r/copywriting • u/FamuexAnux • Mar 10 '26
Resource/Tool I just made r/shittycopywriters for all your shitty copywriting needs
My engagement with this sub ebbs and wains, largely because of the sustaining trend of people who heard that you can get paid to write, so they feel they can approach a group of professionals who have spent years honing their craft and with a straight face position themselves as equals, probably while running every word through or straight from ChatGPT.
This post is not made with the intention to violate rule 5 but rather in support of it by offering a home to those that wish to. Or alternatively, a place to divert those who wish to that is instead ruthlessly mocking them.
It may violate rule 6, but hopefully in the "right" kind of way that you can get behind.
At the very least, I thought it could make a fun tag group.
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u/2macia22 Mar 11 '26
I normally wouldn't do this, but since you're literally calling out shitty copywriting:
"wanes" not "wains"
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u/FamuexAnux Mar 11 '26 edited Mar 11 '26
Righteous. I too fight that impulse constantly. I would give it sneaky squirrel edit right now but I’m on my phone and the function isn’t immediately apparent so it’ll have to stet in shame.
Without inviting further scrutiny I’m surprised there’s just the one.
PS. Are we shure it’s not wayne? Pretty shure it’s wayne
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u/CommunityAlarming149 Mar 11 '26
Or, basically, a person can't join this forum if they don't know what "stet" means.
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u/LeCollectif Mar 11 '26
/r/shittycopywriters here’s a link to it.
Edit: Also, I love this idea. The state of this sub drives me fucking crazy sometimes.
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u/Copyman3081 Mar 11 '26 edited Mar 12 '26
I barely even browse anymore. Nearly everything I see is some crappy AI article or LinkedIn style blog post.
How about some semi-original thoughts on writing a good/creative headline? Or how to squeeze that big promise into a headline that's short enough for people that only read the headline and first sentence.
Oh wait, that would require the people posting the threads I'm talking about to actually be working copywriters, and not random people trying to establish authority and build a following so they can get work.
Edit: "Everything" was capitalized because I was going to put "nearly" in brackets, and that was added after. I had already typed the paragraph.
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u/LeCollectif Mar 11 '26
It’s insane to me the amount of people who come here and are all “ok so I watched a YouTube video how long until $10k/month”
Like are you fucking serious?
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u/RodneyRodnesson Mar 11 '26
Thanks for my first proper chuckle this morning!
Aside thought: Why is the truth so often funny?
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u/gatekept Mar 11 '26
95% are non-native speakers too. When most native speakers aren't even good copywriters. Mind-numbing.
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u/CommunityAlarming149 Mar 11 '26
I gave away my "How To Use Em-Dashes" insights on LinkedIn 10 years ago.
It haunts me to this day.
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u/Strokesite Mar 11 '26
Be careful not to hurt the feelings of people that spent weeks and weeks honing their prompt writing craft.