r/facepalm • u/Llim • Dec 08 '20
Political posts are now banned Mod Post
For a while now, content from other subs such as /r/PoliticalHumor, /r/LateStageCapitalism, /r/MurderedByAOC, etc. have been bleeding over into here under the justification of "look, someone said something dumb about politics on twitter, what a facepalm." After some discussion, the modteam has decided that these posts are not appropriate for facepalm and should stay in their respective subreddits, so they will no longer be allowed here. This sub was fine for years without these posts and there's plenty of content out there that's more appropriate for /r/facepalm. If you see a post related to politics, please report it.
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u/Dogtor-Watson Dec 08 '20
Yeah at this point it was just Trump's Twitter account. I like politics but it's important to separate it.
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u/MotherOfWoomy Dec 08 '20
I’m looking forward to more facepalm posts that aren’t about Trump, I mean, Trump’s become a facepalmcow at this point
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u/Hairybuttchecksout Dec 08 '20
I think there is enough political posts to start a r/politicsfacepalm or something similar.
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u/darsparx Dec 08 '20
Kinda surprised it doesn't already exist(watch me say this and someone makes it lol or it somehow exists now)
Edit: ok so it already exists but it's a dead sub
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u/cappye Dec 08 '20
Uhh when I go there is see there are posts from 7 years ago
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u/darsparx Dec 08 '20
Yeah that's what I saw and edited saying it's a dead sub....unless people revive it somehow
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u/STerrier666 Dec 14 '20
Up to us to breath life into it, I'll start by posting something on it.
Edit : I can't post on it, great, start a new one?
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u/available_username2 Dec 09 '20
they never were facepalms. They are posts about political realities that the poster thinks is a sad state of affairs. Even if you agree with sentiment it was never a facepalm.
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u/chemicalrefugee Dec 10 '20
Look at the definition again :
\A subreddit for you to share the stupidity of people online and IRL. Post screenshots from forums, social media sites, or just real life.*
You are apparently unfamiliar with earth politics, most of which is a large facepalm.
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u/datboy7328 Dec 08 '20
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u/gonaldgoose6 Dec 09 '20
I left because it was literally just political bias, thank god.
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u/IMBobbySeriously Dec 11 '20
What bias? You could post facepalms from either side.
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u/ColoradoSteelerBoi19 Dec 08 '20
I don’t mind political facepalms, I just hate political facepalms on EVERY SINGLE POST.
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u/Standingfull Dec 08 '20
Came here to say this.
I was getting a little less interested in this sub due to the overwhelming amount of political posts.
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u/theDoublefish Dec 09 '20
I hate the one's that are a tweet that's more of a facepalm comment than a facepalm. Commentary on something stupid going on in the world vs. someone actually doing something stupid
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u/emma_does_life Dec 08 '20
I think there are a few political posts that really belong here. They are facepalm's in the truest sense of the word.
Other times, it's just a screenshot of a tweet with nothing added to it. Just "this person dumb, therefore anything they say is a facepalm."
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u/Kev-1-n Dec 08 '20
Im glad, every post was just a screenshot of a trump tweet. Im not even american I don't know jack fuck about the politics in my own country
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u/fomaaaaa Dec 08 '20
Political posts never bothered me, but maybe there’ll be more variety in posts now instead of the same tweets being posted over and over and over
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u/PreOpTransCentaur Dec 09 '20
Meanwhile, the screenshot of people not knowing what sunrise and sunset are has 11 different individual posts over the past 9 hours, all of which are still up. So..no. r/facepalm will always be a haven for wildly unmoderated reposts.
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u/Brewchowskies Dec 10 '20
It’s a shame, I thought the political posts were hilarious
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u/chemicalrefugee Dec 10 '20
They are hilarious. Politics is big pile of full on stupid regardless of party or nation. A whole lot of politicians are living monuments to facepalm. You don't have to mock or satirize them, just quote them. I can't give any examples because the subreddit admins might feel the need to goose step.
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u/Saragon4005 Dec 08 '20
Yeah it's not as much that politics are bad as much as it's just simply too easy to find content and it gets boring really fast.
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u/dodgingresponsibilty Dec 22 '20
People act like the only time anyone does anything, or says anything stupid is in the “political world” and there is no other sources of “facepalm content” anywhere on the internet. NONE.
Guess some people will have to be more resourceful now and actually make an effort to LOOK for it now.
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u/DeXr_ Dec 08 '20
Goodbye to 90% of this subreddits posts lmfao
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u/trumpetMercenary Dec 12 '20
Oh thank god
Someone put a watch on u/crupnick, that’s one bot (human?) who’s gonna have to find a new place to spam. My guess is that he’ll just go right over to r/whitepeopletwitter.
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u/Imadogcute1248 Dec 10 '20
Nah, the sub has lots of content that’s not politics but people are only upvoting politics, meaning that greedy people who want internet points make politics posts and the circle goes round and round.
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u/IMBobbySeriously Dec 11 '20
lol or you know, politics are a massive part of our lives (Covid, Trump, etc) and a subject most thinking people are interested in.
This is an anonymous site, who’s giving upvotes to be “cool”? Makes no sense. The shot gets upvoted because people like it.
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u/Imadogcute1248 Dec 11 '20
Yes but the thing is this is not friendly politics. This is just spamming "ORANGE MAN BAD" and other shit, it's often not even face palms. Also we have more than enough politics in our lives.
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u/IMBobbySeriously Dec 11 '20
Lol the site is facepalm, why would it be “friendly”?
If you disagree or don’t like the content of a post, downvote it. But do just eliminate subject matter that is such a massive part of every day life, not to mention the richest source of facepalms on the planet, just because it hurts someone’s feelings or tastes is crazy.
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u/evohans Dec 08 '20
If you see a post related to politics, please report it.
May I know the details of a post worthy of a report? Like, if a politician does something non-political (like Ted Cruz accidentally liking a porn tweet), would that still be considered political?
I'm asking so I can appropriately report in the future.
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u/Germanitalian75 Dec 08 '20
That would be hilarious, please don't.
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u/Llim Dec 08 '20
If it involves anything politics related. A post a politician makes on social media, a headline about the government, etc
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u/onions_cutting_ninja Dec 09 '20
Oh that explains why the posts I've seen today were non-political. And here I was thinking it was because the US election was over. Silly me.
I guess this is for the best. Things will go back t normal and people who enjoy political facepalms still have plenty of subs to subscribe to.
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u/Tyrannis42 Dec 13 '20
I started a Subreddit specifically because of the overflow of political posts on r/facepalm. If you need to post a political facepalm head over to r/politicfacepalm and do it there.
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u/Silverfire12 Dec 09 '20
Hallelujah! Finally I can come back to this sub without having to sift through politics again and again.
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u/RandomRedditor975 Dec 08 '20
What a nice change, now I can look at stupid people and not have it all be Trump
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u/aLx257 Dec 08 '20
Thank you. Though these posts never bothered me itself, this sub turned into 80% politics which was kinda annoying
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u/DrBlackford Dec 08 '20
good riddance. its about time
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u/IranianGenius facemod Dec 08 '20
After like...five years in the fp mod subreddit trying to make this change, I'm surprised that the reaction so far is so overwhelmingly positive.
I'm thrilled about it. This sub is better when one type of content doesn't dominate the discussion.
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u/Silverfire12 Dec 09 '20
Yeah. I just learned about this and I’m so happy to be able to come back without seeing Trump Twitter posts all over.
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u/Ya_Boy_Is_On_Reddit Dec 08 '20
Yes I enjoy facepalming about people being stupid, not facepalming because of the amount of political posts I see.
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u/IMBobbySeriously Dec 11 '20
It dominates because that’s what the subscribers want. Sounds like you just wanted what you want.
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u/PoorMansPaulRudd Dec 08 '20
It's fine if they were actual facepalms according to the rules. But the political posts are typically just picture text memes. Thanks mods!
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u/agnostickazoo Dec 10 '20
Good. Almost all of the political posts were poor fits anyway. Very few were real facepalms--most were just people being rude to each other. As much as I enjoy Jeff Tiedrich, his stuff doesn't belong here.
If I want political snark, I'll go to MurderedBy..., Political Humor, InsanePeopleFacebook, or CleverComebacks. I don't need it here, too.
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u/centralnjbill Dec 10 '20
If political posts are banned, maybe protest posts need to be banned, too? While it’s a flair choice, there is no way to disconnect the protests from politics. That should be added to this rule.
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u/IMBobbySeriously Dec 11 '20
Which is why this is stupid and makes no sense. Covid, the protests, jobs, the economy, the environment.... it all involves “politics”.... abd a never ending stream of facepalms.
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u/tdomer80 Dec 08 '20
Thank God. This was turning into a cesspool of hate for one side or the other of the political aisle.
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u/withlove_from Dec 08 '20
I don’t mind them if they are actually facepalms, but at this point 3-4/5 posts are political ones that are BARLEY facepalms
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u/Mrfryingpan_uwu Dec 17 '20
I was just about to post a zinger too! I mean, is it okay if its not opinion based? Just my friends thinking Brexit meant the UK was going to leave Europe and just not be in a continent? Did i say that we ALL LIVE IN ENGLAND?
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u/ToxicWombatRL Dec 08 '20
Yea despite me agreeing with pretty much all of the political posts, I got tired of seeing them on this sub. They’re funny and the people saying the stupid shit was definitely “facepalm worthy” I definitely agree that it should have its own place.
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u/Somedudewithdiamonds Dec 08 '20
i clicked on this sub to see if the political posts were gone yet and this is a rather pleasant surprise
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u/gooklyn Dec 09 '20
Finally!!its about time ! I found myself avoiding certain subs I ve been enjoying for a long time -until every post slowly turned into a personal Political statement Meme .wtf? there’s a right place and time here to spit out politics and what not if u choose to do so.. . I was almost ready to give up Reddit the moment another DiCaprio pointing laughing meme popped up on my feed /favorite subs with some stupid election caption above it-ughhh- I wish that type of misplaced content was automatically redirected to a Karen sub
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u/PunchBeard Dec 15 '20
Great! Now we can look forward to the same pictures being posted 5 times a day for months on end. I never get sick of the "Cheat on your boyfriend", "Can I cheat on her", "No" image I've seen 20 times.
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u/Ode_to_Pet_Cheetah Dec 10 '20
When you find out people have been posting political facepalms in this sub when there was already a separate facepalm sub for political content. Thats a facepalm within itself.
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u/VQ_Quin Dec 11 '20
Thank goodness, I was sad that this turned into r/politics. I'm tired of all the posts about American politics that I don't give a shit about.
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u/cenedron Dec 17 '20
Exactly! The whole fking sub is flooding with trump tweets. It's annoying. Btw also ban screenshots.
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u/chemicalrefugee Dec 10 '20
congrats to the admins for the irony of this post
It belongs on facepalm as an example of stupidity
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u/delicate-butterfly Dec 11 '20
Dang i came here for that
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u/venusofthehardsell Dec 08 '20
Too bad, some of us enjoy political facepalms and I personally don’t see how they don’t fit here.
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u/aidenthemaster2 Dec 08 '20
In my opinion, it's just become spam. Half of the posts aren't even facepalm, just someone who has different political views.
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u/venusofthehardsell Dec 08 '20
Some definitely didn’t fit but I thought a lot did. I know a lot of people were frustrated with politics in general though.
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u/doomalgae Dec 08 '20
I enjoy a good laugh at an idiot politician but I also enjoy things that aren't political, and it's been frustrating me just how much of previously apolitical subs have gotten overwhelmed by political stuff. Gotta escape from it sometimes, you know?
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u/Millian123 Dec 08 '20
I study politics at uni, I enjoy learning about politics, I enjoy jokes about politics. But, how overtly political some subs have become, that really shouldn’t be, is fucking annoying. I’ve deleted posts before because the comments are filled with people pushing their political narrative (a lot I acc agree with) on an apolitical post. Sometimes I just want to have a break, is that to much to ask?
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u/SeriousPomegranate Dec 08 '20
I cannot imagine how awful that would be. It's the sort of thing that can lead to people losing interest in the subject they're studying.
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u/Millian123 Dec 09 '20
It’s not the end of the world, I just spend less time on reddit now and avoid political posts if I’m not in the mood. Sometimes it can be very interesting to read about other’s experience’s, political opinions and debate others sometime. I’ve only been on reddit for a couple of years and it does seem to have got way more political recently, hopefully it’ll go move back to a balance.
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u/LunarianAngel Dec 10 '20
In my opinion it's also because most of them weren't facepalms in themselves, but "implied"facepalms.
Example, it wouldn't be a picture of Trump doing something stupid, it'd be a tweet of someone talking about Trump being stupid. You're not witnessing the actual facepalm.
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u/aidenthemaster2 Dec 10 '20
I know! It's really annoying when I go on to see some facepalms and it's just "haha trump stupid"
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u/IMBobbySeriously Dec 11 '20
Of course they fit in here. Problem is, just like at /meme, the people who pay no attention to world events outside of gaming and reality TV don’t want “adult stuff” posted. And then of course there’s the MAGA cult who obviously hate it because their a walking facepalm.
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u/aidenthemaster2 Dec 14 '20
That's the entire reason it's banned, my dude, it's just people going "trump stupid". Which is fine, it's an opinion of course, but it's nearly every post on this sub at this point. It doesn't even require effort anymore, and it's just because of political views.
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u/VIIVIMMVIII Dec 08 '20
okay but why, I know it's annoying sometimes, but there are a lot of legitimate facepalms related to politics.
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u/Claymore357 Dec 08 '20
The problem is those become a 10x per day repost.
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u/RoachPriest01 Dec 09 '20
It’s excessive, also they’re all just agenda post and trump being an idiot
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u/Clutteredmind275 Dec 10 '20
Goddamn this was the only reason I joined! Why is every sub doing this!?
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u/IsThataSexToy Dec 08 '20
Good try, but there will still be political COMMENTS!!! Muah ah ha ah ha!!!!!
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u/DjChiseledStone Dec 09 '20
While the political posts have been growing out of control, I doubt there will be a rise of new facepalms because a lot of the miscs are reposts from years ago.
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u/yarneosarecuteandfun Dec 09 '20
will this ban be lifted? like maybe in 20 years when no one remembers why it is here?
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u/LordFedoraWeed Dec 13 '20
finally, some good fucking news.
btw shouldn't you then remove the "politics" flair?
Edit: just refreshed and it's gone. cool cool.
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u/Ben_Stro Dec 15 '20
I was excited to see this.
Was disappointed to still only seeing political posts
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u/LegendaryPQ Dec 16 '20
Haha I only saw this post because I saw yet another stupid political post and went to unjoin and it was at the top . I was tired of all the politics but I'll give this another chance now
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u/AMADolphinParmegiano Dec 16 '20
THANK YOU SO MUCH! The sub will be 100x times better! I trust you will enforce it
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u/HoneyswirlTheWarrior Dec 08 '20
fuck yea, im so happy with this, ty mods (for everyone sad about this please just go to any other political subreddit
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u/crupnick Dec 08 '20
Wonder if this would slow the growth of this subreddit because tweets and this subreddit would show up in r/all nearly everyday. Heck, look at the top posts of all time and they are the reason this subreddit was popular in the first place
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u/_finalOctober_ Dec 09 '20
They were banned for the first 9 years, during which time we gained 4 million subscribers.
I remain unworried.
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u/Pat_The_Hat Dec 10 '20
Not every sub has to appeal to the braindead lowest common denominator /r/all browser who can't think in anything other than political tweets.
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u/Remnant_Echo 'MURICA Dec 08 '20
It'll be nice to see better content from this sub. I do feel bad for the people that got Reddit famous by only posting political facepalms here, what will they do now?
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u/centralnjbill Dec 08 '20
While the only ones complaining about political posts are the losers who lost and can’t get over their loss because they’re snowflakes, and while there was a Politics flair for this subreddit so it was fair game, it’s good that we’ve clarified the rules.
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u/Thomas8864 Dec 09 '20
But like half of r/facepalm is trump doing stuff
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u/aidenthemaster2 Dec 14 '20
That's the reason it's banned, is because not many people just want to see the same trump post 80 times
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u/FlashSparkles2 Dec 08 '20
Thank you :)
I got downvoted for suggesting making a politics free sub so I’m glad y’all are doing something
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u/Trade-Prince Dec 08 '20
THANK THE LORD. crupnick is in shambles, now he has to karma farm a different sub
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u/HaoieZ Dec 08 '20
Well that's about 80% of the content lately gone, haha.