When that subreddit exploded in size, it also included a lot of people who weren't actually "anti-work", but using it as an outlet to complain about and discuss employee abuse and extremely low wages to the point of quitting.
And the mod also clarified she works 20+ hours/week in addition to being a full-time student, which is hardly a loser-teenager stereotype being peddled here. She clearly had no media training and the folks at Fox took advantage of that, though.