A reddit admin was caught abusing her position to set her tile cooldown to zero (note: cooldown is 5 minutes and 20 minutes for email verified and unverified users respectively) in order to erase an Orange Cat that was previously posted by Reddit on twitter. (Had to link to imgur because the admins placed a sitewide filter on that Twitter link)
This cartoon cat was the creation of Anton Dimitriev, a Ukrainian artist who is currently living in Kharkiv that is besieged by the Russian military as we speak.
His art station: https://www.artstation.com/mine_flood
His deviantart: https://www.deviantart.com/anton-d/gallery
In addition, reddit permanently banned everyone who placed a tile in that area or tried to change her tiles to repair the Orange Cat. Merely placing pixels near the cat resulted in a personal ban, resulting in the bannings of users from /r/AnarchyChess as their subreddit logo bordered the Orange Cat.
People who tried asking about their bans had their posts removed as well
Reddit went a step further and manually deleted the accounts so that whenever you try to visit an account banned for placing a tile - you get this page.
Example of an account manually deleted - they last posted yesterday proving it is a real account. As you can see, this was an active and real account that was not only banned, but deleted (the sub he posted in has now gone private, so this is an archive).
Other people caught on, resulting in posts calling it out that reached the front page. Initially the admins tried to do damage control by setting a filter on /r/place to automatically remove any post that mentions the cheating or the Orange Cat that was overwritten. Another reddit admin responded saying admins have been cheating to "keep the canvas safe for everyone," a laughably poor excuse considering they didn't interfere with people drawing peepeees, the 4Chan logo, or swastikas over the German flag.
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Don't forget to include the shitshow of an explation they gave https://old.reddit.com/r/place/comments/tv3hin/a_reddit_mod_is_cheating_and_the_mods_are/i386wxx/?sort=controversial
Seeing other redditors calling out redtaboo will make them want to jump on board. Also good to post this link on its own if anyone claims that the video is fake, since it's a clear admission.
Yours for Wild Nature
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