dehyzer

Good catch on MAU, my bad. I knew that seemed a bit high.

That being said, point still stands. Reddit was a big deal well before 2020 even if it was not at the top of the social media food chain.

Certainly large enough to target back then, and even more so now when such a campaign is cheaper and easier than ever.

At this point I’m convinced it’s intentional and coordinated. There is so much focus on the part of this story that matters the least (aka the affairs) that it tends to bury the actually bad part.

I don’t buy it. Reddit is a prime target, and has been for a very long time.

Reddit allegedly had 400 million unique monthly users back in 2012 already: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/reddits-visitors-skyrocket-in-2012-with-37-billion-page-views/

Even if those numbers are inflated (which they almost certainly are), Reddit has had a very large audience for a very long time, even if it wasn’t fully recognized as mainstream.

And now, the price of pushing fake reviews has done nothing but drop. API calls to Reddit and LLM providers are surely cheaper than an engagement or content farm of real people.

There’s no way that the platform isn’t riddled with bots these days.

Including Wednesday’s after-hours selloff, Nvidia has lost about $600 billion in stock market value this week since the board announced its investigation.

Those are rookie numbers, gotta get those numbers up. We can do a trillion, I can feel it

I see the confusion here.

There is “big (dick move)” -> an especially egregious dick move.

There is also “(big dick) move” -> a power move.

This story is an example of a “(big dick) move”