The Button (Reddit)

The Button was a meta-game and social experiment hosted by Reddit that featured an online button and countdown timer that would reset each time the button was pressed. The experiment was hosted on the social networking website Reddit beginning on April 1 and was active until June 5, 2015. The game was started by a Reddit administrator.

The Button garnered enthusiasm from Reddit users worldwide, attracting clicks from over one million unique user accounts. Various websites, browser extensions, and mobile applications were created for tracking the live statistics of the Button and enabling users to visit the Button when the timer dropped below a certain threshold.

The Button's countdown timer reached zero several times due to technical issues, but on June 5, 2015, the countdown timer reached zero in the absence of any issue, and so the experiment officially ended.

Overview

The specific Reddit community (subreddit) for the Button had the standard Reddit appearance but with a molly-guarded button next to a 60-second countdown timer at the top of the page. When the button was clicked, the countdown would reset. The button could only be pressed once by each Reddit account, and only accounts that were created before the event started on April 1 were allowed to press it. There was also a cumulative count of all unique users who had clicked the button since its launch.

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Button (disambiguation)

A button is a permanently attached object that is meant to fasten fabrics or is meant as decoration.

Button may also refer to:

Controls

Push-button, a switch meant to control a machine or a process

"The button" often refers specifically to a control (real or figurative) to activate a nuclear weapon

"The button" often refers specifically to a control (real or figurative) to activate a nuclear weapon

Button (computing), a virtual control displayed on a computer screen that can control software

Web button, or button graphic, a digital image used to represent a link to a specific web location

Television, film, and music

"Buttons" (The Pussycat Dolls song), from the Pussycat Dolls album PCD

"Buttons", a song from the 2007 Sia album Some People Have Real Problems

Button (film), a 1982 Soviet animated film

Buttons (film), a 1927 American film

Buttons, of Buttons and Mindy, a cartoon dog from the children's TV show Animaniacs

Buttons (pantomime), a character in the Cinderella pantomime

The Button (sculpture)

The Button (officially, Split Button) is a modern art sculpture that lies at the center of campus at the University of Pennsylvania. It was designed by Swedish sculptor Claes Oldenburg, who specializes in creating oversize sculptures of everyday objects.

Specifications

Total cost: $100,000 including transportation and installation ($37,500 from University, $37,500 from the National Endowment for the Arts, and $25,000 in contributions raised by Mrs. H. Gates Lloyd, chair of the Visual Environment Committee that chose the piece.)

Weight: 5000 lb (approx. 2,270 kg)

Materials: Reinforced aluminum

Size: 16 ft (4.89 m) diameter

Controversy

When The Button was installed in front of the Van Pelt Library on June 18, 1981, it was met with much controversy. Some students found the structure intrusive, and a poor addition to College Green. Controversy surrounding the piece has subsided in the years since 1981, but either way, it is now a central landmark and focal point of campus.