There were a half dozen or so subreddit communities that I had never h — Controversial Reddit communities

"The popular social networking and news-sharing site Reddit once hosted a group called Game of Trolls. Its rules were simple: if you successfully upset someone on Reddit without them realizing they were being trolled, you won a point. If you were identified as a troll, you lost a point. The highest scorers were listed on a leaderboard. … Game of Trolls was eventually banned by Reddit; a highly unusual step for the otherwise liberal site, but testament to the pervasiveness and persistence of the Reddit trolls."

"After the Isla Vista massacre, a subreddit called Elliot Rodger Fans was quickly created, though it was banned by Reddit soon afterwards."

"/r/MensRights content is unrestricted on Reddit, and so it occasionally makes its way into the /r/all feed, or into the suggested subreddits of users. With over 288,000 members, participants are active in many parts of Reddit, and other users are likely exposed to /r/MensRights content through their comments, user pages and post histories. /r/TheRedPill has a different path, as content from the subreddit no longer appears in the /r/all feed or other non-subscribed aggregate feeds since being quarantined in 2018."

"The Daily Beast, in an exhaustive report, investigated a forum known as "Red Pill" on Reddit.com. It found that [Robert] Fisher, writing as "pk_atheist," created the forum in 2012, posting: "Lets talk about exactly what it means to be a sexual man in the era of feminism," and, "In a culture where the only thing standing between you and prison is whether the last girl you (expletive) decides to lie about rape, these are REAL questions that I think are being ignored."

"Due to the younger demographic of many of Reddits users, some of its content can seem immature, crude, or inappropriate. There is very little censorship on the site and pictures containing nudity or grotesque injuries are posted regularly (although they can be easily hidden)."

"[Robert] Fisher seemed obsessed with the negative effects feminism was having on his dating experience. … It was this plight of navigating a post-feminist sexual marketplace, one where "the entirety of the male experience [is] wrought with rejection and ego-destroying experiences," that led Fisher to establish The Red Pill."