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Let's ask the same question in another way.
Can we make its userbase revolt? If yes, how?
It's always revolting.
Can we make it revolt harder, then?
More specifically: are there ways to encourage the current Reddit userbase to act so notoriously destructively towards the platform, that no sane investor would burn their money buying Reddit stock?
If you can control the porn, you control the internet.
So, if you can somehow trigger a revolt in all the NSFW subreddits, you win. Reddit stock will tank before it goes public.
"He who controls the spice(y content) controls the universe" - Baron Harkonnen in Frank Herbert's Dune
That's a fun idea - specially if we could recruit the Reddit "porn is bad!" crowds to raid Reddit NSFW subs.
You are asking the same question the somethingrotten forum users asked themselves when they came up with the answer of SRS (shitredditsays).
Designed to meta-criticise the users of reddit itself, it feeds itself as users submit their own, (curated), idea of what a shitty redditor is.
Let the snake eat itself
Good to know - I wasn't aware of SRS' origins.
I feel like someone could do better than SomethingRotten though, by playing both sides, and encouraging users from both to brigade and annoy the shit out of your typical user. To the point that the users start asking themselves "what am I supposed to do here? If I support [cause], Reddit screeches at me; if I oppose [cause], Reddit screeches at me; and if I don't do either, both screech at me! Perhaps I should stop using Reddit."
This could be based on porn (perhaps a good target for that; as @[email protected] said, who controls porn controls the internet)), or even some ultimately pointless matter, like pineapple on pizza.
*not sure on who would "we" be in this sentence.