Update: /r/Sidehugs is now a serious subreddit

Serious, eh?<cough, and le James Stewart monologue voice>

...Just a minute - just, just a minute. Now, hold on, Mr. Outsider. Just a minute. Now, you're right when you say Carl_DePaul_Dawkins was no moderator man. I know that. Why he ever started this cheap, penny-ante Bitch and Moan subreddit, I'll never know. But, neither you nor anybody else can say anything against his character, because his whole life was... Why, in the twenty-five years since he and Uncle Nano started this thing, he never once thought of himself. Isn't that right, Uncle Nano? He didn't save enough money to send p1kachu to school, let alone Salivific. But he did help a few people get out of your slums, Mr. Outsider. And what's wrong with that? Why -- here, you're all mods here. Don't it make them better reddit citizens? Doesn't it make them better media consumers? You, you said that they - What'd you say just a minute ago? They had to read your rants till their eyes bled before they even thought of remedying a questionable 'doxxing' and then demodding themselves. Wait? Wait for what?! Until their subscribers grow up and leave them? Until they're so old and broken-down that... You know how long it takes a workin' man to save up all that comment karma?

Just remember this, Mr. Outsider, that this 'rabble' you're talking about, they do most of the reading and upvoting and participating and sidehugging in this community. Well, is it too much to have them read and sidehug and brokehug and die in a comfortable niche sub, their little aviary of grousing? Anyway, my father didn't think so. Brokehuggers were human beings to him, but to you, a warped, frustrated [person of unspecified age and gender], they're cattle. Well, in my book he died a much richer [person of unspecified gender] than you'll ever be... I know very well what you're talking about. You're talking about something you can't get your fingers on, and it's galling you. That's what you're talking about, I know. Well, I've - I've said too much. I -- you're the Mod Team here. You do what you want with this thing. There's just one thing more, though. This town needs this measly one-horse institution if only to have some place where people can come without crawling to Outsider.

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