Biography
Victoria Taylor was Reddit's director of talent and the chief coordinator of its popular Ask Me Anything (AMA) interview series, helping verify and run high-profile AMAs including one with President Barack Obama and serving as a key liaison between the company and its volunteer moderators. On July 2, 2015, she was abruptly fired; reporting linked the dismissal to disagreements over the direction and commercialization of the AMA program. Her removal, with no warning to the moderators who relied on her, triggered a mass protest dubbed 'AMAgeddon,' in which moderators set hundreds of major subreddits to private, effectively darkening much of the site. The backlash is widely seen as a flashpoint that contributed to then-CEO Ellen Pao's resignation later that month.