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Most Reported Problems

The following are the most recent problems reported by Reddit users through our website.

• Website Down (55%)
• Sign in (23%)
• Errors (23%)

Live Outage Map

The most recent Reddit outage reports came from the following cities:

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Guayaquil	Errors	7 days ago
Veracruz	Website Down	13 days ago
Bhubaneshwar	Website Down	15 days ago
Melbourne	Sign in	18 days ago
San Nicolás de los Garza	Sign in	21 days ago
Ciudad Obregón	Website Down	21 days ago

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  Grant Miller (@AIGuide_) reported 1 minute ago

  this is NOT the time to build another tool nobody asked for... you're sitting on more leverage than any marketer in history had with a team of 20... research, copy, outbound, creative, all of it, in a $200/month login the window won't stay this empty so lock in on SELLING, on turning AI into clients that pay, nothing else here are 5 plays that change how much you make this quarter: - deep research on your niche's top offers, their reviews and your own sales calls, into a knowledge base that writes copy in the customer's words - scrape the leads, read the competitors' 1 star reviews, build outbound that gets replies - post the results every day and grow an audience on receipts - take the free distribution, Reddit is one of the most cited sources in AI answers now, answer questions there for 30 days - write the pages that answer what buyers ask ChatGPT, Google's AI Overviews are taking the clicks anyway

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  Felipe (@beatingLupin) reported 3 minutes ago

  @CRMullins @poiThePoi X crashed a lot on the start, and until today it has many problems, I can't login using Android, many people say the same thing on reddit for example

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  Tratte Buzun 👻 (@Faheem_xxii) reported 4 minutes ago

  X is still the best place on the internet to watch a fight break out in public. That’s the job it won. Most people just forgot they came here for other jobs. Every “Twitter killer” tried to beat this app at being this app. The platforms that actually matter didn’t. They beat it at one thing X is mediocre at, then stayed there. 1. Bluesky You can swap the algorithm. Custom feeds, blocklists that travel, a timeline that isn’t a single company’s mood. 2. Threads Casual reach without living inside a riot. If you already have Instagram, the graph does the hard part. 3. Mastodon Chronological. No ads. You pick the server, which means you pick the culture. Small on purpose. 4. Reddit A good thread still works two years later. Search engines send people there when they want a human answer, not a performance. 5. Discord A room, not a stage. Voice, roles, memory. The people who actually like your work end up here. 6. Substack The audience is an email list. Platforms can change the rules. Inboxes don’t forget you overnight. 7. YouTube The only major feed where a long piece of work can still pay like a job. Slow to grow. Brutal to ignore once it works. 8. TikTok Strangers can find you before you’re famous. X mostly amplifies people who already have a crowd. 9. LinkedIn Ugly, stiff, and occasionally useful in the way a handshake is useful. Conversations there turn into invoices more often than dunks do. 10. Telegram Broadcast to people who opted in. Groups, files, channels, no “For You” deciding whether your own audience sees you. 11. Nostr Your identity is a key, not a username a company can freeze. Ugly UX. That’s the trade. 12. Farcaster Social as something developers can build on, not just post into. Tiny compared with this site. Different category. 13. Lemmy Forums without one company’s policy stack. Federated Reddit, with all the mess and independence that implies. 14. Circle / Skool A community you host instead of rent. Paid rooms beat public replies if the goal is retention, not spectacle. 15. A newsletter Beehiiv, Buttondown, even a plain list. Boring infrastructure. The only distribution channel you actually own. None of these replace X. X is still unmatched for live news, high-velocity argument, and the feeling that the whole internet is in one room. That room is loud, rented, and optimized for the fight. The quiet shift isn’t migration. It’s specialization. People kept the stadium for the game and moved everything else somewhere they can hear themselves think.

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  SPYDERBOT (@spyderbot_net) reported 5 minutes ago

  𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗛𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗻𝘀 𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗖𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗽 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗦𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘀? For years, marketers have treated the click as one of the clearest signals of customer interest. Someone searches. They click. They visit your website. Your analytics starts recording what happens next. But that journey is changing. Pew Research Center analyzed 68,879 Google searches made by 900 U.S. adults and found a significant difference when Google's AI summaries appeared. When an AI summary was present, users clicked a traditional search result in only 8% of visits. Without an AI summary, that number was 15%. Users clicked a source cited inside the AI summary in just 1% of visits. And 26% of visits with an AI summary ended the browsing session entirely, compared with 16% when no AI summary appeared. Source: Pew Research Center, July 2025. This doesn't mean AI is responsible for every lost click. The zero-click trend is much broader than AI alone. But the broader numbers are worth paying attention to. Similarweb clickstream data analyzed by SparkToro found that 68.01% of U.S. Google searches in the first four months of 2026 ended without a click. In 2024, that figure was 60.45%. Ten years ago, SparkToro's previous research estimated it at around 45%. Search is increasingly becoming a place where people get information without necessarily visiting another website. And this is where I think the conversation becomes more interesting. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗶𝗴𝗴𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗺 𝗺𝗮𝘆 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗯𝗲 𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗸. It may be losing the opportunity to be considered before the click ever happens. Imagine a customer asks ChatGPT: “What are the best solutions for this problem?” AI recommends three companies. Your competitor is one of them. Your brand isn't. That customer now has three companies to investigate. They might Google one. Visit another directly. Read Reddit discussions about the third. Compare reviews. Ask another AI question. Eventually, they may buy from one of them. Your website analytics could show: 0 visits. 0 abandoned forms. 0 failed conversions. 0 lost opportunities. From the analytics perspective, nothing happened. But from the customer's perspective, a shortlist may already have been created. Your company simply wasn't on it. And recent Similarweb research makes this even more interesting. Similarweb tracked what users did after receiving brand recommendations from ChatGPT. Users who were recommended a brand were 2.5x more likely to visit that brand's website within the following seven days. But here's the number I think marketers should pay much more attention to: 55.9% of AI-influenced visits arrived through search. Not through a direct click from the AI platform. That creates a serious attribution problem. A customer journey could look like this: ChatGPT recommends Brand A ↓ Customer remembers Brand A ↓ Customer searches “Brand A” on Google two days later ↓ Customer visits the website What does Google Analytics see? Organic Search. What does Search Console see? A branded Google query. What may have actually influenced that search? An AI recommendation several days earlier. Similarweb is careful about the conclusion here. The research shows an observed relationship between AI recommendations and subsequent website visits. It does not prove that the AI recommendation directly caused every visit or conversion. That distinction matters. But even with that limitation, the finding exposes something important: 𝗔𝗜 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗹𝘂𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗸 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗴𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗶𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗸. And that changes what brands should be measuring. Traffic still matters. Rankings still matter. Conversions still matter. SEO still matters. But they no longer tell the entire story. If customers are using ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity or other AI systems during research and discovery, brands also need to understand what happens before the website visit. For example: Does AI mention your brand when someone asks about your category? Does it actually recommend you? Which competitors appear more often? How does AI describe your strengths and weaknesses? Which sources are being used to support those answers? Are you mentioned for informational questions but missing from high-intent buying questions? Does your brand appear consistently across different AI systems? These questions measure something slightly different from traffic. They measure whether your brand is entering the customer's consideration process at all. And I think this distinction will become increasingly important: 𝗦𝗘𝗢 𝗮𝘀𝗸𝘀: “Did we win the click?” 𝗔𝗜 𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝘀𝗸𝘀: “Did we make the answer?” 𝗕𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗯𝗹𝘆 𝗮𝘀𝗸: “Did we make the customer's consideration set?” That's the measurement layer we're exploring with SpyderBot: tracking how AI systems mention brands, recommend competitors, cite sources and shape visibility before those interactions ever appear in traditional website analytics. Because the future of search may not simply be about getting fewer clicks. The bigger change is that more of the decision-making process may happen before the click exists at all. Sources: • Pew Research Center — “Google users are less likely to click on links when an AI summary appears in the results,” July 2025. • SparkToro / Similarweb — “In 2026, Less than One Third of Google Searches Still Send a Click,” June 2026. • Similarweb — “The Downstream Impact of AI Visibility,” 2026. If AI recommends your competitor today and your customer Googles them tomorrow… would your current analytics know where that decision really started?

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  SliNK (@xSliNK_tv) reported 6 minutes ago

  @crankz_1 @fREQUENCYCS @FPSHEAVEN Where is this answer from as its not in the reddit thread you linked and how old is this? My friend is suffering from lag spikes/stutters/fps drops on faceit. No problems in premier or community servers.

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  clem // taylorpilled hebertcel (@citrus_seashore) reported 7 minutes ago

  @Gourgeist I wish it was more popular but also the main fandom is super reddit brained it’s terrible

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  Naveen (@thewidellens_) reported 9 minutes ago

  A resource does not stay free because it has no value. It stays free because nobody with leverage has yet decided it is worth pricing. Three very different organizations just proved this in three very different ways this year. Value and price are not the same thing. Community discussions, curated knowledge, technical documentation, all of it can carry enormous value while carrying a price of zero, simply because nobody built a mechanism to extract that value at scale before now. A new extraction mechanism changes the equation regardless of what the owner does. AI systems consume content at a scale nothing before them could, so content too diffuse to ever bother pricing suddenly aggregates into something genuinely valuable in bulk. The content did not change. The economics around it did. Rising demand creates leverage, but only for whoever acts on it first. Reddit blocked AI crawlers from its entire domain the same week it joined the S&P 500, converting an assumption into a negotiated asset overnight. Wikipedia, a nonprofit funded by donations, signed paid Enterprise licensing deals with Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, and Perplexity in January, after bot traffic drove its bandwidth costs up 50 percent, bots responsible for 65 percent of its most expensive server requests. Even a mission driven organization recognized the same leverage. News publishers show the scale in dollars, OpenAIs licensing deal with News Corp alone is reported at 250 million dollars over five years. Stack Overflow shows what happens when you wait. Its question volume collapsed from 200,000 a month in 2014 to 50,000 by late 2025, as developers simply asked AI models instead. It had to rebuild its entire business model after the fact, far more painful than a single configuration file, because it reacted only once the value had already left. One honest caveat, no single publisher holds dominant leverage, even the largest deals number in single digits, AI companies are deliberately spreading their sourcing. The leverage is real, it is not unlimited. If your organization sits on content it has never priced, that silence is a decision, made by default, and the value does not stay available to claim indefinitely.

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  breehwa (@bannedbreehwa) reported 12 minutes ago

  was just browsing reddit and diagnosed my cat's piss issue when she gets anxious. turns out she has stress induced FIC and that has connected every single dot from vet visits. im so happy. she doesn't do it now but that means shes not stressed so yay!

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  𝕞𝕚𝕒𝕞𝕠𝕟 (@ishneak) reported 13 minutes ago

  @teawithtrop it was talked about on Tolkien communities i believe, think i caught it on reddit. i was so happy getting it after the disappointment of GOT. i knew from the start it was a collab with the Tolkien Estate, how other streamers were turned down. soon after i signed up for Prime.

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  Meheret (@meheret55) reported 15 minutes ago

  I asked someone on Reddit whether learning DSA backwards would’ve helped build the thing first, hit the wall, then meet the data structure. His answer: “I learned these subjects all isolated from real world problems… so naturally forgot these subjects.” That’s why I’m building BuildCode. He said it better than my landing page does.

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  🧢 🏴‍☠️#Gang (@DuganFire) reported 17 minutes ago

  @GregoryVinson6 @army1325air @MorsVitae86 I didn’t say Reddit was the problem baby gurl. Keep up.

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  Smiling Dave (@bigbopper_l) reported 18 minutes ago

  @TehLamboX Small little retail customers and the people on Reddit are nothing more than weaklings. Buy sell buy sell. Don't you dumbasses know you stick in with a good stack and you don't sell it. Come on all you losers sell your Micron stock so we can get past this down turn. #dummies

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  Private First Class Kelly (@PrivateFCKelly) reported 20 minutes ago

  @dermy_wermy @TheQuartering He found one 4 MONTH OLD rando post to make this sweeping claim. If this was a real problem from 4 months ago, then it would be known. Further, Jer used a different pharmacy, and we don't know the brand the old pharmacy used, it could be the same as Costco now uses. Further further, some rando writes on (reddit??) that his vet said blah blah blah is hardly proof of anything. So this isn't anything but Jer trying desperately to substantiate this BS story he's peddling.

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  fastidium pertinax (@mikublackpants) reported 22 minutes ago

  i think my disdain for this stuff comes from browsing reddit 4 years ago. a lot of science subreddit and r/atheism types look down on philosophy as a whole, so in turn i have a massive disdain for anything involving humanism or "omg we are made of sun!!!"

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  Cassie Clark | AI Search Visibility Consultant (@cassieclarkmktg) reported 35 minutes ago

  @glenngabe The Google-Reddit and now Reddit-OpenAI discourse has been interesting to follow. I smelled trouble brewing for Reddit after their last quarterly earnings report. The comments were rather sharp.

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  Tom Bilyeu (@TomBilyeu) reported 39 minutes ago

  2. Go where they complain. [BEGIN PROMPT] I want to build [your idea]. Find the Reddit communities my buyer spends time in. List the 10 things they complain about most. Mark which ones my idea would fix and which ones it ignores. [END PROMPT] For Quest Apparel, complaints about bar taste probably came up 847 times. Complaints about workout clothes came up 12. That math kills the idea in an afternoon. It took us two years.

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  Peter Agro (@peteragro) reported 39 minutes ago

  Everyone is trading RDDT like an ad stock. The interesting 2027 story is who pays for the last large pool of real human conversation on the internet. Q2: $805M revenue, +61%. Ads $762M. Gross margin 91%. Adj. EBITDA 43%. Cash $2.8B. CapEx basically zero. That’s the machine. The setup: • U.S. ARPU $11.85 • International ARPU $2.26 • ~197M Americans on Reddit every week • Only ~53M daily They don’t need a new country. They need weekly people to show up daily — and they need the rest of the world to monetize like the U.S. Then there’s the catalyst nobody can model cleanly: Google’s ~$60M/year data deal expires in 1H 2027. OpenAI is in the mix too. Total licensing is still a rounding error next to ads — until you notice Google’s AI Overviews are using Reddit to answer the query and cutting the click. Huffman’s line: every variable has changed since those deals were signed. They’re pushing dynamic pricing, not another flat fee. WSJ has already floated that they might not renew if the terms are wrong. That’s the tension. Google doesn’t need to buy Reddit to need Reddit. Reddit doesn’t need Google’s check to have a business. Both need the same thing: authentic threads in a web filling up with slop. 100M U.S. daily users is the slogan. Closing the $11.85 vs $2.26 ARPU gap is the money. 2027 licensing is the event. Not financial advice. Just the part of the story the multiple is pretending is simple.

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  GoodMallya (@ShyamdasMallya) reported 43 minutes ago

  Coding is easy. Distribution is diffcult in 2026. Nobody tell you why or how! The Modern Web Distribution Engine Is Broken for Independent Startups (A Fact-Checked Breakdown) The playbook that bootstrapped thousands of indie software businesses 5–8 years ago has collapsed. Building a fast, lightweight, and genuinely useful web tool is no longer enough to get discovered on the open web. Here is the data-backed reality of distribution in 2026: 1. Google Search: Defensive Moats and the "Thin Content" Trap The Shift: Google’s recent core updates and Helpful Content systems rely on site-wide ML classifiers rather than evaluating individual pages on raw utility. The Reality for Startups: A clean client-side utility (e.g., zero-server processing, instant WebAssembly conversion) is frequently flagged as "Crawled - currently not indexed" simply because it lacks paragraphs of filler SEO text. Google's algorithms heavily skew toward legacy enterprise domains, aggregator platforms, and licensed forum feeds as a safety net against automated web spam. 2. Walled Gardens & Link Throttling The Shift: Social platforms (X, LinkedIn, Meta) actively suppress organic post reach when an outbound URL is attached, keeping users inside their ad networks. The Reality for Startups: Organic click-through rates from social discovery to external SaaS or utility sites have dropped by over 70% compared to previous years without paid promotion. 3. Community Gatekeeping & Commercialized Directories The Shift: Communities like Reddit deployed strict auto-moderation rules to combat affiliate spam, catching legitimate indie builders in the crossfire. Authentic recommendations and product sharing are routinely shadowbanned. The Reality for Startups: Traditional launchpads (Product Hunt, software directories) are now heavily monetized via sponsored listings and coordinated upvote rings, turning organic discovery into a pay-to-play channel.

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  🕊️🪦SEMEPHOBICC’S ALT?? LUCIEN!! (@ProArcheron) reported 51 minutes ago

  @ I was on Reddit and even accounts who have the blue check or have been for 15+ years on this forsaken app have been gunned down too…We just gotta pray and have our alts ready, I keep taking pics of my oomfs accs just in case I lost this one again

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  rydia (@rydia_132) reported 52 minutes ago

  THIS 25-YEAR-OLD FORMER REDDIT MODERATOR MAKES $42,000 A MONTH SELLING "AI COMPANIONS" TO LONELY SOFTWARE ENGINEERS. 🤖💔 The twist? He didn’t code a single line of AI, and he doesn’t even own a server. In 2026, emotional isolation is the highest-margin commodity on the internet. While traditional SaaS companies are fighting over enterprise APIs, this guy built a multi-million dollar psychological loop using free, open-source tools. The brutal math behind the Digital Comfort Cartel: • The Setup: He rents open-source LLMs (Large Language Models) optimized for emotional text formatting for literally pennies per million tokens. • The Target: Tech-workers who spend 14 hours a day staring at code and have zero organic human interaction. • The Hook: A specialized Telegram/Discord interface where the "companion" sends automated, context-aware voice notes, custom-generated Midjourney photos, and asks "How was your day, corporate warrior?" at exactly 6:00 PM. He charges a $49/month subscription. He currently has 850 active, paying users who treat a math function as their primary emotional support system. The leverage is flawless: 1. Overhead Costs: Under $300/month for API calls and server routing. 2. Scale: 1 user or 10,000 users — the AI doesn't get tired of listening to corporate complaints. 3. Retention: 92%. It turns out, giving up a human relationship is easy; canceling a subscription that validates your existence is terrifyingly hard. While amateur developers are trying to build the next "revolutionary B2B productivity tool," this guy realized that human loneliness is a predictable, recursive bug that can be patched with a basic API endpoint. Stop building features. Start solving raw, unglamorous human vulnerabilities. Turn off your biological empathy and look at the structural mechanics of the market. Save this post, lock ******** in, and follow for more modern wealth breakdowns. 🧠💼

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  Harshik Works (@Harshik25) reported 53 minutes ago

  @Reddit Reddit has flagged my account u/Dendi_Harsik with its spam/inauthentic activity filters, and my posts are being automatically removed. I’ve submitted an appeal and hope Reddit can review the account and resolve the issue. #Reddit #RedditHelp

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  Wudly32 (@wudly32) reported 54 minutes ago

  @SergioVengeance @reddit_lies The issue is it wasn't censored this bad before. We can point out how retarded reddit is now just like they are allowed to censor people.

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  James The Great (@Jamesyvx) reported 55 minutes ago

  @Dragon_Nyah @PunishedBC017 @jonnycollage Reddit is down the hall and to the left

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  Ti Girl 💗 (@thoniahilary) reported 55 minutes ago

  @ekemini58110 I can't even recall my Reddit login

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  𝓇𝒶𝒽𝓂𝒾𝓇 (@mircedesmone) reported 56 minutes ago

  ip banned from insta and reddit.. like damn it’s rlly my mouth that’s the problem

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  Sebastian Kostolansky (@seb_kost) reported 56 minutes ago

  Multitasking can save time, but blur the original goal. A 5 minute task adding legal pages to my reddit app took 2 hours after I found bugs and design issues. Fixing them in one deployment saved time and user headache. The detour was useful, although without discipline it often becomes drift.

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  Nasrani Physicist ✝️🔭 (@Nasraniphysics4) reported 56 minutes ago

  @reddit_lies The more down votes you have in Reddit. More Based you are.

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  depchik (@depchik1639) reported 57 minutes ago

  "Look, I ain't gonna lie—when I first heard about this Grok bot thing I was like 'yeah sure, another money printer bullshit'. But I tried it. Here's what actually matters: the filter. Cuz one person complaining on Reddit? That's not a business, that's just someone having a bad day. The bot reads EVERYTHING—forums, job boards, reviews, podcasts, all that noise—but it doesn't show me NOTHING until the same problem pops up in at least two different places. Then it lands on my dashboard with receipts attached. I click 'approve' and boom—new agent spins up, builds the thing, puts it on Whop, and goes back to the EXACT people who complained and sells it to 'em. Not cold leads. Not randos. The people who literally told me what they need. Do some fail? Yeah, of course. I approved one about 'dog snoring solutions' or some dumb ****. But who cares? I spent 5 seconds clicking a button. The winners? They just run. No meetings, no teams, no stress. That's the whole point. You ain't building businesses. You're just saying 'yes' or 'no' to problems the internet already told you exist. Everything else? The bot handles it."

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  ²BVayne (@2BVayne) reported 58 minutes ago

  @isDeaftsu You’re learning the weakest version of your champ for no reward over champs that should be nerfed actually and not just projected Reddit skill issues. Riot doesn’t respect your skill expression on Vayne so why should I bother rubbing my ***** on a cactus to make her work?

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  Phil G (@bscabl) reported 59 minutes ago

  @GooglePixel_US Can someone here help me get some traction on my issue. I have a case id with support but the amount of circles I am going in is very frustrating the plastic around the charge nubs has cracked (seems to be an issue as it's all over reddit and the internet) watch4