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What happened to him? I only know that this person was a (bad) mod on a whole lot of subs.
They got on the wrong side of their admin buddies somehow, and the admins did what the admins always do: the leopards ate the face of the top-scoring face-eating leopard. Awkward then spent the next several days whining about it publicly in every forum they could think of, in the most nauseating way, like “this is what I get in return for liking the taste of your boot, how could you do this to me after all I’ve done for youuuuu” type posts, when the reality is that they’d spent the last decade being an actual fucking putz to average rule-abiding Redditors just for the fun of it.
The actual Reddit posts have all been modded away, of course, but there are some good non-Reddit overviews:
https://www.dailydot.com/debug/reddit-campaign-against-moderator-awkwardtheturtle/ (this is from 2021, background)
https://properprogramming.com/blog/the-banning-of-awkwardtheturtle-from-reddit/
https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/80769 (also has links to pics of Awkward crying out to John Oliver on Xitter)
But – the most absolutely tasty one of all:
https://old.reddit.com/user/awkwardtheturtle
I never get tired of looking at it. Almost like when a former shitposting president got booted off Xitter: too little too late, but quite pleasant nonetheless.
Wow. I’ve seen then mentioned a few times on here before but never knew the background. I’m a particular fan of them claiming they made john oliver famous through the spam.
The cynic in me absolutely suspectes reddit kept them around just for the traffic they generated. But as soon as the protests started it seems to have been “not like this”.
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Such a pain to edit or delete comments one by one.
It is, but its well worth it. What i found is that my comments from 2 or more years ago weren’t showing on my profile. So although my profile seems empty, I still have historic comments on the platform that I can’t get to unless I know every comment I made and where.
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