My guess this whole time is that investors want to 1) capture the Facebook/boomer/Candy Crush crowd and 2) let anyone (foreign entities) pay to peddle influence whether political or otherwise.

Pump and dump.

Reddit will be circling the drain after the 2024 US election, is my estimation.

Ah, and now I’m reminded of YikYak.

Hyper-local time-sensitive social media that ended after it became used for mostly pranking and bullying.

For a little while there though, it was a pretty cool.