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Two of the biggest Reddit communities reopened in the funniest way possible (www.theverge.com)

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

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[–] crowsby@kbin.social 46 points 1 year ago

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.

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.

[–] demvoter@kbin.social 44 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] spriteblood@kbin.social 43 points 1 year ago (4 children)

As I write this, John Oliver's Twitter is posting a bunch of pics of himself telling /r/pics to "have at it"

https://twitter.com/iamjohnoliver/status/1670179738348933120

[–] IncognitoWolf@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago

we can rest assured that John Oliver is collecting all the sexy pics people photoshop/post and is going to put together a Last Week Tonight episode on this, once the strike is over.

[–] thatdukeluke@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

John Oliver always likes to stick it to the big guy in the fight which I find hilarious, I wish Last Week Tonight was on the air so we could hear his takes.

[–] v13@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I love this! I have a tiny sub but I'm doing this!!!!

[–] Bipta@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I closed my tiny subs. Reddit won't be able to find mods for them all.

[–] v13@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I had closed mine too, but the Oliver thing seems too good to pass up. Once a day, every day I will post John Oliver pic. Just to be snotty.

[–] ono@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nitter link, for those who would rather avoid Twitter:

https://nitter.net/iamjohnoliver/status/1670179738348933120

[–] tal@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hmm. Probably could benefit from a bot to auto-post those in response to Twitter links. Human time being valuable and all that.

[–] Sebastrion@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

People could use this Browser addon https://libredirect.github.io/ it also works on mobile if you use firefox/fennec

[–] bamboo 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Until the API changes at the end of the month.

[–] tal@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Oh, no, I mean a bot here in the Fediverse, rather than on Reddit.

[–] flybynightpotato@kbin.social 40 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

[–] el-sapo@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago

Yeah, in times like this I feel like the old wacky internet is still kicking and it fills me with joy

[–] metaStatic@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

we did it ~~reddit~~ kbin

[–] explodingkitchen@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

"And the Lord God said, 'Let there be internet,' and there was pwnage. And it was good."

[–] CuriousALot@kbin.social 21 points 1 year ago

The article mentions r/pics and r/gifs. For what I know r/art is also doing this.

[–] metaStatic@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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

[–] rokejulianlockhart@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

That would have been perfect. Only ASCII art of sexy John Oliver.

[–] tal@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[–] Katharta@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago

Maybe this isn't the darkest timeline after all.

[–] Senseibu@feddit.uk 6 points 1 year ago

John Oliver approves!

https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/17/23764803/john-oliver-approves-of-all-the-john-oliver-posts-on-reddit

[–] NotTheOnlyGamer@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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.

[–] oliver@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] RoboRay@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[–] explodingkitchen@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

push Reddit closer to the brink.

That's the point.

[–] explodingkitchen@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm imagining r/fanfiction as a subreddit dedicated to fiction about Lady Windermere's Fan.

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