Thank you for joining us over here in this snark subreddit for fiber artists and crafters of all types! This is a place to vent, whine, complain, mock, rant, laugh, freak out, wax absurd, and make shitty Photoshops about whatever's stuck in your craft craw today. Glad you're here! Hope you're funny!
About FACJ
- Fiber arts: Any craft or art form using some sort of fiber, interpreted very loosely.
- Circlejerk: A forum where people make fun of another group, hobby, or place by pretending to pat each other's backs, congratulate each other, and, well, jerk each other off for being part of the group.
u/jingleheimerschitt started this group because she didn't want to choose between earnest discussion of problematic public figures in craftland (/craftsnark) and incredibly vague but lightly snarky discussions of hobbyist crafters (/bitcheatingcrafters) and she didn't have anywhere to share her weird photo creations and short stories. So FACJ was born.
The main distinguishing feature of FACJ in contrast to the other snarky craft subreddits is that you are allowed to post screenshots of what inspired your 'jerk. You will often find these inspiration screenshots on the weekly stickied In The Loop threads.
This element of the subreddit comes with several caveats:
- Screenshots of hobbyist/individual inspiration MUST have names and faces blocked out so it's anonymous
- You CANNOT post direct links to your inspiration anywhere on this subreddit unless it's a large company or major public figure
- You also CANNOT "double-dip" by commenting on source posts and their resulting FACJ posts if your profile activity is public -- don't leave breadcrumbs in your profile to source posts or to FACJ that will create drama and more shit for our mods to deal with
Cool FACJ posts:
- Make fun of a specific post or a trend of posts/comments/interactions or a general Thing That's Happening related to crafting IN A CIRCLEJERKY WAY
- Attempt to be entertaining at a minimum if not funny -- going beyond "look at this" or "I hate it"
- Make sure inspiration screenshots are anonymous if included/posted
- Don't have comments on inspiration posts in your comment/post history
Less cool FACJ posts:
- Just straight-up complain about something without attempting to be ironic, sarcastic, entertaining or amusing
- Are unfunny, no-context memes from Facebook or /yarntrolls or whatever
- Don't follow the rules of the subreddit
Take a look at some of our top posts from the last year before posting your own!
The real fun of this group often happens in the comments, so there are expectations and rules for you there as well.
Cool FACJ commenters attempt to be entertaining, funny, surreal, and/or weird about, near, adjacent to or inspired by the topic of the post. UNcool FACJ commenters:
- Demand sources (e.g., "ITL?????")
- Get serious right away in top-level comments (e.g., "/uj," "but seriously")
- Discuss how to track down sources publicly
- Leave breadcrumbs in their comment/post history to sources allowing brigades to occur
Discörd
We have a disc*rd! This is a very laidback, new-to-Disc*rd-friendly, lightly snarky chat group where we chitchat about crafting, make fun of silly craft shit we see (and ooh and ahh over the awesome craft shit we find), post pictures of our pets, and generally hang out.
The difference between the FACJ server and other crafty servers you may already be in is that we do not engage in Toxic Positivity. You're allowed to have a bad day. You're allowed to be annoyed about some ignorant crafter bullshit. You're allowed to make fun of people who do their crafts badly or beginners who refuse to use Google or their brains or crocheters who use /crochet as their personal diary. We just ask that you're down to earth and will consider accepting the Gospel of Chickenbear into your heart. Being funny is a plus.
If you want to join the Fiber Arts Circle Jerk server, please send the mods a private message to get the link. (If you don't have any previous posts/comments in your history that indicate you're into crafting/fiber arts, we're probably either going to make fun of you and then block you or ignore your message altogether.)
Rules
- This is an all-ages subreddit -- please tag posts that contain nudity, vulgarity, or other upsetting things as NSFW so the mods don't have to field pearl-clutching in our Modmail. Feel free to post images and/or gifs in the comments! You can still use image-hosting sites for your anonymized source images if you want, but it's no longer required (please remember that our UK-based pals can't access imgur links).
- Don't be an asshole in a mean way -- no racism, misogyny, transphobia, fatphobia, etc. You can be an asshole in a fun way though.
- Don't attack people or be unnecessarily cruel. Definitely ALWAYS make screenshots anonymous. Don't double-dip. We're not trying to ruin lives or bring people here who don't get what we're doing.
- Feel free to post anonymized screenshots of whatever nonsense you're referencing in the weekly In The Loop thread stickied to the top of the subreddit if you don't want to include it with your posts/comments for whatever reason. (Previous In The Loop posts are searchable via the In The Loop flair.)
- No direct linking to specific posts/comments on Reddit outside of this subreddit EVER, including no-follow links. (General r/ links to subreddits are fine — but please don’t link to individual posts, comments or users outside of FACJ. DO NOT post u/ links of source OPs.)
- No double-dipping -- if you've commented on something you want to jerk about as a comment or a post here, either delete your comment before you jerk it or jerk it from an alt account (or make sure your profile activity is not publicly visible)
- Please report rule-breaking posts and comments! However, before you report a post or comment, please make sure it is actually breaking one of FACJ's rules! A jerk post can be not that funny, not your cup of tea, or low-effort without breaking any rules. We're tired of having to approve posts you reported just because you don't like the cut of someone's jib. Take it outside.
- No AI-generated shit here please. There's enough of that everywhere else. You and your brain are super weird, so be yourself and use your brain!
- Links to content off Reddit may be removed at the mod's discretion. We are NOT in the business of brigading, and anyone who engages in brigading will be banned from this subreddit. We'll get our stuff taken away if there's brigading so we're just not gonna do it.
- Hobby Lobby sucks and we're not going to do their marketing for them in here.
- No self-promotion pls. Love ya but not that much.
- Post and user flair is available -- use it or don't, see if I care!
Otherwise, have fun!
