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Someone must have been the first to suggest it

• pyeri 3y ago
  Sometimes, the time and situation has an energy of its own. It didn't matter whether Leibniz invented calculus or Netwton did, someone had to do it at that time (as a matter of fact, they both did independently in their respective countries).
• klik99 3y ago
  If I had to guess it would be on some private mod chat like discord or something, and probably more than one subreddit mod group decided independently since it's a known way to protest. I am curious too, but it grew so quickly that establishing the origin would be difficult
• seattle_spring 3y ago
  Sure maybe by a few milliseconds, but I guarantee "boycott" jumped into thousands of people's heads the immediate moment they read about the pricing changes.
• runjake 3y ago
  It's pretty common for subreddits to do the blackout thing for various causes (eg. net neutrality) and has been for years.
  • Shawnj2 3y ago
    This was the largest one I’ve seen by a very long shot. The last one was when Reddit hired someone who worked with her father despite knowing he was a sexual predator who had been charged with over 20 crimes and censored people who used her name in comments to criticize her, which didn’t last very long and ended pretty quickly with Reddit firing her.