/r/195 was the original subreddit using the concept of "You must post before leaving this subreddit." The successor subreddit of 195 can be said to be /r/196, albeit the character and culture of 196 is relatively different than of 195, it still follows the same "rule." It was created by user u/TheJackB123 around early September 2012 (Possibly 9th?) The subreddit was originally meant to be a place for roommates of u/TheJackB123 to share memes, images and other funny things, the origins of the name 195 come from the number of the apartment they lived in.
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| Status | Closed |
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| Subscribers | 142,000+ |
| Owner | u/TheJackB123 |
| Founded | September 9, 2012 (?) |
| Founder | u/TheJackB123 |
| Link | https://www.reddit.com/r/195/ |
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Subreddit History and Reasons of Shutdown. edit
The subreddit would start growing and by the fifth month of the existence of the subreddit it would already reach 1000 subscribers. It did not require much moderation, it would have relatively healthy subscriber growth reaching 10,000 members by 2015, but eventually the subreddit would explode in popularity at the start of 2020, reaching around 70,000 new subscribers. the number of posts that included homophobic content, bigotry, gore, porn and other desensitizing things would increase dramatically thanks to this, as there really was only one person moderating the subreddit. This would escalate to the point where even Reddit admins would have to intervene, thus almost certainly this could have ended with the subreddit being banned, or quarantined. Perhaps due to the quality of the subreddit going down or generally the moderators being tired of moderating the "House of Awesome" would shut down after 420 weeks of existance on September 18th, 2020. The subreddit would come back for a short time due to the reddit blackdown. But as of now it is still shutdown, perhaps this being the best fate the subreddit could have had.
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| — u/AmITheGodDamnDoctor sums up why 195 was closed down. |
