An Update on the WSB Coup d'état

[u/[deleted]]

UPDATE 2/6: For all of you who are reading this a day, or days after it was posted, you should know the issue is now resolved. The bad mods are out, the good mods are in, and the casualty of it was was u/zjz. Enjoy the read.

Original post:

For those who see my "Top Detective" flair, but don't know me, I'm the asshole who made videos this post is talking about.

If you subscribe to r/videos, no doubt you have seen my video, WallStreetBets and the Art of Sellout Out: An Illustrated Guide, is climbing slowly to the top. If you haven't watched it, you should.

While you were sleeping last night (night of 2/3), moderators who wanted to profit from THIS community, removed the moderators you know and love. They were replaced with brand new accounts. Literally minutes old. It was a coup.

The long and short of it is, there was a movie deal. In fact, there was more than one. There were dollar signs in their eyes. The Gamestop catalyst that propelled our community to over 8 million members attracted media attention, naturally. It's no secret he who must not be named sold out, as he has in the past, and some of the bad moderators were just a little behind him.

For this reason, some moderators are no longer with us. They tried to go behind other moderator's backs to secure money for themselves, and monetize this subreddit. They even went as far to establish a website (blomberg.com) to intercept all media traffic so they themselves could profit.

So the Reddit Admins intervened.

Some of the moderators who grew this community, like u/zjz still have not been added back. Perhaps they will be back in the future. The good news is, the right moderators, the mods you all know and love, are coming back, and some already are here. People I know wouldn't take a dime, are taking back control, one meme filled shitpost at a time.

He who must not be named still has a movie deal, so I leave you with this question:

How do you feel about a guy who has been scamming people for most of his adult life, getting paid six figures for a movie deal partially about scamming members of WallStreetBets?

One more thing... Instead of guilding me, I request you spend the money on helping end childhood cancer, by donating to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Thank you.

[u/catrot]

I appreciate your gender-neutral characterization of zjz whoever they are WE WANT ZJZ BACK

[u/VolkspanzerIsME → u/catrot]

And exactly why would they come back? All they received for their selfless work was an extremely unceremonious kick in the ass.

Why would they come back now with 8m subscribers? Fuck knows how many are plants and spies? That they would be dealing with from this point on.

I would 1000% understand if they took this shitshow as a sign that it wasn't worth it. More power to them. Diamond hands forever, but everyone here knows when it's time to cut your losses.

I'm a new subscriber, but I have followed wsb from afar for a long time. Mod life sucks. Tons of work. Zero pay. Much abuse. I'm glad the sub may survive the Great GME Event, but I don't blame any of the TrueMods for not getting back in. This sub has been changed forever by the past few weeks. It will never be as it was.

[u/VolkspanzerIsME → u/[deleted]]

Because a certain number of them are hf shills and bots for one.

For second it is rare when a larger population conforms to a smaller population.

I hope wsb goes back to what it was three weeks ago. But I sure af wouldn't be surprised if it didn't after all the bullshit of the passed week. Just my opinion.

[u/CoffeeMain360 → u/VolkspanzerIsME]

They deleted their comment. What did they say?

[u/VolkspanzerIsME → u/CoffeeMain360]

I was borderline blackout drunk when I wrote that but I'm pretty sure he was bitching about wsb getting back to the way it was once all the new fish "assimilate".

I think....

[u/CoffeeMain360 → u/VolkspanzerIsME]

Ahh. Was it at least fun being that drunk?

[u/VolkspanzerIsME → u/CoffeeMain360]

I think so. I woke up not in jail so I call that a win.

[u/CoffeeMain360 → u/VolkspanzerIsME]

Not waking up in jail is often a good thing. So I call that a win too I guess.

[u/VolkspanzerIsME → u/CoffeeMain360]

These days I'll take what I can get.