• JokeDeity
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    362 years ago

    And people will pay it. If there’s anything I’ve learned over the past year, no matter how bad things get, some dumbass will pay. 99% of the population could be under water or on fire and that leftover 1% would still have guys trying to buy in game cosmetics and tipping Twitch streamers.

    • @glimse@lemmy.world
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      Unlike reddit gold, tipping streamers actually makes sense, though. It’s like throwing a couple bucks in the guitar case of a brusker…the person is entertaining you so you give them a few bucks as thanks. I don’t do watch streams but I get it.

      • @BURN@lemmy.world
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        112 years ago

        This is how I view it too. I rarely spend money on twitch, but a sub or dono to someone who I’ve literally watched for hundreds of hours for essentially free doesn’t really seem like a problem to me.

  • Chariotwheel
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    After taking everything away from what we “earned” for the past years. They’re taking more than half of the money of what people pay before giving the rest to the actual receiver and Reddit being Reddit is probably just stop payments at some point and just pocket money. Of course, after a lot of spam and repost bots made some bucks and the climate on Reddit gets worse as bots get more aggressive to beat the other bots.

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    Why does the image look like a synapse? Is that meant to illustrate Redditors’ chemical dependence on Reddit Gold?

    • @Synnr@sopuli.xyz
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      152 years ago

      It is undoubtedly a group of synapses with one about to get a big juicy golden dopamine hit. I feel like that was a spez request to marketing and design departments as a subtle way to laugh at how obviously overboard they can go and people will stay addicted.

      I’m curious how the r/conspiracy sub is reacting, or not reacting.

  • @elscallr@lemmy.world
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    212 years ago

    That’s a fucking nonsense idea, but how else would they afford the crack that caused that idea to originate?

  • Optional
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    192 years ago

    Wow they’re just digging upper and upper ain’t they.

    Cheers, reddit. Good luck and that.

    • @WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world
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      It’s like they’re selling NFT’s, yet somehow with an even lower value proposition.

      “I want to pay money to support reposted content, that was already worthless and mediocre the first time round” — said no-one ever

  • @Chunk@lemmy.world
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    112 years ago

    Wow. They did not confirm the super votes affect the algorithm but if they do that’s pretty shocking.