I’d love to see Reddit continue to descend into chaos.
Man, when this writer’s strike ends i cant wait to see John Oliver talk about this.
the look on his face when the thirst of the comments and post titles sets in.
Man that most evoke all of the emotions. Weirded out, happy, flattered, confused, dumbfounded, …
I’d be shocked if he didn’t already know.
He posted about it and gave a few pics too on a Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/iamjohnoliver/status/1670179738348933120
Funny thing is, it always felt like Pics was unmoderated because of all the stupid pics they would allow on there. This move also inadvertently kills the subreddit different_sob_story lol
Reddit site admins have removed Pics from r/all. It has posts with nearly 5 times the karma of the top posts currently on /all but you can’t see them.
I’m reading the subreddit posts in his voice, and I can’t stop laughing even harder lol. This is gold.
Okay it’s fun, Reddit won’t be able to remove them since a vote was held, but what impact will featuring only pics of John Oliver have on Reddit’s bottom line? This achieves nothing and the pics have already tens of thousands of upvotes, meaning the engagement and traffic are back.
The admins have shown that they are not going to flinch so easily. If mods shut down subreddits then the admins are simply going to reassign the subreddits to more compliant mods and reopen them, and Reddit will resume operation. To casual Redditors, it will appear that the site is ‘back to normal’ and the interruption to their endless-scrolling-dopamine-hit is over.
The r/pics and r/gifs mods see that this is going to be a long game, so they’ve gone for malicious compliance. The message of dissent will continue WITHIN Reddit’s walls, and the awareness campaign will continue.
The final battle will begin at the end of this month when the API is restricted and 3rd-party apps stop working. The awareness campaign will drastically redirect the casual Redditors ’ anger/outrage that their favorite app no longer works from the apps’ creator (“my stupid Apollo app stopped working”) directly to spez.
It appears that spez thinks that Redditors will smoothly switch to the official reddit app… but I think that he drastically underestimates how resistant people are to change of any kind. It will be interesting to watch things unravel. Hopefully, this will be epic, but I suspect that it’ll be more game-of-thrones.
