Wednesday, July 11, 2018

Thanos subreddit successfully bans half its community

For weeks, a subreddit dedicated to the villain of Avengers: Infinity War has been obsessed with obliterating half its community. This random, historic Reddit ban, executed yesterday, successfully slammed the door on more than 300,000 accounts. In the words of r/ThanosDidNothingWrong, balance has been achieved.

In the days leading up to the ban — which many users are assuming will be a one-time Reddit event — hundreds of thousands of people have subscribed to the subreddit for the chance to get kicked out. A thread called the “official ban bet thread” listed members pledging to get tattoos, slip topics into conversations for a day, write fan-fic, and more depending on whether or not they survived the purge. Even Thanos actor Josh Brolin...

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