game news Cyberpunk 2077: Biggest Reddit Forum Goes 18+ And Posts Adult Content Just To Punish Reddit… And It Works!
When it comes to video games, gamers sometimes protest in weird ways. This was the case with Mario Kart, for example, with the blockades at Place de la Concorde or with the grouping of individuals in front of Tom Nook’s shop in Animal Crossing. Away from Night City, Cyberpunkn 2077 players were still expressing their displeasure at the recent Reddit-related news.
What’s happening on Reddit?
For the last few weeks, there has been a lot of excitement around the internet around Reddit: a website where many users discuss the topic of their choice. A real Roman forum in the digital age, whose entries are limited. Recently, the redesign of the official application has put off many users. in particular because of the advertising, considered outdated, to third-party applications that allow you to enjoy Reddit without commercial ads. However, in May, Reddit decides to increase the price of these accesses in such a way that all third-party applications decide to pull out in order to remain financially healthy.
An initiative that is anything but unanimous. Among the various moderation teams, some explain that this complicates their mission, which is to maintain a healthy discussion space. In particular, they express their fears in a long open letter:
Many of us rely on third-party apps to effectively manage our communities. Let’s take the bandage off right away: in many cases, these apps offer superior modeling tools, customization options, streamlined user interfaces, and other quality of life improvements that the official app doesn’t offer. The potential loss of these services due to the price change would have a significant impact on our ability to moderate effectively, which would negatively impact the user experience of our communities and ours as mods and users.
“This subreddit should have been NSFW already”
Despite this open letter, the official management of Reddit does not change their mind. Some teams of moderators then decide to take drastic measures: By mid-June, some forums will no longer be functional. And for a few days it is in particular the channel reserved for Cyberpunk 2077 that has an ace up its sleeve with self-branding NFSW. This English acronym means Not safe for work, warns about the content offered. Above all, it makes it possible to avoid bizarre situations in the professional environment. It is mostly gory or sexual content that is presented when tagged with the NSFW.
It has to be said that Cyberpunk 2077 is packed with content of this nature. It’s even surprising that the title wasn’t even labeled as NSFW at the time of its December 2020 release. But regardless, this is only for a short time and allows the Cyberpunk 2077 channel to be ad-free. Something Reddit management doesn’t like, as evidenced by the post shared by tabname
In her opinion, the fact that your favorite subreddits are becoming NSFW is too much for you to comprehend. The infamous Code of Conduct mod sent us a message telling us to go back because “You’re probably confused by all the NSFW content you’ve been watching”. As a result, we couldn’t explain that this is an 18+ game subreddit, and our content hasn’t changed. This subreddit should have been NSFW already, but we never thought of changing it until recently. Until we change it, we’re breaking the Reddit Rules for the entire site. We won’t change it because it’s a sexually explicit game and because they’re going to show it off.
Therefore, out of support (or a general point of view), Cyberpunk 2077 Reddit users have started sharing a lot of very explicit content. A very strange way of protesting, we agree.
