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Reddit

How “Am I the Asshole?” Created a Medium Place on the Internet

The famous subreddit started as a forum for one man to ask about his workplace behavior. Seven years later, it’s become a platform where millions of people discuss good, bad, and everything in between.

Tove K. Danovich The Ringer Oct 2020 20min Permalink

Media

Reddit and the Struggle to Detoxify the Internet

The future of online speech.

Andrew Marantz New Yorker Mar 2018 30min Permalink

Tech

Our Best Hope for Civil Discourse Online Is... Reddit

An experiment with the Change My View subreddit.

Virginia Heffernan Wired Jan 2018 10min Permalink

Sports Tech

Serena Williams’s Love Match

How the best tennis player of all time fell in love with the guy who founded Reddit.

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Buzz Bissinger on the Longform Podcast

Buzz Bissinger Vanity Fair Jun 2017 20min Permalink

Movies & TV

The Movie That Doesn’t Exist and the Redditors Who Think It Does

You never watched Shazaam.

Amelia Tait New Statesman Dec 2016 20min Permalink

Media

Ermahgerddon: The Untold Story of the Ermahgerd Girl

When a random person becomes a massive meme.

Darryn King Vanity Fair Oct 2015 10min Permalink

Tech

Inside Reddit’s Plan to Recover From Its Epic Meltdown

The plan, basically: bring back the two founders (who were estranged), focus entirely on mobile, and apologize as much as possible.

Jessi Hempel Wired Oct 2015 25min Permalink

Tech

The Complete and Chaotic History of Reddit

“Traffic was never the problem. Everything else was.”

Seth Fiegerman Mashable Dec 2014 35min Permalink

Unmasking Reddit’s Violentacrez, the Biggest Troll on the Web

An argument for outing a notorious message board member: “Under Reddit logic, outing Violentacrez is worse than anonymously posting creepshots of innocent women, because doing so would undermine Reddit’s role as a safe place for people to anonymously post creepshots of innocent women. I am OK with that.”

Adrian Chen Gawker Oct 2012 20min Permalink

Media

Why Is This Man Running For President Of The Internet?

Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian launches an ambitious campaign.

John Herrman Buzzfeed Oct 2012 15min Permalink

Arts Tech Movies & TV

How One Response to a Reddit Query Became a Big Budget Flick

An Iowa dad’s surprisingly short path from commentor to screenwriter.

Jason Fagone Wired Mar 2012 20min Permalink