Members of the forum were not pleased.
According to Mashable, the r/antiwork subreddit forum has gone private temporarily following a tense interview between Fox News personality Jesse Watters and one of the subreddit’s moderators. Other moderators stated that they are dealing with “cleanup from ongoing brigading,” or attacks by other subreddits, and that they “will be back soon.”
The interview, members of the forum felt, did not reflect well on them because it focused more on the moderator personally than on the movement itself. “This person had the opportunity to demonstrate to the world the problems with today’s work culture, but instead just said ‘laziness is a virtue,'” one commenter said.
The subreddit’s catch-phrase is “Unemployment for all, not just the rich.” It has more than 1.7 million users and was the fastest-growing non-default reddit across the site as of this writing. Growth doubled in the last three months alone, as workers tired of COVID-19 pandemic conditions and low wages.
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While it originally started as an anti-capitalism forum, the subreddit is now used to discuss workers’ rights, talk about bad bosses, air grievances and more. Previously, the site has been implicated in a hack on business receipt printers to insert pro-labor messages.
“Most of the posts on r/antiwork are from retail and fast food workers, nurses, teachers, and other essential workers who are being screwed over during the pandemic,” said another user on Twitter, according to The Independent. “But then… [this moderator] goes on TV and sets the entire thing back by a decade.”
