Thanos and Reddit eliminate more than 350,000 community subscribers

Warning: this article contains spoilers from the movie Avengers: Infinite War .

It was called one of the greatest purges of history in the history of Reddit . To the point that even the actor himself Josh Brolin recorded a video in which he supported the massive elimination of subscribers from the sub-program dedicated to the wicked Thanos. Reddit performed the purge on Monday night

The moderators of the r / thanosdidnothingwrong community, dedicated to the Avengers' sworn enemy, decided to eliminate half of the subscribers of this subreddit on July 9, in tribute to the last goal of Thanos in the film Avengers; War in the Infinity : Eliminate half of the population of the universe to restore balance in the inhabited worlds of the galaxy.

The purge ends at 23:00. Eastern Time of the United States (20:00 PST), with an announcement of the moderators of this community in which they claimed: "The ban is complete." The submarine is now perfectly balanced, for everything should be Our Savior Thanos "(" The purge has concluded, this subreddit is now perfectly balanced, as everything should be.) Our Savior Thanos would be proud. "

At the time of the purge, this Reddit community had 710,000 subscribers, according to a CNET report. In recent days, because of the advertising received by this ad, thousands of users have joined this subreddit, curious to know if they would be eliminated or remain.

In total, more than 350,000 users were removed from the community. It's worth noting that in the past few hours, the number of subscriber users has been maintained, so that at the time of writing this memo, users had almost reached the figure before purging. To date, they total 613,000 subscribers

The purge was so popular that, as reported by CNET, Reddit broadcast live on Twitch by streaming the mass elimination of subscribers, as one can see it in This image

Brolin, who played the character in the film Avengers: Infinity War recorded a video in which he snapped his fingers – just like Thanos in the movie – and pronounce the phrase "Here We Go, Reddit Users" ("Here we go, Reddit users").

The video was put online by Joe Russo, co-director of Avengers: Infinity War, in the subreddit called r / thanosdidnothingwrong. In this link, you can see the video as it appears on Reddit.

Throughout Monday, users in this community posted memes after memes in which they parodied Thanos and actor Josh Brolin, waiting for the moment when Reddit will perform the purge or "finger snap", as some called it in subreddit.

Massive elimination of this size required the approval of Reddit's directors, who gave the go-ahead for the purge, it soon became a media event and this brought thousands of Reddit users to their business. Subscribe to ar / thanosdidnothingwrong, just to see if they survived the purge.

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