The Thanos subreddit is gleefully heading for mass slaughter
Since the release of Avengers: Infinity War, fans have flocked to a subreddit dedicated to the film’s villain, Thanos. Once mostly a place for jokes, memes, and chatter about the mad Titan’s ideologies, the more than 200,000 members of r/ThanosDidNothingWrong have turned their attention to fulfilling a one-off joke that will decimate their community: randomly banning half of their members. Today, a moderator announced that they’d finally received permission from the subreddit’s administrators. The ban will take place July 9th.
It’s all an elaborate riff on the plot of Infinity War, where (spoilers) long-teased villain Thanos collects the powerful Infinity Stones to complete his goal of wiping out exactly half the population of the...