I've been on Reddit for a long time, and it is truly one of my favorite websites of all times. It pretty much is what the website claims to be - a front page of the internet. I've always browsed articles, AMAs and videos, but lately I just realized that probably the most context being published are probably images.
Thanks to subreddits such as r/pics, r/funny, r/aww and r/wtf, Reddit is swarmed with pictures. An article on Mashable investigates the movement and claims that Reddit is becoming an imageboard. An imageboard (for those who don't know) is type of an internet forum, which mostly operates via posting images. Anyways, according to the study, the amount of pictures published are causing a little problem, since the ratio of text to picture posts is unbalanced.
A picture says a thousand words, this perhaps is true, but what will happen to Reddit, if this trend overwhelms the remaining context? There's much more to this website other than pictures.
I can see where this comes from. Since majority of the content posted on Reddit has to be up-voted or down-voted, with the modern tendency of users preference of pictures over text, this picture extravaganza was bound to happen.
I guess the pictures aren't too bad at the end of the day, however seeing some decent text content wouldn't hurt anyone. You know how professors these days say that students today can't write? Maybe internet picture viewing and favoring picture posts over text posts has something to do with that.
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