Malicious Compliance on Reddit in a nutshell
Source: comment thread in r/interestingasfuck stating that it has now become a 'porn sub'. It only for nsfw because they also do malicious compliance.
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Doesn't all this activity help reddit though?
In the short term, people will come by to lollygag. In the long term, there's only so much John Oliver anyone wants to see in a day, so traffic to those subs will likely fall.