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[-] TheaoneAndOnly27@kbin.social 41 points 8 months ago

One time I went to a local Reddit meet up. Yep, it was all that cringy

[-] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 41 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Reminds me of the reddit meetup in 2014?

It was at a tech office on a Saturday.

I got a free beer. But I literally smelled the atmosphere, and realized it was gonna be a Magic the gathering/nerd expo but filled with angry drunken weirdos and I left.

The next day, the organizers sent a mass email asking for people to chip in. Someone broke the pool table. Someone ripped pages out of a manual. Someone stole name plaques from a managers office.

They complained about having to clean up vomit and we can "do better redditors!"

I think about that a lot.

[-] SkippingRelax@lemmy.world 15 points 8 months ago

We did it reddit

[-] oatscoop@midwest.social 26 points 8 months ago

The narwhal bacons at midnight.

[-] tubaruco@lemm.ee 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

a local reddit meet up? i have never heard of something like that. do reddit users go outside?!?!?

edit: "users" is plural. i, for some reason, used does instead of do.

[-] TheaoneAndOnly27@kbin.social 11 points 8 months ago

God it was so awkward, it must have been like 2011 because I was freshly 21. And it was at this local bar. And everybody greeted eachother by " the narwhal bacon's at midnight" and it was just fucking weird. For a while our local subreddit was running a monthly one and then it just kind of stopped.

[-] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

To be fair I'm sure everyone was pretty cringeworthy at that age with or without reddit. Myself included

[-] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago

Is this "the narwhal" thing worth looking up?

[-] feannag@lemmy.ml 8 points 8 months ago

Probably not. Old piece of Reddit history. Gist of it is there was a discussion on how to identify a redditor in real life, and the favorite response was saying that "the narwhal bacons at midnight".

[-] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 6 points 8 months ago

Good summary really.

Also an example of why being a Redditor wasn't something you admitted to for a long time.

[-] kratoz29@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago

Please, elaborate, I have only read about these meet ups, but never actually got to know, how they were...

[-] arefx@lemmy.ml 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I went to one 10 years ago and it was fine just a bunch of normal dudes and a few women drinking beers talking about random stuff, for what it's worth. I wouldn't dare go to one in 2024 I could only imagine what I'd see.

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