I mean, yeah. Anyone who uses/used reddit a lot knows it's unprofitable and has been on a downward trend. The fabled IPO has been awaited for years and years.
I think these days the average user is either entirely unaware or just doesn’t care about the financials of reddit. Power users, for sure. Not a small number but a minority in any case
But right now they're naive bots built on other text corpuses, soon they'll be trained on Reddit itself, so they can karma farm and continue memes from the aughts for the rest of time without the need for pesky users.