Had the problem last week. I searched for something super specific in Cookie Clicker and someone had the same question on Reddit. It went something like this:

[Question]

[Redacted]

Thanks! But [more specific question]

[Redacted]

Oh thank you very much!

I mean, yeah it sucks that I had to continue searching but I still had to smile that moment. Because this is what we wanted, making Reddit a useless Swiss cheese of a website. That’s why we deleted our contributions and it will only get worse with time.

I have the feeling the artist themselves don’t know what the fuck is going on. Which is fitting for the current zeitgeist if you ask me.

Or they say “fuck it”, do a yes amount of drugs and start scribbling. Which probably is what’s really happening.

There was this guy, I think he called himself “killallwomen” with changing numbers. I received a death threat followed up by pictures of animal porn and gore. I actually didn’t care that much. I understand your concerns and nobody should have to deal with this kind of shit. But I got so many death threats on Reddit over the years. Death threats from nazis, death threats from conspiracy theorists, death threats from CCP slaves, death threats from russian bots, death threats from trumpian cultists, death threats from a guy who thought I want to punch him for some reason, death threats from incels, OH THE INCELS! There are so many of them on Reddit.

I couldn’t care even if I wanted. But not everyone feels the same and things I might find almost funny, could disturb others. So this killallwomen guy kept doing what he was doing and the counter got higher and higher. To the point he almost became a meme in some communities.

Did the admins care? Did they do anything to stop this behavior on their site? Of course they didn’t.