Reddit 4Chan and Tumblr used to work as a team in early 2010s. Let me tell you the history of their alliance.
Till 2009, 4Chan Reddit and Digg were allies.
In late 2010, Digg installed a new v4 update which ruined the site and led to a mass exodus, more than 90% of Digg users migrated to Reddit.
Around same time, Tumblr stole 4Chan’s breathing joke and made it more famous.
4Chan got furious and decided to punish them. They raided Tumblr thinking it will go down easily, but to their surprise, Tumblr striked back and they took down 4Chan.
4Chan got impressed and invited Tumblr to join the team as Digg’s replacement.
In 2011-2013 4Chan Reddit and Tumblr (sometimes with an additional 4th ally) used to conduct various online operations together like operation deepthroat, operation bukkake, operation final strike etc.
But in 2014. 4Chan and Tumblr had another fight, this time it was huge, which made Tumblr exit the team.
The same year Ellen Pao became Reddit’s CEO and she decided to put restrictions on Reddit, which her predecessors refused for a long time. Thousands of Reddit’s controversial subs got banned, hate speech reduced drastically etc. This also led to a sudden rise in Reddit’s userbase.
Reddit was no longer able to work with 4Chan anymore because they lost their chaotic side and turned into normies.
And their trinity collapsed forever.
Fun fact: This trinity was revived for a short period in 2016, for hating on that new powerpuff girls reboot.
