They're blatantly censoring posts and comments about this, that surely has worked well in the past.

I suspect it's about pushing paid content as part of a revenue mechanism.

All advertising platforms consolidate over time.

Considering gallowboob openly admitted to landing a job off his ability to do just that, I would say that is likely. People don’t realize how much influence things like memes or other seemingly innocuous posts can have.

How are people buying this just based on the headline?

Seriously, has anyone seen those mods control those subs?

Have they removed other mods and run the subs according to their evil designs?

What evil design?

People all over this thread are talking about this as if it was fact.

This is a point where people stop being effective on HN, and offload their thinking to assumptions of trust, jsut because its posted here.

This thread, and this post mean that this isn't a fair thing anymore.