Reddit users and moderators are protesting against CEO Steve Huffman's plans to charge developers to access the site's Application Programming Interface (API). Huffman's July 1 announcement has angered the site's many unpaid moderators who claim it will destroy the community of third party applications that they rely on to protect the site from bots and bad actors. In protest, the moderators of /r/pics offered users the choice of returning to normal operations and submitting to Huffman's demands, or converting the subreddit into a fanpage exclusively for pictures of Last Week Tonight host John Oliver looking Sexy. The latter was chosen.

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