He was Reddit's biggest power user, moderator of a significant amount of major subs, constantly on the front page and had the most reach of the website.

He got caught using alts to boost himself and his account was deleted.

[–] axtualdave@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're thinking of unidan. Gallowboob just sort of stepped away after getting a job doing whassawhahum mumblemumble.

[–] briongloid@aussie.zone 4 points 1 year ago

I think you're right, I have merged the two together its been so long.

[–] GDTRFB@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Are you partially mixing him up with Unidan and that whole "jackdaw" thing years ago? Or for all I know they both met the same demise lol.

[–] Cube6392@beehaw.org 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He for a time had the highest karma score of any user. He stepped away from the platform. Many redditors felt it wasn't a coincidence that the platforms most successful user was also close personal friends with one of the founders (Alexis) and accused the platform and the user of collusion.

The reality of his situation likely lies somewhere between his and Reddit's position that his content rose to the top purely organically and other users' position that his content rose to the top purely through manipulation. He got his start legitimately making funny memes for Photoshop battles but then at a certain point started manipulating the platform (with Reddit's tacit approval) for his own personal gain

[–] minimar@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think an important part of the story is how he was very obviously getting deals from companies to use reddit to advertise their products. Remember when he just posted the netflix logo animation?

[–] Cube6392@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

I was trying to find some history of that. I recalled him getting monetary compensation for posting (which is what I was trying to allude to with "personal gain") but I couldn't find any specifics. I even kinda think his personal friendship with Alexis had to do with Alexis getting some of the money from advertisers directly in the whole scuzzy affair

[–] kairos@midwest.social 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don't remember if he's a mod at all, but he's notorious for the sheer amount of submissions across a lot of popular subs, I think.

[–] DreamySweet@exploding-heads.com 5 points 1 year ago

Wasn't a lot of it reposts of OC made by other users?