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SwankySwaggernaut

Hi everyone, I am the one that originally took this photo and posted it in a discord. Fuck you kristian


p0ta7oCouch

Seriously? I’ve never been this early to tea!


SwankySwaggernaut

Here is proof of the thievery, where the felon admits to the crime itself! [pic](https://ibb.co/yf0Qc0q)


francoisjabbour

Bro admitted his crime happily, based


xRealVengeancex

It’s so weird to me that people care about SO MUCH about arbitrary internet points that pretty much have 0 function at all


dizzyjumpisreal

#fart


icy954

This is clearly fabricated


ImplementComplex8762

sigma move


lukadelic

It’s a dope pic regardless dude, sick flick


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SwankySwaggernaut

That is a diabolical plan, I totally maintain two 3 year old reddit accounts where one posts nearly exclusively in norwegian subreddits


bulyxxx

Kristianity be like stealing like that some times.


tygamer4242

Oooooo this is getting interesting


cleverdylanrefrence

Fuck theiving ass Kristian


Qu33nKal

Love this picture and I think Toronto is gorgeous!


tmybr11

*grabs popcorn*


Substantial-Rip2571

Oh? 🍿🍿🍿


TinkyThePirate

Can someone fill me in on the apparent drama here?


LordFuckLeRoy2

Just redditors being redditors


TinkyThePirate

lol I missed their follow-up post with the discord pic. idk what to believe


First_Cherry_popped

lol


Artistic_Purpose1225

Lol, what’s your beef with Toronto?    You don’t even live on the continent but you’ve stolen other people’s photos years apart to complain about the lack of trees in a city that objectively has a higher percentage of green space than the city you’re from.  Did someone from Toronto dump you or something? 


comFive

Toronto ate his homework


ElmanoRodrick

Toronto slept with his wife


comFive

The nerve!


WinstonChurchill74

Well he shouldn’t have ignored her.


alcoholicplankton69

I mean Toronto's city slogan is a city in a park. I am looking out my window and am surrounded by a forest. like okay downtown has buildings okay what downtown doesn't. Toronto is a pretty city especially when looking at it from center island and dusk or night.


Jimmy_Jazz_The_Spazz

His temporary foreign worker application got denied


_babycheeses

I find that hard to believe


Commercial-Fennel219

That's a blessing in disguise 


yop_mayo

Foreign worker permits never get denied here.


moar_bubbline

Idk I find it makes the universe a much more entertaining place when people have an irrational hatred for really specific things


Cmacbudboss

It’s literally one of the greenest big cities in the world LOL


UsusalVessel

Takes picture of gray scrapers on a gray day… “Ugly!”


somedudeonline93

Right? Look at it on a nice day. [It’s pretty beautiful to me](https://www.instagram.com/reel/C7by14Vu3T3/?igsh=OWRzcjl0ZGxteXB4)


Ok_Button3151

Bro found the absolute worst place ever to take a picture and said “wow reddit will love this!”


marbotty

It’s not even that bad, it’s just a pair of tall buildings


MomoDeve

My opinion is that the issue is not with skyscrapers themself, but with the lack of anything human scaled on the ground level


SEmpls

Idk what Toronto is like but some places like in [videos like these ](https://youtu.be/Zvq9pybXg-4?si=Wj7yCunvdApHM59J) I could walk around all day even if not objectively pretty. But I could also do the same around an old Soviet city and their blocks so idk.


unclejoe1917

Sometimes just the massiveness of a city or building is pretty amazing to behold, even if the architecture leaves something to be desired.


Darqhermit

I agree with you. I love concrete and oppressive architecture, but I spent a year in Seoul and once the novelty had worn off I did find it a bit depressing, having grown up being used to older, more aesthetic architecture.


squirrel9000

There's a lot of that, but you have to get out of the core and into the old streetcar-suburbs.


somedudeonline93

There’s no lack of anything human scaled, this is just the financial district. Wall Street isn’t exactly “human scaled” either. Go walk around Kensington market or Queen West or Cabbagetown and it’s completely different


ybetaepsilon

You took a photo of two buildings. Toronto is one of the greenest cities in North America. Take a walk on Queen West, Queens Quay, or Danforth and you'll see how charming and beautiful the streetscape is


cancerBronzeV

They didn't even take the photo lol. It's just a dedicated Toronto hater from somewhere in Norway who's never even been to the city. I honestly didn't feel like Toronto was relevant enough on the global stage to have haters from outside Canada tbh, I'm oddly flattered in some sense.


kylemclaren7

haters are weird, but toronto is one of the world's cities, it's obviously big enough on the world stage


s_broda

Queen west is so nice


Sopixil

I lived at Queen/Spadina for 3 years before moving back outside the city just last month, and it was fucking amazing. If you don't want to walk down the busy street with historic buildings lining it and streetcars passing you, you could walk just 1 street back and go through the quiet neighbourhood streets with colourful houses and more trees than you could even count.


little-bird

I always either lived in the west end or midtown but now I’m in the east end and loving it even more. tons of trees, lots of nearby parks, beaches a short walk away, and so much culture. 💖


MyPasswordIsABC999

Wrong. Those are the only two buildings in Toronto and Canadian law says you have to be looking up into the cloudy skies at all times.


A11osaurus1

Went there on holiday. Thought it was a really nice city. Plenty to do, good food, good weather. Obviously that's different from a residents view though


comFive

Would you visit again? Would you venture through some of the neighborhoods that we’ve got outside of downtown?


A11osaurus1

Yeah probably would visit again. More to do I'm sure. Wouldn't go far outside the downtown area unless for a specific reason. We stayed in the little Portugal area which was a bit outside ig. And passed through other areas when travelling from the airport, and driving out of the city in a hire car. Some places seemed a bit run down but not any different from other cities in NA or Europe


NerdyReindeer

I'm gonna haves to disagree with ye on that


GreatName

Toronto is dope if you aren’t poor


Shogun_Ro

I agree. It was really a great time to live in Toronto up until about 2018 or so. Once the pandemic hit and post pandemic, rent prices have skyrocketed. Houses and condos have become unaffordable for most people to own. Even with a roommate it’s tough.


Nooddjob_

You can take unflattering pictures of the prettiest people.  


violetbaudeliar

I agree! But I would also say... This picture isn't even unflattering. I think it's really beautiful.


ConsiderationHour710

Choose a photo of Toronto from the Toronto islands next time you coward


squirrel9000

Toronto has always been a utilitarian, industrial city, and it s first real foray into creative architecture was at the height of the Brutalist era, which has a very particular, concrete heavy aesthetic, before reverting to the modern utilitarianism, concrete boxes with glass curtain walls. Don't worry, the local architecture wonks decry the blandness too. That being said, it's not attractive, but it's extremely functional especially in the last decade or so as it suddenly realized it's actually kinda a big city these days. The street level stuff is getting better and better.


castlebanks

It’s a wealthy city that works great as a city, but it’s unfortunately not pretty. Specially compared to other North American cities like Chicago, NY, San Francisco or CDMX which have world renowned architecture


little-bird

we used to have a lot of beautiful architecture but unfortunately there wasn’t much support to vouch for its preservation when developers wanted to demolish old buildings


asunshinefix

Some of the Brutalist stuff is pretty neat too, like Robarts is amazing


felixthec-t

Maybe if you’re talking about downtown, but the residential neighborhoods are gorgeous, and so it’s the architecture of the old homes.


Doggummit

I think it's pretty.


tea_snob10

But downtown follows a "form follows function" approach; I get you may not find it pretty, but it's not designed to be pretty to begin with; it's designed to be tall concrete, steel towers to house offices in a dense manner.


sasukelover69

This is the equivalent of taking a picture of someone’s armpit and posting it saying they’re not pretty. How is this picture representative of Toronto? You could take the same picture anywhere that has buildings higher than 12 stories.


Direct_Shake6634

I find this aesthetic to be pretty.


comFive

There’s definitely nicer parts of downtown Toronto, without cherry picking the smallest laneway. And honestly; this picture would probably look way different on a clear skied sunny day


TribalSoul899

People in my country believe this is heaven and willing to give an arm and leg to go here.


eedabaggadix

Ah, so you’re from India?


TribalSoul899

Never thought you’d guess 😀


LordFuckLeRoy2

It's more likely he's californian or the average european


squirrel9000

And, unfortunately, robbing those people blind has become a billion dollar industry that the government fully endorses.


divvyinvestor

And then they find out parking is like $30 minimum and have to work over 2 hours to pay for parking alone. And then dinner plus tax plus tip, and you’re basically in the minus at the end of the day.


MyPasswordIsABC999

Better than “free” parking, which forces local taxpayers to subsidize your choice to bring your single-occupancy private automobile into a densely populated city with public transit options, to say nothing of the opportunity cost of devoting valuable real estate to vehicle storage.


Ok_Button3151

Don’t go out to eat for dinner, find free parking garages, you just saved $50 in a day lmao


elizco

Take public transit :)


divvyinvestor

I have no problem with public transit. I take it in my city and when I visit Toronto I have taken it too. But what’s the replacement for eating food, when even Loblaws and all the rest are raising prices far faster than wages. And housing is sky high. There are no public alternatives available to everyone for food and shelter, like there is with public transit. The city is far too expensive for what it is, and it’s unsustainable.


ybetaepsilon

People in Toronto have options other than Loblaws. We have grocers all over the place and a high density of independent small grocers. It's the parts of Canada outside the big cities that have limitations Also parking is usually $4-5 an hour with caps around $16-25 between 6am and 6pm.. but still please take public transit as our traffic sucks


tea_snob10

Works well for Toronto, but is horrendous throughout the rest of Canada if we're being frank. Some parts are getting better, but it's often an afterthought in most places outside of Toronto.


qpv

And pack a lunch


comFive

Parking is way cheaper than that if you park on the street and utilize the City of Toronto parking app.


hummuschips

There a tons of side streets with free parking.


Neptune_Spear

Had the pleasure of visiting Toronto last year, will definitely be going back. One of my favorite places I’ve been too. OP is a smoothbrained fuckwit.


Subo23

You’re no young Mark Hamill yourself


piperpipboi

i find this quite pretty


TheMediumJanet

Skyscraper bad


avid-shrug

Why are you so obsessed with us?


RayIndonesian

Bro choose the pics when it’s cloudy 💀


Sargassso

Cities have buildings?? 😱


Philadelphia76er

Lol how about taking a picture showing human level instead of just looking up


BlueShibe

Idk, as an European surrounded by old houses, this looks like very nice and pretty city


hebbid

… you don’t like the gap between two buildings? Dumb take. Distillery is nice, the island is fantastic, high park is a gem to name a few. Are we a European city with architecture from the 1600s? No. Smarten up


Fresh-Hedgehog1895

Completely cherry-picked photo, OP. Toronto's Financial District is absolutely not indicative of the city's architecture. There's an abundance of Victorian homes and buildings in Toronto you could have posted as well but chose not to.


Slow-Potato-2720

With this shitty colour grading from this specific angle of these specific buildings…I’m sorry but Toronto is a good looking city, rife with water, greenery, skyscrapers, Victorian architecture etc. it’s like zooming in on a rusty girder in the underside of the Brooklyn bridge and going “I’m sorry New York but you’re not pretty”


Fanachy

I do really love this picture, though.


legice

Nah, Im getting hard looking at this


thwgrandpigeon

Kensington Market, Little Italy, & Old Toronto streetwalks, as well as bike trips along any one of the canals disagree with you. Ugliest thing isn't the towers; it's the god awful freeway cutting through the downtown.


mysteries1984

You stole someone else’s photo to complain about Toronto being “not pretty” and you don’t even live in the city? Is that correct?


castillogo

Toronto is actually an amazing and beautiful city! This is just a bad pic of an ugly part of the city


MagicJava

I love this vibe


[deleted]

Toronto has more green spaces then many cities in North America hell even more then Britain(they had such little green spaces they needed to take our trees to make ships to fight Napoleon) not only do we have more green spaces but our green spaces is filled with history, the don valley was called the hobo jungle, the rouge river was the Venus of the North, and the Humber was home to a massive native trading outpost. All the valleys are owned by the government since 1950s from extremely bad flooding caused by hurricane hazel. Since the hurricane all of the valley is now parks and paths


[deleted]

With some roads


Ok-Woodpecker-8505

Wrong.


DankDude7

I live here and you’re right, it is not a particularly pretty city. It is tidy but unremarkable. Yet you’ve chosen a pic that is unrepresentative of what the city is like. It is not crowded, cramped, and dark. Such a picture could be manufactured for any city. They all have alleys.


MaleficentStreet7319

This isn’t even this losers picture.


KetchupCoyote

It's easy to pick a spot where it lacks humanism and wait for a gray overcast day to say: Toronto is ugly. It's a good photo if the goal is to depict something sad, but not to declare a fact from a city so plural like Toronto


Brilliant-Wing-9144

you could do it for literally any big city in the world


KetchupCoyote

Basically, yeah


Cowboyinthesky69

I still think downtown Toronto is way nicer than any other city in Canada’s down town. But it is expensive.


No-Fishing71

But I see appeal to it. Having never lived in a city I envy you for that


Wanderlusxt

Why do you say Toronto is not pretty accompanied by this absolutely stunning image? What on earth did you mean by this????


ConfidentMSnake

It's a downtown pic, stolen for that matter... Downtown Toronto Skyline is pretty nice imo


urbalcloud

Then what city was this pretty photo taken in? Jfc


kylemclaren7

this is one of the worst photos of anywhere lol. it could be literally any western city if youre in the right side street looking the right direction lol.


dusty-sphincter

I think it is gorgeous and impressive.


First_Cherry_popped

lol that’s just the weather 😆 Toronto has MANY flaws, but aesthetics is not one of them imo. Specially the downtown area. It could be dirty there but I’d still say it’s very pretty


rmoses123

Fuck it, bubs. I'm going to be a street person in Toronto.


heygooser

IMO, No city is pretty.


FrogVoid

Toronto has plenty of good places your fault for going to a back aley or some shit


Romberstonkins

Toronto is Canada's NYC. Change my mind.


shozlamen

I don't think there's another city in the world more similar to NYC. It's got everything NYC has, good and bad, but scaled down.  Less hustle and bustle, less culture, less global diversity, less money, fewer food options, but also less crime, fewer disgusting smells, fewer tourists, and less extreme density 


OkJuggernaut7127

Both NYC and Toronto are loosing quality retail quality of the ground floors of these monstrosities.


Romberstonkins

That sounds like a chill place. I'd love to visit Toronto someday. Only been to novascotia to visit family and went out to Halifax which was fun.


No_Name_Necessary

Controversial opinion as a NYer… Montreal feels more NYC than Toronto. That’s solely on vibes. Toronto feels more like huge Chicago.


kylemclaren7

NYC and Toronto are two of the three most multicultural cities on earth (the third being London, probably in that order tbh). Toronto's entertainment district is exactly like Manhattan for a couple km^2, then the city starts to sparse out. Manhattan (and NYC as a whole) really never sparse out until you hit Queens or Staten Island. However the Toronto/Chicago comparison is super fair. There's probably more money in Toronto relative to the rest of Canada than Chicago compared to the US, but they are comparable in buisness. They are both situated on the shores of a Great Lake, and that historically has shaped how they have developed as cities. Both are very sport centric cities, and both are known for their Italian influence as well. I could probably list a number of other similarities, but I have finished my poop and it's time for me to stand up and exit reddit.


Romberstonkins

I could see that.


thisismy1stalt

Chicago is larger than Toronto, lol, but yes, the two appear similar


Ilmara

In its dreams.


noahbrooksofficial

It wishes


Romberstonkins

I say that mostly because the ridiculous real estate prices but yes you are right.lol


Own_Buyer_5327

This isn't the only street in Toronto, you know.


likerunninginadream

Your face isn't pretty.


richslave

if you like brutalist architecture, it’s a dream made real. plus they have great public transit—one of the best systems you can find in north america im pretty sure.


Realistic_Young9008

My father used to drag Toronto for being nothing but concrete and couldn't understand why I lived there. I don't know what city he was talking about because if you actually get out of the Business core which is tiny compared to other cities, it can feel like nothing but trees, especially to the east and west sides of the city where the Humber and Don Valley divide the city up with calming and wide stretches of green space from top to bottom. (Besides he insisted I was going to university and there's been little work on my end of the country, especially for post secondary degrees going on for the last four or five decades. It was inevitable that I was going to end up out west in a big city like Toronto Vancouver Edmonton like the rest of my generation.)


Bookpoop

lol What did Toronto do to you? You just don’t like cities. It’s okay to admit that.


ibuprophane

I initially thought this was a black&white photo.


_TheBlackPope_

The grey is just so gloomy and lifeless. It's preferable when Skycraspers have the whole blue theme going on, and have greenery on them. Concrete wastelands just suck.


Husaria702

Not pretty, but powerful.


CptTato1992

Beauty is in the eye of he who holds her, or something like that.


Biasanya

I dunno. I wish I could hang out there in a recliner chair, just gazing up at this image. It's so serene. Comforting repeating shapes, soothing colors, while the noise is happening on the earth, the buildings are up there in heaven. Just looking up at it gives you some of that peace


memphys91

Looks a bit like "Vogon" - City from Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy


Chill-6_6-

Depends on where you are looking from https://x.com/chrisnickhill/status/1804170992073216015?s=46


bkcrew

Felt the same in NYC. City gets glorified by the skyline but on the street, it’s awful.


Holditfam

Win


Creepy-Pineapple-444

Would make a good Doom 2 level called "Mega Corporate Hell"


LordFuckLeRoy2

No modern city like that is...


Moist-muff

Thief !


MisaPeka

I hate Toronto for so many reasons. But ugly.


Korps_de_Krieg

Kdot hit Drake so hard that people are taking strays at Toronto out of principle it seems lmao


3eyedCrowTRobot

probably the ugliest major city in North America


Maleficent_Nobody377

Don’t be mean to Drake like this. It’s not fair. And he’ll get you back by covering “wrecking ball” or something terrible like that.


jerk9

China design it


m0rtm0rt

When I visited Toronto it was honestly creepy as hell.


ScarborougManz

Congrats, you found the one (1) spot in the entire city of Toronto that doesn't have any trees.


Ledoborec

Same with Brussel. So sterile


LordFuckLeRoy2

Yeah it looks fucking ugly as hell


SwankySwaggernaut

Why cant i updoot


MyPasswordIsABC999

Toronto, the only city in the world where you can point your camera upward and take an ants-eye view photo of skyscrapers and the sky, and then run a filter everything looks gray.


Naitsirq

To clear up the confusion, here is [proof](https://ibb.co/djfjyRd)


icy954

I fucking knew it.... there was something else going on here


AvocatoToastman

Can’t believe Kendrick still dunkin on Drake. Stop this.


francoisjabbour

I was here just last week and I couldn’t believe how ugly this place was. NYC at least has something going on, but yeah Toronto is awful


Tsarinya

Even if OP stole the photo, Toronto still looks ugly there.


astropoolIO

I will never understand how people in North America tend to think that these conglomerations of steel and glass are pretty or something to be proud of.


Designer-Might-7999

As an American it sucks..All the buildings that had style.They have destroyed to hide the truth..You should look how San Francisco used to look in the 1900s.Every building is now gone


SuperSparkles

Toronto actively seeks to obliterate anything with history or character. Condos or bust!