That’s absolutely hilarious, but not surprising. These types of people are just absolutely blind to the people around them, and only see everyone else as “beneath them”.
I’m not a super big believer of karma in terms of it being this cosmic force that intermingles with all of our lives… However, I do think karma exists in the manner of people who you affect through an action of yours will remember what you’ve done, and that will shape their interactions with you (in this case, “you” being Reddit as a platform) in the future. It may not be today, it may not be tomorrow - but eventually Spez/Reddit inc will get what is coming to them, in the form of their platform dying. There are very few things in this world that are completely irreplaceable, and by that same token very few businesses are “too large to fall”. Reddit is not one of those.
They’ve pissed off a great deal of the tech folks, next they’ll piss off the the porn folks (I have no doubt Reddit will eventually get rid of NSFW content for their IPO)… I’d posit those two are Reddit’s biggest content generators. Even if Reddit’s “largest content” isn’t directly tech or porn related (which I’d argue is near the top, but I don’t have statistics on hand to back that up) no doubt the other content is generated by the people who are in those categories (or in other words, no one only uses Reddit to visit r/memes - however, the folks from r/yourfavoritensfwsub and r/technology will visit it because its on the same site if that makes sense).
One of Reddit’s biggest strengths was that it was an “anonymous” social network, and I think that’ll be its biggest curse. With Facebook, plenty of people are there because their friends and family are there. This doesn’t apply to Reddit, people are only there because that is where content they like to consume is at… however if people can’t access the content the way they want, or the content just isn’t there, then there is nothing to keep them there. Sure, there are usernames I’ve come to remember seeing in the 12 years that I’ve been on Reddit, but if I never saw them ever again I wouldn’t really lose any sleep over it…
What goes around comes around, or as I like even better “Never bet against the house. The house always wins”.
That’s absolutely hilarious, but not surprising. These types of people are just absolutely blind to the people around them, and only see everyone else as “beneath them”.
I’m not a super big believer of karma in terms of it being this cosmic force that intermingles with all of our lives… However, I do think karma exists in the manner of people who you affect through an action of yours will remember what you’ve done, and that will shape their interactions with you (in this case, “you” being Reddit as a platform) in the future. It may not be today, it may not be tomorrow - but eventually Spez/Reddit inc will get what is coming to them, in the form of their platform dying. There are very few things in this world that are completely irreplaceable, and by that same token very few businesses are “too large to fall”. Reddit is not one of those.
They’ve pissed off a great deal of the tech folks, next they’ll piss off the the porn folks (I have no doubt Reddit will eventually get rid of NSFW content for their IPO)… I’d posit those two are Reddit’s biggest content generators. Even if Reddit’s “largest content” isn’t directly tech or porn related (which I’d argue is near the top, but I don’t have statistics on hand to back that up) no doubt the other content is generated by the people who are in those categories (or in other words, no one only uses Reddit to visit r/memes - however, the folks from r/yourfavoritensfwsub and r/technology will visit it because its on the same site if that makes sense).
One of Reddit’s biggest strengths was that it was an “anonymous” social network, and I think that’ll be its biggest curse. With Facebook, plenty of people are there because their friends and family are there. This doesn’t apply to Reddit, people are only there because that is where content they like to consume is at… however if people can’t access the content the way they want, or the content just isn’t there, then there is nothing to keep them there. Sure, there are usernames I’ve come to remember seeing in the 12 years that I’ve been on Reddit, but if I never saw them ever again I wouldn’t really lose any sleep over it…
What goes around comes around, or as I like even better “Never bet against the house. The house always wins”.