Spotted on conspiracy: "Reddit's administration may have been considering firing Victoria for quite some time. They knew there would be a backlash. They knew people would want to jump ship. And they're doing all this to make Reddit more corporate-friendly. So they took down FPH, and hunted down any attempts for it to revive. They exiled FPH, leaving them with no choice but to move to a competing site. Most importantly, they targeted a subreddit that shames fat people. A good portion of Reddit's audience is probably overweight, being from developed countries. Fast forward 1 month. I've noticed a lot of people aren't considering moving over to Voat during all this, because they don't want to follow FPH. They think Voat is nothing but racists, fat shamers, and Gamergaters now. Honestly, I don't fully believe this hypothesis. But it's something to think about. The timing is pretty damn good. And it killed two birds with one stone." Not sure I fully believe it, but it is plausible  Edit: also spotted this: "I remember reading when the FPH happened, and I think it was in KiA, that the main objective of that was to see how their control of a Streisend effect worked. FPH uproar lasted a few days, but I just to check the all - rising constantly, and whatever bot they had did an amazing job shooting down anything about FPH, to the point that today, 2 weeks after, the uproar is dead (before the Victoria stuff, I mean). Some people thought that that "bot anti Streisend effect" test was because: a) Something big was going to happen or b) To make the place a "safer" place against those kind of "attacks". So, what I think, when FPH was banned they already knew Victoria was going to be fired. In fact, they knew the community would go mental once she was fired, so they implemented a bot or whatever to control the uproar. That's why they banned FPH, in order to test their software-bot. A few weeks later, after seing that it works, they decided to make their big coup, and fire Victoria."