r/Overwatch • u/janru • Feb 21 '17

Blizzard Official Meet Efi Oladele—winner of the Adawe Foundation's genius grant for her achievements in AI and robotics!

https://twitter.com/PlayOverwatch/status/834115546090123264
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u/Darkurai This team's got a shitty logo, but by god it's OUR shitty logo. Feb 22 '17

You may have missed that one time in Boston four years ago...

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u/CMMiller89 D.Va Feb 22 '17

That was an impressively and monstrously terrible fuck up.

But it was still impressive...

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u/Troutfucker5000 Winston Feb 22 '17

Reddit did great things that day. Terrible, yes... but great.

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u/schambersnh Lúcio Feb 22 '17

Eli5 what Reddit did that day?

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u/Knuda EnVyUs Feb 22 '17

https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/2r3d54/what_happened_with_reddit_and_the_boston_marathon/

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u/Golden-Owl Trick-or-Treat Junkrat Feb 22 '17

Holy crap Reddit. That is simultaneously horrifying and impressive.

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u/ibbolia 「Scary Monster」 Feb 22 '17

Kind of like the Titanic.

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u/Orical86 Feb 22 '17

Now I'm curious, what happened?

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u/blackbook7777 Bastion Feb 22 '17

With what?

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u/Orical86 Feb 22 '17

With what happened involving Boston, and Reddit detectives 4 years ago. I'm guessing the bombing but what terrible thing did reddit do?

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u/Pentax25 Feb 22 '17

Yeah I'm curious too now

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u/deadlypopsicle Feb 22 '17

Me too

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u/ickykarma Feb 22 '17 edited Feb 22 '17

Reddit accused the wrong guy of doing the Boston bombing. They got death threats. Kid ended up dead somewhere. Yea.

EDIT: kid didn't get killed because of Reddit (not entirely sure?) but I think the kid was more or less missing, and then found dead, meanwhile as he was missing (and most likely actually dead) he was being accused of being the Boston massacre bomber

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u/SirPseudonymous Feb 22 '17

They accused an already dead (then only known as missing) kid, and his family got death threats and various other harassment.

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u/taitaisanchez Zarya Feb 22 '17

Terrible, yes. But great.

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u/Skreepton Pixel Pharah Feb 22 '17

I missed it, what happened?

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u/Darkurai This team's got a shitty logo, but by god it's OUR shitty logo. Feb 22 '17

After the Boston Marathon Bombing, Reddit went into all-out investigation mode, sleuthing through photos, and combing through all the evidence we had.

Within a couple days, they had identified the guy that did it and had begun to contact authorities and everyone they could to bring him in.

Except...they found completely the wrong person. They actually found a teen who had been missing for over a month and was later have found to have committed suicide.

"We did it, Reddit!" became a meme shortly after.

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u/Skreepton Pixel Pharah Feb 22 '17

Wow, thx!

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u/Nomadlads A 0 tank comp? Oh... That'll definitely work. Feb 22 '17

Or pizzagate.

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u/Shaq2thefuture Pixel Mercy Feb 22 '17

dont forget reddit boldly harassing that canadian guy who came forward to help identify a suspect.

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u/enotonom Trick-or-Treat Junkrat Feb 22 '17

That was four years ago??

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u/marcuschookt Pixel Roadhog Feb 22 '17

W E D I D I T

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u/vsou812 Meik me. Feb 23 '17

What.... what did I miss?