Ouch, yes, you're right.

I still think that one should pass the shame on to the employers but I'll amend that to not put the employee in the middle of it all.

Pass the awkwardness on and place yourself on the side of the employee and shame the employer:
"Oh man this is wild! Just to think that your employers has the audacity to instead of raising your salary to compensate inflation, they just passed that cost onto your customers. I would be so mad if I were you, to be forced to hope for the kindness of strangers instead of getting a liveable salary."

I've had my fair share of fixing on my Linux box, but I never get anywhere near as angry/frustrated as I do any time I have to fix things on my kids windows computers.

It's easy to get stuck in a filter bubble though.

And the extra costs to support a feature I never use.

I agree with you, it would legitimate the results though. Not that I believe that Reddit cares about that either.

Exactly who knows!?
But in all seriousness, considering how large the company seems to be with outsourcing and multiple internal levels of support, it sounds like a juicy target both for ransomware and industrial espionage.

With deep fakes all around you can't really trust a phonecall just because you believe that you recognise the voice 😉😆

My wife is like that, she can still function (though I guess it costs her) while I'm totally knocked out by mines.

I like the malicious compliance but I find that to be a bad way to do a poll. Better would have been one comment with the text "Upvote if you want John Oliver pics, downvote if you want it to go back to normal".

The way they did it if one group only upvote their alternative and the other also downvotes the opponent then the result isn't representative. Or at least could be claimed not to be.