#Reddit finds itself in a difficult situation. The company, which boasts an absurd 57 million daily users, is learning that being a "tech darling" doesn't get any easier even after you successfully "scale," with the emergence of #artificialintellegence (AI) threatening to disrupt how people find information online and a massive boycott brewing in response to a move the legacy social media platform took to strengthen itself. The current state of Reddit merely serves to highlight how shaky the foundation it was built uponâbasically, data mining and #advertising âwas from the beginning.
