shish_mish@lemmy.world to Malicious Compliance@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoHow John Oliver became a weapon in Reddit’s civil warwww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up18arrow-down14file-text
arrow-up14arrow-down1external-linkHow John Oliver became a weapon in Reddit’s civil warwww.theguardian.comshish_mish@lemmy.world to Malicious Compliance@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square10fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareUlu-Mulu-no-die@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoThat doesn’t explain why John Oliver was chosen tho.
minus-squareMountaineer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoMain stream reporting. Get John’s attention, hope he does a segment on it. I hope he not only does, but that he drives attention here, it will bring new users.
minus-squarekiwifoxtrot@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoJohn has acknowledged it on Twitter, but there won’t be any segments on it until the writer’s strike is over.
minus-squarerunswithjedi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoI think the answer to why is “Internet”
minus-squareSmuuthbrane@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoWho else, if chosen, would lean into it quite as hard and enthusiastically as John Oliver would? This is is raison d’etre here! It’s fine to question why, but if not him, who else?
minus-squareBrikoX@vlemmy.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-21 year agoIt was partly his tweet and his overall skits on making fun of stupid moves companies makes on his show.
minus-squareTrebach@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoThe tweet was in response to having already been chosen. He was fanning the flames.
That doesn’t explain why John Oliver was chosen tho.
Main stream reporting.
Get John’s attention, hope he does a segment on it.
I hope he not only does, but that he drives attention here, it will bring new users.
John has acknowledged it on Twitter, but there won’t be any segments on it until the writer’s strike is over.
I think the answer to why is “Internet”
Who else, if chosen, would lean into it quite as hard and enthusiastically as John Oliver would? This is is raison d’etre here! It’s fine to question why, but if not him, who else?
It was partly his tweet and his overall skits on making fun of stupid moves companies makes on his show.
The tweet was in response to having already been chosen. He was fanning the flames.