Paul McCartney was temporarily banned over the weekend from his official Reddit account.
It turns out his publicity folks attempted to share photos and videos from his two Los Angeles theater shows on Friday and Saturday — for which fans had to lock up their phones — by posting a Dropbox link on the McCartney Subreddit.
Subreddit comes with its own set of rules, so it’s alleged that r/PaulMcCartney has guidelines against Dropbox links or self-promotion, or perhaps someone thought McCartney’s post violated the show’s no-phones rule, or one of the moderators didn’t believe that McCartney’s account was really his account, which is not hard to believe seeing as how it’s been inactive since 2020 when he promoted his last album, McCartney III.
Anyway, the good news is that all is right with the world and the Reddit account has since been restored.
We reached out to McCartney’s spokesman but have yet to hear back.
