If the goal was to create more work for Reddit's paid employees, annoy Spez, draw more attention to the whole debacle, and motivate more people to try other platforms, then it's been a success.

Personally I find it entertaining, the way any disaster is entertaining from afar.

50 year old female, been playing video games since the Atari 2600. With the SO since 1996.

Methinks OP just needs to meet more women. There is no "cut off age at which video games are no longer an acceptable pastime".

If they aren't making enough money now, they'll just love paying people to keep popular subreddits up.

I'm on here, Lemmy, Squabbles, and Fark. Fark doesn't seem to be getting much traction though.