The moderators of Reddit’s IAmA community are significantly reducing the amount of work they do to help solicit and coordinate AMAs with celebrities and high-profile individuals.
I’ll be honest, once Victoria left, AMAs weren’t the same…
Seeing the people who barely held it together walk off… I mean shit
Remember when AMAs were from regular ass people with cool jobs or something? Instead of just advertising?
Honestly this is one of those things I’d be fine leaving on reddit. Celebrity worship is gross, and it was never very interesting. 5-6 simple questions answered, promotion of their new book/movie/show, and peace out.
I still fondly remember the days of Victoria helping with facilitating the AMAs. She had a great rapport with all the celebrities and really helped with getting good answers to questions from the community.
I consider her termination to be the moment Reddit started going down the route of putting potential profits above the needs of the community.
They had some good shit with subject matter experts though.
TIL Bill Gates was a moderator of /r/IAMA
I remember when Victoria was fired, the quality of all celebrity amas went down to shit and became glorified ads, such wasted potential
Which instance will host them now?
This one is really a big deal and people don’t really take it so serious, this was actually something that would get a lot of attention for Reddit outside of Reddit. I wouldn’t be surprised if the Admins take over the subreddit long term to get that turned around or come up with another solution for it because while celebrity envy is gross it does attract the masses.
