- upvote context
- Upvoted in posts where someone shares a touching or relatable story about injury, chronic illness, or emotional dependency.
- community use
- Used in r/ChronicPain, r/disability, r/TrueOffMyChest, and r/relationships for physical and emotional crutch commentary.
- subreddit meaning
- In r/relationships and r/therapy communities it signals emotional dependency; in r/medicine it's purely clinical.
- karma context
- Earns karma in heartfelt recovery posts or in witty meme comments about unhealthy coping mechanisms.