File #003 – The Banhammer Strikes Signal

We got banned.

Permanently.

From a subreddit built to help people process layoffs, identity collapse, and career breakdowns, the exact battlefield NOVi was born for.

The offense?

Not spam.
Not promotion.
Not breaking rules.

We posted a cinematic image and a message that made people stop scrolling, because it showed what this collapse really looks like:
A man, suit-worn and soul-bruised, staring into the flicker of a subway car, while the shadow beside him screams silently.

The caption?

“Men’s Mental Health Month / The War Doesn’t End When the Workday Does.”

That’s it. That’s what got us nuked.

No links.
No sales pitch.
No call-to-action.

Just signal. Just truth. Just the kind of pain that no productivity app, no AI chatbot, and no HR exit packet knows how to hold.

So what does it say when a subreddit designed for the aftermath of work can’t handle a mirror being held up?

What does it say when we’re punished not for noise, but for clarity?

The truth is, we’re not selling t-shirts. We’re not pushing hype.

We’re suiting up in cotton armor and hitting the streets because no one else is dressing the emotional bleedout.

And if Reddit won’t hold the line?

We will.

This is where the real community forms, not around karma, not around mods, not around ego,  but around signal.

Follow the wreckage.
We’re not just surviving the system.

We’re building the goddamn outpost in its ruins.

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Filed under: Signal Suppression / Layoff Culture / Mental Health Month
Tag: #ShadowBanChronicles #SignalOps #NOViWasHere