I Participated in the Reddit IPO. Here’s How I Did

Did my investment get an upvote?

Source: The Reddit logo: https://www.redditinc.com/brand

Let’s face it, virtually every website nowdadays amounts to a doom scrolling time suck meant to extract your soul one qubit at a time.

(Qubit is a “basic unit of information” in quantum computing. You’re very welcome for a great Scrabble world.)

Of course, I know about random trivia things like quantum computing because I am an avid Redditor, and therefore am very smart.

Actually, that’s what Reddit should have called itself — “random trivia things.” What is a “Reddit” anyway? And why is an alien involved somehow? I’ve never been able to figure that out.

But speaking of quantum computers, I’d need one to calculate how many hours I’ve wasted on that website over the years. If you were to rank sites according to their “time suckage,” Reddit would have to be up there pretty high, right behind InstaGlam, Musk’s Madhouse (aka X aka Twitter), and Zuckerberg’s Personal Data Clearinghouse (aka Facebook aka Meta).

Midjourney’s awful take on the Reddit logo.

So, when I suddenly received an email one day from Reddit telling me that I, as a member, had the unique…