As part of my personal plan to maybe not support billionaires subverting democracy and to escape political shouting matches on the major platforms… mostly MAGA, but also including some loopy lefty stuff, because the horseshoe theory is real… I gave up Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and dramatically thinned out who I follow on places like Blue Sky. I don’t need every day to be a battle of ignorance and lies.
As part of that I dealt myself in more heavily on Reddit. If nothing else the place is sliced and diced into subreddits where you can focus on one topic and not get bombarded by the internet warrior class who has to shout down anybody exhibiting wrong think. Again, a horseshoe problem.
If I am going to argue online I want it to be about trivia like who are the good guys in whatever null sec war is going on and whether or not pointy ears are Tolkien canon like we were back in 1993 UseNet.
As such, I spent a lot of time on Reddit this year. I even installed the app on my iPad, which is where I got the banana stat. It will give you an estimate of how many banana lengths you’ve scrolled over the year… it is a Reddit thing, I don’t know why… when it last told me I had scrolled in excess of 22,000 bananas. Go me I guess.
So I was looking forward to the annual Reddit Recap, as were a lot of people if my anecdotal scrolling and search is to be truest.
Some places on Reddit be like…
I posted about my Reddit Recap in 2021 and 2022 when they were going more in depth for users, then again last year when it became a Reddit app only experience. So I was, if nothing else, interested to see if I my greater focus on the platform would be reflected in any stats.
In the mean time Reddit apparently decided that they were not going to do the recap thing anymore, something they announced nowhere and to nobody, just staying mum on the whole thing. But they are now way past when the recap his in past years, so if it does show up… again, they haven’t uttered a peep that I have seen either way… I’ll be a bit annoyed in that eye rolling, “you could have just said” sort of way.
So the consensus if that there will be no recap for 2025, a sure sign that Reddit is selling out or dying or isn’t like it used to be or whatever. Who knows. I remember when CCP also used to give us individual annual recaps… in freaking video form… for EVE Online. Now they cannot get their own annual stats straight, but more on that in another post.
In order to fill the obvious gap of Redditors emulating the meme above, somebody stepped up and brought us Reddit Wrapped 2025.
Reddit Wrapped 2025
And, being AI driven, it is kind of shit and if you don’t like the answer you get the first time you can clear your cache and run it again and again and get something different each and every time.
Part of the problem is that it doesn’t have a lot to work with when it comes. It seems to rely heavily on “analyzing” posts and replies, but I don’t post all that much and rarely reply to any post save to occasionally add kind words to somebody who added something of value or to moan about the same people showing up with the same arguments that can be refuted in the same old way.
And it didn’t even get my best quip. I ended a reply to one bitter vet whose whole being is finding new ways to argue “Grr Goons” and “null sec sucks” that their arguments always boil down to Schrodinger’s Null sec, which was somehow always killing EVE and yet always simultaneous irrelevant to the game.
No, instead the AI seemed to show a laser-like focus of its own on that one time I replied to a very dumb post by pointing out that “a lot” was two words, not to play grammar police, but to show my disdain for the whole effort by boiling it down to that one error in the first sentence. That is something too subtle for most on Reddit, much less an AI for which metaphor and idiom are just words in a dictionary they scrapped without permission of the publisher.
So when it generated my first run, it had to get in there with a grammar reference.
My AI personalized Reddit avatar
Again, you could write a book about AI and its failures with sarcasm, but then it would just steal it an misinterpret it, so why bother?
Still, it did get a couple of amusing bits in, my initial summary was… not too bad.
The EVE-Obsessed Historian
You’re either meticulously documenting the collapse of virtual empires or passionately defending a game that’s been ‘dying’ for two decades. Your Reddit activity is a deep dive into spaceships and the occasional philosophical musing on player motivation, with a side of dad-joke-level grammar policing.
I do regularly reply with the image of the first documented “EVE is dying” post from the forums when somebody is vague about how long it has been. We have a precise date dammit.
First known occurrence of “EVE is Dying”
This is well known enough that CCP even put a physical version of the post in with the 20th anniversary edition package thing they did.
EVE is Dying, now in physical form
Its attempts at some stats were, again, hamstrung by its focus on posts and replies.
Some sort of 2025 stats
I did not spend 10% of my time playing at grammar police and I spent a lot more than 5% of my time being mildly amused. But, unlike Reddit, the AI doesn’t have access to my Reddit tracking data, so it cannot tell me about where I spent time or tidbits about the places where I spent time.
And in trying to generate some roasts, it seemed to hit the target two out of three times.
Roasts
- 🔥 Your dedication to EVE Online is so profound, you probably analyze your grocery list in PowerBI.
- 🔥 You’ve spent more time discussing imaginary space wars than actual world events, which, let’s be honest, might be a healthier choice.
- 🔥 Your posts about ‘Blaugust’ almost make us believe you have other interests, but then you’re right back to complaining about CCP.
I think the second one hits home… and maybe the third. Did I post about Blaugust on Reddit this year?
Meanwhile, I am not sure how putting my grocery list into PowerBI is related to EVE Online, but as I noted earlier in the week, my PowerBI skills are basic at best.
It also tries to do some predictions for 2026. Again, AI is going to be AI and I had to run it a few times to get something that wasn’t focused on being pedantic about grammar. Seriously, the AI should take my blog into consideration. I have no room my own glass house to make that a thing.
Predictions 2026
- 🔮EVE Still Alive?
- You will make exactly 3.7 posts proclaiming EVE Online is ‘mostly dead, slightly alive,’ before posting a 377-upvote meme about a new expansion.
- 🔮Subreddit Migration
- You’ll briefly consider starting a new subreddit dedicated solely to the intricate political machinations of virtual space empires, then realize r/Eve already exists.
- 🔮Spreadsheet Sentience
- Your PowerBI dashboard for the November MER will become self-aware and attempt to run for CSM 21 on a platform of ‘More Graphs, Fewer Gimmicks’.
- 🔮Historical Revisionism
- You will write a blog post explaining why the 2011 Incarna riots were actually ‘the golden age of player engagement’ compared to the 2026 Metaverse expansion.
- 🔮Blast from Past
- You’ll boot up Civilization 2 ‘just for old times’ sake,’ and accidentally lose a week of your life to global domination.
I was interested to see that it did try now and then to grab something that was not EVE Online focused.
Anyway, that was a thing that kept me amused for… 1,200 words or so I suppose.
Related
- Kadoa – Reddit Wrapped 2025
- Reddit – Reddit Wrapped Subreddit
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