“All posts must be images of John Oliver looking sexy.”

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    As I write this, the top post in the “hot” tab on r/pics is a picture of Oliver flipping the double bird next to an image of Huffman. On r/gifs, it’s a GIF of Oliver hitting a table and saying “go fuck yourself” next to an image of the Reddit logo.

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    Steve Huffman, the Reddit CEO, told NBC News in an interview that a user protest on the site this week is led by a minority of moderators and doesn’t have wide support.

    ok

    r/pics: return to normal, -2,329 votes; “only allow images of John Oliver looking sexy,” 37,331 votes.
    r/gifs: return to normal, -1,851 votes; only feature GIFs of John Oliver, 13,696 votes.

    Having trouble reconciling why these polls are always overwhelmingly in favor of continuing protests when users are apparently opposed to them. Craziest thing.

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    Sometimes I feel like the internet is a huge mistake, but then I see stuff like this and am just all, “bravo, you crazy assholes,” in the proudest, most pleased, way possible.

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    This is a great idea. Not only does it maliciously comply with what Reddit said but it also has the chance of getting a mention on LastWeekTonight when they come back.

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      R/steam was forced to reopen and is only posting about literal steam, as in the stuff from boiling water. It’s fantastic.

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        I had to go look, it’s absolutely amazing. Some guy posted a mock-up of a new Steam controller, and the top response is “I don’t see what this has to do with steam engines”

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        That’s amazing :D

        r/wow is having a vote right now, one of the options is filling the subs with pictures and memes about Denathrius, a villain NPC of the past expansion, I hope that option wins.

        All subs forced to reopen should do something like that.

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          Kinda bummed r/onlyfans can’t join. We were already about fans. I don’t wanna see what r/CemeteryPorn cooks up, but I suppose spez might. We can get some photoshopped pics of the crypt keeper in there

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    R/intrestingasfuck also changed and no longer enforces any rules at all except Reddit site wide rules.

    Think porn is interesting, post it Think John Oliver pics are interesting, post em Interested in videos of static noise, who are the mods to judge

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    John Oliver looking sexy

    because it’s impossible to find anything else

    I feel like it would have been funnier to open in text only mode too

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      As far as I know, /r/pics may not take text, but has no objection to pictures of text.

      $ width=300; curl -o joliver.jpg 'https://img.thedailybeast.com/image/upload/c_crop,d_placeholder_euli9k,h_1687,w_3000,x_0,y_0/dpr_1.5/c_limit,w_3000/fl_lossy,q_auto/v1557998763/190507-stern-oliver-tease_1_fxn7b9' && img2txt -W $width -f ansi joliver.jpg >joliver.txt && ansilove -i -c $(($width + 1)) joliver.txt -o joliver.png
      
      

      https://imgur.com/9Op8f17

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    I’m honestly tired of the trolling. We know that the advertisers and investors aren’t going to reverse course, which means Advance isn’t going to change, and that means Spez is going to keep going. All the trolling does is hurt the users, and push Reddit closer to the brink. Either Reddit will just be closed because it’s not profitable, or there will be a tsunami of bans.

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      We know that the advertisers and investors aren’t going to reverse course, which means Advance isn’t going to change, and that means Spez is going to keep going

      He can do it, let him do it. But why should his members take on the volunteer work of keeping his project running again? Let him set up a paid staff to run the community in an authoritarian manner.

      It’s not our business if his project might be in little trouble.

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      The users are free to leave if they feel they are being hurt by the effects of Reddit’s more-money-at-all-cost policies.

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      The die was cast when Reddit decided to put the 3rd party apps out of business. Doubling down on that is only accelerating the decline. We’ve now reached the point where even if Reddit did some serious backpedaling, it wouldn’t get some of its content creators back.

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        Yep. The majority of Reddit is lurkers. I don’t have any data, but I would bet a higher percentage of content posters and creators were using 3P apps. The fediverse probably poached a lot of good content.

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      We won’t be able to make spez change his mind, that’s pretty obvious, what we CAN do is having reddit evaluation being further cut down.

      That’s the purpose of the trolling, ruining spez’s toy IPO.

      All the trolling does is hurt the users

      The users are overwhelmingly in favor of any kind of protest, their participation in it is massive, they can’t ban them all, they’re dozens of millions.