Also due to this people are even more willing to give out awards, since reddit announced that all coins will be removed from your account after September.
They used to give out awards to gift daily to encourage people to use the official app. You could also give out gold if you got several gold. I never spent any money but did give out awards.
Reddit premium did make the website more enjoyable. I'd never buy it for myself, but I gave it to a couple of friends over the years and the thought additionally was similar to me paying donations to Beehaw: wanting the website hosting the communities I participate in to keep existing
The issue is, most of the people left on reddit are damn near addicts. Or those who weren't directly affected by the api and therefor don't care and just jump on the fuck spez cause hating ceos is cool*.
(CEOs should be hated on don't get me wrong, but for actual reasons and be held to that hate, not just hating for a trend)
I saw some comments on a Reddit thread about the place picture saying things like, "Who's spez?" Or "what did this spez person do?" It's almost like they weren't even on Reddit around the time of the protests to have a clue what people are upset about. There must be some percentage of Reddit that is just completely unaware.
NGL I tried to figure out what joke you were making for several minutes. Then I finally looked at the second "CEO" my brain skimmed past it like 5 times