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For those of you who don't understand how the media works stories like this are not organic.

They are initiated and controlled by the subject of the story (in this case Reddit). See also the article about how hard the HN admin's job is.

Atlantic gets clicks, Reddit gets to pat itself on the back for not solving a problem that never existed, and everyone gets publicity.

That's how it's worked for a century if not more.