It’s a [hug] emote.

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There is a singular niche community that I involve myself with where I pop in and make highly desired items to give away for free.

It makes me feel like people care about me for a while. For now, that’s good enough for me.

Money and good health insurance. Seriously, it would help me out so dang much.

I have pretty bad PTSD, which has made it near impossible to make real, human connections. If I could get out of my own head, I feel like my life might be able to improve.

I have a house of my own, though. I feel like having your own space contributes a lot to self-improvement and peace, tbh. I am extremely fortunate.

I hope this fucking clown-house leads to laws being passed protecting workers from this kind of shit in the future.

For real, this deep-fried dumpster fuck needs to leave the planet.

I’m shocked at how many of y’all work in tech/computers.

I probably shouldn’t be, but I am.

Man, that so tragic…

Looks like he struggled with drugs and homelessness? That’s so sad.

Apparently it won some kind of award? It’s definitely a bit fun for me as an adult, but DEAR GOD did it frighten me as a kid watching it at night!

Only saw it once and it stuck with me for about 25 years. Spooked me good!

YES! Well, kind of!! With the apple!!

Canadian animation is wild, and so much of it is unknown outside of the country.

I remember seeing a short called “La Salla” on Canadian TV when I was a kid. Caused me a bit of childhood trauma lol

Old Soviet cartoons are so absolutely beautiful! I really do hope you are able to find them someday.

There is a video about Soviet animation, if you haven’t seen it already!

I HATE ads with a passion. Even taught my kid from a very young age to put his hands over his ears, look away, and say “la la la!!” until an ad ends.

Once Vanced shut down, I was devastated. ReVanced really saved my experience, though, and I’m so thankful it exists.

That really did put the nail in the coffin for me.

He lied about that. What else will he lie about? How many other innocent people will he accuse of wrong-doing in the future? He’s obviously shown that he is very openly willing to do so.

No thank you.

I would sew costumes, clothes, and stuffed animals!

I would also give away stuffed animals to people in my town. It’d be fun to hide them around different areas to be discovered, with a note encouraging people who want them to take them home.

This might sound weird, but bare with me!

I save funny stuff, goofy things, and positive content in a folder for my son to browse through, which keeps him from looking for content himself in parts of the internet unknown. He loves it, and I had been able to keep the folder updated with a good amount of new images daily, thanks to R×ddit.

However, lately that has changed. Posts deemed as “wholesome” and “made me smile” now increasingly have the edge of a dystopian nightmare (“look at this father reuniting with his son who he thought was dead amidst this war-torn country! Awwww! Wholesome!” and “this teacher was surprised when his students gave him something that his paycheck should have been able to adequately provide but he is not actually paid enough to afford it! Awww! Made me smile!”). I’ll find animals doing something “cute”, only to realize that behavior is caused by bad or abusive care.

Now I struggle to find things that are actually funny or nice without having a sexist edge, a horrifying implication, sexual undertones, or some kind of underlying dark tone.

I am finding less content here, but the content I am coming across seems to be much more genuine! I’ve actually saved quite a bit more things than I’ve seen on R×ddit within the past year.

Nobody reads profiles, it seems. And I don’t want to involve myself with someone who can’t/won’t read.

Nothing personal! Just would rather not be forced to deal with them and everything that comes with them.

Dogs deserve to exist and can be very helpful in the right settings, but I still do not like them.

Oh, I’ve had experience with unleashed dogs, too. I’m so sorry you had to deal with that.

You just can’t train a dog to not act like a dog, though! You can make (some of) them more polite, but I have yet to meet a perfectly behaved dog.

I just don’t like dogs.

That’s valid. But children will grow up and become adults.

Dogs will always be & act like dogs.

Hard disagree. A lot of this behavior is justified to me as “they’re just being a dog!”

Dogs bark. Dogs chew. Dogs have a prey drive. Dogs smell. Dogs just want to be with you. This how dogs are.

It’s both. I don’t like dog behavior, so I just don’t like dogs! I have big qualms with a lot of the owners of dogs, sure, but I’ve never met a dog I actively liked.

I just don’t like dogs.