When I called up Priya Onond to talk about Reddit, I wanted to start with the company's

users. Priya is a tech reporter at Bloomberg and she's covered Reddit as it got ready to go public

on Thursday. What I wanted to know is what makes a Redditor a Redditor? Who is this person? Like what characteristics do they possess? What

behaviors do they engage in? Can you can you think of the ideal Reddit user?

Honestly, at this point, it's probably anyone.

On their phone, on the Reddit app,

Reddit has so many niche communities and broad communities.

People post pictures of their pets people ask for relationship advice people ask I don't know if you can you know have this in in your podcast but am I the asshole they tell these stories?

Yeah we can say that here.

The site is somehow still in the top 10 in the US

so really a Reddit user could truly be any among us and a lot of people these days I've heard are adding

Reddit to their Google searches to try to get responses that are like buy a personal human, you know,

let me find someone's experience with this thing on the internet

that I have a question about.

I myself have been drawn to a subreddit called Daniel Tiger Conspiracy, where parents of

young children complain about kids TV. The thing about Reddit and the thing that in my opinion sets it apart from other platforms is how its

users feel. Like it or not, they are passionate about Reddit. My biggest takeaway in covering the company over the

last couple years is that is absolutely a love-hate relationship. Anytime the

company makes a decision that, you know, even a subset of people on Reddit don't like there are vocal

complaints about it. There will be protests, there will be blackouts.

Even on the subreddit Wall Street Bats, which you likely remember from its role in boosting

GameStop and other meme stocks, posters aren't totally sure that its IPO is a good idea.

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