Seriously, why not just link to the Reddit thread instead of this? It seems like every damn site has become a Torment Nexus.

In defense of this blogspam, the original posts were each individual submissions to /r/programmerhumor, so there's no easy way to link to a collection of them on reddit itself.

That wasn't part of the show? The popup (no idea what was on it, no one reads those of course) shows up and you think 'Ah. Yes, that would be very annoying if that happened while interacting with a volume slider.'

The popup also scrolled down for me and I had to scroll back up to hit the X.

Also, the post is on Medium.

It works fine with javascript blocked, thankfully.

That popup is typical of blogs hosted on Medium. I don't know if the author even has control over if it pops up or now.