I just love how pervasive the hate is. Like, you know you fucked up when something like this can coalesce and unify around a single message.
Really says something.
I just love how pervasive the hate
The opposite of love isn’t hate. It’s indifference.
Another fun thing is that at 0,0 in the center of the canvas it said “Never forget what they stole from you r/save3rdpartyapps” and later had a join-lemmy.org banner above it. We also had a few other places for the join-lemmy banner but that was the final location, and a big thanks to the Black Company discord server for helping with that.
A Reddit spokesperson declined to comment about this year’s edition of r/Place, telling Polygon via email “redditors are going to reddit.”
Honestly, that’s probably the best response he could’ve given.
“Redditors went to Reddit to tell Reddit to fuck off” would be the more accurate statement. The engagement they’re touting is like your ex getting your “Dear John” letter and gushing about how much you really care because you took the time to say goodbye.
I can’t believe they would expect anything else. It was way too soon for an event like this.
Giving the site massive amounts of traffic in attempt to crowdsource a another 100x30 pixel “Fuck Spez” banner. Spez must be getting pads on his back for this.
A burst of traffic doesn’t mean much if it doesn’t stay. It’s a safe assumption that most people participating in “fuck spez” already had an account, so they aren’t getting many new users from this.
most people participating in “fuck spez” already had an account, so they aren’t getting many new users from this.
Why would a person even become a new user just to shit on spez, they have no stake in the drama anyway? I still have an account but I have lessened my usage to a fraction. I don’t go to R/place to “protest”, nor do I make bot accounts or alts to spam the place.
The thing is, most of the accounts participating this year were bots made specifically for this. Yes it’s a burst of traffic, but it’s a burst of traffic that will drop off a cliff as soon as it’s over.
The botting was so bad this year that a small community or a single person couldn’t do anything, I tried to mess around with an 8 pixel space and as soon as I put a pixel down, it was undone.
The Germans had something like 50k or more bots set up for this. That’s why there were so many German flags everywhere.
I imagine if it keeps Reddit in the news, so they can more credibly talk up that upcoming IPO, they are happy to let as many users as they want badmouth the guy in charge.
All of those protesters that went to Reddit for the last week to engage, generate ad revenue, and ultimately benefit Reddit, really showed them. Idiots.
Yes because if I’m an investor I see an uptick in engagement and don’t ask a single question about it. I invest blindly based solely on numbers not on news articles blatantly posting issues with the CEO. I DEFINITELY want to invest in a company that. A.) Has a CEO who is mired in controversy B.) Has communities dedicated to taking engagement away. C.) Has an uptick in use once a year for this event, which is undermining the companies ability for engagement longterm.
People still invest in Tesla even though Musk is at helm.
Personally, I didn’t engage because I felt to “nothing” them during their big event was more worthwhile and also contributed to lessening my overall Reddit visits. Ultimately, however, numbers are what speak to investors.
Wow guys here’s a great idea let’s go on this app we said we were done using and fill it with traffic so that the CEO can say people are still using it so their changes had a minimal effect.
Come on people, the same thing happened when Musk took over Twitter. Stop using the fucking app if you don’t like it, Spez doesn’t give a fuck if you send him hate, because you’re lining his pockets in the process.
Look at it this way, if someone went up to you, handed you a dollar and told you to fuck off, would you care? Of course not! You’d take the dollar and fuck off!
Really glad to see it
