I’m, honestly, not surprised. It’s like, what were they expect?
They expected to show a large influx of visits when they create an event. They will show user counts and to the result to their investors. It’s all calculated and we’re all falling for it.
People that keep making this dumbass “engagement” claim have no goddamn idea what they’re talking about. Nobody is falling for jack shit. The “engagement” of people going on to place to troll is miniscule. Like you said, half of us aren’t looking at this on Reddit. It’s being broadcast everywhere else and the tech outlets that an investor will see are reading about how much the user base fucking hates the product.
I mean I do analytics on site engagement metrics professionally, like as my job that pays me money, and based on that and past instances of r/place, I can make an educated guess that:
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They were desperate to improve July usage numbers because projections were looking shitty after the events of the past month.
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r/place has traditionally been a good way to juice engagement numbers
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They pulled a lever they knew would generate the results they needed
Is it temporary? Sure. But this buys them some time and August’s numbers are August’s problem.
Here’s are the stats from a previous instance of r/place:
Social platform Reddit re-introduced its collaborative social experiment r/Place on April 1, leading to the highest daily active users (DAUs) its mobile app has ever seen
So yeah, they’ll get the juice they need, probably, but the fact that they were compelled to even need to pull that lever says a lot, imo.
Surely any decent investment means they research the company. That’d be stupid business decisions. Although, Investors are immoral.
Investors are immoral. And they research the company but they don’t necessarily tour the whole thing. If they research the numbers. Then they see this. Now the whole gate is towards Spez. I bet we will soon see an announcement where he steps down (with a bonus) and the investors can be reassured that it’s all good. Plus they get huge visit numbers.
Earlier on the French flag they had constructed a massive guillotine that was coming down on a Snoo’s head with Spez wrote on its face.
Then you started seeing large blobs being put over it where admins/mods were trying to blot it out.
I’m pretty sure it’s not just the mods/admins.
Some kind of void creature was forming earlier and it got whited out by a bot army.
I won’t link it because it’s a reddit link. But there’s damning footage of large pixel circles of white or random colors spreading at the same instant, in a way that wouldn’t be possible by regular users. And these pixels don’t have an attached username, it’s like the canvas has been totally reset. Bots would show a new username.
I’m actually proud of people for this
…and they all logged in to make it happen…
My baconreader icon opens Lemmy. That’s how you actually say fuck spez.
Dumbasses
How did you make that work? I’d love to keep opening baconreader, if only superficially… It’s been 11 years.
I put the icon for one of the Lemmy apps (don’t recall which I went with actually, tried all I could find and chose a fave) on my phones quick bar, and then edited the icon and replaced it with the bacon icon :)
It’s the same icon I’ve had for a decade, in the same place it’s always been, it just opens a different app now.
Happy to see everyone working together.
Also, Bluey.
Love the Bluey advert. Disturbed it’s beside galactic space dicks or whatever that is lol.
It’s Deep Rock Galactic, which is actually a really solid game. People just keep turning it into “Deep Cock Galactic” lmao
I’d be curious to know your experience with that game. Me and some friends have been playing it and the grind is just insane, to the point that I can’t really enjoy it because progress feels so glacial. Whenever people speak positively about it I feel like I must be missing something.
