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/h/slackernews LOG /h/slackernews MODS /h/slackernews EXILEES /h/slackernews FOLLOWERS /h/slackernews BLOCKERS
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Jannies are soon to be swimming in TENS of dollars.
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I see they're still not excluding bot networks from their official stats
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Ty bb
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Reddit is one of the world biggest websites and came in at $750M as a company.
Meanwhile Paramount+ paid the South Park guys to make 3 cartoons for them for $900M.
Three South Park cartoons cost more than the entire Lord of the Rings movie trilogy, which was $300M budget in total.
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What is $300m lotrbux after inflation?
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Idk but it made like 2B in theaters
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Based
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525M
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Ty bb
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Not quite. 3 have come out so far. $900m was for those 3 plus 11 more as well as the regular show seasons through 2027.
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wow catering to only the ultra left for your website has driven traffic down significantly where you cant make money?
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Lmao acting as if allowing the “ultra right” would actually make the site profitable
Imagine trying to sell ad space on top of /u/totalwhitevictory posting about the Jewish menace
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Hey horsefuneral,
We need to talk about your recent mention of a Reddit user. Our community respects privacy and encourages thoughtful interactions. We've let the mentioned user know. Let's all strive for a kinder, more respectful community.
Appreciatively,
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Nice meme
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It's not a meme bb now post bussy
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or allow everyone in...?
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Imagine doubling your users by decreasing effort and resources.
Total janny death when?
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that's . . . less than a year's revenue, by a lot. What?
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That's only the Class A stock, entitling one shareholder vote per share. There's also Class B (10 votes/share) and Class C (no votes). Jannies are almost certainly going to be offered ludicrous amounts of Class C.
The entire structure there is to make sure that, even though they're technically beholden to shareholders, Reddit HQ can effectively rig any vote in their favour and screw over anyone who buys in.
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iirc jannies were offered class A stock.
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How much stock could reddit jannies realistically buy? Maybe at best $1,500, being really generous. I doubt the average janny could scrape up more than $300, their salary just isn't high enough.
I could see them debtmaxxing to get like $3,000 worth to say "As a highly invested shareholder" or whatever.
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Why do you assume everyone's as poor as you, not having more than 1.5k on hand?
I'm generally of the view that Jannie's are losers but that doesn't mean they don't have some WFH software job that pays them a salary
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Because they spend their time moderating internet forums for free. I'm willing to bet they're almost universally poor and on welfare and that bardfinn is the norm. I could be wrong, but I don't think I am.
Maybe you're right though, I'm just thinking of power jannies. I guess normal jannies that moderate some obscure subreddit could be normal guys.
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BARD BOT ALERT!Current streak was: 0 days 16 hours 05 minutes and 33 seconds
Record is 1 days 13 hours 09 minutes and 59 seconds by TheDunceonFlorist
Average time between mentions: 0 days 00 hours 43 minutes and 11 seconds
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That was a pretty high streak. Frick you @Drunkdriver
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I'm literally obsessed
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Nah you're spot on, 99% of mods are online turboautists
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Jannies just along for the ride as usual
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A year's alleged revenue
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There are companies listed that are years into death spiral selloffs that have a higher market cap still. Bullish tbh.
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Should I buy some of this
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wow! nobody gives a frick about your feelings and why should they? I dont care about your week, your day, or even your fricking life. This is an internet forum and if you cant handle being here where there is free speech then shut the frick up and go home. It's 2020 if you are still crying about your fricking skin color you are pathetic. Theres more opportunity for BIPOCs to succeed than ever before, and if you are jewish then you could do us all a favor and choke on a peepee. If you aren't smart enough to learn and apply some knowledge blame your fricking biology and your brain cell count and mental capacity and not your skin color. Weak butt fricking babies. That's why you are at the bottom of the food chain now, that fricking weak butt mentality. No mental fortitude and apparently no capacity to learn and apply yourself.
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https://scrippsnews.com/stories/social-media-site-reddit-plans-a-750-million-ipo/:
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