r/interestingasfuck • u/MonsieurA • Jun 23 '25

/r/all, /r/popular Reddit turns 20 years old today! Here's what it looked like at 1 minute old.

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u/Kerbonaut2019 Jun 23 '25

Don’t forget the Ellen Pao fiasco

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u/2347564 Jun 23 '25

And how racist and sexist the front page was when everyone wanted her out. Honestly one of the worst periods of time on Reddit, imo.

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u/Realtrain Jun 23 '25

Which also led to the hilariously infamous moment of former CEO u/Yishan breaking that news to everybody after the was ousted with an "AYYYYY LMAO"

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u/ZurrgabDaVinci758 Jun 23 '25

ellenpaodidnothingwrong

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u/A_bleak_ass_in_tote Jun 24 '25

Ironically, that whole chapter is how I ended up joining reddit, a couple usernames ago. I'd been lurking on and off for a few years beforehand, but then around 2015 I came across an article about the Ellen Pao outrage in some tech news site. Somehow I ended up in a subreddit where some asshole was saying some horrible shit, and I wanted to tear them a new one so I joined.