Genuinely, why was it made private? If it was one of the boycotts then it should've been opened back up by now. What's the purpose of keeping it private?
Also. It's very suspicious how the only post with positive upvotes is made by the mod. This entire thing is super sketchy, and the only way I can think to explain it is either the subreddit being hacked or sketchy moderation. Wilbur soot isn't even a mod, to my knowledge at least, so I am leaning towards the latter.
This isn't a hate post or anything, I am just genuinely curious and the lack of talk on the internet leads me to believe that it was either an unofficial subreddit or nobody realized.
