Reddit CEO Declares r/popular Feed 'Sucks' and Retires It Like a Bad Ex

KEY POINTS

•Reddit CEO Steve Huffman announced removing r/popular as a default feed to avoid a false sense of a unified Reddit culture.
•The platform attracts 116 million daily visitors but is promoting smaller, more personalized communities and limiting moderation roles.
•Following the October removal of public chat, Reddit aims to create more focused private spaces amid growing competition.

In a daring act of corporate honesty nobody asked for, Reddit's CEO Steve Huffman, the platform’s boss since 2015, officially announced the death of r/popular—the very feed that pretended to unite Reddit’s wildly chaotic 116 million daily visitors. Huffman called it out for being a popularity contest rigged by "most active users," basically Reddit's loudest, nerdiest fans, cloaking a single Reddit culture illusion only appealing to, well, hardly anyone. Official words: 'r/popular sucks.' Alongside this brutal toast, he’s also capping mad power-mods and fiddling with community size displays to make Reddit feel less like a chaotic flea market and more like a boutique "corner of the internet." This move follows October’s shady public chat kill-off, pushing users toward tiny, private groups—because nothing screams modern social media like ghettos for each tiny superiority complex. Meanwhile, Reddit’s stock has skyrocketed 44% in a year, proving chaos is still marketable.

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Reddit officially admits r/popular is a dumpster fire nobody wanted but everyone accidentally used out of habit. CEO Steve Huffman just killed your lazy internet dating app for culture.

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