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2015-07-02
Victoria Taylor's firing and the AMAgeddon blackout
Victoria Taylor — Reddit director of talent who coordinated r/IAmA AMAs (u/chooter)
- Guest
- Victoria Taylor
- Role
- Reddit director of talent who coordinated r/IAmA AMAs (u/chooter)
- Date
- 2015-07-02
- Subreddit
- r/IAmA
- Outcome
- A defining governance crisis exposing Reddit's dependence on unpaid moderators; a turning point in the platform's AMA era.
What happened
Victoria Taylor, who built and ran r/IAmA's celebrity AMA operation, was abruptly fired on July 2, 2015. In protest, moderators set over 1,400 subreddits private in the blackout dubbed 'AMAgeddon.' The fallout fed into interim CEO Ellen Pao's resignation days later.