Voting has now closed.

Our final tally is as follows:

Return to normal operations: -2,329 votes

Only allow images of John Oliver looking sexy: 37,331 votes

It would seem that the community has spoken!

Henceforth, /r/Pics will only allow images of John Oliver looking sexy.

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    What I love about this is that it’s exactly the kind of thing he’d talk about on his show, which would be hilarious and also add more exposure the the whole thing.

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    This is epic. Trolling level 10. Spez wanted to force them to reopen, so they did, but burned the subreddit. I can’t wait for r/gaming to be only about ping pong, or r/videos to be only cat videos.

    You can not force a community. And Spez has unintentionally created a community, just one that hates him.

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    Brilliant. I look forward to John Oliver’s episode on capitalist social media companies like Twitter and Reddit fucking their userbase

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      The one downside to the writer’s strike (that I’ve so far since there was a lot of content banked) is all the late night comedians’ missed opportunities. Of course, I fully support the writers. I hope they get everything they are asking for so that we can get back to watching the amazing stuff they produce!

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      It’s funny for a day, but it’ll be a graveyard in a week, I’m guessing.

      I think this is the best possible response to being essentially forced to reopen.

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        Forcing mods back is one thing, but it’s a lot harder to bring back users once they’ve found another chew toy to gnaw on.

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          Or rather it’s a lot harder to bring back users and make them stay if all they can see are sexy pictures of John Oliver

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    Ahhh, very good. Excellent loop hole. It’s possible spez will still try and force pics back to it’s former popularity but this does follow his rules …

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    I support the writers strike of course. But sad we won’t get a new episode of Last Week Tonight where John has to comment on how he’s bringing the sexy back to /r/pics

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      Honestly think it’s funnier if you do hate John Oliver

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            A bit late replying (just learned how to see inbox alerts!), But if you’re asking why I don’t like him? Coz he feels like a smug sanctimonious poser.

            If you’re John Oliver’s alt, please don’t take this personally xD

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              Smug tho? He’s constantly self-deprecating in his jokes.

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    Ahh, I returned to Reddit for the vote just to learn that vote is over :(. If you are interest in the vote’s result and do not want to visit Reddit, feel free to open the spoiler

    spoiler

    Voting has now closed.

    Our final tally is as follows:

    Return to normal operations: -2,329 votes

    Only allow images of John Oliver looking sexy: 37,331 votes

    It would seem that the community has spoken!

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    Absolutely based, r/Steam is pics of Steam engines and such right now. r/wellthatsucks is pics of vacuum cleaners iirc

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    Why was Jonh Oliver chosen?

    I don’t know him and his relation with Reddit, I think I might need some context XD

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        New Reddit policy: Anyone who posts a photo of John Oliver is permanently banned.

        Redditers rush to post as many photos of John Oliver as possible and thousands of users are banned. The postings of John Oliver finally stop, but since the most prolific posters are now banned, all other postings also grind to a halt.