r/AmItheAsshole is biased towards breaking off relationships rather than fixing them. They also hate social obligations.
replye.g. If the OP is asking "I ghosted my friend in AA who insulted me during a relapse", Reddit would say NTA in a heartbeat, while the real world would tell OP to be more forgiving.
On the contrary, if the post was "the other kids at school refuse to play with my child", Reddit would say YTA because the child must've done something to incite being cut off.
Absolutely. I wonder how many parents have been no contacted, SOs broken off with, friendships broken because of the Reddit hivemind's attitude. Pretty sure it's doing a huge amount of societal damage.
replyI wouldn't blame reddit, it's what you get when you ask several thousand teenagers to give collective relationship advice.
reply“I got divorced based on advice from complete strangers on the internet, AITA?”
replyYeah every single time I click on one of those posts the top comments are NTA. A couple times I tried randomly opening a few dozen posts and checking the top comments to see if I could find a single YTA and struck out.
replyGranted many of the OPs are very biased in the poster's favor. Most I've read fall into one of two buckets: either they want to gripe about some obviously bad behavior, or it's a controved and likely fake story.
It’s gendered, by the way
replyMany of the posts are A/B tests of a prior post where only the genders were flipped of the OP and antagonist to see how the consensus also flips