• hoodatninja@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I get the sentiment but I’ve also seen decent media coverage of it and I’m sure many folks googled what was happening as a result, especially since twitch was more formally involved this time. I know the German word for “son of a whore” surged in google searches so that’s something lol

    Does it drive traffic? Yeah. Does it make Huffman seethe? He’s childish and thin skinned so probably lol

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      Exactly. Huffman wants people to forget, so the whole point of the protest is to remind everyone that he’s a scumbag.

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    Wonder if that’s actually what affected the timing? The John Oliver protests were drying up perhaps? Losing protest traffic - so they reopened r/Place now in the hopes of getting folks to come back to reddit to protest one more time, on redrdit itself, while increasing traffic and ads revenues.