Reddit r/pics votes on reopening with sexy pictures of John Oliver only
Reddit r/pics votes on reopening with sexy pictures of John Oliver only
Hello, /r/Pics subscribers! Boy, what a whacky time we've all had lately, huh? Reddit decided to kill off third-party applications, a protest got...
Can confirm only sexy Oliver photos
I’m curious how this works
Step 1. Find any picture of John Oliver
Step 2. Resist the urge to think about sexy John Oliver
Step 3. Karma
John Oliver poses for sexy pics then they get posted on /r/pics I'd wager
Can also confirm, I posted a few of them myself
I find it Fucking hilarious. Especially the "community of 30 million John Oliver enthusiasts" LMAO. I was really depressed when this all started, I will really miss Reddit Sync, but the fediverse seems like the beginnings of a better reddit to me and the drama has some bright spots like the above lol. Wonderful!
If there is one last glorious memory I'll take away from reddit, I can live with it being this one.
This is a naked appeal to have John Oliver cover the Reddit drama on Last Week Tonight once the writers' strike is over, and I am here for it.
Here are a couple of my favourite pictures displayed there currently, so you don't have to go back to that dumpster fire of a site:
I'm torn, on one hand this is hilarious and if they didn't do this the admins would just change the moderators to someone who would run it. On the other hand, Reddit got what it wanted: the sub has reopened, posts are flowing, ads are being served and Reddit is making money.
i honestly doubt that the traffic R/pics had before this change will stay.
this is the best way honestly even better than restricted it will effectively hurt the traffic while they ( officially ) cant be dicks i mean they still can but you know.
They will see a spike in revenue but people will get bored and stop caring about the sub after a while
They're following, but they're not gonna doom scroll that.
All subs should do something like this...Reddit want the mods back or they get removed. So bring the subs back but change the sub rules to be insane shit like this. Comply to Reddit's rules but with your own rules.
i was thinking r/cats should post sexy pics of john oliver, but with their cats photoshopped into the image
i heard r/GIFs is also doing this john oliver thing, although i haven't checked
I imagine they'll still get pulled as mods, but at least it'll be good for a laugh rather than a groan.
Small example, one niche sub I loved was r/retroAR. It's where people share old AR15s or clones of old AR15s. They had pretty strict definition of what considered "retro", a fixed carry handle being a main part if it. In protest they are allowing non-carry handle posts and there was some wacky builds being posted.
r/Steam changed from the gaming platform to literall pictures of steam powered Things.
https://twitter.com/iamjohnoliver/status/1670179738348933120?s=20
John Oliver @iamjohnoliver Dear Reddit, excellent work. Attn: r/pics- have at it...
On the one hand, blue checkmark instead of gold. On the other, account created in 2011. 🤷♂️
Amazing!
Am I allowed to go back to reddit and post AI generated of sexy John Oliver?
you have to do what you feel is right in your heart (or in this case, pants).
Easy, that's any picture of John Oliver
Truly hilarious thing to do.
That post by the mods on r/pics is hilarious.
It's a funny protest, but it kinda goes against the spirit of the API boycott.
I'll give it a week before Reddit goes back to normal. Spez is probably going to do some overtime and start forcefully deposing moderators.
And as we saw with /r/worldnews, /r/leagueoflegends and pretty much any other subreddit that refused to even acknowledge the initial blackout, there are power users that are more than willing to lick Spez's boots.
yeah, it's funny but at the end of the day all reddit cares about are their pageviews, engagement, and active daily users. They don't care whether people are posting "real" pics or john oliver pics, as long as they're posting
