while the goodwill of his community towards his persona was upheld.

He probably really was one of us. To be honest, most of Reddit had no idea who tf spez was before this. Anytime he did something terrible, it would be big then disappear in a week.

Then, since he was so removed from a redditor’s in the day to day, all would be well and he’d be forgotten. The local mods and reddit admins were who everyone would direct their hate to.

Well, they don’t always start out as “corporations”. He may have been one of them, till the glamour of profits came into the picture.