Basiclly for supporting certian subreddits that promoted it. Obviously this isnt real proof but reddit at the time did not seem to have a problem with it. Anderson Cooper did a peice on it as well.

https://www.gawker.com/5842584/americas-most-prestigious-magazine-publisher-returns-to-pedophilia-bait

Thats a nice thought…but Spez is a pedophile and Its way more likely hes trying to completly sell out the company