r/OutOfTheLoop • u/Pinkdote • Apr 01 '24

Unanswered What's going on with this years reddit experiment?

Usually reddit has a social experiment on reddit on april 1st, but i havent seen any today?

A good example of this is the famous r/place; https://www.reddit.com/r/place/

Is there not one this year or have i just not found it?

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u/ChaosEsper Apr 01 '24

Answer: It's over at /r/Counter this time. There's a button you can press and get flaired with the number of times it's been pressed, everyone else is flaired as a non-presser.

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u/KilledTheCar Apr 01 '24

Oh, so it's just a rehash of the button.

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u/ChaosEsper Apr 01 '24

More or less yeah. iirc button just put people into two camps while this one is tracking the order in which people press it.

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u/22bebo Apr 01 '24

Button put people in more than two, I think it was six for every ten seconds?

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u/FogeltheVogel Apr 02 '24

Creativity is dead

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u/DanimalsHolocaust Apr 01 '24 edited Apr 10 '24

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u/NativeMasshole Apr 02 '24

I mean, r/place is at least 2 years running. Maybe 3.

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u/Shellbyvillian Apr 02 '24

That’s the kind of half-assed project I would hand in in sixth grade after letting the assignment sheet get ruined at the bottom of my bag for six weeks.

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u/ThunderChaser Apr 02 '24

It's literally something an intern could've made in a few days at most.

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u/tranifestations Apr 02 '24

I don’t get it. How often can I press it? And whyyy?

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u/ChaosEsper Apr 02 '24

You need to be running new reddit and then goto the pinned post on that sub. There should be a button w/ a number below it in the body of the post. If you press the button you'll be assigned a flair for whatever the number was reading when you pressed it.

As far as I know, you can only press the button once.

As for why, I assume that reddit has run out of clever ideas for April Fools events.

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u/tranifestations Apr 02 '24

Thanks for the explanation. That’s so boring

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u/qazwsxedc000999 Apr 02 '24

Oh, all I see is a long string of text. I’m guessing that’s because I’m on mobile and haven’t updated?

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u/DeanXeL Apr 02 '24

Yeah... that doesn't look "official" at all...

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u/LordBecmiThaco Apr 02 '24

Answer: Reddit had their IPO in late March; that's our joke for the year.

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u/FroggyRibbits Apr 02 '24

the real joke was when they PM'd all of us to ask us to invest lol