• But like why would anyone do that? To see someone else giving someone else imaginary internet points they bought for real money? How doest that justify having to deal with a terrible UI, poor performance and videos not fucking loading properly like it is 2007?

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      11 months ago

      I feel the same way but they probably aren’t targeting people like us. If 95% of people think this change is dumb and don’t download the app, there’s still 5% of people who’d consider downloading the app and it’d be a pretty significant number of people. It’s just my hunch that they removed the original gold subscriptions in order to remove the ability to go ad-free, brought it back as a mobile app-only thing to get more people on the app. IPO is coming up, any padding of the numbers will help, that kind of thing, even if it’s only a couple percent