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so you’re saying Reddit peaked in 2019 and has been downhill ever since regardless of API shenanigans?

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Reddit has always been a mixed bag for me personally. I hate the communities and the dreary outlook it seeks to cultivate but its a great tool for finding interesting videos and memes.

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It all depends on the subs you interacted with.

If you allowed the defaults, news and politics to show up?

It has been a shit hole for at least a decade.

If you only viewed things like askhistorians and other focused and tightly moderated subs?

The place it still pretty good.

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so you’re saying Reddit peaked in 2019

You’re close to a decade to late for peak reddit

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Troof. That’s like saying /b/ peaked in 2014

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I mean, that’s been noticed and parodied on reddit itself

Ask reddit sex

Hey reddit , do you like sex? Sexy sexy sex? Do you like when you put penis in women cum hole and do the sex? What is your sexiest sex you’ve ever sexed ? Is it the ass one (an#a l) or the v#gina one?

https://old.reddit.com/r/copypasta/comments/hczxl2/ask_reddit_sex/

I think the literally teenage userbase of the site has grown significantly in the last few years, which results in this sort of garbage.

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Big boost in teens on reddit during pandemic, but can’t do sexy times because lockdown. Come out of lockdown horny af but not so knowledgeable because they couldn’t ask their older brother’s friend what 3rd base is. Ask reddit. ??? Profit.

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And that is despite reddit banning a ton of NSFW subreddits over the past few years (or setting them to private).

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thats probably why this spike is happening.

All sorts of websites are trying to puritan it up by scrubbing away porn and any other ad unfriendly appearances, like youtube with their swear jar.

So when it gets harder to find porn, people start posting more and more about porn in sfw ish subs like askreddit

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Well that graph shows total posts and SFW posts have declined massively. NSFW posts have grown but the impact will be disproportionately noticable as the aite is basically in decline otherwise.

That’s all assuming AskReddit is representative of the site as a whole.

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