Reddit has turned into an agenda based and undercover money generating platform. OC posting is no longer a commodity regarded as a desirable on the site. This

Reddit has turned into an agenda based and undercover money generating platform. OC posting is no longer a commodity regarded as a desirable on the site. This is why reposts and triggering content are so common. Now when I look thru r/all or even the front page I'm likely to encounter lots of TikTok style reposts, subtly placed ads, and even videos of people dying and getting seriously hurt. Reddit fosters this engineered content to drive attention and doom scrolling so that the underlying advertising and payola machine can push messaging in between watching content that has already garnered proven popularity or attention on other platforms. Meanwhile there are life-long users who are still clinging to the idea that "good old reddit" will return, and some people posting OC in hopes of gaining traction to make it to the front page in futility. Reddit's demise was first signaled when they chose to stop displaying how many downvotes were registered on posts (quite a while ago) in my opinion... The same way most platforms crawl towards the slow death and inevitable karma of turning "free membership" platform models suddenly and undercover into "full profit" models. Sorry for being a pessimist about it, but it happens every time. Tom was a genius, he knew when to jump off the gravy train.