There were moments when it intensified suddenly. Most recently when their stock was about to go public.

Reddit be a mess, yall

Fuck Apple but honestly this app is like trying to stay warm with matches in Antarctica.

Senior Management in much of Corporate America is like a kind of modern Nobility in which looking and sounding the part is more important than strong competence in the field. It’s why buzzwords catch like wildfire.

The tipping point was when smart phones with inexpensive internet access became common. Before that, the least intellectually curious among us rarely had computers or internet.

Reddit is and has been going downhill fast. There were benefits to it being embraced by the masses but also huge downsides. The admins made decisions that negatively affected the experience of using Reddit (like refusing to let subs disable voting even when it made alot of sense) because they wanted to maximize engagement by any means necessary. But taking reddit public was the final nail in the coffin. Now they hand out temporary and permanent bans not because their rules were actually violated but to protect their stock price and corporate reputation.