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Reddit has always had a ton of stupid irrelevant side projects. Remember "creddits"/ReddCoin, the "social cryptocurrency" they were developing? Hard to believe that was a decade ago. Harder to believe that in retrospect, they should have just done it, been ready when the crypto hype wave came and exited/IPO'd as billionaires.


On the other hand, that big pixel board thing they do once a year is a great idea. Some of these other things also led to fun community behaviours.


Not once a year, it was supposed to be a one off in 2017, and they did it again in 2022 and 2023.


The 2023 one in particular came right after /u/Spez started cracking mod heads, and was full of "fuck spez" right up until the end.




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