What I took from this
article about Reddits decision to fire Victoria Taylor was that Reddit had
clearly formed a loyal community. This community backlashed when she was fired
and Reddit lost followership, credibility and confidence from that community.
This goes to show that communities are strong online just as they are in the “real
world”. The PR industry was also shocked by this. The strong PR response also
came from not only shock, but the appreciation of Victoria’s value to the company.
The behavior from the public who was angered by her dismissal from Reddit responded in a very hateful way, attacking the individual who fired Victoria and made it very personal. This is also a “new trend” in the world of media platforms and PR agencies working on an online platform, massive waves of critisim come and there is no way to stop it. People join forces and feed off of each other.
This example with Reddit shows us the power of community instilled in our social media platforms and how people can rise up like an army when they are upset. This is something to be aware of as someone interested in PR. Being knowledgably about things like this can give us a grander scope of things and exactly how intense these types of situations can get. I found this article very fascinating and I think that there is a lot of value from blowouts like this; we learn a lot about how we are behavior in this digital social world.
The behavior from the public who was angered by her dismissal from Reddit responded in a very hateful way, attacking the individual who fired Victoria and made it very personal. This is also a “new trend” in the world of media platforms and PR agencies working on an online platform, massive waves of critisim come and there is no way to stop it. People join forces and feed off of each other.
This example with Reddit shows us the power of community instilled in our social media platforms and how people can rise up like an army when they are upset. This is something to be aware of as someone interested in PR. Being knowledgably about things like this can give us a grander scope of things and exactly how intense these types of situations can get. I found this article very fascinating and I think that there is a lot of value from blowouts like this; we learn a lot about how we are behavior in this digital social world.
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