From What's the best "long con" you ever pulled?, buried a little ways, a wild Yishan appeared:

Here's one. In 2006, reddit was sold to Conde Nast. It was soon obvious to many that the sale had been premature, the site was unmanaged and under-resourced under the old-media giant who simply didn't understand it and could never realize its full potential, so the founders and their allies in Y-Combinator (where reddit had been born) hatched an audacious plan to re-extract reddit from the clutches of the 100-year-old media conglomerate. Together with Sam Altman, they recruited a young up-and-coming technology manager with social media credentials. Alexis, who was on the interview panel for the new reddit CEO, would reject all other candidates except this one. The manager was to insist as a condition of taking the job that Conde Nast would have to give up significant ownership of the company, first to employees by justifying the need for equity to be able to hire top talent, bringing in Silicon Valley insiders to help run the company. After continuing to grow the company, he would then further dilute Conde Nast's ownership by raising money from a syndicate of Silicon Valley investors led by Sam Altman, now the President of Y-Combinator itself, who in the process would take a seat on the board. Once this was done, he and his team would manufacture a series of otherwise-improbable leadership crises, forcing the new board to scramble to find a new CEO, allowing Altman to use his position on the board to advocate for the re-introduction of the old founders, installing them on the board and as CEO, thus returning the company to their control and relegating Conde Nast to a position as minority shareholder. JUST KIDDING. There's no way that could happen.

He's soon joined by other Reddit CEOs, past and current, some seeking credit- spez:

We all had our roles to play.

Leading to the astonishment and confusion of Redditors:

I can't tell if this is still a joke...

When a new mod of r/circlejerk questions how this could be a joke- ekjp:

How is this funny? /s

Users start offering the top quality knowledge of the law that makes r/legal advice such riveting stuff, suggesting that Yishan dun goofed by confessing, before he returns to explain the perfect crime further-

Not if the value of their share of the business rose significantly each time they were diluted. They would be voluntarily giving up control while achieving gainz. It's a win-win, although some of you guys made it pretty rough on /u/ekjp. All hypothetically, of course.

Another conspirator arrives, hypothetically, as samaltman celebrates in a low-key post that went unnoticed without any eye-catching flair-

Cool story bro. Except I could never have predicted the part where you resigned on the spot :) Other than that, child's play for me. Thanks for the help. I mean, thanks for your service as CEO.

Closing thought from the OP Yishan:

reddit's definitely a lot more fun when you're not running the place.

Popcorn tastes good.