brianlouis

She was the coordinator of the Ask Me Anything forums. She was probably the most known face of any Reddit employee as she often was in the "proof" images from the guests/celebrities. She seemed pretty chill and was seemingly liked by any of the AMAers that would come through. When she was fired it felt a little like betrayal from the upper management of Reddit. This site has changed dramatically in the ~7 years I've used it. It's moments like the firing of Victoria that show some of us older redditors that the simple and low key days are over. It's a huge business now. I think Reddit is like the 5th most visited page now. I'm sure the AMA people were looking to move it into a larger and more efficient format. Why they couldn't have incorporated Victoria, though, is beyond me.

I've always been a skeptical person but holy shit has this site entrenched me in cynicism. That KFC painting fuckery was a perfect example. r/nothingeverhappens

Back in the 90s I know a lot of people that watched. Then the internet started to proved the kind of specific content people were interested in. There are entire YouTube channels dedicated to things like a day-by-day breakdown of WW1 on the YT channel The Great War. The History Channel tried lots of new things through the 00’s to stay relevant and took the low hanging fruit. The general public took an odd liking to “reality” TV and they ran with it in hopes of keep advertisers.

When American Pickers first came out, I loved it. The editing and music and all that garbage was super annoying but watching these dudes uncover some cool piece of American history buried somewhere in a junk garage in Kentucky was like a new age treasure hunt.

I also used to love watching anything related to film. IFC and A&E used to do stuff like that. Now I have Lessons from the Screenplay, Channel Criswell, Now You See It, Cinema Tyler, Film Drunk Love, Every Frame A Painting. Royal Ocean Film Society, FilmJoy, and more on YT.

These channels didn’t adapt to the way we are now consuming media.

Here's a link to the bestof that brought it to my attention.

How do you see yourself competing with lab-grown meats? Think they’ll take? Will there be a marketable difference similar to organic vs conventional? Or will the farms just have a second wave of struggles?