I keep seeing this ad on Facebook. I don't even buy ads. They must be desperate.
this post was submitted on 02 Jul 2023
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Even in their ads for ads they have to get their content from their user base
Ran out of advertisers, Why? Because we made some really "great" decisions at reddit!
I guess there's a limit to how many ads the He Gets Us people will buy.
Those ads were legit the final straw for me. Bad enough that they fucked over Devs with the API changes.
But making me pay you $7 a month or whatever to not show me ads from hate groups? Fuuuuuuck that.
I hope Reddit sinks.
I can confirm: the audience is not there
It’s fairly reasonable to assume advertisers are leaving. This isn’t one of those controversies that has two sides, it’s just Reddit being shitty because they want to make more money, and mods, users and disabled people on the other side being annoyed with Reddit.
There’s very little for advertisers to lose by redirecting their ad budget elsewhere, but if they stick around there’s a risk that annoyance spills over to them.
It also doesn’t take much for marketing teams to make a change - they do it all the time to stay on the right side of controversies and avoid things they don’t want to be associated with.
u/Spez is following Elon's playbook and it might start the downfall of Reddit
Honestly sort of hope so, and I hope it's swift. I really really wish for Spez to suffer as he has to explain to the shareholders how he has fumbled away all their invested money.
Swift? Nah, let it become the next iFunny.
Even the sense of humour is the same "how do you do, fellow kids" kind.
Users leaving is one thing but making moderation harder? Yea I don't think that's going to work out
The downfall has already begun. The post quality has decreased severely over the last couple of weeks.
I barely remember Digg ITSELF, but this still reminds me of how it FELT when Digg imploded and evacuated to Reddit.
Y'all need to stop retelling the Digg fable to each other lmao. It happened 15 years ago in a totally different landscape and there were maybe 2M users on Digg most of whom were power users. You think the normies from /r/pics or /r/AITA are gonna evacuate from reddit ?
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If you go to the URL in the ad and click on "get started," you will see something interesting:
An 800 number.
What's so interesting about the 800 number?
If enough people call it, it costs them money, for starters.
Good point!
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