Just in case anyone here was wondering how Reddit's numbers are looking these days...
Data and visuals from https://subredditstats.com/r/askreddit
this post was submitted on 18 Oct 2023
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That was my immediate guess, but Covid blew up in March, and the Reddit graph doesn't go crazy until a few months later. It is hard to see what else could possibly explain it though; I wouldn't be surprised if there's just an error in the axis labelling or something.
George Floyd was the end of May, then the protests and the election over the summer.
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