Two of the biggest Reddit communities reopened in the funniest way possible
Two of the biggest Reddit communities reopened in the funniest way possible
“All posts must be images of John Oliver looking sexy.”
Steve Huffman, the Reddit CEO, told NBC News in an interview that a user protest on the site this week is led by a minority of moderators and doesn’t have wide support.
ok
r/pics: return to normal, -2,329 votes; “only allow images of John Oliver looking sexy,” 37,331 votes.
r/gifs: return to normal, -1,851 votes; only feature GIFs of John Oliver, 13,696 votes.
Having trouble reconciling why these polls are always overwhelmingly in favor of continuing protests when users are apparently opposed to them. Craziest thing.
Sometimes I feel like the internet is a huge mistake, but then I see stuff like this and am just all, "bravo, you crazy assholes," in the proudest, most pleased, way possible.
Yeah, in times like this I feel like the old wacky internet is still kicking and it fills me with joy
"And the Lord God said, 'Let there be internet,' and there was pwnage. And it was good."
This is a great idea. Not only does it maliciously comply with what Reddit said but it also has the chance of getting a mention on LastWeekTonight when they come back.
The article mentions r/pics and r/gifs. For what I know r/art is also doing this.
R/steam was forced to reopen and is only posting about literal steam, as in the stuff from boiling water. It's fantastic.
I had to go look, it’s absolutely amazing. Some guy posted a mock-up of a new Steam controller, and the top response is “I don’t see what this has to do with steam engines”
This is hilarious, and actually a great response to the forced reopening
Oh I love that!!! This shit is cracking me up
That's amazing :D
r/wow is having a vote right now, one of the options is filling the subs with pictures and memes about Denathrius, a villain NPC of the past expansion, I hope that option wins.
All subs forced to reopen should do something like that.
If only r/Steamdeck was only content about people power washing their decks.
R/intrestingasfuck also changed and no longer enforces any rules at all except Reddit site wide rules.
Think porn is interesting, post it Think John Oliver pics are interesting, post em Interested in videos of static noise, who are the mods to judge
That would have been perfect. Only ASCII art of sexy John Oliver.
As far as I know, /r/pics may not take text, but has no objection to pictures of text.
$ width=300; curl -o joliver.jpg 'https://img.thedailybeast.com/image/upload/c_crop,d_placeholder_euli9k,h_1687,w_3000,x_0,y_0/dpr_1.5/c_limit,w_3000/fl_lossy,q_auto/v1557998763/190507-stern-oliver-tease_1_fxn7b9' && img2txt -W $width -f ansi joliver.jpg >joliver.txt && ansilove -i -c $(($width + 1)) joliver.txt -o joliver.png
Maybe this isn't the darkest timeline after all.
I'm imagining r/fanfiction as a subreddit dedicated to fiction about Lady Windermere's Fan.
I'm honestly tired of the trolling. We know that the advertisers and investors aren't going to reverse course, which means Advance isn't going to change, and that means Spez is going to keep going. All the trolling does is hurt the users, and push Reddit closer to the brink. Either Reddit will just be closed because it's not profitable, or there will be a tsunami of bans.
We know that the advertisers and investors aren’t going to reverse course, which means Advance isn’t going to change, and that means Spez is going to keep going
He can do it, let him do it. But why should his members take on the volunteer work of keeping his project running again? Let him set up a paid staff to run the community in an authoritarian manner.
It's not our business if his project might be in little trouble.
The users are free to leave if they feel they are being hurt by the effects of Reddit's more-money-at-all-cost policies.
The die was cast when Reddit decided to put the 3rd party apps out of business. Doubling down on that is only accelerating the decline. We've now reached the point where even if Reddit did some serious backpedaling, it wouldn't get some of its content creators back.
Yep. The majority of Reddit is lurkers. I don't have any data, but I would bet a higher percentage of content posters and creators were using 3P apps. The fediverse probably poached a lot of good content.
I'd rather reddit die than have 0 input from users.
Users can find somewhere else, but reddit needs users.
push Reddit closer to the brink.
That's the point.
We won't be able to make spez change his mind, that's pretty obvious, what we CAN do is having reddit evaluation being further cut down.
That's the purpose of the trolling, ruining spez's toy IPO.
All the trolling does is hurt the users
The users are overwhelmingly in favor of any kind of protest, their participation in it is massive, they can't ban them all, they're dozens of millions.
As I write this, John Oliver's Twitter is posting a bunch of pics of himself telling /r/pics to "have at it"
https://twitter.com/iamjohnoliver/status/1670179738348933120
we can rest assured that John Oliver is collecting all the sexy pics people photoshop/post and is going to put together a Last Week Tonight episode on this, once the strike is over.
I love this! I have a tiny sub but I'm doing this!!!!
John Oliver always likes to stick it to the big guy in the fight which I find hilarious, I wish Last Week Tonight was on the air so we could hear his takes.
Nitter link, for those who would rather avoid Twitter:
https://nitter.net/iamjohnoliver/status/1670179738348933120