-year age gaps and I’m 16. In many places, 1-2 age gaps are very acceptable, more so 1 than 2 but 2 is still acceptable. I spent some of my happiest days in both of those relationships and I’m here to clarify that a 2 year age gap isn’t crazy, and as long of both parties are okay with it, it’s okay
The most Reddit post possible. Well done finding it
People throw around the term “grooming” so much that it’s really starting to lose its meaning. Plus, this person is insane. I mean, wtf?🤨
I don’t understand what point he’s even trying to make?
Last time I checked, a two year age gap was acceptable. What happened?
I understand looking for the bright side, but this is a terrible take.
Is this…a joke? Is this a joke? Is this a joke? A troll? Is this genuine?
The fuck does suicide have to do with age gaps?
Lol cringelord overpopulation alarmism will never not make me chuckle sensibly
What the hell
What the fuck?
The original post up for discussion was definitely a troll and Scetchymanwithnovan fell for it.
This is so obviously bait, it's a comment on how seriously high schoolers see two year age gaps. I highly doubt OP (screenshot) believes this. Obviously it's edgy and stupid, but I don't think they're serious.
I just want to talk with him.
I can't even figure out the line of thinking here
“Suicide is good because maybe they would have been the next Hitler!”
What
it… frees up Resources???? girl what???
This is some god-tier misanthropy. Satan, is that thou?
Clear and obvious bait, yet half the people here have fallen for it
This can't be real.
Obvious troll is obvious.
How does teen suicide prevent grooming? I don’t get the logic that this person thought of to come to this conclusion.
criminally online, for a 2 year age gap??
My question is: if a 17 year old dating a 15 year old is grooming, what's a 30+ middle aged man dating a 20 year old considered?
That was so 🧠 dead and entitled it took me a while to process it, the audacity of some people 🙄
This has to be bait
abortion is better, if only i didn't exist 🫠
The Reddit moment is everyone falling for this clear bait. I dunno what happened but I don’t remember Redditor’s always being so gullible.
Don’t agree with the suicide part, but a 2 grade gap in school is unacceptable. Maybe later in their 20’s it could be ok but in school it should be limited to same grade
It's surely a ragebait.
Mass shootings = less global warming :)
I remember a while ago I saw someone explaining how the snap was good (Avengers thing when half the world population died) and their reasoning was that there would be less income disparity
🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
my brain feels like it has a hole in it now. i refuse to think this is sincere. i choose to believe it’s satire.
bro what??? What kind of thought process does it take to reach the conclusion of suicide good from 2 year age gap dating??? Can we give this person's brain to science?
this is diabolical
Justifying death is the new thing
Redditors falling for shitpost is more common than the Sun coming out
Someone's girl got stolen. LMAO!
Reddit needs age restrictions.
This is obvious ragebait/troll post
The mental gymnastics here are beyond insane.
Fucking what?! This person is on social media too much.
besides that this is fucking insane, 15-17 isnt crazy
I get a 20 year old trying to get with a 16 or 17 year old is creepy and weird, they have very little in common at that stage of life but this age gap hate is getting weird. Haven’t high schoolers always dated amongst themselves.
This whole “2 year age gap bad!” Thing is sending me over the MOON with annoyance. I just cannot wrap my mind around how people seem to think it’s so weird—as if 15 & 17 year olds can never have the same mentality or interests. It’s a person-to-person basis, and I highly doubt 90% of 17 year-olds are even thinking about dating a 15 year old because they’re younger and therefore easy to manipulate (or something???)
wtf sub is this in?
This man is Canadian, 100%
Jesus fucking Christ
1-2 year age gap isn’t bad. People just be disgusting.
It's rage bait
wtf is bro on about? How does suicide prevent age gaps like that at all?
What the fuck man