Blake

All right.

All right, so for those of you who have a life, what Reddit is, Reddit is an online discussion forum, and it has things called subreddits on it that are on an infinite number of topics. So there's ones on the NFL, there's ones on cooking, there's ones on every video game ever made, all that sort of stuff.

All right, so for those of you who have a life, what Reddit is, Reddit is an online discussion forum, and it has things called subreddits on it that are on an infinite number of topics. So there's ones on the NFL, there's ones on cooking, there's ones on every video game ever made, all that sort of stuff.

But there's one called Fed News, and it's basically news and discussion for people who are employees of the federal government. And if you're not on Reddit, you're blissfully unaware of this, but there's kind of a stereotype of Redditors as a class. Redditors is what they call themselves, people on Reddit, that they're the people who are the most unironic, True believer.

But there's one called Fed News, and it's basically news and discussion for people who are employees of the federal government. And if you're not on Reddit, you're blissfully unaware of this, but there's kind of a stereotype of Redditors as a class. Redditors is what they call themselves, people on Reddit, that they're the people who are the most unironic, True believer.

Like the word NPC was created to describe the median Redditor. They get like the latest propaganda narratives downloaded into their brain. They're like very they're always freaking out about everything, like every bad thing that Trump Hitler has done. All of that.

Like the word NPC was created to describe the median Redditor. They get like the latest propaganda narratives downloaded into their brain. They're like very they're always freaking out about everything, like every bad thing that Trump Hitler has done. All of that.

Just every bad stereotype you could think of for them is like a kind of dim, but very earnest liberal would apply to the media and Redditor. And they did things. I remember this is a great one. I'll confess. I would post on the on the subreddit for the NFL. And in 2021, players were getting like we're missing games because they weren't getting vaccinated and they made it. You got banned for life.

Just every bad stereotype you could think of for them is like a kind of dim, but very earnest liberal would apply to the media and Redditor. And they did things. I remember this is a great one. I'll confess. I would post on the on the subreddit for the NFL. And in 2021, players were getting like we're missing games because they weren't getting vaccinated and they made it. You got banned for life.

From the NFL subreddit, if you questioned the need to mandate the vaccine.

From the NFL subreddit, if you questioned the need to mandate the vaccine.

I'll just answer Charlie's question quick. So it was like that. So Reddit was one of those ones. You might remember.

I'll just answer Charlie's question quick. So it was like that. So Reddit was one of those ones. You might remember.

it's so recent really like 15 years ago the left was very radically pro-free speech especially in tech so you had totally unmoderated twitter and you had reddit was in its early days totally it was all user moderated so if you created a subreddit the mods of that subreddit could set whatever rules they wanted and reddit's position was any basically anything goes we you can do your own thing

it's so recent really like 15 years ago the left was very radically pro-free speech especially in tech so you had totally unmoderated twitter and you had reddit was in its early days totally it was all user moderated so if you created a subreddit the mods of that subreddit could set whatever rules they wanted and reddit's position was any basically anything goes we you can do your own thing

So there were basically, I'll be blunt, there were, like, hate subreddits. So you would have a subreddit that would, like, literally just have the N-word in it. And that was allowed on Reddit back in the day. And then what killed this, it's extremely funny what killed it. There was an extremely popular subreddit, like, with thousands and thousands of people on it that was called Fat People Hate.

So there were basically, I'll be blunt, there were, like, hate subreddits. So you would have a subreddit that would, like, literally just have the N-word in it. And that was allowed on Reddit back in the day. And then what killed this, it's extremely funny what killed it. There was an extremely popular subreddit, like, with thousands and thousands of people on it that was called Fat People Hate.

And they would post hatred of fat people and talk about all the fatties that they saw and all the problems they did and just relentless bashing. And this is what broke it because all the hate ones had been like obscure ones that no one was on. But this was one of the most popular pages on the site was bashing fat people. And if you were to look at it today, it would feel so much.

And they would post hatred of fat people and talk about all the fatties that they saw and all the problems they did and just relentless bashing. And this is what broke it because all the hate ones had been like obscure ones that no one was on. But this was one of the most popular pages on the site was bashing fat people. And if you were to look at it today, it would feel so much.

It was like a very early wave of what you'd call like the anti-woke backlash of like, All the fat acceptance stuff, they were just calling that all BS. We can say what's really going on here. All of that. Anyway, people freaked out and it got so bad. They like fired their CEO and brought in a new CEO and she banned fat people hate.