You fools it’s supposed to contain them, now they are on the loose.
Makes sense, I thought it was about goons (crime) or gooning (evil goon voice “what up, boss?”, “Yes boss”).
“The Web brings people together because no matter what kind of a twisted sexual mutant you happen to be, you’ve got millions of pals out there. Type in 'Find people that have sex with goats that are on fire’and the computer will say, ‘Specify type of goat.’”
- Richard Jeni, 1998
I had to websearch the term to know what they were talking about. Pfft, internet oddities.
Case in point. At least some side is lying here; either the people from r/gooncaves or the Reddit administration. And given their modus operandi I’m placing my bets on the admins lying.
Frankly, at this rate someone might end suing Reddit for libel in those ban messages. I think that it deserves it.
I just love that you found out what gooners were today and they seem more trustworthy than reddit admins
arranging gooning meetups
What?
“Gooning is a flow state: an extended edging session marked by mindlessness, loss of control, and total surrender,”
I had to stop reading this shit. I can’t believe there’s an article about it. I guess 404 can go ahead and go bankrupt, fuck off.
Edit, to be fair, it was a quote from a Vice article.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the ban was a pretext and the sub was just something admins found objectionable for their own reasons. Like as long as mods remove material and users when an issue is brought to their attention then the sub should be fine.
The fact they don’t know why it happened is telling that they weren’t given a real chance to correct the issue. Just centralised social media things I guess.
I feel like the real reason would be that Reddit suits know that Reddit is stereotyped as a gooner website and don’t want people to think redditors are gooners, which is very wishful thinking as everyone already knows they are some of the biggest gooners out there online.
Being a gooner is a significantly more worthwhile investment of your limited time on this earth than being a reddit admin imho.
My friend’s kids are in high school and their generation looks down on Reddit. They associate it with millennials.
Reddit is notorious to responding to financial incentives. In the past they would ban communities only when they became toxic to advertisers due to overwhelming negative publicity. During those purges, they would often throw in some leftist subs to prevent the user-base political average from shifting leftward, but the purges were never proactive.
I think we’ve entered a new era where Reddit is no longer as concerned about which subs may scare advertisers, and are more concerned about which subs generate the kind of content that is valuable to LLM training. If I were training the next version of ChatGPT, I would be alarmed if a text prompt spontaneously invited me to masturbate with it, or prompts for images of a “battle station” resulted in walls of women having sex.
You read an article about gooning and you’re upset that you’ve now learned what gooning is???
It is sooo Reddit to ban without any explanation. Not like i care about any community over there. Reddit can fuck itself.
