Wow, spez is taking on The Verge now? He thinks he’s a lot bigger deal than he really is…
Pride comes before a fall they say.
[sees that Pride month ends June 30th]
GASP!
I hear fall starts for most of the northern hemisphere within just a few months of that
The man speaking in this clip is Nilay Patel. Hes the Editor in Chief at The Verge.
He also used to be a lawyer before moving to journalism full time. So he knows Bullshit when he sees it.
I used to think that The Verge were just a bunch of Apple zealots who couldn’t even do a pc build video properly. They’ve come along way since then. Reddit would be absolutely insane to try and take on something like The Verge.
Side note , Nilay also has a podcast called Decoder where he interviews the heads of companies to get an idea of how they run and what their goals are. Its a pretty good show and I reccomend it. The one where Nilay takes on the head of Substack was hilarious
The hit piece Nilay did on Elon was fucking savage and one of the best things I’ve ever read on that site
A transcript for those who prefer to read. (using flixier so forgive the lack of speaker indication and the few corrections I made.)
Transcription:
[redd]it is very unhappy that people are talking to us.
They have decided that their official position is that they will wait for us to make mistakes and then issue corrections in order to discredit our journalism.
That’s straight up what they’re doing.
I know this is what they’re doing because we have a statement because they told us.
They told us Tim Rami, who runs coms at Reddit. This is the blanket statement will no longer comment on hearsay.
Unsubstantiated claims or baseless accusations from the verge will be in touch as corrections are needed.
Oh, my God.
I’ve been playing this game a long time.
We’ll wait for you to make a mistake.
So then we can correct you and say your reporting was wrong is the oldest trick in the book and we are just not gonna fall for it.
So we’re just gonna print this statement in every story from here on out, like that’s the way it’s gonna go.
If they want us to get it right they can… They can tell us what is actually happening, but I will come back to we’re gonna take the people on the ground.
We’re gonna take the users.
We’re gonna take the moderators.
We’re gonna take the employees every time.
And if you think they’re wrong, you can tell us and you can explain why they’re wrong.
But we’re not gonna stop because you’ve you’re running like a 1920 press playbook.
Like whatever.
Like I’m we’re just gonna burn you every time and that it’s that attitude.
It’s this aggressive posture where people are worried and they’re coming to reporters and saying,
Here are our worries.
Here’s the communication we have received that makes us feel threatened.
And Reddit’s response is Shut up.
That’s what breaks your community.
The Verge has been covering the shit out of the Reddit death spiral and I’m so here for it. Good for them.
Don’t understand how people can still use Reddit and ignore all the ickiness.
