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#31 BONUS: The Reddit Implosion Explainer

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Gimlet

Society & Culture, Documentary, Technology

4.729.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2015

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

We meant to take a week off, but we just couldn't help ourselves. Our entire episode this week is a Yes Yes No about the recent (and massive) dustup on Reddit. Note: This episode has been updated to include a correction Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

From Gimlet, this is reply all, show about the internet and PJ vote.

0:07.0

We were trying to take a vacation this week and not put out an episode and work on other

0:11.0

stuff, but apparently that is not what happened.

0:16.6

We had a conversation with our boss, Alex Bloomberg, about Reddit and the crazy implosion

0:23.6

moment that they had this week.

0:25.8

And it turned out really interesting.

0:27.3

And at the same time, a lot of people have been asking us to explain what has been going

0:32.1

on with Reddit.

0:33.4

And so we figured it would make more sense to actually put this out this week while the

0:37.4

story is happening and people have questions about it.

0:40.5

So here you go.

0:41.5

It's a bonus.

0:43.4

Welcome once again to Yes Yes No, a segment on our show where we make fun of our boss

0:49.0

for not knowing about all of the boring arcane internet crap that we know about.

0:56.4

The description keeps getting more and more concise.

1:01.0

Amazing.

1:02.4

Yes.

1:04.6

So I'm here again because the internet continues to confuse me.

1:09.8

This is not something that I have a specific tweet for or I don't have like this is not

1:13.8

something that I've come across.

1:14.8

It's come at me in many, many ways.

1:17.6

Something happened on Reddit.

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