Reddit seems to be fully aware what users are likely to do in the current climate. Do they think people who aren’t angry will be louder than everyone else, do they have a plan for protests, or are they just letting the chips fall?
By the way, this announcement helped me solve where the ugly pixelated Reddit app logo is from: you can see it in Reddit’s r/Place announcement video. For some reason, that video also includes pixelated images of a fire in a garbage can.
Brutal.
Probably their line of thinking is that it doesn’t really matter where the chips fall as long as the chips can be cashed in. If they can make ad money on protest traffic then so be it. (I’m not fully convinced that this is the case (that protest traffic brings in ads revenue), but who knows.)
Maybe they just want another safe sub. At least they know that r/Place won’t go NSFW or go private in protest.
People should just put sexual stuff on R/Place to make it as advertiser unfriendly as possible
The whole point of r/Place was to happen only so occasionally. I really got hyped for the second one, because I was too late for the first one. It happening every year would kill the hype for me. So thanks, I’ll pass and stay logged out.
What a stark difference between last year and this year. Last year there was the outpouring of support for Ukraine. This year it will be a “fuck u/spez” shit show.
It seems most people there are on board with making a giant “fuck u/spez” in the center of the canvas. It’s not like reddit easily forgets, even if we don’t really do anything about it.
