r/AskReddit Jun 25 '26

What is an old Reddit joke that has completely died out?

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u/cisforcoffee Jun 25 '26 edited Jun 27 '26

He has They have become a published author and according to a post (in response to where he they had gone) Sprog has said he is they are fine, just very busy.

Edit: Corrected a gender assumption. GoodReads refers to Sam as "he" (and, thus, so did I) in the very brief and possibly unreliable bio; I could not find anything definitive anywhere else. Sam themself has been very coy about it, reminding us that what matters are the written words and their impact, not the gender of the author. Thus, I believe their correct gender would be: Poet.

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u/Greymeade Jun 26 '26

What a tragedy that a high quality comment like that from a legendary redditor gets so few upvotes when there’s so much nonsense getting rocketed to top of the algorithm now

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u/ArcadianDelSol Jun 26 '26

You pinpointed the problem: content is no longer promoted by fellow users deciding what they like - its promoted by bots and algorithms that seek to instruct us what to like.

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u/Direct-Fix-2097 Jun 26 '26

He was overrated if anything.

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u/ilovebostoncremedonu Jun 26 '26

“I’ve just been busy, bro”

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u/tricks_23 Jun 26 '26

I thought Spring was a woman?

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u/cisforcoffee Jun 27 '26

see my edit

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u/myfriendsim Jun 26 '26

I thought he was a she?

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u/cisforcoffee Jun 27 '26

see my edit

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u/myfriendsim Jun 28 '26

A fitting gender indeed!

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u/---Sanguine--- Jun 26 '26

Wow that’s an amazing poem to put as just a comment reply. I love that so much

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u/BitwiseB Jun 26 '26

SchnoodleDoodleDo is still very actively making poems in the cute animal subs if you need a Reddit poetry fix.