The feminine and male trend recommendation subreddits are protesting Reddit’s API adjustments and up to date actions towards moderators by altering their focus in a hilarious manner: now, posts on these subreddits have to be about trend from the 1700s. Each the r/femalefashionadvice and r/malefashionadvice subreddits converted after placing the selection to a neighborhood vote, and the subreddits at the moment are stuffed with fantastic threads asking about very outdated trend.

One unimaginable thread in r/femalefashionadvice, titled “ gown for a cocktail party with the man I rejected however now like? (1813),” is clearly a roleplay of Elizabeth Bennet from Delight and Prejudice. “How do I gown in a manner that claims, ‘I’m so grateful you saved my sister and my complete household, however I additionally don’t wish to embarrass you about it, but in addition I’m completely in love with you now and if you happen to proposed once more I swear I’d settle for?’” the person wrote. Many feedback delightfully play alongside, with one person asking for the unique poster’s age and noting, in the event that they’re over 30, to “gentle your self on hearth and quit, severely.” One thread asks the neighborhood for suggestions on “which glove is finest to slap somebody within the face with?”

The old-school adjustments are all in good enjoyable, however the subreddits are half of a bigger motion of dissent at Reddit that has taken place over the previous few weeks. Greater than 8,000 subreddits went darkish to protest API adjustments that can drive in style apps to close down, however many subreddits have reopened after feeling threatened by Reddit.