Such action seems a bit too little, too late. Looking at Reddit’s Wikipedia page, the company’s slew of controversies began around 2013, although in 2011, the site was reportedly allowing subreddits dedicated to sharing pictures of underage girls, such as “r/jailbait” and “r/preteen_girls.” It took months of controversy around the former and the emergence of the latter for site admins to take action around removing these subreddits and changing their policy to ban “suggestive or sexual content featuring minors.” In 2011, it was lauded for “ always maintained an idealistic notion of absolute free-speech” with “its creators and staff it as a free and open platform, where the proliferation of (legal) content is left to the will of its users.” If only users back then could see what it has become. It allowed users to make the site whatever they wanted it to be, arguably allowing it to maintain relevance almost 20 years later.Īs of today, Reddit is a far cry from what it was intended to be all those years ago. Over time, the site evolved to become more organized and accessible than the typical general imageboard that it started as, with an update in 2008 that gave users the ability to create communities (known as “subreddits”) dedicated to anything, no matter how niche or mainstream. Founded in 2005 by a pair of college roommates, Reddit was created to be “the front page of the internet” where users (known colloquially as “redditors”) could share and view text posts, images, and links about anything and everything.
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