At first it was all about presenting data in an original looking way. In the end it was about pushing political ideas in your throat using a plain bar graph. It was not about sharing something interesting you found but about taking advantage of a captive audience.
As a data junkie I loved r/dataisbeautiful at first, but it definitely became painful. It got to the point I couldn’t looks at the charts and graphs.
I remember seeing a literally default excel chart as one of the top posts. And it wasn’t upvoted in an ironic way.
This is quite literally the only post that ever needed to be made