I’m, honestly, not surprised. It’s like, what were they expect?

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    I mean I do analytics on site engagement metrics professionally, like as my job that pays me money, and based on that and past instances of r/place, I can make an educated guess that:

    • They were desperate to improve July usage numbers because projections were looking shitty after the events of the past month.

    • r/place has traditionally been a good way to juice engagement numbers

    • They pulled a lever they knew would generate the results they needed

    Is it temporary? Sure. But this buys them some time and August’s numbers are August’s problem.

    Here’s are the stats from a previous instance of r/place:

    Social platform Reddit re-introduced its collaborative social experiment r/Place on April 1, leading to the highest daily active users (DAUs) its mobile app has ever seen

    So yeah, they’ll get the juice they need, probably, but the fact that they were compelled to even need to pull that lever says a lot, imo.

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      I mean, as an Ad Tech guy, the problem is that they’re at the stage where they need to increase revenue, not just engagement numbers. Look at Twitter: The dollars can simply flow out of an ad supported social media company and to the big boys fairly easily.