Because this exact strategy worked so well for fatpeoplehate Seriously, they threw a fit, they screamed censorship, slammed r/all for probably a week straight, saw the admins wouldn't budge and left for voat History is repeating it's self, just this time without Ellen pao and the subsequent pictures of her as a Nazi, though I'm sure that will come with spez eventually What is happening here isn't revolutionary, it's not even unique. T_d mods are trying to cause a shitstorm, they want their members to go ballistic and spam reddit, they hope it will get the admins attention and cause them to change their mind, but they've shown again and again that they do not budge on big decisions like this