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Is there a reason why they're doing this? Blackout's not even political. They just want to be contrarian to everything.
I assumed the idea was to fill reddit with trash content. A lot of subs didnโt go dark, so flooding the homepage with trash content will pollute the existing experience.
Their posts don't seem to deviate much from their usual posts. Target achieved, I guess?
Don't you love it when your normal MO is the hot new thing?