I'm gonna be honest with you chief, I can't take seriously a "protest" that keeps paying the same people it's protesting against

I have many of those, mainly because I've been a premium subscriber for 9 years. Well, not anymore.

They just piled up over time since I rarely awarded anyone.

there are free awards I never bought anything on Reddit an have like 10000 coins

Same. I got gilded a couple times in the past, and I gave all the awards I could this month since I'm not going back to reddit

Bruh does anyone actually pay for those? They gave away a LOT for free. And I got quite a few more from others awarding me

Some people might have already paid for coins before the incident.

Yeah, so better get rid of them supporting Apollo dev for example than do nothing.
Yep I had this conversation with someone on Christian’s post about canceling Apollo. I owned the Alien Blue Premium App and when Reddit bought the app they gave anyone owned said app either 16 or 17 thousand Reddit Coins, cannot remember the exact amount. I have never purchased Reddit coin nor do I know what it costs but if me using some of those coins that they gave me gets a post to the front page then so be it.

This shit right here is why I never took most leftist subs seriously. There is nothing more painfully ironic than to see posts complaining about capitalism get bombarded with gold and stickers.

Gotta say I have no love for the big leftist subs but that's a pretty cheap shot.

Their choosing to purchase luxuries, in a world where luxuries must be paid for in a system they didn't design, choose or want to live under, doesn't negate that they are opposed to capitalism.

If you want to argue that they're possibly a bit too sanguine about the prospect of their favourite luxuries existing under communism or whatever, fair enough. But that's a separate argument from whether they're stupid to pay money for stuff that makes them happy.
- in a world where luxuries must be paid for
  
  ...who is forcing them to buy Reddit coins? lol
- your argument makes sense if you're talking about food or shelter or any essentials. but luxuries are a choice and reddit gold is about as non essential as it gets.
… you get some amount of awards for free. You’re jumping to conclusions by assuming they paid for them.

Also, it has been less than 30 days since this fiasco began. So some people could still be subscribed from the before times. And a lot of people who did subscribe likely subscribed annually because it was significantly cheaper than month-to-month.

But leftists. Sure.
- My issue is that while I believe it is fine to show people what is wrong with the world on a large social media platform where there are no heavily used alternatives, when you give reddit money, you are not supporting an independent platform, you are giving your money to a social media platform partially owned by media megacorp Advanced Publications.
  
  And that platform is clearly not happy with just the money they received from reddit gold. Now that they are going public, they are going to keep trying to find more ways to give even more money to their shareholders.
Meh, I'd say it's equally as bad as people showering billionnaires doing AMA with them. Because what Bill Gates really needs is for the plebs to spend dollars giving him shiny paid emoticons on a website he doesn't use on the regular.

Not everyone was buying rewards. I had a few coins remaining. Used it all up (I mean I already paid for it pre-Reddit fuck up) and deleted my account.

What does it give you even do except for cool image below the post? I never got why people bought those coins. Does it even give karma for the author?

Yes they give karma to the author and the one giving them out

You can also get coins and reddit premium.

You get rewards for posts. I'm sure the majority isn't paying anything + it's quite likely the admins can easily manipulate those rewards.

People get coins when their posts are gilded. Also many of us still have years of apology gold from when Alien Blue was killed.

The loudest mods keep posting even amongst themselves when they closed 'their' subs. Check their post history. It's performative.
There's a reason reddit mods are reviled everywhere on the internet. Let them cry and piss and shit themselves. It's free entertainment

Prob the same people who remade the subs here as magazines, squatting on the name but havent made a single comment since 4 or 5 days ago.

i had a ton of coins left from being awarded a ton like 2 yrs ago, so i spent them on awards to make protest posts stand out ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Yeah, I noticed a lot of people on posts like this saying they were giving out all of the awards they've saved up over time before deleting their Reddit accounts. I don't think this is all brain dead people paying the company they're boycotting. They're using the awards they have left to bring attention to the protest. I had a bunch of awards to give out from when someone randomly gave me gold but I never gave Reddit any money.

"Screw you we're not changing anything. Get back in line. EDIT: Thanks for the reddit gold, kind strangers!"

I know what you mean I got my most popular post gilded which gave me a month of reddit premium which is longer than what I will be sticking around for. Not sure if it was a random user or an admin thinking getting free premium would be enough to make people stop protesting.

Who is "chief"? Is it a colloquialism or an actual person?

@huskola "Chief" is just the hypothetical person the title is being said to. It's kind of a meme-y way of talking. Here's a page with more info: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/ima-keep-it-real-with-u-chief
- Thanks for the answer! As I age I try to keep up with things but may have to relent to just maintaining status quo.

This is why I left Reddit. I’d happily have paid a premium to never see that stupid nft garbage again.