"I'm going to hold your hand with a napkin in between when I say this"

this imagery made me laugh 😂

but yeah some ppl play too much and the subs growing so there are gonna be bad actors, nonblacks with dumb comments, bitter soul cornballs tryna to troll cus they saw someone funnier do it once.

The annoying thing was that people just ended without giving advice and just posted roasts and images. I didn't see anyone whose hair was beyond salvation, yet it was so hard to find people who gave tips.

I was in redditjail and I was so frustrated I couldn't post anything lmao.

Thank you! I was getting worried. Yeah the joke was funny at first but hair loss can cause a host of mental health issues and clowning someone when they are down asking for advice is not it. It was even worse when people told me I should leave the sub if I didn't like seeing people get made fun of because of it.

One of the people they were "roasting" was a 17 year old child. Absolutely ridiculous to make anyone feel worse about their condition but when it turns out to be a child it's just evil. 

I swear I was just about to delete this thread off my feed because of the immaturity displayed on …. Every. Single. Post. I was starting to get hurt for the people who posted and was immediately being attacked with rude comments and negative open commentary as if the person is not able to see them talk about their flaws . And for those complaining saying removing Gifs and images is unnecessary as it’s not that deep .It is that deep . Coming for people ( you don’t know ) with harsh words and rude gestures on social media is cowardly. Not to mention you don’t get to decide what people are sensitive about . Let me see you have the courage to display your insecurities and see how you feel when people talk bad about you knowing you already feel terrible and genuinely need help or insight on the topic . Along with black hair being beautiful it can also be very tricky as we have soooooooo many different textures and there really is no one solution for anything and not everybody has 300+ to pay a beautician or 150+ to pay a barber for upkeep and hair care tips . So I don’t understand why people acting funny . We’re supposed to be here encouraging and uplifting each other . BE NICE or don’t say anything at all . There’s plenty of posts on your feed I’m sure that’s worthwhile responding to if you don’t have nothing else to do with your time .I don’t mean to go hard I just really don’t like bully behavior and that’s what it started to give. Glad to see we’re cleaning house . Take the negativity elsewhere .

About time

The level of meanness was unwarranted, people need a safe space.

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It was funny the first time but I can see it’s hurtful to people who come here asking for help. It’s actively stopping people from ever sharing here.

Good change. That hand on shoulder pic stopped being funny a while ago but whenever someone pointed out that it wasn't funny they got downvoted

Thank you, thank you!! I understand that we can make jokes here and there but it was becoming a problem to where it seemed like it was being overrun by memes and no actual advice! This is a community, a judge free zone to get help for struggles with our hair, and it was honestly really disappointing seeing how we were treating EACHOTHER especially, knowing how the world already views people with hair texture like ours.

It takes a lot to even show our natural coils, especially if it’s not a loser texture or longer in length. I hope we can bring some positivity back into this sub now that the images have been disabled :)

It's bad enough we can't even be there for each other. It's no surprise we don't have unity.

❤️❤️❤️ we appreciate you

Thanks for making sure this is a safe space

I called it.

There is nothing creatively black, that won't eventually get played out on the internet.

This was a smart move, because it got to the point people who had nothing even remotely good to say, were just spamming it.

Let’s go, thank you! 🙌🏽

Thank you for this. I know that razzing people is accepted "part of the culture", but it's really getting old online

Yeah lowkey that shit was actually SO mean, it made me laugh ngl but like it was always in bad taste tbh

Right decision at first it was funny but these people just dragged it.

Great call. This isn't a comedy sub and you guys need to grow up.

thank you i was actually gonna unsub just because it was always the same three low-quality memes every single day.

I do think once this place is better modded that we should have some pinned posts on hair loss to cut down on the more repetitive posts

Black people be your biggest haters im trynna tell you. Its never no togetherness in our community. Just us making fun of each others not being helpfull.

Say it louder for the people in the back 👏👏✨️

Yupp thanks for posting this cause I was tired of seeing those posts/comments too! Like this isn’t a meme page

I’ve roasted someone once and I will take accountability and apologize for my immaturity and corny behavior. Hair is very important in our community and shouldn’t be a joke if someone is going thru something unfortunate.

Thank you so mf much! I was fixing to remove this sub off my feed because of that shit.

I was so confused, glad y’all said something

Thanks, it was funny at first but when constantly used in response to people actually wanting help/advice it was pretty disappointing. Some people are coming here because they really don’t know how to take proper care of their hair for any amount of reasons and I have to imagine being clowned on because it’s an inside joke in the sub while receiving no actual response is pretty disheartening.

Especially the 17 year old I just found out about by another comment here?? Or people who have medical reasons for hair loss and want genuine help, only to find people making a joke out of you

:( it reads like we’re all middle schoolers making fun of others for looking different or having an unfortunate health condition that causes hair loss.

I found them funny but I didn’t realize that it could effect some folks who were legitimately asking for help. My apologies & hope we can be a bit more aware moving forward. ✊🏾

Thanks for this. I never got the obsession with the meme and really never understood its relevance in a thread like this. I wonder if there are other modifications that can be used to keep the target audience and lose the “losers”.

I'm so glad. Thank you for this change because the roasting was highly unnecessary for a platform where nobody knows each other and "silly" questions are asked because right now AI is making Google basically unusable anymore, but get slammed for not being what some think is common sense.

Happened on my recent posts. Bunch of cornballs trying to be funny and not giving a bit of advice… so imagine my surprise when none speaking were better looking than me?

Don't ban me for this but I need to know what was the post/thread that finally made y'all go enough.

Great, can we stop all of the unserious posts as well. Play it straight for a while.

I think it's worth mentioning that posters also need to refrain from posting images that are better suited for medical review. I get that sometimes that's not always an option, but seeking advice on Reddit for hair loss, skin issues, or the like is going to draw out the ignorant folks

Rip to an era

Laughing at “with a napkin in between”!! 😝 omg. Where did that even come from?!! Crazy. 😆

This was need, future professional counselor here. So many things made my stomach hurt and upset watching what others say to others, especially with that damn hand on the shoulder.

Can we get a blackhair verification or is that a thing already?

I ask a question and never got a answer

about time

Interested in being a mod.

Are you still looking for mods?

Why can't I post

forsure understand why it’s disabled, but i’m trying to post a pic of hair to help someone out & cant </3

what about ppl posting people Phone numbers ???

i definitely contributed to this☠️☠️☠️

I understand the decision fully. It was the proper course of action. I will also miss the meme.