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https://tracingwoodgrains.medium.com/r-antiwork-a-tragedy-of-sanewashing-and-social-gentrification-56298af1c1a7

the real drama was in the making. it's been kinda a weird piece to write tbh

this isn't typical rdrama fare, but I figured I'd share it here since you guys kindly helped with a bunch of the background research.

oh and as thanks for providing me lots of pointers to links, here's a dump of every relevant link I dug up, including histories of jannies (shockingly: all anarchists) and a bunch of old archives of the sub, a tangent about violence that didn't end up going anywhere, and a heap of other nonsense.

cheers

TIMELINE:

18 August 2014:

https://web.archive.org/web/20130818004835/reddit.com/r/antiwork - sub origin - in praise of laziness

https://web.archive.org/web/20150703051842/http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/07/world-without-work/395294/ - atlantic - a world without work

https://www.marxists.org/archive/lafargue/1883/lazy/ the right to be lazy

3 July 2015:

https://web.archive.org/web/20150703071415/reddit.com/r/antiwork - Doreen Ford was second-ever mod of antiwork, becoming a moderator when it had some 1300 users

22 February 2017:

https://web.archive.org/web/20170222140844/https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/ - slow growth. 2300 readers

https://camas.github.io/reddit-search/#{"author":"phoenix--insurgent","resultSize":100} - main visible user besides AbolishWork, another anarchist who talks a lot about sabotaging bosses etc

31 October 2017:

https://web.archive.org/web/20171031035119/https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/ - discussion starting to pick up a tiny bit

3 September 2018:

https://web.archive.org/web/20180903051111/https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/ - i hate newreddit, but anyway, 4.8k subscribers and a new moderator. really starting to pick up steam within its niche

https://old.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/98wj7t/i_want_to_quit_the_corporate_life_but_feel_awful/ - randomly selected self-post from that time. note: AbolishWork there in the trenches, doing her thing

https://old.reddit.com/user/onedayitwillbedaisy - currently active in /r/anarchism and /r/destroywork

https://old.reddit.com/r/CrimethInc/ CrimethInc - run by that mod. rebel-left does its thing

19 October 2018:

https://web.archive.org/web/20181019205342/reddit.com/r/antiwork - 7.2k subscribers, helped by a boost from AskReddit and NoStupidQuestions https://camas.github.io/reddit-search/#{"author":"onedayitwillbedaisy","subreddit":"antiwork","searchFor":1,"resultSize":100,"query":"[META] frequently"}

13 February 2019:

https://web.archive.org/web/20190213030802/reddit.com/r/antiwork - 16.4k subscribers, well and truly taking off. New moderators:

DnLocky https://camas.github.io/reddit-search/#{"author":"DnLocky","resultSize":100}

IAmThe11 https://camas.github.io/reddit-search/#{"author":"IAmThe11","resultSize":100}

WinterTrabex https://www.reddit.com/user/WinterTrabex

pink_paperclips https://camas.github.io/reddit-search/#{"author":"pink_paperclips","resultSize":100}

(all anarchists)

21 November 2019: https://web.archive.org/web/20191121192009/https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/ - 67.9k subscribers

New moderators:

/u/Whitepirate15 - mostly apolitical. https://camas.github.io/reddit-search/#{"author":"whitepirate15","resultSize":100}

/u/Sehtriom - anarchist http://reddit.com/user/sehtriom

/u/Sasha_Unicorn - NEET, NeurodivergentPride, GenZedong communist, https://old.reddit.com/user/sasha_unicorn, https://old.reddit.com/r/GenZedong/comments/in9rqo/pov_youre_a_human_being_if_ussr_never_existed_be/g465m9t/?context=999, https://old.reddit.com/r/alltheleft/comments/hrfu29/can_someone_please_tell_me_what_my_ideology_is/fy45yqu/?context=999