Why is this subreddit now just askreddit for movies?

Some time in the last few months, r/movies has been entirely consumed by askreddit-style questions like "What's your favorite hidden gem??" or "What actor fell off the map??" These questions have always been present, but were usually interspersed few and far between upcoming movie discussions, light essays, or analysis posts of certain movies/scenes/actors etc. It's not like we were an absolute bastion of intelligent discussion or anything, but there was usually SOME sort of topic established to form an interesting thread around.

What is now causing all these unique, seemingly-non-bot posters to suddenly start flooding this particular subreddit with their discussion posts, instead of going to askreddit? Did the whole reddit protest shit change the moderation rules? Has the subreddit been infiltrated by a secret Buzzfeed content farming cabal? I unsubscribed from r/askreddit because I got sick of this shit, but now it's back on r/movies!

What is going on??

Submitted October 01, 2023 at 11:19PM by justjake274 https://ift.tt/JxgQsi0