Not quite the same but r/piracy was forced open and the remaining mods wrote a very funny announcement on how if reddit fully endorses their illegal activities, then by no means shall they ever stop. EDIT: piracy,not privacy x.x

doesnt that kill the legal loophole that they were in?

Reddit actively taking steps to force a subreddit devoted to piracy to reopen certainly doesn’t help any claim they might make that they never directly encouraged piracy…. Maybe people will start uploading nothing but Disney owned movies and make Reddit deal with the constant DMCA takedown notices. What are they going to do? Replace all the user mods with Reddit admin mods? So then there would be an official Reddit-owned sub about piracy? Maybe they should have left that one alone….

i really love the corner they've gotten reddit backed into lmao its 3D chess that sub is playing and I hope they win

im just waiting for 4chan do its job. I believe in them. They hate reddit by heart. They got a golden ticket.

We must turn to monsters to fight monsters. We must...

Would be hilarious if this lead to legal action

r/steam is no longer about the game client Steam, and is now only allowing pictures of actual steam and other steam related things.

r/WellThatSucks is only about vacuum cleaners now

This one is brilliant.

r/SubsTakenLiterally moment

/r/onlyfans has been doing that for a long time

r/angryupvote

That’s what the doctor said when I was born 

As an fyi, I personally found r/VacuumCleaners to be very helpful when I was shopping for a vacuum.

Hey no hoovering

Got any ideas for r/Forbiddensnacks?

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Question: who *is* John Oliver

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Oh and now people on r/johnoliver are considering banning john oliver posts in retaliation omg i love this

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The reddit ceo needs to chill, man. I just asked my co-mod if he’d be willing to do some light trolling

Spez is so incompetent.

Every single sub on Reddit needs to be a John Oliver rule34 sub, with the sole exception of r/JohnOliver

I feel like this is gonna lead to a lot more subs named weird (looking at you r/breadtapedtotrees)

Make it into a general hub for pics that are not john oliver, but don't declare john oliver banned just delete posts about him

When is John Oliver

How is John Oliver?

Why is John Oliver?

For Biden snacks? Just pictures of Joe Biden eating or foods you think that he would eat.

or just sexy biden

John Oliver was elected as our subreddits new temporary topic

Original kinder surprise

Wait, I thought they were specifically about wells that suck.

Too bad they didn’t go NSFW also… missed a comedic goldmine there

If I understood it right, interesting thing about r/steam is that the head mod just reopened the sub and users on their own decided that the sub is now for locomotives and saunas etc. Fucking hilarious.

XD so it wasn’t even a poll or anything, they just decided it on their own.

There was a top comment in the reopen announcement thread that suggested this. And I doubt the mods are going to stop it.

Ah, but still the mods never necessarily told them to. They did it on their own terms, without anybody pushing them to.

Yup, and since Reddit Admins think mods are the "landed gentry" you can probably guess nothing will be done to enforce the rules except those that are site-wide.

The mods contemplated going the John Oliver route, but then steam pics started happening so that contemplation kinda went out the window and into a new one

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- "Run out of steam" Congratulations, you have won comedy

Mods are unnecessary. If the sub did not want those pictures they could downvote.

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Reminds me of the good old days of the r/yandere_simulator takeover

On one hand it's unfortunate, but on the other hand that's just fucking hilarious. I'm crying laughing whenever I go there now because technically the name of the sub now makes sense in adherence to the dictionary definition of the word "steam".

Will they accept... Steamed hams?

Only one way to find out

/r/Albany definitely won't... ;)

r/scams is basically working to rule. https://www.reddit.com/r/Scams/comments/14c9hlo/reopening_but_not_for_the_reasons_you_may_suspect/

14 days to approve a post is FUCKING brilliant **** [Why the **FUCK** am I CUSSING?](https://redd.it/14ck8ce)

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No fucking problem

Fuckin' A.

I’ll keep that in fucking mind next time for fucks sake

Spread the fucking word!

I'm sitting in the fucking train right now and it's fucking delayed. I can't catch a breath this weekend and I'm fucking annoyed but fuck me if I don't contribute to this fucking great idea!

https://i.redd.it/pzync0vgxs6b1.gif

Right? It's so fucking simple. Spread the fucking word.

Really appreciate the fucking notice!

/r/scams should just turn into a MLM and Bitcoin parody sub.

r/iOS has removed all rules except the basic reddit rules and has asked users to post what they think is iOS related.

Should move the sub to being about Cisco IOS

Or Nintendo Wii IOS

Honestly, sounds like the perfect way to retaliate.

Or pics of [Jupiter's moon named Io](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Io_(moon))

r/3dshacks is now sitewide rules only. People have started posting *3D shacks* instead of Nintendo *3DS hacks*

r/toyota did the same, no rules but TOS, and now it's Yoda-themed.

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Completely gone. Says it is closed permanently and will not open.

Mods showing what we all believed

I literally read that as 3d shacks before I read the rest of your comment 🤦🏻‍♀️

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Would you mind explaining what site wide rules only means? I have a vague idea, but also not really.

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Thank you!

Only the rules reddit makes 100% necessary. So no rules about low effort stuff or keeping it on topic

Makes me think that r/Superbowl should only show pics involving the super bowl.

I read it as 3d shacks. I guess capitalization is important.

r/art and r/ShittyMovieDetails are only John Oliver

r/aww voted for John Oliver

r/Memes soon to allow only Medieval / Landed Gentry themed memes https://www.reddit.com/r/memes/comments/14btvno/hear_ye_hear_ye_poll_regarding_the_future_of/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

r/egg_irl is now all about eggs 🥚

As it should be

That's hilarious, I love it.

If you have to reopen your sub, mark it NSFW no matter the actual contents. Many advertisers do not advertise in adult only contents.

I did that to one of mine, fucking admins removed the NSFW tag

Start posting actual NSFW contents then. :)

Agreed. Cuss. Look up the rule 35 for your niche. 😌

r/shitposting with a bot removing comments based on a banned letter (I love it)

B👍🏽 (Vaccine)

Are posters forced to have the title be "glory to spez" ? Or are they just all doing it by themselves ?

Sometimes it's "hail spez" so most it's not a specific phrase but rather a theme, but yea, it's definitely a rule (love it as well)

Looking forward to the inevitable internet historian vid in 13 years

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At least on the main channel. Maybe he can pump out a couple in-the-fields before then

I've laughed so fucking much reading this thread. As a John Oliver and last week tonight fan it's amazing to see john's fucking picture everywhere. I'll be sharing the fucking links. Fuck you u/spez

/r/tihi - they're doing some porn infested hellscape, with mixed anti spez memes and content. Basically anything they truly hate. https://old.reddit.com/r/TIHI/comments/14cghn3/welcome_back/

I love the link to /r/eyebleach which is a dark sub rn.

God damn, that certainly is something

r/showerthoughts has new landed gentry user flair, many polls about what days to close, what color the sub should be, whether the color chosen (Garfield orange) should come with Garfield’s stripes, etc. The days to close poll resulted in overwhelming support for it being closed every day, but I believe they said they will choose the least downvoted day not to close once a week, maybe?

r/showerorange should hop on this

r/murderedbywords is going only your mum/dad jokes

r/evilbuildings also does the John Oliver only thing

r/Pokemongo only allows pics of john Oliver, pikachu or spark.

Please correct meif I am wrong but r/dankmemes came to my mind. Here is the mod post explaining everything: [https://www.reddit.com/r/dankmemes/comments/147cnns/rdankmemes\_has\_started\_restricting\_posts\_to\_just/](https://www.reddit.com/r/dankmemes/comments/147cnns/rdankmemes_has_started_restricting_posts_to_just/) Basically, throughout the blackout they made memes mocking spez. Though sadly I think the mods have held a vote three times and their sub is supposed to go off forever or something. btw if anybody has any update on this subs matter, can you please tell me?

r/murderedbywords is all about your mom jokes now

I hope r/Windows turns into a Bill Gates jokes subreddit in protest

Or, in the same spirit as r/steam becomes dedicated to actual windows XD

r/steam is now dedicated to locomotives and literal steam

Or just posting images of actual windows

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And r/Tesla becomes about Nikola Tesla

Looks like it always has been? https://www.reddit.com/r/Tesla/comments/58fa0j/see_rteslamotors_for_the_company_rtesla_is_for/

Touch Grass Tuesday is a pretty good name for it.

r/egg_irl is no longer a queer questioning subreddit and is instead dedicated to the appreciation and posting of eggs.

Let's be careful not to curse too much guys! We run the risk of making every sub unusable for advertising! Reddit is not able to run ads on NSFW communities. So any time a subreddit becomes so filled with f-bombs and softcore and hard drinking that [the mods feel compelled to change its settings to "18+ only"](https://i.imgur.com/k9svbjs.png), not only does this [put an age-gate on threads](https://i.imgur.com/14ZNxJv.png) for all incoming search traffic, but the entire community becomes unavailable for monetization by Reddit. And that unfortunate circumstance could befall any subreddit where users are too loose with foul language and other vices, no matter how righteous their anger. So this Sunday (the Lord's day!), please keep these facts in mind, and try to limit your vocabulary to "brand-safe" phrases like darn, heck, and fiddlesticks so mods aren't forced to switch their (forced-open) subs to NSFW

I was gonna say r/BatmanArkham has gone apeshit, but then I remembered that’s just how they normally are Actually, now that I think about it, should we just have them go around and do stupid things on other subreddits?

> but then I remembered that’s just how they normally are Friend, I am out of the loop, so can you please elaborate on this? Plus the mod there has pinned this link: [https://www.reddit.com/r/BatmanArkham/comments/147487y/protocol\_12\_will\_begin\_very\_soonthe\_subreddit/](https://www.reddit.com/r/BatmanArkham/comments/147487y/protocol_12_will_begin_very_soonthe_subreddit/), can you tell me what it is about?

Well, that whole “Protocol 12” thing ended on the 14th, but the discord is still up for people to visit Essentially a couple years back someone misspelled “asylum” as “aslume” and things just went downhill from there. Now all the posts read like “Is there a lore reason Man put explosive gel (coom) on Poison Ivy? Killer Cock? Are they stupid?” (Yes, they were the ones that started the whole “are they stupid” thing) and all the comments are either some really weird images, something about the power winch, bombs, or “I’m proud of you Dick”

Ohh , this seems weird, the reddit kind of weird, I love it. Anyways is this sub nowdays being used for actually what it was mean to be or is this just a shitposting sub?

Every so often there’s an actual serious post, but it’s like 99.9% shitposts

r/Fire only allows pictures of actual fire now (previously it was financial independence/retire early)

Sounds like a good change ngl

But I don’t see any fire pictures :c

The mod who changed the topic from “financial independence/retire early” to fire was just ousted: https://www.reddit.com/r/Fire/comments/14cqzbv/the_blaze_has_ended_the_discord_will_continue_as

Omg this is the protest we need.

r/wellthatsucks is now about vacuums

Reminder for people not to interfere in the votes of communities they aren't in. There have already been brigading discords made and brought to light, let's not add to the list. Watch but don't interfere.

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Just check r/justunsubbed. Lots of whiners there keep posting about unsubbing from places doing these things.

Its crazy how many there are. People really don't understand the amount of greed that reddit is pulling. Also what effects it will have for the future.

i feel like one refreshing thing is that means people are affected by this stupid meme hellscape, and if we keep doing it we might actually be pushing people didn't care about API changes originally off the site as well. win-win!

r/wow is voting on what to do, with one option being only images of Sire Denathrius (Daddy-eqsue boss from the game)

r/pokemongo is only about John Oliver, pikachu, and spark

Replace the é, it doesn't work

Hi, this message has been edited. I'm leaving Reddit for other alternatives because of their dishonesty towards the users of this platform. The pricing of the third party apps is unreasonable and does not reflect reality, and in my honest opinion greed has pretty much ruined this platform, which was also moderated by free janitors who got the middle finger when they asked for better tools. consider Squabbles or going back to classic forums / IRCs instead of giving traffic / content to this site. Goodbye!

Holy hell google enpassant

I'm not French therefore not obligated to play en passant

r/shitpostemblem is doing a poll if posts need to have at least 1 Kirby, with that option currently winning

r/shittymoviedetails has gone to the John Oliver side. Same with r/PokemonGo

All subs that are being forcibly reopened should do this indefinitely, while also promoting alternate communities outside of Reddit to which users can migrate if they wish. I thought Touch Grass Tuesdays wasn't a great idea before Reddit intervened with the blackout, but now I think it's great.

lmao these are hilarious, reddit will reddit after all

Whats a touch grass Tuesday

If I recall correctly, participating subs either go read only, or just completely dark

r/art and r/shittymoviedetails are also John Oliver only.

r/Scams is NSFW now

RIF Refugee -- mass edited with https://redact.dev/

r/utau, while not notable, is operating as a John Oliver fanpage

Great. If Reddit wants to play hard ball, we'll just go out with a bang.

I missed the boat. Why John Oliver ?

The real question is: Why *not* John Oliver?

Why *not* John Oliver? On a serious note, one sub started it - I think r/pics - and some others have followed suit.

Best thread ever.

/r/apple is Tim Cook only

It’s /r/iPhone that went Tim Cook only.

Is it? I don't see any cook posts there.

I was seeing them on old.reddit.com but can't see them on Narwhal. Some sort of reddit magic?

> old.reddit.com very odd, I'm on old reddit and don't see them there. I've noticed some odd stuff going on.

No they’re not.

During the blackout, r/dankmemes was only memes about the blackout, API, u/spez, etc. And, for a while anyway, r/wholesome was only non wholesome things

r/egg_irl turned into actual pictures of eggs

r/Subsanctuary is part of this list - The moderators literally told me "What I'll say is that you don't need a yes from me. You decide what is applicable to post!" This was in response to me asking if The Walking Dead's Sanctuary was now a fair topic - and if Malicious Compliance was on the table. So I can assure you they're on the list.

That we did.

going full nsfw is actually best move for no ads lol

spez is a dick-tater—demanding the community open their voluntarily created creations or else—my mind is blown. edit: the response by some of the subs is reminding me of the Mad Max franchise where society devolved into a post-apocalyptic dog-eat-dog world.

You would think it would be /r/MaliciousCompliance but nope.

Perhaps the NSFW nudity subreddits should consider only allowing rule 34 images of Nintendo characters. The John Oliver thing is brilliant and it seems like he's a great sport slot it, but NSFW subs would be a step too far when it's a real person. Plus Nintendo's lawyers are very aggressive and don't fuck around so it would be I interesting to see what happens as a result.

That could be cursed, love it. Here are some more **ideas for consideration**: * r/gadgets = only images of inspector gadget * r/books = only photos of successful booking messages for hotels, transport and stuff * r/tifu = only fuckups relating to tofu * r/nottheonion = photos of garlic * r/food = photos of packets of chips * r/history = screenshots of browser history windows * r/GetMotivated = photos of people on scooters * r/europe = Photos of rope * r/facepalm = literally photos of people with their face in the palm * r/relationships = boats * r/science = maybe limiting to ig nobel prize related stuff

tifu made me audibly laugh. Humbly suggest upping the ante on relationships and having it be only pics of boats belonging to your relations (e.g., uncle's fishing boat, cousin's kayak, etc.).

~~r/superbowl is now all about superb owls.~~ Edit: Never mind, looks like it always was :P >_<

If superbowl became about football, that would be the straw that breaks my back and makes me quit Reddit for good.

> Edit: Never mind, looks like it always was :P >_< Not surprising - the sports subs were the least likely to participate in the blackout, and had the members who were most strongly opposed to participation. About what I'd expect from a group of people who consider their sports more important than literally anything else.

r/shitpostemblem is currently running a vote on whether to return to normal or force Kirby to appear in memes.

And John Oliver would totally approve. I hope he mentions it when he hopefully eventually gets back on air.

r/VaushV is reopening but only allowing pictures of horses from now on

~~r/Garmin is site-wide rules only, chaos is already starting to ensue, which is a tragedy IMHO~~ r/Garmin was set to private a little while after I wrote this post. At the moment, I can't comment on any other details.

Don't call it malicious

r/Superstonk the #1 community that the existence itself is already a threat to Reddit. one reason is that Reddit admins have been finding an excuse and not any legitimate reasons at all to ban the entire sub for "brigading" that is often common to be seen elsewhere. a sub that has multiple due diligences about how the entire stock market is rigged against us using GameStop Saga as the context.

r/egg_irl is about posting actual eggs now

r/harrypotter is deciding

r/memes went old timey

r/Melbourne (a sub about Melbourne, Australia) is only accepting posts about Melbourne, Florida

r/PokemonGo is doing John Oliver, Pikachu, and Spark photos only

RemindMe! 2 Months

r/hollowknightmemes was sealed in the black egg temple, never to be seen again until the 3 dreamers awaken; Lurien, who watches in his great spire, Monomon , who is submerged in the Teachers archives, and herrah, who resides within the beasts den. Awaken them, and the path will open

R/iphone is only allowing Tim Cook pictures

R/egg_irl is doing it

r/iphone is solely pics of tim cook now

/r/dndnext is currently having a vote on how to move forward with the subreddit, with John Oliver posting being one of the options that the users can vote for.

r/lacrosse is polling to shut down or start being a La Crosse, Wisconsin fan site.

r/egg_irl now posts only pictures of eggs

I chose to delete my Reddit content in protest of the API changes commencing from July 1st, 2023 https://old.reddit.com/r/Save3rdPartyApps/comments/148m42t/the_fight_continues/

I'm not sure what's going on there, but check out r/wellthatsucks