“All posts must be images of John Oliver looking sexy.”
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.
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
Nitter link, for those who would rather avoid Twitter:
Hmm. Probably could benefit from a bot to auto-post those in response to Twitter links. Human time being valuable and all that.
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.
John Oliver looking sexy
because it’s impossible to find anything else
I feel like it would have been funnier to open in text only mode too
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
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.
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.
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.
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.