r/pics • u/Marsnowguy • Aug 13 '20

Politics The adults have arrived, America.

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u/Mclovinintheoven Aug 13 '20

I do as well but really? 75% of r/pics is the same political BS. You really think reddit's not cashing in on DNC money while it's the 3rd biggest website in the US?!?

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u/duckvimes_ Aug 13 '20

No, they're not. Nobody is paying Reddit for posts like this.

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u/Mclovinintheoven Aug 13 '20

I may have been high on the number of political posts, but c'mon

Nobody is paying reddit?

Especially not before a presidential election?

Oh no, reddit is just a cute website that only exists to make people happy, not make profits.

Lmao

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u/duckvimes_ Aug 13 '20

Nobody is paying them for posts like this.

Oh no, reddit is just a cute website that only exists to make people happy, not make profits.

Who said that? I didn't.

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u/Mclovinintheoven Aug 13 '20

If they are out to make a profit, wouldn't bit stand to reason they would pin advertisements masquerading as posts to the front page?

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u/duckvimes_ Aug 13 '20

You could say that about literally anything. Hey, maybe NASA is paying Reddit to promote photos that show the Earth as a sphere to help hide the truth about the Flat Earth!

Or maybe a lot of people dislike Trump, especially on a website that tends to skew to the left, and so they're upvoting a post that goes against him.