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Reddit Followers

Reddit Followers

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Reddit Followers refers to a feature available on the social news aggregation website Reddit. Due to the relatively low popularity of the feature, having followers on the platform has become a popular in-joke among its users, often referenced in memes as an extremely challenging feat.

Origin

On May 22nd, 2018, a major redesign update became available for the majority users on the social news aggregation website Reddit.[1] One of the features added in the update allowed users to follow personal accounts of other Redditors, which allowed them to see posts made by them on their personal profiles in their feed.


Karma 41,067 Followers 6

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In the following year, due to the low popularity of the feature, having followers on Reddit became jokingly regarded as a challenging feat. On January 26th, 2019, Redditor TheWolfRevenge made the first notable meme mentioning the feature, with the post gaining over 1,200 upvotes in six months.[2]


when you realize you have 30 followers on Reddit Welcome to downtown Coolsville

In early April 2019, multiple memes comparing having followers on Instagram and Reddit were posted on the platform, with having even a single-digit number of followers on Reddit presented as a notable achievement (examples shown below).[3][4]


S 40.0k 144 Followers 1

In early August 2019, the joke saw another surge in popularity, primarily in /r/dankmemes[5] and /r/memes[6] subreddits.

Various Examples


Instagram users: OMG thank you so much for 1M followers Reddit users when they get 1 follower: Instagram meme accounts: "I have thousands of followers and steal all my memes from Reddit" Instagram Thots: "I have millions of followers" Reddit accounts with 3 followers: my sister with her 2,537 followers me and my 5 followers on reddit
my sister's thousands of instagram followers: me and my 1 reddit follower: 1000 friends in Facebook 100.000 Instagram followers 1 Reddit follower Odds of: WE 50% Coin flipping to heads/tails LIBEATY 0,8% 0,25% Getting an enchanted bow from fishing Getting a knife from a CS:GO case Getting struck by a lightning 0,0000014% Dr Strange picking o.00000000714% the right future 0,0000000000000000000 Followers Randomly getting a Lo00000000000000000001 follower on Reddit 00000000000000000001% 2d Professor_Voodoo I managed to eat 6 followers and have no idea how Edit: that's meant to say get not eat, but I refuse to change it because it amuses me Edit 993

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External References

[1] WIRED – The Inside Story of Reddit's Redesign

[2] Reddit – Shout out to my one follower

[3] Reddit – I'm freaking out

[4] Reddit – Best things to wake up to

[5] Reddit – It’s true

[6] Reddit – Levels of power

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