I was a digg power user then transitioned to reddit when that all went to shit and my intended grift of making money through selling digg visibility disappeared.
I've run dozens of subreddits and still do although incredibly lazily like 99% of legacy reddit mods that have been in their positions for way too long.
I started the use of subreddits as hashtags via spamming /r/hailcorporate in response to every shill post on the site.
I even got a job in the game industry as an internet janitor too and have worked with EA, Ubi, Paradox, Sega and others. I firmly believe in that title for any online moderation and community management, all we do is keep things clean for everyone to enjoy an online space and ego in online moderation is a serious problem.
Ask me anything
What were your hours like when you were getting paid for it? Oh and were you making a livable wage
Hours? What are hours?
I worked whenever work existed which was 24 hours a day. The official work day was 9-6 but internet work never ends and to do the job well you basically have to function at all hours, especially with international timezones.
Every game company also places their offices in the middle of fucking nowhere. This is intentional. They know that employees will move in order to work in the game industry so what this does is create an environment where employees have literally nothing for miles around in order to force their entire social lives to be with work colleagues. Nobody makes a livable wage in the lower positions, only when advancing to middle and senior positions(and barely then), to make up for this everyone house-shares. So your worklife, homelife, and social life are your work colleagues. This is by design.
We need aggressive unions and gangs of comrades to go beat up tech executives, christ.
The problem with unionising these industries is:
A lot of employees leave it in their first 3-5 years. These people enter the industry at 18-21 and are out by 25. This age group is hard to unionise anyway because they're still inexperienced with workplaces and believe all the shit they're told before going into the workplace. They genuinely think it's fair and you work your way up blah blah blah. Older more experienced workers are a bit more jaded. Tech people in particular are really fucking naive and think everything is done on data fairly.
You progress in these companies really really fast and there's always a carrot to work for. Career progression is very real within the industry and people in entry level positions often move to senior and executive over timescales that are impossible in other industries.
Everyone is working so insanely hard it's difficult for them to ever take the time to think. Also everyone loves games soooo they kinda think things are ok. There is plenty of fun to be had and this causes some issues. It's only when people get out of the industry and a regular work/life balance that they start to look back and see how horrendous it was even though they were having fun in parts of it.
exactly why we need to beat their bosses up too