Yes, he's indeed a redditor. And this photo just made my entire month. Thanks, Stephen!
Soaring on a Pig with Bread Wings
I'm Alexis Ohanian, and I'd like to make the world suck less. Follow along.
Graduated from UVA in 2005 and put my history major to work co-founding reddit.com. Sold it to Condé Nast in 2006 and continued doodle the reddit alien for another three years until retiring for a Kiva Fellowship in Armenia. Founded Breadpig, Inc., an uncorporation that's responsible for bringing geeky things into the world like LOLmagnetz and xkcd: volume 0 -- and donating all the profits (over $100,000 given away so far!). Thanks to a whale, I gave a TED talk in 2009. [Joy!] My dad and I are also professional downtrodden Skins fans.
Oh, and I'm the guy responsible for the reddit alien. It comes in different flavors. If you've ever told someone about reddit, breadpig, or any of my projects, I owe you a beer. (Thanks!)
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@raymiyagi I'm going to need to see the data behind this equation, but it looks good so far ;)
@Jim And I've got the soiled pants to prove it!
After all my rehearsals, I'd finally gotten it within 3minutes, but hadn't accounted for laughter delays :-/
http://joshua-1jqbt.posterous.com/
not to shabby :>
http://www.reddit.com/user/thedudedean
@The Dude Dean I'm so pleased to hear you've continued to visit reddit after the community shamed you liked that. I've since left reddit, but if you pleaded your case to the team and swear off your SEO/socialmedia-gaming ways, it could work.
And you do realize reddit is no different than Digg, in that a reddit power user puts the content on your FP just like a digg power user does it in Digg. Would you tell your users, "Post on Reddit but don't go for the Front Page or be successful at all?" That just doesn't make sense at all.
I think I'm going to have quote you on that from now on. Reddit fears me. Rich.
I thought reddit was about being different than Digg, but its the same shit. You fear any sort of power user or anyone with more influence than you have, just like Kevin Rose does. And you take pride in having a community of cyber stalkers and trolls? But I will give you a little more credit than Kevin Rose. At least you openly value trolls.
By all means quote me (just please don't quote me on things I never wrote/said).
I really hope you can find some peace in your life as you sound awfully angry.
For the uninitiated, here's the incident we're referring to.
Besides I'm too good for reddit. Reddit is like Digg on the easy Algo settings. I like a challenge boy.
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