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Reddit r/pics votes on reopening with sexy pictures of John Oliver only (old.reddit.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by sexy_peach@feddit.de to c/news@beehaw.org

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Voting has now closed.

Our final tally is as follows:

Return to normal operations: -2,329 votes

Only allow images of John Oliver looking sexy: 37,331 votes

It would seem that the community has spoken!

Henceforth, /r/Pics will only allow images of John Oliver looking sexy.

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[–] lagged@dataterm.digital 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ahhh, very good. Excellent loop hole. It's possible spez will still try and force pics back to it's former popularity but this does follow his rules ...

[–] freeman@lemmy.pub 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Spez probably:

Motherfucker. Move those goalposts again. But no threats! just expectations!. Also what am I paying you for. Less loopholes in our doublespeak.