Spez says the blackout is no big deal and will blow over by Wednesday. Spez also says people are so pissed off they will randomly attack people in the streets wearing Reddit gear. So either people don’t care and everything will be back to normal soon, or people are in a blind rage about the API changes and prone to random acts of violence. Which is it?
Notice Spez doesn’t go so far as to claim there have been any specific threats or incidents of violence. There is no evidence or justification supporting his warning. He is just 100% throwing that in there for the headline. Reddit has gotten bad press all week, Spez thinks pretending to be a victim of the rabid reddit mob (which is simultaneously full of keyboard warriors who will accept defeat by tomorrow) will get him some sympathy in the press. The dude is pathetic.
Just to be fair, and I’m not advocating for that shitbag, it takes a single prick with a brick to smack someone across the head. It’s just numbers game - there’s a lot of people exposed to the situation and not all of them are well in their heads.
I mean have you seen any of those Karen videos? Not a pleasant experience to be on receiving end. So yeah, idk if the leak was intentional (it feels like it) but considering the situation I would have also been cautious if I were a reddit employee.
I don’t think that’s fair in this case. That’s definitely a valid train of thought in the face or receiving online death threats - almost all of these could be assumed to be fake, but it only takes one real one - but here Steve Huffman isn’t referring to any specific threats to reddit staff and is instead just shit stirring.
Spez says the blackout is no big deal and will blow over by Wednesday. Spez also says people are so pissed off they will randomly attack people in the streets wearing Reddit gear. So either people don’t care and everything will be back to normal soon, or people are in a blind rage about the API changes and prone to random acts of violence. Which is it?
Notice Spez doesn’t go so far as to claim there have been any specific threats or incidents of violence. There is no evidence or justification supporting his warning. He is just 100% throwing that in there for the headline. Reddit has gotten bad press all week, Spez thinks pretending to be a victim of the rabid reddit mob (which is simultaneously full of keyboard warriors who will accept defeat by tomorrow) will get him some sympathy in the press. The dude is pathetic.
Just to be fair, and I’m not advocating for that shitbag, it takes a single prick with a brick to smack someone across the head. It’s just numbers game - there’s a lot of people exposed to the situation and not all of them are well in their heads.
I mean have you seen any of those Karen videos? Not a pleasant experience to be on receiving end. So yeah, idk if the leak was intentional (it feels like it) but considering the situation I would have also been cautious if I were a reddit employee.
I don’t think that’s fair in this case. That’s definitely a valid train of thought in the face or receiving online death threats - almost all of these could be assumed to be fake, but it only takes one real one - but here Steve Huffman isn’t referring to any specific threats to reddit staff and is instead just shit stirring.
Playing the classic victim card.
creating a sense of siege, danger, us-against-them to pull everyone tighter into the fold. wow!
Wait, where do they wear Reddit gears? How does that even work?
I also have stuff with my companies logo on it that I wear outside of work. It is not too far fetched that people wear Reddit gear outside of work.
I don’t believe there have been any indicators of threat however lmao.