Long ago, when Reddit was not yet a website but merely a small Kingdom,

There was a tournament for knights. From all over the kingdoms, knights came to show their prowess. In front of enormous crowds the knights would do their most daring feats of swordplay, showing astounding skill and exemplary control of their weaponry. All except one knight, who consistently did the same, boring move over and over again. He won his way up through the tournament ranks and the crowds inexplicably cheered harder for his simple move of parrying and opponents blow and quickly striking in return. No flair, no glamour, and yet it produced more cheers than even the most flamboyant attacks. A confused Queen leaned over to her King, asking why the commoners seemed to love this boring swordplay over the exciting and daring moves of other knights. The King leaned over to her and said “Of course they prefer it my love, this is Reddit, and we all love ripostes!”