Doesn’t matter, it drives user engagement and website traffic. Easy way to show to advertisers that Reddit is very much alive. They don’t care what is drawn, as long as it’s nothing illegal or bad for advertisers. People want to spend 24h to write “fuck u/spez”? Sure, whatever.
i was there, placed a cube, happy with my adblocker and left for my daily 10 minute dose of modcoord where i look at the first one or two post and answer questions about lemmy
Sure, American advertisers don’t like that, but foul language is all over Reddit, so that’s not something that will drive advertisers away that would otherwise consider advertising on Reddit.
Doesn’t matter, it drives user engagement and website traffic. Easy way to show to advertisers that Reddit is very much alive. They don’t care what is drawn, as long as it’s nothing illegal or bad for advertisers. People want to spend 24h to write “fuck u/spez”? Sure, whatever.
“No such thing as bad publicity” comes to mind.
At the end of the day, ragebait is still ragebait, and brings in clicks (as well as ad revenue)…
i was there, placed a cube, happy with my adblocker and left for my daily 10 minute dose of modcoord where i look at the first one or two post and answer questions about lemmy
“Fuck” is not good for advertisers.
Sure, American advertisers don’t like that, but foul language is all over Reddit, so that’s not something that will drive advertisers away that would otherwise consider advertising on Reddit.