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Following in the footsteps of r/pics and r/gifs, r/aww is also holding a poll to decide whether to go back to "normal" or to only feature images of John Oliver, Chiijohn, or their lookalikes being adorable.

Poll is here: https://www.reddit.com/r/aww/comments/14bt0c1

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[–] VioletteRei 54 points 1 year ago (2 children)

John Oliver is taking over Reddit

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Looks like he's the internet's new boyfriend. Keanu must be devastated.

[–] VioletteRei 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

It’s an old meme, but it checks out

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

There’s room in my heart for two internet boyfriends.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Ship the two of them

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I welcome our new John Overlord.

[–] LittleKerr 50 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Opened Reddit for the first time in days just so I could vote 👌

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Remember to use adblock if you can. ^^

[–] EmpathicVagrant 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Who needs Adblock when you can use a third party app they’re trying to kill?

[–] PsychoticBananaSplit 2 points 1 year ago

Who needs third party apps when you can use ReVanced to rebuild the official app without ads 🤫

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I tapped on the link before realizing I've actually deleted my account on Friday 🤣

Wish you luck, John! I'm sure you got what it takes 😄

[–] s4if 23 points 1 year ago

noted, done my part by voting. lol

[–] PsychoticBananaSplit 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

This is the right kind of protest to avoid getting nuked. Make subreddits active but useless. It's not against the rules or r/PotatoSalad and r/Trees would be banned.

[–] PsychoticBananaSplit 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I hope r/WorldNews starts posting exclusively Onion articles. And r/Anime_Titties.. well...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Except if r/worldnews posted Onion articles, all they'll be doing is predicting the future.

[–] dustojnikhummer 5 points 1 year ago

r/nottheonion is leaking again!

[–] Cybermass 2 points 1 year ago
[–] sijt 7 points 1 year ago

What's chef's kiss perfect about these is that they're all using Spez's words against him. There's no doubt whose fault this is.

I'm still genuinely shocked that he decided to call people who are offering their time to the site, for free, to moderate it landed fucking gentry. How utterly out of touch, and frankly dumb, can you possibly be? Other social media sites pay millions a year to moderate content and Reddit gets it for free, and this is how he treats them. It's insane. The guy's an imbecile.

[–] wheen 3 points 1 year ago

If both /r/trees and /r/marijuanaenthusiasts protest though it sort of defeats the purpose.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Damn, I don't have Reddit anymore so I can't vote or even see the upvote numbers on the comments. Can anyone give me the rundown? This is hilarious

[–] CosmicSploogeDrizzle 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Upvote numbers are hidden unfortunately

[–] LufyCZ 4 points 1 year ago

Not anymore, it's 53k/-1.3k ish

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

If it's anything like /r/pics, it would be safe to assume those in favour of John will win by a long shot

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Like 50k vs -1k in favor of John Oliver.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can't wait to see John Oliver cover this whole reddit thing on his show by showing his favorite pics. I love it. I almost feel like going to reddit to help post the most absurd pics of him.

[–] PsychoticBananaSplit 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Amazing. Thanks

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I love this so much 😂

That's exactly what I want in a community and I'm happy he's playing along.

[–] miked 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Once the writer's strike is over there is sure to be a segment.

FYI- There is a writer's union strike in the US which has affected many weekly shows.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

it's affected every show that was in production at the time, weekly or otherwise.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Also voted for John Oliver. Used Apollo.

[–] Wolfric1982 6 points 1 year ago

Did my part.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Hibernate in me you bespectacled vaguely ursine athromorphic dreamboat.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Any other subs voting on similar manner?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

r/art also held a poll. It's over now and John Oliver won.

[–] sijt 7 points 1 year ago

I heard that /r/steam was all about actual steam now, not the gaming store. /r/scams is taking 14 days to approve new posts, gifs and pics are John Oliver only. I'm sure there are more, I've not looking at reddit in over a week (my main is a 17 year old account and I've been a daily user for most of that time), that's that I've seen on here.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

iPhone, Tim Cook pics

How do I know? By scrolling my Lemmy feed, of course. Loving it 😍

[–] Wolfric1982 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know, it is also mentioned on OP

I found WellThatSucks that only posts vacuums now, and InterestingAsFuck removed ALL rules and made the sub NSFW

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

r/selfawarewolves are also holding a poll to determine whether the sub will be for posting about wolves. Unfortunately, it's been going pretty even.

https://www.reddit.com/poll/14bbis8

[–] Willer 1 points 1 year ago

random gif test

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's in contest mode, so the votes are hidden, but here are the current award counts for each option:

  • "only feature John Oliver, Chiijohn, and their lookalikes bein adorable" - 59 awards, 12 gildings
  • "return to normal operation" - 46 awards, 1 gilding

EDIT: Apparently John Oliver wants to help. :)

EDIT 2: John Oliver Boogaloo!

Vote tally:

  • Only feature John Oliver: 58020 score, 78 awards, 15 gildings
  • Return to normal operation: -2773 score, 50 awards, 1 gilding

Motion passes!

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