I legit cannot tell if this is real or not… it sounds terrible but also something that Reddit would do and think is great.
this post was submitted on 23 Feb 2025
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I could have sworn that reddit did in fact announce a similar system a few weeks ago. Or did I eat an onion?
They announced earlier this month that they're considering paid subreddits. No idea where that's at.
But yeah, this satire only works precisely because they've specifically expressed their interest in further opportunities for paid subscriptions.
My understanding is that they confirmed that paid subs would come this year
Yes it was satire.
I think this article has been posted here before
Well, I ate the title. It seems perfectly reasonable to me.
Then it's not satire.
I swallowed the onion whole.
Don't give them more ideas.
Et Al, why are you always posting rage bait that barely even qualifies as satire?
The present moderation is not too far from this. A lot of the subreddits are just shells of what they used to be. Most posts are purged by some reddit algorithm moderation bot. You can check this yourself with r/usenet.
You can check this yourself with r/usenet.
and give them traffic? no thanks
Does old dot reddit give them traffic? Or you could even use some public redlib instance but you get my point :)
Love the image. Can only imagine the prompts… “evil lizard men make stupid amounts of money selling utter shit.”?
Lol, what a shit show
You're not supposed to eat the onion bro
Lmao, damn, I forgot to check what community this was. I definitely believe that they would do such a shitty thing, though.
Satire is truly dead
Yep lmao
It is 100% believable.
I ate the onion too. This is 100% something Reddit would do - give it a year and there's a solid chance you and I will be puking that onion back up as this becomes reality.
I don't think IsGlitch understands satire.
If every comment is 'I ate the onion!,' that's just lying. It's making shit up in a way that people could easily believe it. Satire has to be more extreme than that. Failing to reach those extremes isn't commentary on the state of things; it's just bad writing.
Once again unfucking their latest efforts, to demonstrate the problem:
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Facing monopoly accusations, Meta threatens to take the internet and go home
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Amazon introduces "dynamic ownership" for e-books, matching real-world theft and fire rates
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Assassin's Creed critics pretty sure there weren't any women in history
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Grok AI 30% more likely to explain answers when told user is female
The Intel fab one is good, though; that's stupid enough to have clear intent. And honestly that Grok thing might work in real life. Satire is hard. That's no excuse.