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!”
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.
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”.
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.
Oh God
Were we that cringy?
One time I went to a local Reddit meet up. Yep, it was all that cringy
The narwhal bacons at midnight.
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.
We did it reddit
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.
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.
Is this “the narwhal” thing worth looking up?
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”.
Good summary really.
Also an example of why being a Redditor wasn’t something you admitted to for a long time.
To be fair I’m sure everyone was pretty cringeworthy at that age with or without reddit. Myself included
Please, elaborate, I have only read about these meet ups, but never actually got to know, how they were…
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.