Reddit closed five communities on Wednesday night, including /r/hamplanethatred and /r/fatpeoplehate, both of which were devoted to mocking people who are overweight. Reddit users are outraged, considering this to be in direct violation of Reddit's status as a protector of free speech.

So one group has fought back by flocking to a subreddit called /r/fatsteeplehate.

This forum is similar to /r/fatpeoplehate, except for one thing: all of the bullying hatespeech is directed to steeples instead of people.

Here are a few examples. The words on the right are directed to the church steeples pictured on the left.

The thread has been active since well before the /r/fatpeoplehate ban. A Reddit user who goes by the name K_Lobstah contacted BI to provide some more context to the forum, which he says, "started as, and remains, a joke."

"Much as /r/circlejerk often lampoons the ridiculous nature of reddit trends or inanities," K_Lobstah wrote in an email, "those of us who maintain a rational perspective and attitude toward Reddit frequently create subreddits like FatSteepleHate in order to mock and satirize those things in a more focused manner."

Although the language used on the subreddit is undeniably hateful, it's unlikely this page will meet the same fate as /r/fatpeoplehate, because it's directed at inanimate objects instead of people.

Guess it's just one of those Reddit inside jokes that will keep cracking up those in the know.