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Reddit Is Not the Front Page of the Internet

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It’s the front page of the Internet for young men. That’s it. That’s all it ever was. And every statistic backs it up.

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Reddit is not "the front page of the Internet," as its slogan proclaims. The site is a massive generator of web traffic but, in demographic terms, Reddit might more aptly be called the front page of a very specific Internet, a mostly young and mostly male Internet.

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