When a compelling story pops up, we’ll follow up with the people involved to see if they’d like to share what happened after all the internet fame, or the life-changing comment, or even the simple kind gesture from an internet stranger. There’s no shortage of content and we’ve been thrilled with how excited everyone has been to contribute.
From day zero, Steve and I knew reddit would only succeed thanks to our users, but we had no clue just how remarkable this worldwide network would become. I hope that with every weekly episode, we can highlight something that caught our attention, from one of our thousands of communities, and left us wanting to know more about the people, in their own words. Part This American Life and part ESPN 30 for 30, with a spoonful of orangered.
We want to know what you think, so please subscribe to /r/upvoted and be the first to find out about every episode each Thursday and join in on the discussion after you listen, or during--why not? Without further ado, here's our first six episodes...
Our first episode chronicles the story of Dante Orpilla (/u/youngluck). We talk to Dante about the Bottom Dwellerz; losing custody of his son; his drug addiction; his trial; discovering reddit; having Kleinbl00 from the /r/favors subreddit help him write a speech for the judge; Blackmarketarts; getting involved with redditgifts; and eventually getting his dream job at reddit.
If this goes well, hopefully we can broaden working with you to keep telling your stories behind the stories of the frontpages of reddit. Let us know what you think on /r/upvoted!
