Twenty Thousand Bananas and All I Acquired was a Reddit Wrapped Overview

As a part of my private plan to possibly not assist billionaires subverting democracy and to flee political shouting matches on the most important platforms… largely MAGA, but additionally together with some crazy lefty stuff, as a result of the horseshoe concept is actual… I gave up Twitter, Fb, Instagram, and dramatically thinned out who I observe on locations like Blue Sky.  I don’t want each day to be a battle of ignorance and lies.

As a part of that I dealt myself in additional closely on Reddit.  If nothing else the place is sliced and diced into subreddits the place you possibly can give attention to one matter and never get bombarded by the web warrior class who has to shout down anyone exhibiting flawed suppose.  Once more, a horseshoe downside.

If I’m going to argue on-line I would like it to be about trivia like who’re the nice guys in no matter null sec warfare is occurring and whether or not or not pointy ears are Tolkien canon like we have been again in 1993 UseNet.

As such, I spent loads of time on Reddit this 12 months.  I even put in the app on my iPad, which is the place I bought the banana stat.  It will provide you with an estimate of what number of banana lengths you’ve scrolled over the 12 months… it’s a Reddit factor, I don’t know why… when it final instructed me I had scrolled in extra of twenty-two,000 bananas.  Go me I assume.

So I used to be wanting ahead to the annual Reddit Recap, as have been lots of people if my anecdotal scrolling and search is to be truest.

Some locations on Reddit be like…

I posted about my Reddit Recap in 2021 and 2022 after they have been going extra in depth for customers, then once more final 12 months when it grew to become a Reddit app solely expertise.  So I used to be, if nothing else, to see if I my higher give attention to the platform can be mirrored in any stats.

In the meanwhile Reddit apparently determined that they weren’t going to do the recap factor anymore, one thing they introduced nowhere and to no one, simply staying mum on the entire thing.  However they’re now well past when the recap his in previous years, so if it does present up… once more, they haven’t uttered a peep that I’ve seen both means… I’ll be a bit irritated in that eye rolling, “you may have simply mentioned” form of means.

So the consensus if that there can be no recap for 2025, a certain signal that Reddit is promoting out or dying or isn’t prefer it was once or no matter.  Who is aware of.  I keep in mind when CCP additionally used to offer us particular person annual recaps… in freaking video kind… for EVE On-line.  Now they can not get their very own annual stats straight, however extra on that in one other put up.

In an effort to fill the apparent hole of Redditors emulating the meme above, any person stepped up and introduced us Reddit Wrapped 2025.

Reddit Wrapped 2025

And, being AI pushed, it’s sort of shit and in case you don’t like the reply you get the primary time you possibly can clear your cache and run it time and again and get one thing totally different each time.

A part of the issue is that it doesn’t have quite a bit to work with when it comes.  It appears to rely closely on “analyzing” posts and replies, however I don’t put up all that a lot and barely reply to any put up save to often add form phrases to any person who added one thing of worth or to moan about the identical folks exhibiting up with the identical arguments that may be refuted in the identical outdated means.

And it didn’t even get my greatest quip. I ended a reply to 1 bitter vet whose entire being is discovering new methods to argue “Grr Goons” and “null sec sucks” that their arguments all the time boil all the way down to Schrodinger’s Null sec, which was someway all the time killing EVE and but all the time simultaneous irrelevant to the sport.

No, as a substitute the AI appeared to indicate a laser-like focus of its personal on that one time I replied to a really dumb put up by mentioning that “quite a bit” was two phrases, to not play grammar police, however to indicate my disdain for the entire effort by boiling it all the way down to that one error within the first sentence.  That’s one thing too delicate for many on Reddit, a lot much less an AI for which metaphor and idiom are simply phrases in a dictionary they scrapped with out permission of the writer.

So when it generated my first run, it needed to get in there with a grammar reference.

My AI personalised Reddit avatar

Once more, you may write a guide about AI and its failures with sarcasm, however then it could simply steal it an misread it, so why trouble?

Nonetheless, it did get a few amusing bits in, my preliminary abstract was… not too dangerous.

The EVE-Obsessed Historian

You’re both meticulously documenting the collapse of digital empires or passionately defending a recreation that’s been ‘dying’ for 20 years. Your Reddit exercise is a deep dive into spaceships and the occasional philosophical musing on participant motivation, with a facet of dad-joke-level grammar policing.

I do recurrently reply with the picture of the primary documented “EVE is dying” put up from the boards when any person is imprecise about how lengthy it has been.  We’ve a exact date dammit.

First identified incidence of “EVE is Dying”

That is well-known sufficient that CCP even put a bodily model of the put up in with the twentieth anniversary version package deal factor they did.

EVE is Dying, now in bodily kind

Its makes an attempt at some stats have been, once more, hamstrung by its give attention to posts and replies.

Some form of 2025 stats

I didn’t spend 10% of my time enjoying at grammar police and I spent much more than 5% of my time being mildly amused.  However, not like Reddit, the AI doesn’t have entry to my Reddit monitoring information, so it can not inform me about the place I frolicked or tidbits concerning the locations the place I frolicked.

And in attempting to generate some roasts, it appeared to hit the goal two out of 3 times.