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Good riddance I say.

Article – https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/29/21304947/reddit-ban-subreddits-the-donald-chapo-trap-house-new-content-policy-rules

Edit: Also 2000 subs have been banned along with them.

Some banned subreddits that had at least 10 active users per day

Uhh no, you do realize CTH got banned too.

What's that?

Also, can anyone give a a summary what the banned subreddits were about?

Adpocalypse 2
Major advertisers are pulling out of Instagram and Facebook over politics – effectively they don't want to be tied to any position (why would they – they cater to all political positions when it comes to sales). Major social-media companies are watching this unfold and realizing that they are just as susceptible to the revenue loss and making pre-emptive moves to cut anything problematic.

That's great, but what the hell was r/cumtown?

it's prob the subreddit to Cum Town, which is a very popular podcast

even got its own Wikipedia page

Some of the subreddits that were banned and why based on what I was able to gather. Additional info would be appreciated, since I haven't heard of half of these subs.

r/the_donald – You all know why

r/chapotraphouse – Apparently the LeftWing r/the_donald if reddit comments are to be believed, others believe it was a sacrifice to "both sides" the ban wave. I haven't heard of it before so additional info would be nice

r/gendercritical – TERFville, honestly if they wanted a left-wing sacrifice, this shithole would suffice

r/ConsumeProduct – Apparently full of Jew hate if the thread it so be believed

r/ClericalFascism – Anything with Fascism in it's name is bound to be a loving and welcoming community

r/smuggies – No clue what this is

r/DebateAltRight – >Debate >Reddit >Pick One (AltRight's known for love and acceptance, right?)

r/bruhfunny – No clue

r/ShitNeoconsSay – Subreddit dedicated to hating on a political ideology judging by the name, always full of love

r/soyboys – I'm just gonna headcanon that this sub was banned because the soyboy meme is pure cancer (real answer is I have no clue, probably hating on the left)

r/imgoingtohellforthis2 – No clue, but judging by the 2, this is the second time they've been banned

r/AltRightChristian – Again, AltRight, pretty self-explanatory.

r/TheHonkPill – No clue

r/topnotchshitposting – No clue, possible false advertising, since if their shitposting was topnotch I would have heard of it

r/TheNewRight – Sounds like rejects the Right didn't want, the AltAltRight?

r/DarkHumorAndMemes – No clue

r/rightwingLGBT – Banned for being an oxymoron

r/whitebeauty – You get three guesses and the first two don't count

r/The3rdPosition – No clue

r/smuggies – Fucking Reddit thread I stole this from can't proof read for shit

r/wewuzkangs – Take a guess

r/ChapoTrapHouse is lefty Donald.

how long until all political subs are gone. If not the admin, the sub moderators will ban you. My account was banned ~2 years ago.

I think any political sub that one way or another divulges into just being one-side of the spectrum eventually evolves into a "hating the otherside" circle-jerk. I'm personally waiting for the day r/politics gets wiped, that place is a rightwing hating ciricle-jerk if I ever saw one.

Those circlejerks often happen because anything that's 50/50 controversial tends to get locked. Because many mods don't like heated debates.

I can clear stuff up about some of these

r/smuggies was about counter signal memes

r/bruhfunny is supposed to be an ironic meme sub, but had a lot of racist posts

r/ShitNeoconsSay is about neoconservatism, but many of its users were open ethnonationalists

r/imgoingtohellforthis2 is the followup to r/imgoingtohellforthis, an edgy racist meme sub that locked itself off after getting quarantined

r/The3rdPosition – basically like Nazbol, culturally far right, economically far left

other banned subs include r/BigChungus, which I have no idea why, and r/100acres, which is also ethnonationalist

@Ryumaru
I have a strong feeling r/honkpill was likely an altright sub that used "honkler" memes if the name is anything to go by.

With the two biggest subs that were aimed at the far right (The_Donald) and the far left (Chaptraphouse) now gone I kinda wonder what boards might get infiltrated by "refugees." Last I saw I remember there being some worry that r/actualpublicfreakouts was being infiltrated by actual racists who only post videos of black-on-white violence in hopes of starting an actual race war.

r/The_Donald was already a ghost town since it had been quarantined and restricted, which lead to them creating a new site based on Reddit's format

"r/ShitNeoconsSay is about neoconservatism, but many of its users were open ethnonationalists"

bruh, like, I expected it would've been antifa shit but no they apparently hated them for not being far right enough. Neo-Nazis are fucking scum.

@me >r/rightwingLGBT – Banned for being an oxymoron

Upon further digging, this one was apparently very trans hating, which kind of misses the point of LGBT. Gee, who could have guessed?

Took way too long. Should have banned TD before they could organize and migrate to a new site.

AFAIK, a lot of people who listen to the Chapo Trap House podcast didn't like the sub, so some of them feel like it's good riddance

Also this screencap is the funniest thing reddit has produced

Good riddance. This has been a long time coming.