'FUCK SPEZ': Reddit Users Unite to Turn r/Place Mural Into a Protest
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'FUCK SPEZ': Reddit Users Unite to Turn r/Place Mural Into a Protest::Reddit's collaborative art project seemingly has one overarching message to Reddit's CEO.
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And yet this is probably good for reddit. They live on amount of engagement and you dummies just fell for it.
Exactly, I'm fully expecting the admins to wipe out any undesirable things off the wall the second the timer runs out. And that's the wall they'll show to their investors.
You can't spend engagement. It's not real.
But you can convince advertisers to give you money based on how much engagement the site gets and therefore how much engagement their ads are likely to get. ~Cherri
The admins can push whatever stupid numbers they want. People were not somehow tricked into giving the site a second wind, by turning this desperate exploitation of a beloved icon into a vulgar billboard against the fucker selling us out, or by dumping all the soon-to-be-stolen awards onto comments asking what the fuck he thinks he's doing.
The nature of bad faith is that there is no right answer. Any response, including no response, will be twisted around and treated as victory, because the person being condemned for making shit up gets to make shit up. There are no circumstances where they don't go "Ah-HA!" There is no point scolding people for not doing the thing that would stop this, because that thing does not exist. People who care what's real just have to deal with it and act in spite of it.
Reddit has the worst per-user stats of any social media site, by an order of magnitude... and the bump in engagement here is bluntly saying it's time to leave.
If you run an ad blocker and no ads turn up when you browse , they they won't get ad money from you. Negating the value of engagement.
You went there, generated content for them which is generating publicity. Other people, without ad blockers, are going there to see it ..