“All posts must be images of John Oliver looking sexy.”
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
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.
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.
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
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.
Nitter link, for those who would rather avoid Twitter:
Hmm. Probably could benefit from a bot to auto-post those in response to Twitter links. Human time being valuable and all that.
People could use this Browser addon https://libredirect.github.io/ it also works on mobile if you use firefox/fennec
Until the API changes at the end of the month.
Oh, no, I mean a bot here in the Fediverse, rather than on Reddit.
I love this! I have a tiny sub but I’m doing this!!!
I closed my tiny subs. Reddit won’t be able to find mods for them all.
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.
