ZOMBIEBATCH S05SOCIAL MEDIA

Reddit

Took 20 years to IPO. Content moderation is a suggestion.

$1.3B
Capital Raised
21+ YRS
Lifespan
100K+ unpaid moderators
Body Count

AUTOPSY REPORT

YC's second-ever startup. Took 19 years to go public. Along the way, hosted jailbait subreddits for years, enabled election interference, and CEO Steve Huffman secretly edited user comments in the database . IPO'd in 2024 at $6.4B. The moderators who kept the site running? They work for free.

DAMAGE: 100K+ unpaid moderators
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Satirical project. Not affiliated with Y Combinator. All information from public records.