Maybe Reddit as a whole, but what are your thoughts on WallStreetBets? It seems that WSB has all of the elements of a counterculture, although maybe diluted after the wide spread GME interest.
WSB is a shade of its former self now due to the onslaught of new members
Has a "what was WSB before the eternal September" escape hatch subreddit popped up yet?
Yes, /r/wallstreetbetsogs.
Check out /r/wallstreetbetsogs. It's an attempt to bring back the old school WSB.
I tried it out for a few days. It's also nowhere near the old WSB.
WSB seems like the definition of a smart hedge fund that managed to manipulate the market transparently. Everything there reeks of fake, manufactured and engineered "counter" culture
Yeah because WSB uses another language that many do not know, or care to know.
I’m really not sure “diamond hands” and “retard” count so much as another language. I think the big gap between there and other places on the same subject is on “gambling logic”, not right or wrong, I’ve seen more people there admit that than “Wallstreet Types” who would be trillionaires if they actually knew how to win.
Fair. But there is also some assumed knowledge of what futures and puts are, no?
I think the thing that is/was countercultural were the actions taken by WallStreetBets, not the site itself.
Reddit is a meta site. The default subs are of course the default consensus, but you can find subs of nearly every other position under the sun.
No. Most "radical" subs will be suppressed or otherwise banned by selectively enforcing the rules. For every rule broken in r/thedonald or r/chapotraphouse you could find dozens of similar examples in r/news and r/politics.
You can absolutely find subreddits dedicated to pretty much every extremist position to this day.
Wait for them to grow up to even a modest number of subscribers. First they will be brigaded (with no action from the admins), then they will be quarantined and lastly they will be outright banned.
It used to be fairly "counter-culture"ish back in the day before it was run like a corporation.