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Return to normal operations: -2,329 votes
Only allow images of John Oliver looking sexy: 37,331 votes
It would seem that the community has spoken!
Henceforth, /r/Pics will only allow images of John Oliver looking sexy.
Why was Jonh Oliver chosen?
I don’t know him and his relation with Reddit, I think I might need some context XD
He’s a comedian with a great show on HBO (or whatever it’s called this week.) Look up some of the segments on YouTube.
He usually responds well to weird stuff like this and there’s a chance he’ll mention it on his show.
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Absolutely based, r/Steam is pics of Steam engines and such right now. r/wellthatsucks is pics of vacuum cleaners iirc
r/interestingasfuck is now an NSFW sub with hairy buttholes.
Brilliant. I look forward to John Oliver’s episode on capitalist social media companies like Twitter and Reddit fucking their userbase
The one downside to the writer’s strike (that I’ve so far since there was a lot of content banked) is all the late night comedians’ missed opportunities. Of course, I fully support the writers. I hope they get everything they are asking for so that we can get back to watching the amazing stuff they produce!
Wait, I thought the objective was to reduce traffic to reddit.
It’s funny for a day, but it’ll be a graveyard in a week, I’m guessing.
I think this is the best possible response to being essentially forced to reopen.
Forcing mods back is one thing, but it’s a lot harder to bring back users once they’ve found another chew toy to gnaw on.
Or rather it’s a lot harder to bring back users and make them stay if all they can see are sexy pictures of John Oliver
This is epic. Trolling level 10. Spez wanted to force them to reopen, so they did, but burned the subreddit. I can’t wait for r/gaming to be only about ping pong, or r/videos to be only cat videos.
You can not force a community. And Spez has unintentionally created a community, just one that hates him.
r/movies should only allow content about silent movies. None of these modern ‘talkies’.
This is quite literally one of the funniest things I have seen. Absolute genius move.
Hold on… Are there any OTHER types of John Oliver images?
I read this in John Oliver’s voice…
I support the writers strike of course. But sad we won’t get a new episode of Last Week Tonight where John has to comment on how he’s bringing the sexy back to /r/pics
Assuming the writers strike doesn’t resolve before reddit unfucks itself.
Gotta make sure John sees this…
He’s seen it and has provided some photos to use: https://twitter.com/iamjohnoliver/status/1670179738348933120?t=58hT7Y7ZMhwZ37CIxgeRdg&s=19
That’s pretty funny even if you hate John Oliver
Honestly think it’s funnier if you do hate John Oliver
I can confirm; I hate John Oliver and think this is hilarious.
Why?
A bit late replying (just learned how to see inbox alerts!), But if you’re asking why I don’t like him? Coz he feels like a smug sanctimonious poser.
If you’re John Oliver’s alt, please don’t take this personally xD
Smug tho? He’s constantly self-deprecating in his jokes.
