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In 2012, the subreddit {{proper name|r/Creepshots}} received major backlash for sharing suggestive or revealing photos of women taken without their awareness or [[consent]]. [[Adrian Chen]] wrote a ''[[Gawker]]'' exposé of one of the subreddit's moderators and identified the person behind the account, starting discussion in the media about the [[ethics]] of [[anonymity]] and outing on the [[Internet]].<ref name="Gawkerexpose">{{cite news |last=Chen |first=Adrian |date=October 12, 2012 |title=Unmasking Reddit's Violentacrez, The Biggest Troll on the Web |newspaper=Gawker |url=http://gawker.com/5950981/unmasking-reddits-violentacrez-the-biggest-troll-on-the-web |url-status=dead |access-date=October 28, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121012213707/http://gawker.com/5950981/unmasking-reddits-violentacrez-the-biggest-troll-on-the-web |archive-date=October 12, 2012}}</ref>
In 2020, administrators banned the subreddit [[r/The_Donald]] for harassment, having previously instructed moderators to take down content in violation of site policies as well as imposing a quarantine to reduce the subreddit's visibility.<ref>{{cite web |last=Robertson |first=Adi |url=https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/26/18759967/reddit-quarantines-the-donald-trump-subreddit-misbehavior-violence-police-oregon |title=Reddit quarantines Trump subreddit r/The_Donald for violent comments |publisher=[[The Verge]] |date=June 26, 2019 |access-date=April 20, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190626195922/https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/26/18759967/reddit-quarantines-the-donald-trump-subreddit-misbehavior-violence-police-oregon |archive-date=June 26, 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref
== Quarantining ==
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=== Braincels ===
After [[#Incels|r/Incels]] was banned in November of 2017 (see below), {{proper name|r/Braincels}} took its place as the most popular subreddit for [[incel]]s, or "involuntary celibates". Within five months 16,900 users had joined the sub, which promoted [[rape]] and [[suicide]]. It was banned in 2019 for violating Reddit's content policy with respect to [[bullying]] and [[harassment]].<ref name="Binder 2019">{{cite web |last1=Binder |first1=Matt |title=Reddit changes its harassment policy and bans major incel community |url=https://mashable.com/article/reddit-harassment-braincels/ |website=Mashable |date=September 30, 2019}}</ref><ref name="Basu 2020"
=== ChapoTrapHouse ===
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Reddit's staff was initially opposed to the addition of obscene material to the site, but they eventually became more lenient when prolific moderators, such as a user named u/violentacrez, proved capable of identifying and removing illegal content at a time when Reddit had insufficient paid staff to do so.<ref name="Gawkerexpose" />
Communities devoted to explicit material saw rising popularity, and in a 2008 "Best of Reddit" user poll, users chose r/Jailbait (a sub featuring provocative photos of [[Age of consent|underage teenagers]]) as "subreddit of the year".<ref name="Gawkerexpose" /> At one point, "jailbait" was the second most common search term on Reddit.<ref name="Gawkerexpose" /> Erik Martin, Reddit's general manager, defended r/Jailbait, arguing that such controversial pages were a consequence of allowing free speech on the site.<ref name="
{{proper name|r/Jailbait}} came to wider attention outside Reddit when [[Anderson Cooper]] of [[CNN]] devoted a segment of [[Anderson Cooper 360°|his program]] to condemning the subreddit and criticizing Reddit for hosting it.<ref>{{cite news |last=Morris |first=Kevin |title=Anderson Cooper boosts visibility of teen-girl pics |url=http://www.dailydot.com/society/anderson-cooper-reddit-jailbait-traffic/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304195251/http://www.dailydot.com/society/anderson-cooper-reddit-jailbait-traffic/ |archive-date=March 4, 2016 |access-date=October 28, 2012 |newspaper=[[The Daily Dot]] |date=October 3, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Tufekci |first=Zeynep |title=Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest |publisher=Yale University Press |year=2017 |pages=164–169}}</ref> Initially, this caused a spike in [[Internet traffic]] to the subreddit, causing the page to peak at 1.73 million views on the day of the report.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/kzlga/traffic_statistics_for_rjailbait/ |title=r/TheoryOfReddit – Traffic statistics for /r/jailbait |website=reddit |date=October 3, 2011 |access-date=March 17, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151121164749/https://www.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/kzlga/traffic_statistics_for_rjailbait/ |archive-date=November 21, 2015 |url-status=live}}</ref>
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{{Further|Men Going Their Own Way}}
{{proper name|r/MGTOW}} was a subreddit for [[Men Going Their Own Way]], an [[anti-feminist]], [[Misogyny|misogynistic]], mostly online community advocating for men to [[Male separatism|separate]] themselves from women. It also advocates separation from society, which they believe feminism has corrupted.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Wright |first1=Scott |last2=Trott |first2=Verity |last3=Jones |first3=Callum |date=2020 |title='The pussy ain't worth it, bro': assessing the discourse and structure of MGTOW |journal=[[Information, Communication & Society]] |volume=23 |issue=6 |pages=908–925 |doi=10.1080/1369118X.2020.1751867 |s2cid=219023052 |issn=1369-118X}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Lin |first=Jie Liang |title=Digital Environments: Ethnographic Perspectives Across Global Online and Offline Spaces |publisher=Transcript Verlag |year=2017 |isbn=978-3-8376-3497-6 |editor-last=Frömming |editor-first=Urte Undine |series=Edition Medienwissenschaft |pages=77–96 |chapter=Antifeminism Online: MGTOW (Men Going Their Own Way) |jstor=j.ctv1xxrxw.9 |jstor-access=free |editor-last2=Köhn |editor-first2=Steffen |editor-last3=Fox |editor-first3=Samantha |editor-last4=Terry |editor-first4=Mike}}</ref> In January 2020, a group of researchers published a [[preprint]] of an analysis of the [[manosphere]], which listed {{proper name|r/MGTOW}} among a group of growing online communities involved in "online harassment and real-world violence".<ref name="Ribeiro 2021">{{Cite conference |last1=Ribeiro |first1=Manoel Horta |last2=Blackburn |last3=Bradlyn |first3=Barry |first2=Jeremy |last4=De Cristofaro |first4=Emiliano |last5=Stringhini |first5=Gianluca |last6=Long |first6=Summer |last7=Greenberg |first7=Stephanie |last8=Zannettou |first8=Savvas |display-authors=3 |title=The Evolution of the Manosphere Across the Web |book-title=Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media |date=2021 |volume=15 |issue=1 |pages=196–207 |isbn=978-1-57735-869-5 |url=https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/ICWSM/article/view/18053/17856 |doi=10.1609/icwsm.v15i1.18053 |doi-access=free |issn=2334-0770 |publisher=Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence |___location=Palo Alto, Calif. |arxiv=2001.07600v5}}</ref> Reddit quarantined the subreddit shortly afterward.<ref name="Basu 2020">{{cite web |last=Basu |first=Tanya |title=The 'manosphere' is getting more toxic as angry men join the incels |url=https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/02/07/349052/the-manosphere-is-getting-more-toxic-as-angry-men-join-the-incels/ |website=[[MIT Technology Review]] |date=February 7, 2020 |url-access=limited}}</ref> In August 2021, Reddit banned the subreddit for violating its policies prohibiting content that "incites violence or promotes hate based on identity or vulnerability".<ref name=":02">{{Cite web |last=Thalen |first=Mikael |date=August 3, 2021 |title=Reddit bans notorious anti-feminist subreddit 'Men Going Their Own Way' |url=https://www.dailydot.com/debug/mgtow-subreddit-banned/ |url-status=live |access-date=August 4, 2021 |website=[[The Daily Dot]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210803211133/https://www.dailydot.com/debug/mgtow-subreddit-banned/ |archive-date=August 3, 2021 }}</ref>
=== MillionDollarExtreme ===
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F. Diane Bart, a [[Psychotherapy|psychotherapist]] writing for [[NBC News]], described the subreddit as "a dark and [[Sardonicism|sardonic]] corner of the internet" that "captures the rage and outrage of presumably vaccinated, mask-wearing individuals, many of whom have either been infected with COVID-19 in the past or have watched friends and family become ill—and even die."<ref name="Barth 2021" />
=== KotakuInAction ===
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On July 12, 2018, r/KotakuInAction's creator and head moderator removed all of the sub's other moderators and set the forum to private, alleging that the sub had become "infested with racism and sexism". A Reddit employee restored the forum and its moderators an hour later.<ref name="Knoop 2018">{{cite web |last=Knoop |first=Joseph |title=Reddit brought back a Gamergate forum after its creator tried to destroy it |url=https://www.dailydot.com/parsec/reddit-kotakuinaction/ |work=The Daily Dot |date=July 14, 2018 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20180714184646/https://www.dailydot.com/parsec/reddit-kotakuinaction/ |archive-date=July 14, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Cole 2018">{{cite web |last=Cole |first=Samantha |title=The Creator of the Largest Gamergate Subreddit Rage Quits, Says it's 'Infested With Racism and Sexism' |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/gamergate-subreddit-kotaku-in-action-shut-down-by-creator/ |department=Motherboard |website=Vice |date=July 13, 2018 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20180713161256/https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/43pv3g/gamergate-subreddit-kotaku-in-action-shut-down-by-creator |archive-date=July 13, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref>
A 2020 review analyzing ten discussion boards on r/KotakuInAction suggested a connection between Gamergate and [[Far-right politics|right-wing extremism]] (RWE). According to the review, the three main themes in these discussion boards were "RWE bigotry", "always anti-left" and "hate speech is free speech".<ref name="
=== MensRights ===
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