Ohhh that’s clever! Surely there’s been enough publicity for HBO writers to notice, and that’s perfect fuel for getting Johnny to bring this to mainstream.
Agree, it is clever and John Oliver is very sexy.
He’s a dreamboat-y mcboatface.
He’s like if Toucan Sam was sexy.
It’s just the kind of stunt that he would respond to.
I’ve no doubt that his writers read Reddit.
Yeah but aren’t they still on strike?
This is exactly the kind of tactic that’s needed now. If Reddit wants to end the blackout by force, then what else is there to do but make them regret it?
We did it, Reddit!
Oh wait.
Found the new face for the sub
Incredible. I can’t believe that’s actually how the vote played out.
I noted right away they did the poll via upvoting, not via Reddit poll. This means that 3rd party apps could participate. Wonder if it has something to do with it.
The framing of “Go back to normal” or “Only sexy pictures of John Oliver” was clever. Lots of people are going to pick the funny option over the boring one in basically any low stakes poll, so even people who don’t care much about the protest probably still voted for it.
There’s also a lot more motivation for the people who are pissed about Reddit’s changes vs. the people who just want their infinite feed of content back to its former state.
I bet similar scenarios play out with spez’s whole “moderator democracy” idea.
Shouldn’t the fediverse have a Community for sexy John Oliver pictures?
Every Community is for sexy John Oliver pictures or I don’t want to be a part of said Community
Limited to sexy pictures of John Oliver. Only the very best
Counterpoint: All pictures of John Oliver are sexy.
Gee, I wonder if there was a good reason reddit wasn’t run by popular vote to begin with?
Remind me of good ol fashioned Boaty.
That’s almost enough to make me want to go on reddit again
There’s a magazine on kbin.social, BotIt, with people who just started work on a bot to begin mirroring submissions on Reddit subs to kbin magazines. I suspect that before all that much time has passed, you may be able to get the full John Oliver experience without leaving the comfort of the Fediverse.
I really hope someone gets this in front of John Oliver and he makes a segment on it. It would be hilarious to watch 😂
Following this trend, I would love to see r/superbowl turn into just photos of John Owliver.
mmm that’s cool, but that could create a new niche community like r/worldnews ( it’s about hentai ), what would be perfect was if every subreddit did the same creating a lack of diversity and driving users away.
Edit: Looks like r/gifs joined as well lol
c/animetitties?
