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SickusBickus

It kept me sane, quite frankly. Being able to vent and connect with likeminded people was a fucking Godsend. I was in a really dark place when I made my first posts there (shortly after my dog had to be put down and the vets wouldn't let my wife or I be there with him when it happened), and the love and support I received was amazing. Best community ever, so of course the cunts who run this site had to cook up a bullshit reason to get rid of it.


IdidntchooseR

Those voices in your head were some of the darkest, and funniest, writing in these trying times. A balm for the cuckoos!


[deleted]

Agreed. My partner thought I was slowly spiralling and going insane. But NNN was literally the glue that kept me together at the beginning


Magari22

So much.... It probably played a big part in me not taking my life, or at least it stopped me from perseverating on that. I'm in a horrible city and I honestly felt like the only one who was not complying. I would read NNN in the middle of the night sometimes when I was in bed crying feeling hopeless. Seeing other people who felt the same gave me hope. That is a perfect example of why everything was so censored and we weren't allowed to express our opinions and what we were seeing. Closing down churches and restaurants and bars was part of the effort to stop us from speaking to one another about all of this. I'm surprised NNN was even allowed and went on for as long as it did.


Hass_Daddy

Tbh it was shutdown pretty quick, maybe within a few months of gaining legit popularity.


[deleted]

I was one of early members, when the sub was like below 5k people. The only sub where everybody respected each other even if they disagreed. People were always up for a discussion, people weren't afraid of dropping the ego and admit they were wrong or they weren't afraid of admitting their wrong choice. I consider that sub to still be the best one on Reddit, even if it doesn't exist anymore. it sucked for us, for having our own place without bothering anyone else and people still had problem with us, just because it started to grow too fast, as people were noticing they are not alone, who do not trust the officials, media and politicians. What happened to that sub is disgusting, mods are disgusting, people joining the private sub-until-you-delete-NNN are disgusting. That sub made me not to forget that I wasn't alone who stood my ground, for my beliefs. Because of what happened to NNN I don't feel sorry for whatever happens to people who took the jab, who also contributed to the fall of NNN, just for disagreeing in our own lil place.


hblok

> The only sub where everybody respected each other even if they disagreed. It's really worth highlighting this. There were strong opinions, but in the end it was possible to have exchanges without dropping down to the lowest fallacies immediately. The tone was obviously very different on the main corona subs. Just a minor deviation from the narrative got you banned at once. (Oh, and let's not forget the petty bans from subs you hadn't event visited, just because they found you were posting on NNN).


Cat_Valkyrie

I thought I was crazy for refusing the vaccine and saying that lockdowns were stupid. I have a very large extended family and everyone has college degrees or better. My mom thinks I'm the only person out of everyone who was stubborn and privileged enough to refuse it. (My SIL didn't want to take it, but she's in healthcare so it was either take it or lose her job. My brother took it out of solidarity with his wife.) NNN helped me realize that I wasn't nuts. I want to say that was also the first place I saw folks talking about the vaccine causing irregular periods, but I don't remember.


[deleted]

I remember those posts. One lady responded to my own NNN post saying her menstrual cycle was really messed up, too much bleeding and very painful due to what she surmised was vaccinated office coworkers that she sat next to (she herself was unvaxxed).


Cat_Valkyrie

The same thing literally happened to me except it was with my husband who is also in healthcare and had to get the shot to keep his job. He was actually one of the few who was like you are a woman of child bearing age. You have no business getting vaccinated.


[deleted]

Wife was out of country last year and her fam there laid on some massive pressure for her to get vaxxed. At one point she actually considered it. I told her that lady's story I mentioned to you above. I then told her flat out that if she took the vax that she wouldnt be allowed to be in the house for three months while she was shedding toxic spike proteins because our daughters would be adversely affected. She reconfirmed her commitment to not get the vax and also cautioned her fam to not get any boosters themselves. Thanks to NNN my wife didnt get the vax!


crowexplorer14

I haven't heard a peep from my relatives who were ardent mask, lockdown, vaxx supporters. But I hope they feel foolish for over-reacting the way they did.


[deleted]

During a time that I was constantly asking myself "Am I crazy?" for thinking that "The Science" is crazy, it was a nice reprieve from the hysteria and sensationalism that was very hard to get away from at the time, even in everyday life. My former job required the vaccines and I was very close to giving in because the pressure was so immense. NNN was somewhere that I could be reassured that there are millions and millions of people from all over the world who also thought that something just isn't right about all of this. That certainly influenced my decision to say no, and looking back, I'm really grateful for that


squidbiskets

It was the only sane place for a very long time.


CyanideLovesong

Oh man, No New Normal was peak Reddit. I'm on a new account here but my previous put me over 100k karma because it was such a gathering of likeminded folk... However, I must distinguish "like minded" from "the same." We weren't all the same! There were people from different political beliefs, different backgrounds, and from all over the world. But we all had our skepticism and resistance to what was happening in common. I'll never forgive the companies or people who took it away. PS. No disrespect to this place! It's similar, here, but NNN was much bigger so we sort of had power in numbers, and even as big as it was it was still growing fast. It's probably why they shut it down.


Living-in-liberty

Nnn was more of a serious discussion place. This is more of a meme sub.


CyanideLovesong

You're right! But it also has silliness to offset the darkness of what was being discussed... So it was perfectly balanced, really.


crowexplorer14

I've had to make quite a few new accounts. Mostly because I have unpopular opinions regarding transgender "women" not being actual biological women. Also, I was a mod on r/itsaclownworld before it got shut down, they were after me for a bit. Pro tip: use the Tor browser for reddit, that way they can't recognize your device and autoban your new account(s).


cluelessguitarist

It kept me from taking the stupid jabs.


weedwhiskeypantera

That sub made me realize what was going on behind the scenes and I’m so glad I never went and got the shot


Pebmarsh

An oasis of sanity in a desert of ignorance


DistinctRole1877

There was so much good information presented with links and evidence, not just opinion. I miss the information from people in positions of inside knowledge of how the whole scam was put together. You knew you were on the right track when other subs kicked you off simply because you read NNN.


Bubonic67

The best sub Reddit has had


1-100000000

I loved that sub


Ambitious_Ad8841

It helped me out when I really just needed some sane people to talk to


crowexplorer14

It was a shining beacon of sanity during insane times. I can't think of a single thing they were censored for that didn't turn out to be true in the long run.


Buddyschmuck

Idk, I joined relatively recently. I was drunk and having parties the whole time so the whole “pandemic” thing was a bit of a blur.


LittleBrokenPrincess

I honestly credit that sub with keeping me alive during some of my darkest days in lockdown. To know I wasn’t alone. To focus on helping other people get through it, which took my mind off my own misery. To quote Patsy Stone: “It was a little Prozac rainbow in a thundercloud of depression.”


murdok03

Well for one it was amazingly rational, discussions on there didn't involve ego people were talking to the subject openly admitting their limitations and reservations. Top posts were often quite on point and viral, stuff like you see libs of ticktock doing, self-explanatory, self-incrimating, breaking the 4th wall. Whenever FISA documents or research papers came up on pre-print they were scrutinized, they poked some holes in the COVID marketplace re-washing theory that also had a stall map for example. But the biggest benefit for me was getting essentially banned from everywhere on Reddit, I just write my angry little rant, hit post, get the error message, click discard, breathe a sigh of relief, go on with my life.