Yeah they were "captured." They totally meant to create this free speech platform curated by users and not a giant fucking ad box that disguises manipulation as organic content. Some big bad evil thing made them take all that money and expand and take on investors. It totally wasn't several Sillicon Valley douches trying to figure out how to make money from the very beginning and then hiding behind their dead friend before staging a coup so they could cash in. Nope. Reddit was good, really. It was a noble website for noble free speech users such as myself who love democratic content.