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A comment on Reddit’s April Fools’ experiment. Parent comment

Re:Reddit’s April Fools’ experiment by brink on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @12:02PM (#14034107)
> It got annoying going to certain subreddits that I subscribe to for content started getting flooded with "Man the decks, we need to defend this!".

To be fair, it is arguable that it deserved attention, as the final picture is now a part of internet history.

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Re:Reddit’s April Fools’ experiment by ggggtez on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @12:29PM (#14034459)
I don't think that argument is easy to defend, considering how big the internet is and that this is just a copy of existing ideas that have been done before.
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Re:Reddit’s April Fools’ experiment by TeMPOraL on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @01:03PM (#14034902)
Context matters. This is Reddit, so that particular effort will become a part of remembered Internet history for the next decade or more.
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Re:Reddit’s April Fools’ experiment by flying_kangaroo on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @01:00PM (#14034856)
On the flip side, however, reddit is (as of today on Alexa) the 4th most visited site in the US. Given that user-base, I think a lot of internet users have noticed this.
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