The Gateway reacts to: Reddit’s “Love problems” post

All names have been changed to protect the depraved. Namely, us. 

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TaylorSwift420 ♥ [12:48 PM]
r/uAlberta – Love problems
25 votes and 39 comments so far on Reddit
omg !!

Michael $cott [12:49 PM]
The comments are so supportive

TaylorSwift420 ♥ [12:58 PM]
Yeah but like, what if he sees this and she’s literally like I LOVE HIM I LOVE HIM
It seems aggressive to me, I would be freaked out by anyone saying this to me unless we’d been dating for a while
Quoting pride and prejudice ???

Yung Cash Register [12:59 PM] idk if this is the first time she’s felt like this
it’s kind of a magical and overwhelming and dramatic thing
if that was me I might have also quoted something silly

TaylorSwift420 ♥ [1:00 PM] That’s okay! Like sure feel that way but make a long post about it on reddit when you know he’ll probably see it ??
And not just be like hey I know you read reddit and I like you a lot please say something

Yung Cash Register [1:01 PM] i mean at least she’s being told to do the opposite
by supportive peeps
and also it’s easy for people who don’t know what to do to do the silly halfway thing

TaylorSwift420 ♥ [1:02 PM] I think I’m totally cool with the whole part it’s just the second edit
that would scare me
it’s just quoting pride and prejudice AND can’t help falling love with you is a lot
I hope they end up together and we can do a story on it for the love issue

Yung Cash Register [1:05 PM] Yes

3.141592653 [1:07 PM] Yikes. This is cringey.

TaylorSwift420 ♥ [1:07 PM] this post is so divisive, I love it
we should do a streeters like “is this cute or cringey?”

2irl4meirl [1:08 PM]
Damn yes

Yung Cash Register [1:08 PM] it may be cringe but I think framing it as such denies the cringiness within ourselves

Big Schmood [1:08 PM] Ooh nice bigbrained

Yung Cash Register [1:08 PM] we’re all capable of these kind of levels of cringe
it’s v human

TaylorSwift420 ♥ [1:08 PM] publicly on reddit ??

2irl4meirl [1:08 PM] Yes but we don’t all express it publicly
^^^^

TaylorSwift420 ♥ [1:09 PM] my mind is constantly like that post but I write it down in anonymous fanfiction

3.141592653 [1:09 PM] Not on reddit

TaylorSwift420 ♥ [1:10 PM] I feel like relationship things should be mostly private?

Big Schmood [1:10 PM] This is A BIT MUCH

TaylorSwift420 ♥ [1:10 PM] like I also am grossed out by people who post pics with their SO and write like a whole letter to them and it’s on facebook or something and it’s like i’m sorry do you actually love them or is this just performative?

Big Schmood [1:10 PM] THIS ^^^

Yung Cash Register [1:10 PM] It’s both

Simon [1:10 PM] No kink shaming

Big Schmood [1:10 PM] Pics together are nice if you’re one with the impulse to post
Like I never post anything on Insta but I get that it’s a Thing
But the longass oversharing captions seem like an effort to preserve/bolster/consolidate the relationship in public
And yikes @ her thinking it’s his job to initiate bc norms

2irl4meirl [1:11 PM] God this whole Slack history on this needs to be a group commmmmm

TaylorSwift420 ♥ [1:11 PM] YES

Yung Cash Register [1:11 PM]
Agreed

3.141592653 [1:12 PM] Maybe this reddit post is performance art

TaylorSwift420 ♥ [1:13 PM] I’m going to write a reddit post to the guy who sits next to me in class and it’ll be like “today, I came in ten minutes late and accidentally sat in the seat with the desk that is perpetually slanted and I was struggling with it and you laughed, remember how Elizabeth Bennett says “you have bewitched me body and soul”? that’s how I feel about you and your checkered vans, I love you, I love you, I love you PLEASE RESPOND”

Hubba Bubba Tubba Buttah [1:13 PM] Just tell people how you FEEEEEEEEEL

Yung Cash Register [1:13 PM] Lol that scares people

TaylorSwift420 ♥ [1:13 PM] I do ship it

Yung Cash Register [1:13 PM] Even if you were honest

Hubba Bubba Tubba Buttah [1:15 PM] Letting your emotions boil up inside until you make a confession of love over reddit also scares the other person

Big Schmood [1:15 PM] Like we’re all guberish about love but hate to admit it imo
Bc it can scare the other person
And is hard to manage

Yung Cash Register [1:15 PM] in an ideal world we should tell people how we feel

TaylorSwift420 ♥ [1:15 PM] Hubba Bubba Tubba Buttah is a love whisperer

Yung Cash Register [1:15 PM] but we should also try and understand people’s feelings

TaylorSwift420 ♥ [1:15 PM] Hubba Bubba Tubba Buttah please do a love column

Yung Cash Register [1:15 PM] instead of refusing to process them
cause it freaks us out

TaylorSwift420 ♥ [1:16 PM] okay but she put it on reddit where she KNOWS HE WILL PROBABLY SEE IT
so ?? it’s still telling him
but in an even more public way?

Big Schmood [1:16 PM] Also being super public about your love life makes things not working out even more awkward

3.141592653 [1:16 PM] This is actually my nightmare. That I wrote this as a private message but actually I wrote it on reddit for all to see. Or it’s on a wall. Or it’s a mural.

Yung Cash Register [1:16 PM] people are irrational af
so…

Big Schmood [1:16 PM] Like if he doesn’t feel it, that’ll be even tougher for her now that strangers are parasocially invested
Yeah I think we oughta acknowledge this is cringy and inappropriate while still being sympathetic to millennial student gubers like ourselves who don’t know how to navigate some fraught territory like this love stuff
@Yung Cash Register

3.141592653 [1:19 PM] OMGGGGG what if someone made this to embarrass this girl

TaylorSwift420 ♥ [1:19 PM] I’m sympathetic!
I’m just like, SHOULD this have been done? probably not, but it’s done lol, I hope it works out for her! we’ve all been there, just not this publicly

Hubba Bubba Tubba Buttah [1:21 PM] I feel like we’ve all been in a position where we told everyone except the person because we wanted them to find out but weren’t courageous enough to directly tell them

TaylorSwift420 ♥ [1:21 PM] this guy is probably going to see the post and be like.. huh sounds similar to my friend but no one would ever love me, and then just assume it’s about someone else
this is Shakespearean
I remember when I told my first ever bf that I liked him, I texted it to him at like 3 am and then was waiting in agony for so long and then he replied in the morning and just said “that’s cool”

Big Schmood [1:24 PM] Iconic teen boy response

Yung Cash Register [1:25 PM] wow

2irl4meirl [3:16 PM] @channel let me know your aliases for this discussion! We’re making it into a post on the site ☺

TaylorSwift420 ♥ [4:10 PM]
yeah she confirmed that now it’s official!!!

Yung Cash Register [4:12 PM]
YES
IT WORKED
AND IS THEREFORE CUTE
yeet
well nvm I guess she told him

TaylorSwift420 ♥ [4:12 PM]
He’s the Mr. Darcy to her Elizabeth Bennett

Yung Cash Register [4:13 PM]
Instead of the reddit post
but still

TaylorSwift420 ♥ [4:13 PM] no she said he told her!!

Yung Cash Register [4:13 PM]
OH
WOW
DAMN

TaylorSwift420 ♥ [4:13 PM]
“like a river flows, surely to the sea, darling so it goes, some things… are meant to be”
I’m honestly ashamed at myself for being the biggest hopeless romantic in this office and being cynical about this post
I apologize, and will likely die alone
we’re listening to can’t help falling in love with you in the office to commemorate this moment:

Yung Cash Register [4:18 PM]
This is a big moment