At first it was all about presenting data in an original looking way. In the end it was about pushing political ideas in your throat using a plain bar graph. It was not about sharing something interesting you found but about taking advantage of a captive audience.
Maybe /r/malefashionadvice?
I feel like the early days were more, “I’m a normal guy trying to learn how to dress better.” I learned a lot and it improved my wardrobe/ability to dress a bit better. But it felt like it became…something else? Like it was overrun by the kind of people who would unironically buy $100 plain white t-shirts–that sort of thing.
I worked in men’s fashion for almost a decade, and can safely say that sub was hot garbage full of lousy and unhelpful advice from people with such bad taste that I’m not convinced it isn’t a troll sub.
At some point in the last few years, it felt like it had become a caricature of itself. Hard to explain, but it felt like every user was the guy that was going to bring back capes.
It’s a fashion forum on a site where the stereotypical user is a fedora wearing neckbeard, plus after a point it starts to become self-selecting. Kind of like every EDC post having a knife and flashlight, when the normal person’s “every day carry” is just “wallet, keys, phone”.