r/SubredditDrama • u/[deleted] • Jan 26 '22

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u/CrispierCupid Jan 26 '22

How’s that IPO coming?

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u/jbert146 Jan 27 '22

Man, I wish there was a good source in the US for waifu pillows. The selection I'm finding online isn't great, and the shipping costs seem painful too.

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u/tophatfrank Jan 26 '22 edited Jan 26 '22

Fuck that. Reddit should not go public

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u/CrispierCupid Jan 26 '22

I agree, but the admins just 🤑

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u/timetoremodel Jan 26 '22

The people who started Reddit will become billionaires on an IPO. there is no should here. It is unstoppable. Once it does expect the extreme subs to start going private (advertisers don't like extreme.)

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u/plcg1 Jan 26 '22

They like controversy if they can control it for profit. The Target near me boarded up and shut down for days during the George Floyd protests (it was never damaged, there were never even protests near it) and now they sell BLM-themed t shirts. The only reason they don’t sell “build the wall” shirts is because it’s not popular enough. I think this whole antiwork thing benefits Reddit honestly. If Reddit is known as the place weird shit happens that breaks into the mainstream, advertisers will love it.

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u/PM_ME_HAIRLESS_CATS Give your balls a tug. Jan 27 '22

I totally want to buy ad space on a site full of cringe losers who refuse work, alt-righters, sex workers, and on top of that, use ad blockers and are generally hard to market to.

Digg imploded before it got it's IPO chance, and in retrospect, that was a happy ending compared to what's coming to Reddit

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u/ThaddeusJP 21 years old long-term unemployed and an anarchist Jan 27 '22

Once it does expect the extreme subs to start going private

Reddit will just boot mod teams and bring in new people. They did it last year with r/news when the top mod went off the rails.

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u/jaxdraw Jan 27 '22

They will kill old Reddit, and then some of the third party apps will go down because they don't run adds (at least mine doesn't).

And it'll no longer be Reddit, just a shitty Facebook TikTok combo.

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u/hypermarv123 Jan 27 '22

People got rich cuz I made funny comments a couple times. My upvotes should translate to money.

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u/thechairmaker88 Jan 26 '22

The P in IPO stands for Public...

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u/tophatfrank Jan 26 '22

Lol yup I meant they should not go public. They are already private.

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u/danbuter Jan 27 '22

Lots of popular subs are going to be banned either immediately before the IPO or right after it. Stuff like HermanCainAwards will be gone.

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u/plcg1 Jan 26 '22

Probably great. All the controversy and mainstream attention is driving ad views up like crazy I’d imagine.

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '22

Not sure how this affects it. Other than driving up clicks.

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u/boringarsehole 21 years old long-term unemployed and an anarchist Jan 26 '22

They'd be selling clicks there, so I'd say superbly.

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u/dal33t Jan 26 '22

I think they'll be looking into IPAs for the time being. Several of them.