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Activision Europe, who held the rights to R-Type, objected to the game's obvious similarity. [69] 1988 The Race Against Time: Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum: Codemasters: The original packaging had an image of American athlete Jesse Owens on its front cover. However, after the game had been released, Owens' estate objected.
The Button was an online meta-game and social experiment that featured an online button and 60-second countdown timer that would reset each time the button was pressed. The experiment was created by Josh Wardle, also known as powerlanguage.
The subreddits r/malefashionadvice and r/femalefashionadvice became subreddits for fashion advice relating to the 1700s, with one post on the latter referencing the character of Elizabeth Bennet from Pride and Prejudice (1813). [48] r/steam, a subreddit for the video game distribution service Steam, began posting about literal steam. [49]
[194] [195] [196] The similar subreddit r/Gore was banned at the same time, as was r/WPDTalk, a subreddit for discussion on what went on in r/WatchPeopleDie. [ 197 ] The sub had previously been quarantined for over half a year, but less than a day after the Christchurch shootings, Reddit banned it completely for violating Reddit's policy ...
Images with coordenates from across the world posted on the game's official Subreddit [10] leaded to missing posters with phone numbers on them, that when called, revealed strange URLs, each one of them having a different puzzle to be solved, aside from a 503 page PDF, with 13 puzzles divided in chapters. Worldwide, but most players were from ...
The subreddit had over 52,000 members just before it was banned. [381] The GameStop short squeeze was primarily organized on the subreddit r/wallstreetbets in January. [382] In March, Reddit users discovered that Aimee Challenor, an English politician who had been suspended from two UK political parties, was hired as an administrator for the site.
r/place was a recurring collaborative project and social experiment hosted on the content aggregator site Reddit. Originally launched on April Fools' Day 2017, it has since been repeated again on April Fools' Day 2022 and on July 20, 2023. The 2017 experiment involved an online canvas located at a subreddit called r/place.
Reddit banned a user for promoting switching to Lemmy along with the r/LemmyMigration subreddit as a whole, leading to a Streisand effect after it garnered attention on sites like Hacker News. The ban was reversed a day later.