[ WP ] An apartment building where the rent is payed in Reddit Karma

“ I ’ m just a bit low on karma this month, you know I ’ m good for it! ” 
 “ I ’ m sorry Barry, but you ’ ve been late the past two months and you still owe me two thousand. If you don ’ t get me the karma by the end of the day I ’ m going to have to kick you out. ” 
 “ Two thousand karma? How am I supposed to come up with that much? ” 
 “ I dunno Barry, try some reposts maybe. I ’ ll be around later. ” 
 The large wife-beater wearing man who was my landlord left my door and walked back to his office. I considered slamming the door after him, but if there was anything that would cause some down-votes it would be a noise complaint at 9am. 
 Reposts? How could my landlord even suggest that? I may be desperate, but I wasn ’ t going to stoop to that low level. I booted up my laptop and started surfing Reddit, looking for inspiration. I didn ’ t have any cute animals, so I wasn ’ t going to get anything from /r/aww. In fact I didn ’ t even have a camera, so /r/pics and /r/video were out. 
 I guess I ’ d have to stick to the text-based subreddits. I used to get a lot of karma from /r/showerthoughts, but my water had been cut off last week, so that was a no go. I had no expertise in science or history, and my grasp on world politics was shaky at best. I didn ’ t know much of the outside world, my world was Reddit. 
 That ’ s when it hit me, /r/askreddit was my only hope. I tried to post a few questions, but none of them made any waves. Apparently ‘ female police officers of Reddit who have participated in prostitution stings ’ was a far too specific question, so I took to the comment section. No matter how I tried, answering the questions with well thought out answers was not getting me anywhere, so I knew what I had to do. 
 “ You like that you fucking retard? ”, “ thanks Obama ”, “ 8/10 with rice ”. I hadn ’ t shitposted this hard since I was a teenager, but the people ate this shit up. As I watched the karma trickle in I knew I ’ d have my rent soon, but I just felt so dirty. 
 
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