/r/WorldNews eventually had it’s many moderators go inactive. All but one. S/he was some weirdo who didn’t believe in any moderation, at all. Eventually spammers and porn posters moved in, their spam and porn was not removed, and people there for world news left. A bunch of world news fans tried to get Reddit to do something about it, but were ignored. For years. In protest the world news fans took over /r/anime_titties and decided to start posting world news there. /r/anime_titties became a world news sub. Somehow, a few years back Reddit eventually listened -OR- that group gained control of /r/WorldNews somehow and turned it back into world news subreddit.