It's a funny protest, but it kinda goes against the spirit of the API boycott.
I'll give it a week before Reddit goes back to normal. Spez is probably going to do some overtime and start forcefully deposing moderators.
And as we saw with /r/worldnews, /r/leagueoflegends and pretty much any other subreddit that refused to even acknowledge the initial blackout, there are power users that are more than willing to lick Spez's boots.
yeah, it's funny but at the end of the day all reddit cares about are their pageviews, engagement, and active daily users. They don't care whether people are posting "real" pics or john oliver pics, as long as they're posting
https://twitter.com/iamjohnoliver/status/1670179738348933120?s=20
John Oliver @iamjohnoliver Dear Reddit, excellent work. Attn: r/pics- have at it...
On the one hand, blue checkmark instead of gold. On the other, account created in 2011. 🤷♂️
Amazing!
I find it Fucking hilarious. Especially the "community of 30 million John Oliver enthusiasts" LMAO. I was really depressed when this all started, I will really miss Reddit Sync, but the fediverse seems like the beginnings of a better reddit to me and the drama has some bright spots like the above lol. Wonderful!
Can confirm only sexy Oliver photos
I’m curious how this works
Step 1. Find any picture of John Oliver
Step 2. Resist the urge to think about sexy John Oliver
Step 3. Karma
It means the mods at r/pics just dropped a "Please Cover This" sign to the biggest news show in reddit's prime demographic.
It's honestly kind of fucking genius. Much respect.
If they do end up covering it, I hope they mention spez's doomsday-prepper fascism.
When society crumbles, I'll totally be in charge because I'm such a natural leader. I won't be a slave, but some people definitely will be. But not me, because I have motorcycles and guns. I'll be in charge when slavery comes back. This is a normal thing to say.
— spez, least psychopathic tech CEO
It's not just about getting covered, although it definitely helps. Reddit is threatening to remove mods who leave subs private as they see it as abandonment. This way the sub is still basically closed but is technically still being moderated.
NPR covered it on their prime time radio show. It's definitely being covered.
Here are a couple of my favourite pictures displayed there currently, so you don't have to go back to that dumpster fire of a site:
If there is one last glorious memory I'll take away from reddit, I can live with it being this one.
I joined Reddit shortly before Ridiculously Photogenic Runner, and I'll leave Reddit with Ridiculously Photogenic John Oliver. Not bad.
I'm torn, on one hand this is hilarious and if they didn't do this the admins would just change the moderators to someone who would run it. On the other hand, Reddit got what it wanted: the sub has reopened, posts are flowing, ads are being served and Reddit is making money.
i honestly doubt that the traffic R/pics had before this change will stay.
this is the best way honestly even better than restricted it will effectively hurt the traffic while they ( officially ) cant be dicks i mean they still can but you know.
Reddit could put a bot that just cycles through reposts from the last 15 years in the top 50 subs and the front page (and just bot-paste articles on all the news and politics subs) and the FP would be indistinguishable to the average r/all lurker.
They will see a spike in revenue but people will get bored and stop caring about the sub after a while
They're following, but they're not gonna doom scroll that.
All subs should do something like this...Reddit want the mods back or they get removed. So bring the subs back but change the sub rules to be insane shit like this. Comply to Reddit's rules but with your own rules.
This is a naked appeal to have John Oliver cover the Reddit drama on Last Week Tonight once the writers' strike is over, and I am here for it.
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