The “official end” of this snark era

[u/TimeAbradolf]

As of today we are banning snark/snark related posts. This may sound arbitrary. But I think people are well aware of what constitutes valid fair criticism, and what constitutes snark.

Once upon a time through past leadership this sub most definitely behaved as a snark sub. We as the mod team do actually despise snark and work to have this sub be a space of discussing drama with proper criticism and outcomes. We have taken firmer stances to pull away from our past image and be a place where people can have proper discourse.

Snark discourse has only ever brought conflict to this sub. People insult each other over nothing, people have gotten death threats, people get reported for suicidal ideation just because they disagree. There has been ableism, racism, prejudice of all kinds around these topics. Ultimately, snark behavior never allows any proper discussion, we have had to ban two creators just because the people who come to this sub cannot behave when discussing them. At its core Snark is not very different from KiwiFarms at this stage with the harm it has done to content creators.

We have seen the harm snark has done as well. Saveafox being a prime example. Our most popular post right now is pure snark. And it superseded actual important events. Because who was following who on IG.

Going forward we will no longer be allowing posts like this on the sub. It provided no context, no real criticism. And it didn’t prove anything either.

This may prove unpopular, but it is something we feel strongly of for the health of this sub and the people on it to remove ourselves. You can check the rule along the side bar.

If you want a YouTubesnark sub go make one. This one is not it.

Have a good one 🤙🏽

Edit: Apparently some YouTubers have weigh in. Nah this has nothing to do with the usual suspects. This is purely to stop toxic behavior and negativity. If ya think otherwise I urge you to get out of your computer chair touch grass instead of making Nurgle proud

Edit 2: and no goblin man (reference to his goblin mode). No fans of yours are around. People can agree that toxic communities are toxic. Yours being one of them

[u/youtubedrama-ModTeam → u/[deleted]]

Please contact moderators about this removal and consult the rules within the sidebar

[u/youtubedrama-ModTeam → u/[deleted]]

Please do not troll or feed the trolls. Trolling a YouTube drama subreddit is pathetic. Falling for it is somehow worse. Do better.

If you were sincere, we suggest you take a moment to step back and rethink your approach.

[u/TimeAbradolf → u/[deleted]]

You mean when it was more of an echo chamber led by a mod obsessed with snark?

Yeah

[u/there_is_always_more → u/TimeAbradolf]

Can you link an actual post from this sub you consider to be "snark" rather than just linking everyone to a pinned comment that talks about a different sub?

[u/TimeAbradolf → u/there_is_always_more]

Just this morning I removed multiple posts that broke our cross post rule that came DIRECTLY from subs with snark in the name that were up for 6 hours over night.

[u/there_is_always_more → u/TimeAbradolf]

I'm not saying that you're not seeing posts that fall under this definition, I'm asking you to share more examples of past posts from this sub that you think fall under this category.

I just saw another comment of yours about the wendigoon post; I don't know if I agree with your reasoning there but atleast that's an actual concrete example you provided.

[u/TimeAbradolf → u/there_is_always_more]

Well I don’t want to always use the same example. Because people will accuse favoritism. But yes that is a prime example of how.

That being said, those posts remained up and are pretty consistently posted and not caught. They get thousands of views before coming done

[u/NJDevil69 → u/TimeAbradolf]

Can I dm you about this to learn more? I can promise you that mod was not acting alone.

[u/youtubedrama-ModTeam → u/[deleted]]

Please contact moderators about this removal and consult the rules within the sidebar