A big part of it for me is that in my head he's this 18-year-old idiot who's stolen my credit card information from me personally, even though he was 20 years older than me and that never happened. It's who he was in the hacker legendarium, you know?

It looks different for me - I didn't want to go back, so I just installed Reddit Enhancement Suite and the old.reddit redirect and disabled my ad blockers for it, and sure enough it looks like garbage now so it's easy to remember not to use it.

Google search algorithm is straight hot garbage it's embarrassing lol

Google search results are really bad, but it's worth a moment to consider how good your search results would be if as much money rode on gaming you as rides on gaming Google.

I'm assuming that they understood that, because they said (I assume pejoratively) that they sounded like a "can't be racist against white people" leftist. If they had failed to notice the sarcasm, they would be taking the sarcasm at face value and seeing a pro-male, "all lives matter" type take

that they just made up

If you're already comfortable working in the shell, you should check out tig. It's not as fully featured as the other clients named here, but it's an excellent viewer nevertheless.