Completely agree, I said practically the same thing in a comment earlier before reading this. One thing that really got to me recently was all the 'summer reddit' bs. I physically cringed reading the memes and comments, grown adults (or so they say) being unbearably childish about kids coming to the website. I'm generally keen for a laugh and a song parody or two but jesus christ, when I saw somebody made the summer lovin' parody about summer reddit along with the other comments in the thread it was unbearably cringeworthy that these people were being as immature as I'd ever seen them in their complaints about an oncoming wave of immaturity. It's happened before in the few years I've been on reddit without a doubt, so maybe it's me growing as a person (I'm only in uni) and becoming aware of how immature a large part of the community was, or with it's increased popularity (purely anecdotal, I don't actually have any hard numbers, I'm basing this off my own personal observations so could be entirely wrong) the quality of reddit has dipped and it's humor has become more juvenile and mainstream as it's catering to larger audiences with content akin to buzzfeed or 9gag who (their hatred of which is another equally cringeworthy and ironic issue that I'd be happy to rant about but I think this paragraph has gone far enough :s.
I almost now categorize reddit into the likes of 9gag, membase, iFunny, or something similar. Their mainstream content seems too similar, mostly content coming from default subreddits like r/AdviceAnimals and r/funny that is. It's very interesting that so many people on reddit will express their vehement hatred for places like that, but it's turning into exactly what they hate.
Yeah man that's almost beat for beat what I was going to say, couldn't agree more, they don't deserve to judge those sites in the slightest let alone think they are comparatively highbrow. Loving this reddit bitching session haha, I had a lot on my mind about the site and nobody to voice it to (if I ever said on reddit you know what would happen).