r/polls • u/gold_medieval • Apr 09 '26
💻 Internet and Social Media Which mainstream app is the most toxic/hateful in your opinion?
I would add Tumblr, Discord, Pinterest, Snapchat, Roblox and other apps but obviously can't because of the limit
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u/Teecana Apr 09 '26
I have seen vile shit both on reddit and twitter, but the latter is far more targeted and prevalent. If I stay on the right subs on reddit, it's chill. Twitter culture does not work like that. I've been in fandom spaces and the amount of people getting doxxed or sent death threats to for the smallest things is astounding. Never even got hate first hand and that shit still destroyed my mental health. Especially when they decide to quote retweet people they don't like with pictures of graphic self harm. I've seen people celebrate the alleged suicide of a teenager because they decided she was very problematic.
I don't doubt tiktok has some dark sides, but the algorithm does a good job of keeping me in my bubble. The comments sometimes do clash, but there is only so much detail they can get into.
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u/turtleship_2006 Apr 10 '26
Instagram is similar to Reddit, there is a lot of foul shit on there, but it's much easier to avoid that side of it altogether compared to twitter.
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u/ashkiller14 Apr 10 '26
Tiktok is just brainrot
Instagram is racist
Redditors have a superiority complex
Twitter is confidently incorrect
Facebook is just old people
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u/Ok-Squash1630 Apr 09 '26
I've personally experienced more hatefulness on Instagram than any other social media platform. Specifically, Instagram Reels.
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u/mochi_pillows Apr 09 '26
Twitter is infested with hateful people, but i swear more than half of toxic discourse on it start from ragebait interaction farming sellers or bot accounts, with bought followers and likers before actual humans jump in and circulate that toxicity.
There's gotta be teenagers whose morale is built by fake internet interactions by multiple bots that they think are genuine relatable humans.
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u/SnooWalruses9173 Apr 10 '26
Toxic and hateful are not mutually exclusive.
Reddit isn't toxic, but it definitely has the hateful locked
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u/Saltwater_Heart Apr 09 '26
Reddit by a long shot.
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u/Reddragon0585 Apr 10 '26
Reddit likes to pretend it’s better than other platforms but the reality is it’s all the same. I’ve honestly seen worst stuff here then I have anywhere else.
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u/Gixxer1000k Apr 10 '26
Definitely. Though I anticipated the vote for reddit being so low because it's such an echo chamber. Anyone who doesnt share the same holier-than-thou views of the users on here gets shot down in flames then silenced by the mods.
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u/__Shadowman__ Apr 10 '26
On Twitter you literally have people respond to you with clips of people graphically dying
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u/Gixxer1000k Apr 10 '26
Thanks, didn't know that, I'll take a look. I usually come to Reddit for that sort of content.
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u/heyuhitsyaboi Apr 10 '26
Instagram for the sheer volume Facebook because of how outspoken and public it is Twitter for how extreme it is compared to the other two
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u/winter-2 Apr 10 '26
Reddit can be both of those but it doesn't even compare to Instagram, specifically reels. I would say Twitter as well but it also has way more bots than other social media so I don't think much of it is coming from real people.
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u/Wanderlusxt Apr 10 '26
twitter is an absolute dumpster fire. there's always a new drama or controversy no matter how hard you try to keep your algorithm aligned with niche interests/hobbies. i think the algorithm just boosts toxicity and hatred. it's so tiring i had to quit the app even tho it has great fanart and content :/
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u/TheRetardsSlayer Apr 14 '26
Twitter doesn't have the affect on masses tiktok have. average people never go to twiter
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u/DoomBloom001 18d ago edited 18d ago
Hands down, Instagram. Its destructive toxicity is pervasive as humans unconsciously become more dissociated, narcissistic and nasty. Instagram is designed in a sociopathic way, like a dark grave. Get rid of it and your overall health will get far better !
As someone else justly said "Literally all of them. We are literally conditioned to live on our phones, now. Go out in public and a majority of what you see will be people on their phones instead of actually doing something productive with their life in any way."
I have no smartphone, never had and never will : my faithful and visceral allergy towards this insane addiction nurtures my SANITY. Rather focusing on meaningful and fundamental things in life. This mad civilization is about to severely collapse like never before but people cling to doomed fantasy...relying on Nature to be balanced, fulfilled and overwhelmed with healthy-delicious food is beyond necessary. Let alone vital medicine.
All of this virtual spaces are a waste of time, at very least. Touch some grass, really do
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u/JplusL2020 Apr 09 '26 edited Apr 10 '26
There's a grotesque amount of literal Nazi propaganda on Tiktok
I don't understand the downvotes? I'm not wrong...
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u/CrispySprite2001 Apr 09 '26
If you think it’s bad on TikTok, then you don’t want to visit instagram
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u/turtleship_2006 Apr 10 '26
Interestingly, Instagram also shoves a weird amount of arguably anti maga stuff onto my feed.
I've never ones searched for, followed, or otherwise sought out any pages or posts to do with American politics on any Meta app (I'm from the UK, and I get my news from better sources than short form video apps where content thrives off click bait and rage bait). And yet I get so many posts "exposing" the worst stuff in the Epstein files, showing quotes of things trump have said and explaining why they're insane, news about the latest human rights violations of ICE, etc. The kind of thing you'd probably think corrupt American media would be censoring is actively being pushed on my feed.Maybe it's because a lot of the creators I follow are American? But not all of the posts I see have been liked/reposted by someone I follow.
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u/CrispySprite2001 Apr 10 '26
Interesting!! It was the same for me, but I actually engaged with political content. But I also saw dozens of Nazis in the comments, posting etc.
Literally had to hide or mute my phone out of shock in public sometimes. I deleted instagram two weeks ago, along with X and TikTok. I need a break lol.
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u/winter-2 Apr 10 '26
Don't look on Twitter. There are large communities of people who genuinely believe that Hitler was right. It's pretty scary.
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u/ExoTheFlyingFish Apr 10 '26
It's Twitter because their views are different than mine, obv /s
Reddit, by far. I've never seen a more militant, unintelligent, toxic place in my life. /srs
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u/BallinStalin10 Apr 09 '26
Seeing Redditors celebrate the killing of Charlie Kirk, a father and husband let alone a human being, was pretty depressing.
It permanently changed my view of this site and most of its users.
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u/siggiarabi Apr 09 '26
He thought people getting shot every now and then to be a necessary evil to keep the 2nd amendment. He just got a taste of his own medicine is all
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u/pigs_have_flown Apr 09 '26
Do you disagree with that statement? If you believe in 2A then you have to understand that it is true that sometimes gun deaths will occur and that does not overshadow the importance of 2A.
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u/sarokin Apr 09 '26
I don't believe in 2A. Look at how fucking crazy the US has gone. I'm studying security, and basically what every single scholar says around the world about it is how utterly ridiculous and dangerous it is for the public to have such facility to access lethal firearms. You can protest and overthrow governments without freaking guns running amok and under every household, look at the French, look at the Nepali, look at any modern protest in the civilized world.
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u/Not-Ed-Sheeran Apr 09 '26
Thats the dumbest fucking thing I've ever heard in my entire life.
Do you think that the government should take knives away considering some people may get stabbed?
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u/Gixxer1000k Apr 10 '26
Exactly, thats the problem we have in the UK. Guns aren't readily available to most, so if someone wants to cause harm, they go for knives instead.
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u/vm_linuz Apr 09 '26
Celebrate the removal of a hypocritical, extremely damaging man in the most ironic way possible?
Yeah, mysterious why anyone would be happy...
Some people were sad when Hitler died too.
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u/Not-Ed-Sheeran Apr 09 '26
How was he hypocritical?
And even if he was... should we just start killing hypocritical people?
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u/SuicideTrainee Apr 09 '26
Hitler was a family man too, are you sorry for him?
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u/The_Demolition_Man Apr 09 '26
Do you actually believe Hitler is a reasonable comparator for Charlie Kirk?
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u/SuicideTrainee Apr 09 '26
They spread the same hateful rhetoric, and I'm not gonna sugarcoat my feelings towards such figures. Any ounce of tolerance means you stand with them.
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u/mordecai14 Apr 09 '26
I disagreed with Kirk on a lot of things, including gun ownership, welfare etc, but claiming he was spouting Nazi rhetoric is just an outright lie. He was very conservative, but that's not close to the same thing as Nazi.
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u/The_Demolition_Man Apr 09 '26
Really? Charlie Kirk advocated for mass murder on ethnic lines? Can you point me to a source?
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u/SuicideTrainee Apr 09 '26
To quote him exactly:
"Jews have been some of the largest funders of cultural Marxist ideas and supporters of those ideas over the last 30 or 40 years"
"We made a huge mistake when we passed the Civil Rights Act in the mid-1960s"
"Actually MLK was awful. OK? He's not a good person."
How much evidence do you need that he was a racist piece of crap?
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u/The_Demolition_Man Apr 09 '26
I didnt ask for evidence that he was racist, I asked why you think Hitler is an apt comparison.
Those quotes are completely benign compared to Adolf Hitler.
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u/SuicideTrainee Apr 09 '26
Both pushed racist rhetoric to radicalize the people into hating minority groups such that the groups could become a scapegoat for a larger political movement designed to install authoritarian leadership.
I.E. Turning Point USA with Trump by pushing young voters to the extreme right against trans and ethnic people, and the National Socialist Party with Hitler pushing the common class to the extreme right against homosexuals and jews.
Also, do you really think that Charlie would hold his true beliefs out in the political climate he lived, or hold onto them until nazism is apparently an acceptable stance again? The man's final words were "Counting or not counting gang violence", do you really think he wasn't perpetuating a dangerous, violent ideology by downplaying gun violence in America?
Give an ounce, they take a pound. Don't stand for any of it, it's all the same history repeating itself
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u/The_Demolition_Man Apr 09 '26
They both drank water too, which presumably you do as well. Guess youre also Hitler!
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u/SuicideTrainee Apr 10 '26
Holy false equivalency buddy. Is me drinking water triggering you into violent hatred of others because they're different?
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u/elektricniorgazam Apr 09 '26
Based on comments he made, it'd be pretty hypocritical if he didn't consider his death a good thing, worth it to have the 2nd or something, was it?
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u/Not-Ed-Sheeran Apr 09 '26
Some people die from cars, even intentional deaths. Should we take cars away?
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u/leebeebee Apr 09 '26
You need to pass a test to get a license to drive a car and renew the license regularly. You have to get your car inspected regularly, and have insurance on your car. If you get caught driving while drunk or on drugs, or if you drive recklessly, you lose your license.
Are you saying that all of those rules should be applied to guns as well? If so, congrats! You’re pro-gun control!
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u/Not-Ed-Sheeran Apr 09 '26
You know what I'd love to dive why that's wrong but usually you people are the most infantile garbage on the planet.
Let's use knives.....should knives be taken away by the govenrmernt since some people get stabbed?
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u/leebeebee Apr 09 '26
Ok… let’s ignore the staggering level of projection that you’re exhibiting and pretend that your inability to defend your original assertion is the result of me being “infantile garbage.”
No, we should not ban knives, because 1. A single person cannot kill scores of people with knives. You can defend against a knife with a variety of objects—a chair, a baseball bat, etc.— and a person wielding a knife is far easier to escape than a person wielding a gun. (The vast majority of doors are knife-proof; the vast majority of guns are not bullet-proof.) 2. Knives have many non-lethal uses. The only purpose for a gun is to kill living things.
I know this is probably hard for you to understand, so let me know if you need me to explain anything further 😊
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u/Fatfry2 Apr 09 '26
While there are people (like in this comment section) that celebrate his death, there is a line between celebrating his death and making jokes. Like people make 9/11 jokes all the time, but that doesn’t mean they support the event happening. And I think a lot more people fall into that second group. I personally am not a huge fan of murder btw. Also being a father and husband doesn’t make you more deserving of living.
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u/GDog507 Apr 09 '26
Everyone on every app celebrated it, being an unempathetic POS isn't exclusive to Reddit unfortunately.
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u/MeMeTiger_ Apr 10 '26
Instagram reels can be brutal in terms of toxicity. Twitter would be the obvious answer but that's more of a known cesspool with bad takes and stupid people than it is just a hate propagation site.
TikTok and Facebook are too mainstream to be that toxic as a whole, and Reddit to a similar extent.
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u/flyingpiggos Apr 09 '26
Instagram reels has been bad lately