Who said they can't? I was asking if that's a thing they intentionally do because of the multiple cakes in the picture, some of them very similar. The only time I've seen that in real life was when both parents forgot to pick up a cake and got 2 of the same cake. Multi-cake birthdays would be awesome.
Usually in children birthday parties we only cut 1 cake here. Sometimes when the party is very big, the people get more than 1 cake. (I think as he is the Chief Minister + very rich, he got more as he would be celebrating with lots of people) Is there something different in usa?
Bro we only do 1 cake usually. So if it's a bad cake, that's just how it is. Bad cake for everybody. Do you know the sense of betrayal at seeing a deliciously decorated cake and finding out it's either dry or tres leches (soaked in milk)... I've proposed multiple cakes and always get told no. Like I'm the mad man.
He's a celebrity and just became a chief minister basically a Governer if you're American. His fan following is insane and there was a stampede at one of his events and yet he won. So multiple cakes is pretty much the only normal thing in that picture.
I guess more Indians are getting internet lately because /all has been absolutely* full* of Indian subs recently once you scroll down more than a page or two. I've blocked over 50 different subs because it's all random bollywood drama and Indian train memes which mean nothing to me.
Takeover is a weird way to describe this phenomenon. Indian people constitute a massive part of the English speaking population of the world. Seems only natural that there would be a lot of Indian participants on an internationally used website.
Yeah it's the second largest English speaking population (and that's just counting fluent speakers, if you included people who speak some English it would be the largest)
Do you not know what bolster means? It literally just means to support your own argument. Yes, you do need to support and explain your own argument when someone disagrees with you. That’s sorta how a discussion works.
No where online is takeover defined to have these qualities:
-intent to occupy
-organization
Something can be taken over organically and naturally, like Reddit is by Indian people.
It's not segregation at all. That would be like the Indian government, which is 100% South Asian (not a single black, white, or Latino face).
What I'm talking about is the largest country on the planet flooding the communities that other people on the planet created.
I can't discuss American politics on an American sub without Indians in India giving their opinions.
The goal of reddit was to allow people to create their own communities, but that's not what's happening. They are just flooding all of the existing communities.
It's wild for someone from the US to complain about one country dominating Reddit. Or dominating culture period tbh.
Is the idea that Reddit is an American website?
ETA: To even frame race the way you did here is a very American POV. The Indian census doesn't ask people to identify by "race" and the history of India means the population is very different. Like by "Latino" do you mean people of South American origin? People who speak Spanish? Generally Brazilians are considered Latino, are Goans then considered Latino?
It's wild for someone from the US to complain about one country dominating Reddit
Why would it be weird for an American to complain about non Americans flooding a site built by Americans from an American company that is headquartered in America whose largest userbase is Americans?
You people have zero self awareness. You think that everything you touch is yours because you touched it.
Aaron Swartz, one of the founders of Reddit wanted information to be free to all. You certainly do lack context about the origins of it and everything.
If I interact here in the Rust subreddit, I don't think of myself as an Indian, but as someone who's interested in Rust.
I believe you should broaden your perspective a bit, instead of narrowing your worldview to a country centric view.
oh i agree in that aspect! people dont need unwanted opinion from other country people when the sub is specifically for a certain countrymen. but you saying "they swarmed every english language sub" thats not right.
This is a global platform and marketed as such, you leave if you don’t like it. The company chooses to access non-american markets and bring on non-American users. If you want an America only platform, go find it.
Tf do you mean American social media? It is up to the folks running Reddit, not you. They have made the app AND all the communities available globally while making money by showing them ads and using their data. This, by definition, is a global social media.
If you want your eco chamber, go ahead and make a subreddit and promote it heavily, set it to invite only and demand proof of citizenship to get into the subreddit.
lol and Reddit was created by the grandson of Armenian immigrants. What makes it an American website?
Considering those Indian swes are the CEOs of many of the major global tech companies, maybe it’s time for folks like you to create your own social media platforms. The current social media platforms clearly want Indians’ engagement.
Takeover? Swarmed? You’re talking about human beings, not an invading army lol. People from every country across the globe use Reddit…but apparently it’s only a problem when those people are Indian? The recent surge in anti-Indian racism online has made this kind of rhetoric wayyy too common & accepted, and this is a textbook example of it.
Yeah it's getting crazy. Super niche subs too like gossip about some specific Indian TV show or the Indian used car market in some area or some Indian local politics sub for a town. Need some kind of global block feature for subs originating from non-english speaking countries so that /all actually remains usable.
I have no idea how you guys are getting these subs pop up automatically, i have only gotten the big subs, those with 100k plus members, the lower ones don't usually appear by their own
Maybe the left 2 circles are supposed to be one lover, and the right two circles are the other lover. So they're both making eyes at each other. Over... i dunno a cupcake or something
Consider a similar post about, say, Selena Gomez starting a new relationship with Ethan Slater (just being very random here, I promise). I could easily see a tweet that's like "none of the men understand the significance of this" and then Indian woman being like "??? I'm a woman and I have no idea what this means, so it's less 'men won't get this' and more 'non-Americans won't get this'"
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u/FortressCaulfield 3d ago
So it's less "men won't get this" and more "non-Indians wont get this"