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What’s the back story for using John Oliver? What did I miss🤔
this post was submitted on 18 Jun 2023
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I have to agree - this is classic reddit. Spez obviously couldn't care less about namecalling.
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The corp gets to use the CEO as a punching bag - which is pretty much his job description...
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Redditors can feel good about upvoting a picture "sticking it to the man" while actually doing nothing - participating on a site that's still reaming them
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Buying all the reddit awards for the post, GIVING THE COMPANY THEY'RE SUPPOSEDLY STICKING IT TO MORE MONEY. Bullshit like this pisses me off after finding out the Lemmy devs pretty much make less than minimum wage with donations
People could also dump their already purchased coins into fuck spez posts to be fair. Just because they gave an award here doesn't mean they specifically purchased it for that occasion.
Pretty sure most awards given are free. My account has a bunch of coins on it for some reason.
I thought the free awards thing stopped a while back. I'd be surprised if a lot of people still had them
I have thousands of coins on my account. Coins used to be way more plentiful before awards got enshittified.
Several subs had a vote and changed their rules to only allow John Oliver content. The vote was done to ensure the mods are not deciding over the desire of their user base as spez had claimed they do.
I think John Oliver is just very memeable
It helps that he's a great person.
Plus, he's reacted to people using his image in unusual ways before. He has an absolutely hilarious episode where he responds to someone mass generating AI created art of him in love with a cabbage. He noted the AI did a poor job, presumably through lack of adequate training data, so he married a cabbage in camera to help provide said training data!
I can’t wait for Oliver to talk about this on his show and spend some stupid amount of money to help the cause
Regretfully, his show is currently shut down in solidarity with the writer's strike.
The writers demands seem quite reasonable and I hope that this conflict is resolved.
r/steam is about water vapour, r/wellthatsucks is vacuum cleaners only.
r/interestingasfuck got a whole lot more "interesting" too....
Haha. Love this.
Personally don't pirate stuff, but gotta support folks who are leaving Reddit. So... here I am I guess?
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Yanno, just in case you wanna get your hands dirty, here's a list of things you can Google. Listed in order of importance (imo).
It's never too late to start pirating. I'm sure plenty of folks here would be happy to hook you up.
Not to apply any pressure, mind you. If you're just here to soak in the pirate culture tourists are fine too. There's probably a gift shop, take free copies of anything you find in there.