Comment by SolarStorm2950 on 09/06/2021 at 18:54 UTC

77 upvotes, 5 direct replies (showing 5)

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Who’s Victoria?

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Comment by [deleted] at 09/06/2021 at 19:05 UTC*

212 upvotes, 5 direct replies

Victoria Taylor[1] - The former champion of r/IAMA who helped organize and facilitate so[2] many[3] fantastic[4] posts[5]. She helped celebrities and otherwise famous or notable individuals navigate the site and reply to questions, and managed other media relations for the site as the Director of Communications for reddit.

1: https://reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2fgsv2/i_am_victoria_from_reddit_amaa/

2: https://reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2a5vg8/i_am_buzz_aldrin_engineer_american_astronaut_and/

3: https://reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2j4ce1/keanu_reeves_hello/

4: https://reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2le34s/bill_nye_undeniably_back_ama/

5: https://reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/356sal/hi_reddit_im_caroll_spinney_the_puppeteer_who_has/

Reddit showed their appreciation by firing her when she refused to take a "highly commercial"[6] approach (read as $$) to the AMAs she coordinated.

6: https://images.gawker.com/1326107685476973672/original.jpg

The only reddit employee users of the site appreciated, and they canned her for "resistance to management" without so much as a heads up to the AMA mods, effectively pulling the rug out from underneath the once amazing subreddit.[7] In turn, this spurred a large protest with a number of subreddits going black and demanding change/communication/integrity/etc,[8], to which well... here we are five years later and the Reddit higher ups are proving to still be just as tone deaf.

7: https://reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/3bw39q/why_has_riama_been_set_to_private/

8: https://reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/3bw39q/why_has_riama_been_set_to_private/

/r/IAMA, not /r/AMA

Comment by untappedbluemana at 09/06/2021 at 18:56 UTC

314 upvotes, 2 direct replies

She used to be in charge of AMAs, and was fantastic at it, until reddit fucked her all the way over some years back.

Comment by Magyman at 09/06/2021 at 18:57 UTC

61 upvotes, 0 direct replies

u/chooter used to be the person transcribing AMAs with celebs and such. She was very, very good at that part of her job