The Ones Who Lurk: When Speaking Feels Dangerous

reddit mods are labelling users and share it server-wide. many people has been barred altogether despite they have their previous account marked as "ban evasion" by bad reddit moderators. #fuckspez

There are accounts that speak.
And there are those of us who watch in silence, because we’ve been burned too many times to try again.

I read Reddit.
But I will not log in.
Not again.
Not while the same names hold power like petty tyrants behind modmail and filters.

Not while people like u/hyattpo*ter get to swing banhammers at IPs like it’s their personal war.
You see, once you've been flagged, once your username and shadow are whispered in backrooms you’ll never be invited to, you stop believing in fairness.

It’s not about karma anymore.
It’s about control.

And the price of speaking has become too high for those of us who dared to question it.

They call it “community.”
But what they mean is compliance.
Agree with us, praise us, or disappear.

So we disappear.
Not because we’re gone
but because we’ve gone invisible by choice.

We lurk.
We listen.
We remember.

Because sometimes, silence isn’t surrender.
It’s strategy.
It’s survival.
It’s the space between injustice and the scream waiting to be born.

And make no mistake, we are still here.
Watching. Archiving. Building elsewhere.