Dear Reddit,

The new more edgy five-o-clock shadow Reddit.

...so they got rid of awards in favor of adding arrow shaped awards?

“Supports the creators” makes me think they have a revenue split and they got rid of the old system to prevent people from not knowing the difference
- Yeah this also conveniently happens after they made everyone's Reddit Gold invalid. Pretty damn shady if you ask me.
- "supports the creators?" like the person who created the comment gets paid? probably not. I've made zillions of witty upvoted comments and I haven't earned a dime. Where does that money go? Into spez's pockets.
The "levels" doesn't even make any sense, a splink of different color?

What a lol.
Yes, but do you see the last one!? It is colorful on the outside and golden on the INSIDE

🖕🖕🏻🖕🏼🖕🏽🖕🏾🖕🏿

I appreciate your commitment to inclusion.
- Hatred of reddit is accepted by all
"Fingering supports the contributors you love."

Is this real?

Yeah:
- Giving gold supports the creators you love
  
  I'm not going back to Reddit to find the answer but does any of this money actually go to the creators of the post that gets gold?
- Holy shit I thought it was fake!

Remember to always tip your celebrities for promoting whatever dumb projects on on your Internet forums, god knows we could use the money.

spoiler

THAT WAS SARCASM

Yeah but can we get back to talking about I Don't Even Remember The Name Oh Wait Rampart
- You mean Barbie, right?
  
  Because my movies are the only commercial interests permitted on Lemmy. Look at the banner of this community!
AMAs aren't just marketing, now they're money makers themselves!
- It's honestly pretty insulting.

I'm not one for circle jerking but reddit is objectively becoming a shittier platform

I feel like all of them kinda are

Youtube and Discord conveniently added user tags for no reason literally the moment Twitter went down the already pretty deep hole.

Twitch's favorite pastime is making bank on "unrelated" content

Facebook is just Facebook

Reddit has been constantly losing its appeal every year ever since they moved off the old layout.

Everyone adding/changing things in some meager attempt to drive profits and value without considering effects of user loss because social media is such an oligopoly it doesn't matter.
- Hiroshima has completely given up on ever making 4chan profitable, so it's still full of porn and casual racism.
Reddit really has become everything that Reddit used to hate.

They're paying the user this money or this is just for a fancy little icon next to the post like reddit gold used to be?

It's literally just reddit currency for their shitty premium
- ~~Oh, just more bullshit then. Thanks for clarifying.~~
  
  Edit: they do pay out cash for gold, but they keep most of it.

Not sure why the others are lying - disliking a platform is not a reason for spreading misinformation.

https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/17331620007572-What-is-the-Contributor-Program-and-how-can-I-participate-

They are paying eligible users based on karma and gold.

Of course, the program is more of a "see, we have something" than a proper revenue share because of the "get at least 10 gold" criterium and all the other hoops you have to jump through.

Thank you for the correct answer! I would have gone on believing a lie had you not responded. Here's their payout table:

Contributor Tier	Karma (Over 12 mo period)	Payout Rate (Dollars per Gold)	Minimum Gold for payout
Non-contributor	0-99 Karma	No payout; balance rolls over	n/a
Contributor	100-4999 Karma	$0.90 per 1 Gold	10
Top contributor	5000+ Karma	$1.00 per 1 Gold	10

So they charge $2.69-$66.99 for gilding and only give the contributor $0.90-$1, keeping the rest. Wow, sounds like a shit deal for everyone but Reddit.

In all my years in reddit I only got gold once. The prerequisites of needing 10 is just bonkers.

So, i just assume reddit is new onlyfans now
- I'm like 60% sure it'll turn into a porn site after this. But maybe that's what they're going for?

When I used to have gold to gild, I would always give it to the stupidest comment, like the most childish shit ever, if you had a poop joke or something, I'd give you gold, most of the time people would join in and gild the dumb comment.

Man if I'd have found this out back then I'd have ranted at you for ruining reddit.
- That was before reddit ruined reddit

Fuck all that Reddit shit

Imagine the person (or more likely a whole group) who has spent weeks designing and iterating over those arrows.

More likely 30 minutes in the evening after playing games all day and working for someone else lol
- No way…. Splez is watching

Wait are they charging people for upvoteing

It's what the old gold used to be. They rebranded it and added a tiny incentive for content creators (like a dollar per gold, regardless of the level of gold, once you reach a certain karma level)

Really it's just shittier reddit gold and another way reddit is trying to make money off of colorful arrows

Turning Reddit into a career

A repost bot’s dream

This is off topic, but why isn't there an animated gif of Bugs Bunny saying the "NO"? I mean, we have animated gifs for almost everything else, but I only see this as a static pic. Can no one find the cartoon that this is from and create a gif from it?

It is because the cartoon in which the frame is from he doesn't actually say no. The frame is taken just after he chugs a whole bottle of "Hare Tonic" https://youtu.be/uuKiqu3g_sE
- Okay, that makes sense. Maybe it's the Mandela Effect, but I swear I remember a cartoon where Bugs says "No" similar to how he's shown in the still. Maybe not (?).
- Wow, I had no idea this is what it's from! It took a few minutes for me to get the exact frame, but when I did, it was obvious. Thanks!
- It's super not obvious to me when the frame happens.
  
  What's the time mark for the frame?
- Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
  
  https://piped.video/uuKiqu3g_sE
  
  Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
  
  I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

It's definitely intentional that half of the #prices have #69 in it right?

Musk must have come up with the idea. Wait, there's no $4.20 option, so maybe not.
Well clicking #69 was a little NSFW
- First time I've noticed a hashtag as a Lemmy user.
Le 420xXx69 connoisseurs

What a bunch of scumbags

But I don't love reddit

Can't wait for the ability to pay to bump your post to top.

You know that shits coming. Or something like 'highlighted' comments
- Stonks

Interesting idea, make the users pay to effectively moderate posts in a positive way, this won't have large ramifications with what's on the front page /s.

Reddit heard "mods are unpaid" and found a way to charge them.

Do people get paid when their posts are gilded now?

Lmao fuck no, unless somehow in the last month Steve Huffman became a human being but I really don't see that happening
- So they're just plain lying about it supporting them.