The reason why this sub is not gaining traction is because we're literally 1% of people who actually make content instead of the 99% who just lurk mindlessly. This rule applys to any internet forum and not limited to reddit. There's just too many fakecels.

In Internet culture, the 1% rule is a rule of thumb pertaining to participation in an

internet community, stating that only 1% of the users of a website actively create new

content, while the other 99% of the participants only lurk. Variants include the 1–9–90

rule (sometimes 90–9–1 principle or the 89:10:1 ratio),[1] which states that in a

collaborative website such as a wiki, 90% of the participants of a community only view

content, 9% of the participants edit content, and 1% of the participants actively create

new content.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule_(Internet_culture)