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Why were images of John Oliver the only pictures uploaded to Reddit’s most popular picture channels in mid-June 2023?

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Why were images of John Oliver the only pictures uploaded to Reddit’s most popular picture channels in mid-June 2023?

Unpaid Reddit moderators on strike, blocking users and advertisers, chose to post only images of comedian John Oliver as a symbol of protest. The strike started on June 14, 2023, and affected over 9,000 subreddits. This is after Reddit announced that it would start charging fees to some third-party developers from July 1, 2023, as part of its plan to go public later in 2023. This angered many moderators who use third-party apps to access Reddit’s data and perform tasks unavailable on the official app (such as content moderation). Reddit’s CEO Steve Huffman refused to negotiate with the protesters.

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