“All posts must be images of John Oliver looking sexy.”

39 points

As I write this, the top post in the “hot” tab on r/pics is a picture of Oliver flipping the double bird next to an image of Huffman. On r/gifs, it’s a GIF of Oliver hitting a table and saying “go fuck yourself” next to an image of the Reddit logo.

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37 points

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

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13 points

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.

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8 points

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.

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7 points

I love this! I have a tiny sub but I’m doing this!!!

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8 points

I closed my tiny subs. Reddit won’t be able to find mods for them all.

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5 points

Nitter link, for those who would rather avoid Twitter:

https://nitter.net/iamjohnoliver/status/1670179738348933120

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Hmm. Probably could benefit from a bot to auto-post those in response to Twitter links. Human time being valuable and all that.

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38 points

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.

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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.

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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.

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8 points

Yeah, in times like this I feel like the old wacky internet is still kicking and it fills me with joy

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3 points

we did it reddit kbin

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1 point

“And the Lord God said, ‘Let there be internet,’ and there was pwnage. And it was good.”

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21 points

The article mentions r/pics and r/gifs. For what I know r/art is also doing this.

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43 points

R/steam was forced to reopen and is only posting about literal steam, as in the stuff from boiling water. It’s fantastic.

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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”

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14 points

This is hilarious, and actually a great response to the forced reopening

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10 points

Oh I love that!!! This shit is cracking me up

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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.

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Kinda bummed r/onlyfans can’t join. We were already about fans. I don’t wanna see what r/CemeteryPorn cooks up, but I suppose spez might. We can get some photoshopped pics of the crypt keeper in there

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If only r/Steamdeck was only content about people power washing their decks.

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