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SNOOcalypse - document, discuss, and promote the downfall of Reddit.

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SNOOcalypse is closing down. If you wish to talk about Reddit, check out [email protected], [email protected] and [email protected].


This community welcomes anyone who wants to see Reddit gone. Nuke the Snoo!

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I guess Reddit has learned nothing. At least I have learned a lot in the last few days.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

And I have a question... in spez's letter shown on macrumors, he references "snoos". I assume the "snoo" in this sub is a reference to that, but I'm pretty sure spez is not talking about the acronym reference in the side bar. What does it mean?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Snoo is the name of the little alien avatar that's the... mascot? of reddit. I guess at corporate management encourage them to refer to each other as snoos. Sounds like typical corporate bs

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Snoo is the name of the Reddit Alien.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I assume the โ€œsnooโ€ in this sub is a reference to that

"Snoo" is the alien logo. I chose it for this community because "snoocalypse" sounded better than "redditcalypse". That's it.

And also to poke fun at u/spez saying stuff like "we snoos", even if nobody in that site calls oneself a "snoo".

The other choices in my mind were c/nukethesnoo, c/dieredditdie, c/makeredditdie. I'd rather avoid "die" in the name because people might take it too literally, and I wanted something that rolled easy on the tongue. I could use also c/watchredditdie but I didn't want to associate this community with the r/watchredditdie community in Reddit itself.