Bad moderators and Lolcows are like my jewish mother and cookies. They are quite a force when seperate, Reddit mods are not only famously, Lolcowy, the supermods are infamously-lazy, my jewish motherable, and very easy to piss off. Well, the hand that fed Reddit's moderators (with imaginary food, and corporate inside deals, nonetheless) just bitch-slapped them. And now the hotpockets are being thrown across the meeting room. It started with a blackout for two days. On the surface this looked like a push by the users to support third party apps that were basically being banned bickers of the high costs. Beneath that surface however, the janitoral staff of Reddit was seething with rage that their easy-access lazy automod tools were being threatened, so they organized in the most-reddit-way possible. Anyone with even just a spare few braincells knew that you can't just do a protest for a mere two days and expect admins to bend over for you. Well that time came and went, the talking heads acted like the blackout was a failure. But now that the Supermods have been betrayed, they're going on a full-on-revolt. I don't know about you guys, but I think Reddit might actually implode this time. Various Archive links Posted here bickers rdrama.net is kinda cancerous, and Reddit is terribly-easy to censor. https://archive.ph/obwn6 - rdrama.net jannycide thread (source of most of the links). https://archive.is/ygry4 - Reddit's biggest karma farm for bots had it's jannies removed. https://archive.is/ztTy6 - /r/ModCoord threads they openly-discuss their revolt on Reddit. https://archive.is/njRTt - An Hero-Complex in action. https://archive.ph/rxhC6 - rdrama.net thread about ex-janny who moderated /r/celebrities for FOURTEEN YEARS! (FOR FREE!) https://archive.ph/evUAT - /r/SquaredCircle janny whining (and considering suicide) about how he got demodded after a banning spree of people who called his hypocrisy out. https://archive.ph/EyGo8 - rdrama.net thread on /r/animetittles (replacement for /r/worldnews) regarding switching to porn, and then unswitching again. https://archive.is/YAGhn - /r/MoodCoord thread on /u/ModCodeofConduct reverse-unoing porn-subs SFW status. Notable Events >Reddit announces the Fuck-You-Tax for API users. >Spez (Reddit CEO) lied about the conversation he had with the lead dev of third-party app Apollo. He also has edited posts that are critical to him, to be supporting of him. >Hotpockets don't like paying for their API access, call for a two-day blackout of all major subs. Anyone with half a brain called out the "two-day" part as being fucking stupid, and that it should be indefinite, other subs actually are still trying to stay disabled. >Talking heads and noisemakers talked about the blackout until it came and left, then immediately declared it as a failure, completely ignoring the smoldering and chaos that started afterwards. >Subs that stayed private were force-unprivated by Reddit admins, hotpockets instead changed rules that essentially functionally-destroy what the sub originally was. >Someone with access to /u/ModCodeofConduct started reverse-unoing the NSFW settings on various subreddits. SFW subs, became NSFW, which makes them inelgible for Reddit ads. NSFW subs became SFW, which shows non-advertisers-friendly and not-child-safe cocks on Reddit. Reddit mods respond by nuking NSFW subs, effectively banning porn. >/u/AwkwardTheTurtle, Reddit's premier Supermod and Lolcow extraordinaire, is suspended. That means there are thousands of subreddits out there that are currently unmoderated, and the turtle is fuming in it's shell. >Spez is deleting posts that feature his face in an ugly light, especially ones made by the revolting hotpockets. TL;DR The shitty, abusive, tyrannical "super"mods are getting a taste of their own medicine, and they're choking on it. Spez is hardly any better, wants reddit to go public, and is currently fucking it up in the worst/best way possible. Popcorn for the ages. If this truly ends Reddit, then the death will be in the most poetically-reddit-way-possible.