‎- pre-enlightment: post reddit photos and links to people/your profile without worry. - the modern era: re-post from reddit and go out of way to credit to avoid criticism. give concise crit. to ensure others do the same. - the post-reddit reform era: get over yourself. re-post when you see fit. don’t credit reddit, because you know everyone knows where it’s from and you still thought it worth the re-post. be happy.

I’m going to formalize it a bit.

The question is: when discussing material originating from a vast and near universal trove of content, do you have to credit it’s origins? It’s meant to be the polite and correct thing to do, but when you’re crediting ‘reddit’ as opposed to a reddit account (that there’s no chance you’d remember and is very likely not to be attributable to a physical person anyway), or the originating source of the content (that, again, you aren’t going to remember even if the item in mind isn’t an unsourced picture of a kitten), is it actually worth a damn anyway? Not really. You’re crediting reddit because you’re giving the person you are interacting with credit for probably knowing about reddit too, and you’re worried that they’ll rub your unoriginality back in your face.

This is stifling to conversation. If you have something you think is worth talking about, have the damn pride to be unapologetic about it.

And don’t delude yourself. Everyone reads reddit.