I mean it's not a stretch to me to assume 52k people have seen the top post. Reddit is still a high trafficked website after all. But there's no reason to assume the upvotes and downvote represent actual user numbers on a one to one basis. Or that the number of comments are all unique persons.

Reddit is in the business of selling add space of course so it's in their financial interests to prime the numbers. Whether or not they actually do that is speculation of course.

Doesn't really matter either way what the exact ratio of bots to idiots is though. Still a waste of time even if it's all one or the other.