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What's your personal little conspiracy theory? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 month ago by captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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I'll go first: r/kitty. One of the hundred grillion cat subs back on Reddit, the culture in this one was you posted a cat picture, and the only word allowed in the title or in any comments or replies was "Kitty."

Someone is using that subreddit for covert communications, I just know it. Either on the level of "if u/PM_me_your_nostrils posts an orange cat, we attack at dawn!" or there's some steganography going on with the pictures, but that subreddit was too stupid to be as active as it was.

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[–] Stern@lemmy.world 39 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Personal reddit conspiracy theory as to why image hosting is on site:

r/fatpeoplehate exists, does its thing (hating fat people)
They get some images removed from imgur, the image host du juor of reddit at the time.
They go on the offensive and start harassing fat imgur workers.
The subreddit gets banned.
Under a year later, reddit puts in image uploading.

My theory is that 3 resulted in imgur hitting up reddit and threatening to block the site if they didn't reign in fatpeoplehate. Reddit did, by 4, because the alternative was no images and that would absolutely fuck reddit up. This in turn leads to 5 to prevent that powerplay again.

[–] Corno@lemm.ee 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wow, that was an actual subreddit? This is new information to me. My goodness... I don't get why some people hate people because they're overweight. It literally does not affect them in the slightest what someone looks like, and people can be overweight for a variety of reasons. We should love eachother, not hate for the pettiest of reasons.

[–] MIDItheKID@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

I don't condone their actions or views but I remember when that sub existed and I can shed some light on the fat hate redpill train of thought.

They tried to justify it saying that fat people were a drain on society because of health issues. They took up space in hospital rooms that could otherwise be used for "healthy people with real problems". Like they saw being fat as an issue that the person could fix by themselves, and they shouldn't take up medical resources. And they drive up insurance costs for companies because being fat is like a pre existing condition etc.

But what was it at the end of the day? A hate group. I get that America and other places have issues with weight, but the solution is not hate.

[–] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago

Probable. And Reddit didn't want to do so initially because, of many reasons, this way they also offload the liability on Imgur.