Hell, most of the people using it were indeed trolls, I actually met many of them and they said that they really used awards to troll heartbreaking, nsfl, or depressing posts by giving them the wholesome, helpfull awards etc. And the other half was basically karma bots. But as much as it was a crap feature, It really did gain reddit server time and revenue
Nah dude, there's no way that would have worked, the reason why g + backfired was literally because everyone on yt was forced to make a g account to just comment.
This may seem surprising, but Parag Agarwal, the Twitter CEO before elongated muskrat had a history of supporting isis views from his old tweets (there was a whole news article on it that has sadly been deleted). Really twitter CEOs have been fucked up politically since the beginning.
This is actually not the oldest comment. The oldest comment was actually from u/frjo which said "a look at Vietnam and Chinese markets demolishes the dream of market liberalisation".
There was a whole post about it on r/museumofreddit while I was still on reddit.
This itself is an older meme now ironically