Reddit has a huge hardon for the number 100k. There are a ton of empty "pro narrative" subs like /r/esist that magically have ~100k subscribers but hardly any posts/comments and the "users online right now" count always was way below the more organic and more fun subs. These numbers are all gamed to hell and done to fraudulently sell advertisements and/or create an illusion of group consensus.
It's obvious because they're so awful at making the numbers look consistent. They'll fuck with the subscriber count and vote totals, but not with the online count and they can't possibly keep up with the actual submission/comments to make it look nearly as active as the sub count suggests.
Reddit has a huge hardon for the number 100k. There are a ton of empty "pro narrative" subs like /r/esist that magically have ~100k subscribers but hardly any posts/comments and the "users online right now" count always was way below the more organic and more fun subs. These numbers are all gamed to hell and done to fraudulently sell advertisements and/or create an illusion of group consensus.
It's obvious because they're so awful at making the numbers look consistent. They'll fuck with the subscriber count and vote totals, but not with the online count and they can't possibly keep up with the actual submission/comments to make it look nearly as active as the sub count suggests.