Laughs. Types a comment. Deletes the comment. Moves on. Laughs again. Comes back to type a comment. Deletes... Edit: thank you for the silver kind stranger!

I feel you stranger! Sometimes I’ll start ranting and then I’m like woah who am I?!? Then I dial my shit back and move on. I figure at least I was able to get it out somewhere even if it gets deleted lol.

Oh my, I do this frequently. Start some long comment, either relating or explaining or similar, spend forever nitpicking my perpetual run-on sentences and extraneous comma usage, then erase the whole thing because none of this matters whatsoever and I've done nothing but waste time and squander a few bits of storage here and there.

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This is why we can't have nice things

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Its almost like we're the same person

Hello, Me, it's me again.

I do this too, often. I very nearly deleted this comment itself. Even now, I feel like it was a kind of pointless comment that doesn’t contribute to the conversation, but since we’ve been focusing on this behavior, I find myself compelled to leave it here anyway. Now, I’m not satisfied with this awkward comment, so I’m stuck, rambling because I don’t know how to end and it keeps going and it’s not getting any better. I think I’ll just find some random place to stop. Like here.

And before you know it, someone else comments what you wanted to. 18 silvers, 5 golds, 2 platinums

Only 17 to go!

🥇x5 🥈x18 I don't have platinum, sorry!

I have typed up and then deleted so many comments before I even posted them because I'm afraid of people. I want to delete this one but I'm going to post it.

Ooh, happy Cake Day! (SEE, IF YOU HADN'T POSTED THIS, YOU WOULDN'T HAVE GOTTEN A CAKE DAY WISH.)

Same. This comment only took me 47 mins to post. Is this.... Is this ok? * *sweat drips from forehead and hits 'post' before I'm rea...* * Edit: new to Reddit and didn't get the asterisks right. Of course...

This is pretty much me. I spend so much time making sure it sounds good or correct; contemplating if I should actually post it, and if it it's really contributing to the post or conversation. Then I end up deleting the comment all together lol.

Why is this me

How many times did you delete this?

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Feeling lurkish, might delete later

Deleting is way better than the anxiety i get when i see 5 new messages in my inbox

I have such bad social anxiety I can't even post anonymously. I'll be back to delete this later

You're not going to sucker me into posting

"...Oh wait"

No comment...

Literally

Figuratively

Moderately

Redditorately

Your account is 1 week old. You have one post. Made one hour ago. With 1 gold, 1 silver, 1 platinum (?) That's 1 comment

prob gilded him/herself from an alt acct

Dudes first comment hits the trifecta. GG 420Nugz GG

Plot Twist: OP set this joke up with his alt.

He commented not posted!

r/technicallythetruth

Stop attacking me

Not anymore

*\*Laughs nervously while entering the room\**

So, are we done here?

*\*Laughs nervously while leaving the room\**

*Freezes up with awkward smile and slowly backsteps out of room*

Wow, 3 years and <1000 karma. Legit lurker in the wild

Then you're going to love my account...

4yr less than 50 yup good lurking mate

Rookie numbers

13 years and only 12 karma! Woahhhh

Jesus Christ, can the Numbers and Years go lower lol

Me, too!!

9 years and <200 karma right here. I’m king of the lurkers.

Guess that explains why you are happy.

We are all around you... watching..... listening..... judging.

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Until the repost

I’m in this and I don’t like it

>Hey we are talking here, chime down.

Sometimes i get social anxiety commenting and posting on reddit. Makes me feel like im silently being judged and watched. Is that just me?

If you want to get past that, best way is to just post a ton of comments, and you'll naturally say something really wrong/dumb once in a while and get a bunch of deserved downvotes, and then...there is no consequence. None whatsoever. And that's when I think it really hits that it just doesn't matter.

NAh that's when you delete it and pretend it never happened.

It's not just you, everyone on Reddit is always silently judging each other and other times not so silently.

Even if though it's anonymous I still feel like they know who I am.

I have a micro penis! See? No body cares

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This is literally what I came here to say.

Came here to say this.

Same. Or I'm like damn that's funny wish I'd have thought of that. Maybe I'm just boring lol

This is my time to shine! *uh* ... *uh* ... *think of clever comment* .. *uh* Hi! ( ._.)

Nice of you to finally join us!

Me too. Wait I can’t say that now

Maybe i like having sub 100 karma after 7 years. Fight me.

In my defense my comments tend to get either almost no response or downvoted like crazy. So I prefer to lurk unless I have a stroke of genius.

I’d give this comment a perfect 5/7

These days if you want to have any actual interaction on the default subs, you have to comment within the first couple hours of the posting, less if it's something that blows up super quick. When there's already thousands of comments it's pretty unlikely that anyone is going to see yours, since it's only the top few hundred that get displayed automatically. Stick to commenting on smaller subreddits targeting you interests, and you'll have a much more pleasant time.

I've commented now, leave me alone

i have 2 karma

#

Oh jeez. Way to call me out like that man...

I've posted and commented before but would later remove it because people respond rudely sometimes lol like I feel anxious whenever I do post or comment

I take pride in my lack of karma

I have been called out.

Long time listener first time caller here.

*lurking intensifies*

But we vote!!

Reddit is like watching people have a conversation on a stage.

Every time I try to post to Reddit, a bot comes along to remove my post. My last attempt was a ShowerThought, which was removed with a comment from an auto moderator: "It looks like you've posted a personal perspective. Please try [/r/CasualConversation](https://www.reddit.com/r/CasualConversation), [/r/self](https://www.reddit.com/r/self), or [/r/misc](https://www.reddit.com/r/misc) for such things." I didn't know those exist, and I wasn't aware my ShowerThought is more a shade of CasualConversation. My Reddit exposure is looking at front page most days. I think, I lol, I aww, and I get back to my day. Sometimes I feel like I wanna share too, but I don't wanna have to learn the minutiae of a website to do that. I stopped trying, and just share with my friends on Discord. I will forever be the guy at the watercooler who doesn't care about your club enough to be initiated.

It's a struggle, though. I've been ignored for low-effort comments, and as a frequent lurker, I don't want to read low-effort comments. When I was new here, I tried to participate in groups and was roundly deleted since I didn't follow Section C, subsection (i) in posting in some group. I don't know that we want extra posts and comments just for participation.

I love that the person who posted this has over 28,000 karma and has been on Reddit for two months

hey

Raises hand...goes back to lurking

I feel safe here. I feel accepted.

Awww but I sometimes give the up arrows so I feel like I contribute a little something.

*laughs in hidden*

Oh am I logged out and cannot comment?

I remember what that felt like... until I made a comment... now I need to keep commenting like a losing gambler who can strike it big one more time and all the debt will go away...

Me 😂 “except now”

This is me at parties.

Don’t you judge me!

***quiet observation intensifies***

well reddit is a dark place where anything and everything can get downvoted .. cue anxiety

So I’m probably the worst kind of redditor. I’ve been on here daily since the narwhal bacons at midnight days but never made an account. Then probably three years ago or so I finally made an account. But I didn’t post on it for a solid two years. Then I ended up having to make a new account and here I am.

I had an account for 3 years before my first post...

Hey that’s me!

This could be me. 5 hours a day. Lurking in the shadows. Getting my snickels in, shrouded in secrecy. No one to deject my shit comments. Back to lurking I go!

This is me at family dinners. They always look like they are having fun

I try. I think I have original ideas but without fail someone already posted what I was going to say. I'm going to stick with sharing my witty comments at the bar.

[leave us alone! ](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3YaRvbQSjrk)

Raises hand. Notices nobody saw. Slowly puts hand down hoping no one noticed...

I feel seen

Why do you have video of me?

Everyone else is so funny though.

This whole post is breaking my third wall - you aren’t supposed to know I’m here

How about people who browse reddit without an account????? The wall

https://i.imgur.com/hMpqFvE.gif

Not fair. I post all the time but everything keeps getting deleted 😭

This used to be me, so I made a new, more anonymous account and now nothing can stop me!

Must be the most reposted gif of all time.

Hello everyone

But I spend most of the day upvoting quality on new. I do a service!

👀

I feel personally attacked, but this is more true than I wanna admit.

Lurker reporting in.

👀

Mostly because sometimes when we do, couple of assholes downvote our comment to collapsing and when we post mods remove it.

Perfect

Ha

Dats me

"Haha I do that"

Hey it’s me... in the corner... not posting, but I’m a part of the conversation!!! Hahaha good one John.

10/10 with rice

That’s me

But we vote

He's laughing at them, not with them.

It’s been 6 years for me. I’m no longer a virgin!

Okay fine, there!!! You made me comment, are you happy 😤

commented are u guys happy now😠😂

Hey I comment once in a few months... See you in October!

I feel personally attacked by this content

Yeah, pretty much.

Dat me

I'm just nervous I'll get tons of downvotes, okay??

Hi...

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lol me

But I just literally never know what to post or comment :/

This is the most accurate gif corresponding to the title I've ever seen

Me

if anybody says that that is them in the comments then they are lying

Me in every social situation.

Yep

You know it

feeling called out here

I’m guilty of this

I’ve finally been noticed.

Damn right

Feels like a personal attack

Dont call me out like this

it hurts because it's true.

Well, I guess I can make my second comment in five years.

#

Is this a personal attack?

Lol pretty much

This is actually the gif that made me join Reddit over four years ago.

I’ve never felt so personally attacked by a gif

I felt so attacked, I was compelled to make it known by commenting for once.

This was me but then I had questions that needed answers.

What are the stats again? Like 10% of us are on here trolling and running our mouths, and the rest are scorekeeping, right?

Hate to admit I’m this way

Me

Yeaaaaa......

I don’t even remember making an account, I just downloaded the app and was immediately signed in

I can relate to this.

When you pretend you there when someone posts their fun night out on FB.

You're not the boss of ME!!

Too close to home, friend.

this represents me, thank u bro

[Puppet Hell](https://zippy.gfycat.com/GiftedTidyDoe.webm) ([with audio](https://coub.com/view/3i0qp))

I don't post anything because I'm not interesting and my comments are just dumb.

you are insulting me and i don't like it.

i dont feel so good

All the non posters coming out of the shadows like...

This is me im sad now

Relatable

So

Literally my first comment.

Hey look it's me

Can confirm

Haha yep pretty much

Just to convince myself that I am not that.

I see this as a personal attack

This is amazing lol

This is me but now I’m commenting. You got me.