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if you've been on the Internet this past week you've probably heard a lot about Reddit if you're confused why it's in the news this video is for you so let's start with what exactly reddit is right it is a website where people share articles photos videos and stories with others who then vote them up and down all of this content is submit to subreddits which are sections for specific interests and topics there is literally a subreddit for everything in anything one for funny memes another to talk about movies and even one to share the deep thoughts you may have in the shower one of the most popular sections is to ask me anything subreddit here users could ask people like Al Gore Bill Gates and even President Barack Obama anything they wanted now this is Victoria Taylor Taylor was largely responsible for acting as a liaison between celebrities and the mods of running to ask me anything subreddit she was fired without reason on July 2nd the reddit community was already on edge following recent changes that resulted in some subreddits being banned in an attempt to curb harassment but it was Taylor's firing that led to a huge revolt because each subreddit is controlled by unpaid moderators they have the power to set the sub Reds they control to private mode which essentially shuts down reddit itself it all started with the AMA section going private and then more than ten other very popular sovereigns hollowed even singer Lorde got involved with the drama tweeting that rule number one in the PR handbook was always victorious days the protest lasted about two days and received mainstream media attention reddit head Ellen Pao made statements depressed and not read it directly which ticked read it off even more it wasn't until July 5th Pao admitted on reddit that management quote/unquote screwed up and made mistakes over the past few years she also announced a new moderator advocate position to work with the mods and to better communicate with them meanwhile memes like this one and this one continue to pop up on the site mocking the apology there was also a petition calling for Ellen Pao to resign as the head of reddit which garnered more than 200,000 signatures and while that may sound like a lot of people it's really about 1% of the nearly 164 million people who visit reddit each month whether the petition worked or not POW on July 10th resigned from reddit and was replaced by none other than Steve Hoffman a co-founder of Reddit and the site's original CEO many users appear to welcome Steve back with open arms but the relationship between the corporate side of Reddit and the community still has a long way to go are you a reddit user tell us how you feel about what happened in the past few weeks in the comments section below I'm Dan Grazia prasena thanks for watching