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Just gleaming the front page of /r/lifeprotips I have now learned how to remove superglue from my fingers... that doesn't scream hacker to me.

It's a common trope, but reddit has really taken a nose dive as the average user base grows to reflect the average population better. As George Carlin noted, the average person is kind of dumb, and half of all people are even dumber than that. On top of this race to the mean, you have advertisers who are increasingly aware of how many eyeballs are visiting the site, and the playbook for shilling and influencing sentiment on reddit is pretty textbook and reliable at this point, so a lot of content isn't really "genuine" anymore, especially on the larger subs with more eyeballs to monetize or influence.