Is there another community that loves to hate itself as much as us?

Question

We say we love the site and we hate it. We simultaneously poke fun at and celebrate everyone's perceived intelligence. We think many comments are smug and out of touch. We laugh at how pedantic we are and love to toss in the occasional razor and strawman accusation. We have deep, meaningful discussions and shallow petty tantrums. We think the site is overrun by those with the opposite political ideology.Through all of this, we seem to enjoy things well enough to keep coming back. Is this unique?

catchnear4321 · Accepted Answer

Everything is awful here. (But, geez, have you seen the place down the road?)
Humans crave social interaction. It doesn’t have to be positive to be rewarding, and it doesn’t have to be critical to be constructive. Just so long as there’s someone on the other end, plausibly, reading it.
What’s better? Screaming into the void and hearing an echo? Or a response?

Zetobal · Answer

Musicians, Artists, athletes... the list is rather long to be honest.