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Don't forget the epic story of the fall of r/worldpolitics and the rise of r/anime_titties as its replacement.

• UncleSlacky 3y ago
  Except on April 1st, of course.
• dredmorbius 3y ago
  So, um, storytime? (I'm unfamiliar with this.)
  • Macha 3y ago
    r/worldpolitics gradually became overtaken by US politics since Reddit is so dominated by US users. This displeased international users, as r/politics was already US-centric politics, and so r/worldpolitics had been seen as a place to discuss rest of world politics. The head mod did not agree, and after a couple of years of the sub being basically unmoderated and 90% US politics, and generating user complaints as a result, threw a tantrum and said anything goes, and posted a load of anime porn. Since the subreddit named world politics was now full of anime porn, and a little inspired by the subreddit r/marijuanaenthusiasts (the subreddit about Botany, since r/trees was taken by the weed people), a bunch of users decided to create a subreddit called r/anime_titties for discussing non-US politics.
    • dredmorbius 3y ago
      Ah. And yes, I'm familiar with /r/trees and /r/marijuanaenthusiasts, a couple of favourite examples.