Screenshot included so you do not have to browse to it. Literally. I’m not even joking. The entire subreddit is 2 days old (founded immediately after the AMA) and populated+moderated exclusively by accounts less than 6 months old following standard generic name schemes and posting comments that reek of chatGPT generated responses.

This is the most hilarious, saddest, most obviously transparent attempt at propaganda astroturfing I have ever seen.

Spez. Get a bloody life, my dude.

  • zekiz
    553·
    2 years ago

    I just looked at their pinned post and it’s 100% satire and if you think otherwise you’ve never been on satire sub before

    What’s Not True

    1. Mr. Huffman has never lied or been dishonest. He has been 100% forward throughout this whole process.

    2. That apps “can’t afford” to pay the reasonable fees Mr. Huffman is requesting. Many of them are embroiled in inefficiency, and even the highest cited api costs on their part have still been well within reason.

    3. Mr. Huffman’s actions won’t “kill” reddit. In fact, the changes he id making are necessary to ensure that reddit continues to thrive.

    For all these reasons and many more, we at /r/FriendsofSpez #standwithhuffman, and you should too!

    • gapbetweenus@feddit.de
      25·
      2 years ago

      Illustrates well problem with satire and how subs like pcm become what they are. Some people don’t get satire.

      • zekiz
        1·
        2 years ago

        Yes, there are also people getting triggered by r/BanVideoGames where people say that they’re posting from the Hubble Teloscope and that kys is short for keep yourself safe and lol stands for lots of love and so on.

        Theres also a subreddit dedicated to people getting obvious satire (mostly by the onion)

        Even when it’s suuuper obvious there are always people who don’t get it.

        Well now to be fair there also are a lot of headlines that sound like satire but are actually true.

    • slaacaa@lemmy.world
      81·
      2 years ago

      To be honest, in this day and age it’s hard to tell. Whatever happens, there are always enlighted contrarians willing to stand with a stupid opinion

  • bigbox
    32·
    2 years ago

    Obvious satire, and pretty funny as well

  • Rega
    31·
    2 years ago

    Sub looks like a satire. I refuse to believe this people are legit

    • empireOfLove@lemmy.oneOP
      74·
      2 years ago

      ah, no. Read some of the comments in the sub, I tried talking to a few, they are very much not parody.

      • quzyp@feddit.de
        13·
        2 years ago

        Look at numbers 4., 9. and 11. in your screenshot. Those are obvious jokes.

        Keep in mind that some people are really dedicated to their parodies, just look at the circlejerk subs.

      • gapbetweenus@feddit.de
        112·
        2 years ago

        What a way to discover you don’t get satire - but that might be more common than we think.

      • Rega
        31·
        2 years ago

        Just like how /r/LoveForLandchads isn’t a parody… The whole point of a parody is that they stick with the joke.

      • Flukemaster
        1·
        2 years ago

        If this isn’t satire I will unhinge my jaw and eat my own head

      • zekiz
        21·
        2 years ago

        It wouldn’t be a good satire sub when they would break their role.

        Also: sorry to bring it to you this way but r/BanVideoGames is satire too. The people there don’t actually believe that they’re on Facebook and are writing comments with the macrowave oven on the ISS

    • empireOfLove@lemmy.oneOP
      8·
      2 years ago

      You joke, but Spez has been petty enough in the past to actively edit away comments that called him out from within the database itself. This is only the next natural extension and I would NOT put it past him.

    • zekiz
      31·
      2 years ago

      This 100% is a joke sub. Everyone who believes this is real has never been to a real satire sub like r/LoveForLandlords or r/BanVideoGames

    • masterX244@discuss.tchncs.de
      1·
      2 years ago

      Missing reply, can’t reply to it. Depending on how long he waits before messing with the DB it might be archived already. usually its captured after a few minutes. Once it survived a few hours its 99% guaranteed that its freezed into the wayback machine

  • misterhuh
    8·
    2 years ago

    If that’s true, it’s one of the saddest most pathetic display of narcissistic behavior I’ve ever seen.

        • CmdrShepard@lemmy.one
          1·
          2 years ago

          I still have mine saved too just incase someone with a time machine goes back and corrects the timeline. /r/OpenSignups was good if you want to get into private trackers but with the whole reddit thing going on that might not be a viable option…

  • Nymphioxetine@beehaw.org
    4·
    2 years ago

    I’m with @LinkOpensChest.wav

    This just has to be some kind of shitposting troll. No way Spez is not self-aware enough to do this

  • XLRV
    3·
    2 years ago

    I hope this is ironic, it would be really sad otherwise.

  • Sousa@lemmy.world
    3·
    2 years ago

    It wouldn’t surprise me, I hope he enjoys Reddit by himself with all his other 105 friends of spez.

  • Cralex@lemmy.one
    3·
    2 years ago

    What the actual heck?! I can’t vouch for who’s behind it, but this is real and it’s weeeeird!

    • Cralex@lemmy.oneEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      Not only does the place act like a delusional bot posting spree, but it’s seriously toxic over there.

  • Copio
    3·
    2 years ago

    I went there because I saw on the screenshot someone wants old.reddit removed, the whole place is so depressing made by a sad lonely man.