Reddit CEO Steve Huffman's letter to Reddit employees in response to blackout
Starting last night, about a thousand subreddits have gone private. We do anticipate many of them will come back by Wednesday, as many have said as much. While we knew this was coming, it is a challenge nevertheless and we have our work cut out for us. A number of Snoos have been working around the clock, adapting to infrastructure strains, engaging with communities, and responding to the myriad of issues related to this blackout. Thank you, team.
We have not seen any significant revenue impact so far and we will continue to monitor.
There's a lot of noise with this one. Among the noisiest we've seen. Please know that our teams are on it, and like all blowups on Reddit, this one will pass as well. The most important things we can do right now are stay focused, adapt to challenges, and keep moving forward. We absolutely must ship what we said we would. The only long term solution is improving our product, and in the short term we have a few upcoming critical mod tool launches we need to nail.
While the two biggest third-party apps, Apollo and RIF, along with a couple others, have said they plan to shut down at the end of the month, we are still in conversation with some of the others. And as I mentioned in my post last week, we will exempt accessibility-focused apps and so far have agreements with RedReader and Dystopia.
I am sorry to say this, but please be mindful of wearing Reddit gear in public. Some folks are really upset, and we don't want you to be the object of their frustrations.
Again, we'll get through it. Thank you to all of you for helping us do so.
Edit to include source: https://www.macrumors.com/2023/06/13/reddit-ceo-blackouts-no-revenue-impact/
My notes:
He expects some Reddit users to actually resort to physical violence, painting them as the irrational bad guys in this whole situation?
Spez has played the victim the entire time, why change tack now?
People are upset, is it me that's out of touch? No, it's the redditors who are wrong.
He is delusional or triying to scare the poor Snoos. If anyone is angry about this and looking for a face to punch they have a clear target and is not some dude with a reddit t-shirt.
They are looking for a suit, no tie, popped up collar wearing, venture capital dudebro looking, jailbait ex-moderating, failure of a CEO.
Snoo is so cringe
What is a snoo?
Snoo is the reddit mascot (lil alien with an antenna), and I guess reddit corporate refers to its employees as Snoos, which is so cringeworthy.
If my company referred to us as anything but “team members” I’d die on the spot.
"Team member" implies equality. I prefer the term "employee"
"Alienated from the means of production" doesn't really roll off the tongue
I get called BUM, for bargaining unit member. It is better than most alternatives.
I can't even imagine a company calling me a "Snoo". Imagine explaining that to your family or friends.
It's the name of the reddit alien logo. It's also the name they call the employees apparently.
Oh wow, reading it summarized in your three points instantly reminded me of the behaviour of an emotional abuser. The last one specially hits hard, classic bully telling it's actually the bullied one.
Remember he has a doomsday bunker, he's totally loving the roleplay of someone upon whom the masses will turn.
Tbf, those irrational people do definitely exist. Not that they represent the majority or anything, but even one isolated attack would be a big problem (obviously), so I agree it's best to be on the safe side there.
Yup. He made the mods and users the bad guys and he is just trying to be the good guy. He's a dick, probably a narcissist, too. He's the victim, blah blah blah.
Those little Snoos. That company is like a family. A bunch of rockstars. How could those evil mods and users do this to them?!
He has to create a good guy/bad guy or us/them situation to rally the troops. Following Trump101.
You spelled “Fascism101” wrong my friend…
The last one is wild
On top of the presumption that any of them would even want to wear Reddit SWAG right now
Everyone loves corporate merch!
I shit you not, small corpo I work at actually set up an internal e-shop where employees can buy merch. And somehow no employees were reported dying of laughter and there were even a few positive emoji reactions on slack.
Ridiculous. As an employee, if you want me to wear the company's logo, you better give me that shit for free. Then I might wear it.
Those emoji reactions came from the boot lickers trying to ingratiate themselves for a promotion by demonstrating how much they love the brand and the vision and the culture of the company.
I did sales for awhile, this is probably correct. You would be in multiple whatsapp groups and it was very important you reacted to things with happy emojis if you wanted to get anywhere.
Those are typically also the least helpful people that will want your help for anything, but will throw anyone under the bus to look better.
Buy corpo merch?!?!
If it was NASA or Porche, I get it
I work for a call center, has centers all over the world...they have a "store" where you can spend "<company name> points" (the fake currency they made)...I was given 100 points so I went to the store to see what I could buy....
Among a lot of things I cannot remember what they all were but the only thing I could afford with the 100 points was a damn pair of flip flops wit the company logo on them.