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Doesn't matter, it drives user engagement and website traffic. Easy way to show to advertisers that Reddit is very much alive. They don't care what is drawn, as long as it's nothing illegal or bad for advertisers. People want to spend 24h to write "fuck u/spez"? Sure, whatever.
"No such thing as bad publicity" comes to mind.
At the end of the day, ragebait is still ragebait, and brings in clicks (as well as ad revenue)...
i was there, placed a cube, happy with my adblocker and left for my daily 10 minute dose of modcoord where i look at the first one or two post and answer questions about lemmy
Yeah, this was well played from reddit, they knew that r/place was one of the most popular things reddit ever did, so luring people back with it is excellent plan. They don't care shit about the fuck spez texts, they can now say that they broke engagement records, even without third party api's.
Yeah, so true as long as there's engagement ,that's all that matters to them.
"Fuck" is not good for advertisers.
Sure, American advertisers don't like that, but foul language is all over Reddit, so that's not something that will drive advertisers away that would otherwise consider advertising on Reddit.
Right? It reminds me of those popular twitter right wingers that get exposure from negative publicity. People feel so smug and proud that they "dunked" on this loser who would otherwise be ignored and forgotten and instead they amplify and magnify the message.