Type of site | Subreddit |
|---|---|
| Founded | August 14, 2013 |
| URL | www |
| Users | >2.9 million members |
r/antiwork is a subreddit associated with contemporary labor movements, critique of work, corporate capitalism and the anti-work movement.[1][2][3] The forum's slogan reads: "Unemployment for all, not just the rich!"[1] Posts on the forum commonly describe employees' negative experiences at work, dissatisfaction with working conditions, and unionization.[1][4] Various actions that have been promoted on the subreddit include a consumer boycott of Black Friday as well as the submission of fake jobs applications to the Kellogg Company after the company announced plans to replace 1,400 striking workers during the 2021 Kellogg's strike. The popularity of r/antiwork increased in 2020 and 2021, and the subreddit gained 900,000 subscribers in 2021 alone, accumulating nearly 1,700,000 subscribers by the end of the year. It is often associated with other ideologically similar subreddits such as r/latestagecapitalism.[5] r/antiwork has been compared to the Occupy Wall Street movement due to the subreddit's intellectual foundations and decentralized ethos.[1]
The subreddit was originally founded as a forum for discussion of anti-work ideology within post-left anarchism. However, following its rapid growth, the subreddit has come to represent a broader tent of left-wing politics centered on discussion of working conditions and labor activism.[1][4] On January 25, 2022, one of the subreddit's moderators, Doreen Ford, participated in an interview with Fox News anchor Jesse Watters. The interview was overwhelmingly criticized on Reddit and other social media platforms, which prompted the subreddit to shut down temporarily.[6][7]
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- ^ Seitz, Jacob (January 27, 2022). "Reddit's antiwork forum shuts down after disastrous Fox News interview". The Daily Dot. Archived from the original on January 28, 2022. Retrieved January 28, 2022.
- ^ O’Connell, Oliver; Flynn, Sheila (January 27, 2022). "Moderator fired from anti-work subreddit after disastrous Fox News interview". The Independent. Archived from the original on January 27, 2022. Retrieved January 28, 2022.