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What is reddit?
- reddit is a social media and discussion website
- Content on reddit are divided into different "subreddits," all containing information and posts by users on different topics
- There are many different subreddits, for almost every topic, but which ones appear on the front page are determined by how many upvotes they have been given by users, which indicates them as topics of interest
- Reddit (stylized always lowercase as reddit) was founded in June 2005 in Medford, Massachusetts by two graduates of the University of Virginia, Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian
- reddit was programmed using the Python coding language
- As of 2016, reddit had 542 million monthly visitors, and was ranked the #11 most visited site in the US and #25 in the world
- As of December 2015 53% of redditors were male, and 54% were from the US, and the largest age bracket was between 18 and 29
- In 2014 , reddit raised $50 million in funding, with two notable investors being Jared Leto and Snoop Dogg