took a deep dive into how CEO Steve Huffman went from being Reddit’s co-founder to its much-needed savior at a difficult moment—and how he then became the villain at the center of Reddit’s still-raging protests: https://slate.com/technology/2023/06/reddit-protests-steve-huffman-api-chaos.html
The manufactured crisis that allowed him to return as “The Good Guy”?
Yeah, that one.
Been the villain this whole time
I’m a bit out of the loop on that one, care to explain?
The brought in Elen Pao to implement all the changes they wanted to make. Spez “stepped back”
Pao received mountains of vitriol, was seen as the focus of the problems, despite being new to the position.
Spez them “stepped in” fired Pao (but kept the changes they wanted).
Spez was then “the good guy” looking out for reddit.