The runaway anti-work train had a brutal crash on Fox New this week.
The driver of the mangled vehicle was Doreen Ford, a moderator of the wildly popular r/rantiwork subreddit.
The sub had exploded from 180,000 subscribers in October 2020 to almost 1.7m this month.
That growth was dramatically stalled by Ford’s appearance on Fox.
The interview was an obvious setup. A right-wing network had found an ideal target to denigrate a leftist movement: a 30-year-old dog walker who works 20 hours a week and wants to teach philosophy.
When the cameras started rolling, she appeared unprepared and uncomfortable.
The interview was a disaster for the sub — and an embarrassment for the movement.
But it also exposed a tension on Reddit and online forums in general: moderators aren’t leaders.