Explain It Peter

[u/Intelligent_Mix3241]

[u/Knot-Lye-Ing]

Brian here, the old name for r/hydrohomies was r/watern1ggas.

Just replace the 1 with the letter after h. This was easily 7+ years ago. It was basically the same meme sub about staying hydrated.

Drink water.

[u/Intelligent_Mix3241 → u/Knot-Lye-Ing]

that's it?

I'll do, thanks

[u/supertimor42-50 → u/Intelligent_Mix3241]

Yes, sub was banned during the big Reddit clean up where they banned every sub that add words like that.

Sub was not breaking any rule, expect the sub name contain "improper" words

[u/Facosa99 → u/supertimor42-50]

If any founder was black i unironically think reddit would be the racist party then.

[u/ParticularConcept548 → u/supertimor42-50]

Reddit is literally 1984

[u/Free_as_in_Freya → u/ParticularConcept548]

I got an account warning for trying to make the letter N bold in a word for emphasis (which is done by putting ** in front and behind it) 🤦🏻

[u/pronefroz → u/Free_as_in_Freya]

n

[u/Free_as_in_Freya → u/pronefroz]

How did you do that? 😯

Maybe they fixed if after granting my appeal, but that would have been rather quick

[u/pronefroz → u/Free_as_in_Freya]

🤷🏻‍♂️ ı just did it and it worked.

I hate all these secret styling stuff. Why don't they add a proper interface for all of it? A forum i used to use had that 15 years ago.

[u/Fun-Froyo7578 → u/pronefroz]

look up Markdown, it is the most commonly accepted syntax for formatting text in the software dev/tech realm

Markdown is what reddit uses for the secret styling stuff

[u/PotatoBeams → u/ParticularConcept548]

Thanks Obama

[u/GreenZebra23 → u/Knot-Lye-Ing]

Wasn't it with a hard r though?

[u/Knot-Lye-Ing → u/GreenZebra23]

I was a member of that sub and I genuinely don't think so. I can't find any evidence of the hard R anywhere.

And I don't think, even as a joke, Reddit would have allowed that word to be a part of any sub. And it was pretty popular before the quarantine/crack down.

[u/galstaph → u/Knot-Lye-Ing]

It looks like there were at least three different subs

A in both singular and plural, hard r in the plural

Found it here

They're listed under "banned for having a racial slur in its name"

[u/Knot-Lye-Ing → u/galstaph]

That's wild. But I get the feeling that one of those was the original and the others spawned out of either hate or before shifting to hydro homies.

[u/MuchachoMongo → u/Knot-Lye-Ing]

Somehow replacing n*ggas with homies feels more racist. Shit got colonized.

[u/DarthChefDad → u/MuchachoMongo]

Reddit gentrification

[u/ConvictedHobo → u/MuchachoMongo]

If you feel okay writing one word, but don't feel okay writing the other one, which one sounds more racist?

[u/Aesthetic-Dialectic → u/ConvictedHobo]

That ain't why it's censored, I would wager

[u/ConvictedHobo → u/Aesthetic-Dialectic]

I don't understand. Why then?

[u/Aesthetic-Dialectic → u/ConvictedHobo]

I already saw your deleted reply, and sir go to a black community and tell them they're racist lol. Don't be dense, it's not censored because it is racist in all contexts when uttered by all people, but because online spaces cannot distinguish race and so have to indiscriminately police language

[u/ConvictedHobo → u/Aesthetic-Dialectic]

I can't realistically go to a black community. Especially an English speaking one.

When I wrote they don't feel comfortable writing it, in my head it included not feeling comfortable with the backlash it brings. Because it brings backlash. Because it's racist to write it online.

[u/Randomminecraftseed → u/ConvictedHobo]

It’s only racist to write it online in certain contexts

[u/OkEnvironment3961 → u/Knot-Lye-Ing]

7 years. shit i've been on reddit too long.

[u/Sapphfire0 → u/Knot-Lye-Ing]

So the purpose was the same?

[u/Knot-Lye-Ing → u/Sapphfire0]

Yes. Name was changed after Reddit cracked down on a bunch of controversial stuff. Might be from when they went public.

[u/Mr_Paper → u/Knot-Lye-Ing]

What's s waternyggas?