I honestly don’t know if this is allowed here but I thought this is malicious compliance at its finest.

If you don’t want to drive traffic there I’ll repost what the mods posted below:

POLL: Decide on the future of /r/Pics!

Hello, /r/Pics subscribers!

Boy, what a whacky time we’ve all had lately, huh? Reddit decided to kill off third-party applications, a protest got planned (and possibly exploited by bad actors), the site showed up in the news, various communities started opening back up, others decided to stay inaccessible, and then the CEO of Reddit implied that a bunch of moderators would be removed from their positions!

Crazy, right?

Anyway, we – the so-called “landed gentry” – definitely want to comply with the wishes of the “royal court,” and they’ve told us that we need to run the subreddit in the way that its members want. To that end, we figured that the only reasonable thing to do was directly ask how you’d like things to progress from here.

Which of the following should we do?

  1. Return to normal operations

  2. Only allow images of John Oliver looking sexy To be clear, if people choose the second option, screen-grabs from videos will be allowed (provided that there aren’t any visible logos, inserted graphics, or other digital elements present). You could – if you wanted to – look through episodes of Last Week Tonight on YouTube, find moments featuring John Oliver at his sexiest, then post images of those moments here.

It’s entirely up to you! Whatever the /r/Pics community decides is best, we’ll respect!

Vote, friends! Vote now!

(You can vote by upvoting either of the comments in the thread below.)

Voting has now closed.

Our final tally is as follows:

Return to normal operations: -2,329 votes

Only allow images of John Oliver looking sexy: 37,331 votes

It would seem that the community has spoken!

Henceforth, /r/Pics will only allow images of John Oliver looking sexy.

(Said images must adhere to all of the community’s other rules, including those mandated by Reddit.)

Happy posting!

  • @exixx
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    This is actually the reason I’m here on Lemmy now. I love John Oliver but with all the other dark subreddits it was a bit much, and already had been looking into it. Led to Lemmy by too much sexy John Oliver.

    • @dystopM
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      261 year ago

      like porn, sexy John Oliver pics are the gateway to Satan.

        • GreyBeard
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          31 year ago

          Oh, so we have a way to deal with the wild house cat population destroying birds.

      • @deviant
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        71 year ago

        On my way to post sexy feet pics because nobody’s seen John Oliver’s sexy feet, or have they…

        • @kadu
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          81 year ago

          deleted by creator

          • megane-kun
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            31 year ago

            Well then, there’s still no entry for John Oliver there.

            Not sure whether or not it’s a good thing.

          • @seeCseas
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            21 year ago

            Cataloguing? Er… Like people are sorting celebs’ feet by size, color, shape and whatever else? I don’t know how to respond to that…

    • @JollyBrancher
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      41 year ago

      “I want to see a sexy picture of John Oliver.” “We have a sexy picture of John Oliver at home.” Sexy picture of John Oliver at home: Adam Driver

      • @cats
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        41 year ago

        Hey now, that’s Adam Driver slander

        • @JollyBrancher
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          31 year ago

          The only rational way to be upset would be if you were dead set on the steamy John Oliver exposure! I just had to do a role-reversal of John and the man whose foot was on his neck for over a season, daddy Driver.