Cyberpunk 2077 subreddit gives Reddit the finger by designating itself NSFW and posting dozens of nude Vs
When mods froze popular subreddits to protest Reddit's new API fees, the company threatened to depose and replace them unless they re-opened their communities. Undeterred, some devilishly sly mods took a new tactic: designate their subreddits NSFW, which keeps them open, but limits access and prevents Reddit from showing ads on them due to Reddit's own policy.
Reddit isn't having that, either. As reported by The Verge, the company has now demanded that moderators remove the NSFW tag from previously untagged subreddits or be overthrown. And here's where the mods turn to the camera with roguish smirks, because they weren't necessarily bluffing. The fan-run r/cyberpunkgame subreddit, for instance, is now mainly images of nude Cyberpunk 2077 characters.
In a message to the community earlier this week, r/cyberpunkgame moderator Tabnam said they'd received a demand from Reddit to remove r/cyberpunkgame's new NSFW designation, and weren't able to reply to argue their case: That Cyberpunk 2077's 18+ PEGI rating means it's a game for adults, and so the subreddit should be for adults, too.
«This subreddit should have been NSFW already, but we'd never thought to change it until recently,» wrote Tabnam. «Until we change it back we're in violation of Reddit’s sitewide rules. We're not going to change it back, because this is a sexually explicit game, and also fuck them.»
Other subreddits, such as r/military, posted messages using the same template, also arguing that they had always been NSFW, and just hadn't considered it yet.
On r/cyberpunkgame, Tabnam's first post might have been more effective than they anticipated, because they quickly readdressed the community. «Guys, come on, please don't post outright porn,» Tabnam wrote.
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