Moderators flood feeds with pictures of TV comic as they fight owners’ plans to go public

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      1 year ago

      Main stream reporting.

      Get John’s attention, hope he does a segment on it.

      I hope he not only does, but that he drives attention here, it will bring new users.

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        1 year ago

        Just need to make sure he drives attention to the server costs too. A Last Week Tonight hug of death could kill the site deader than spez’s career outside Reddit.

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      1 year ago

      It was partly his tweet and his overall skits on making fun of stupid moves companies makes on his show.

    • Smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works
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      Who else, if chosen, would lean into it quite as hard and enthusiastically as John Oliver would? This is is raison d’etre here! It’s fine to question why, but if not him, who else?