Been on Reddit for about 14 years. Never knew of the guy until a couple months ago.
The amount of idiotic things I've heard quoted is ridiculous. Good for laughs though.
He founded Reddit, left relatively early, and came back in 2015.
Back in 2016, The_Donald members started posting "fuck u/spez" all over Reddit after he banned a Pizzagate subreddit. He went in and edited a bunch of their comments to say "fuck u/the_donald" instead, and there was a pretty big backlash.
Hey, I get it... it's gotta suck to have a bunch of people on your site hate you for the past 8 years. At some point it wears you down, and I bet that's what we're seeing now. I bet the things he's thought and said to his friends and coworkers for the past few years have been so normalized for him that he sees no problem saying them to the press.
But still, I don't think this is the way to respond.
