With the pandemic and people being online now more than ever, I think Reddit (as users) is slowly showing a shift over the past 2 years. I think we're seeing non-LGB people taking notice of things they didn't pay attention to previously, and seeing that there is a large segment of LGB people who don't agree with the insanity of the past 5-10 years and what "the alphabet people" movement has become.

From a US-perspective, Reddit has been being astroturfed since at least 2015 - the great Trump/Clinton presidential campaign that drew lines in the sand. Our LGB movement has been getting hit side-by-side with the TQ+ takeover, but your average user wasn't paying attention to us since gay marriage was legalized. The wackier the alphabet movement became, the more they pulled away, and redirected on the Republican/Democrat fight and just let our thing happen.

2020 was an insane year in the USA, I don't think we need a recap of EVERYTHING, but the astroturfing was hard-and-heavy on Reddit. Then subs like GC and T_D got banned. Whether they loved or hated GC, women across Reddit knew it happened and were talking. Whether they loved or hated T_D, everyone from every political spectrum knew about T_D. Shortly after, the big LGB purge happened too, which was our sub, TL, RightwingLGBT, etc etc. That didn't make quite as much of an impact, but there were definitely non-LGB people who noticed because we were "based" and now we're gone.

After that we got Superstraight in 2021, and woah boy, did that cause ripples. Some were in it for real, some for memes and drama, some because they hate trans people, and some because it validated what LGB like us have been going through. There were a few heteros who got a little salty about LGB in that sub, but overwhelmingly, they said "I didn't realize there was a whole bunch of LGB experiencing this too" and opened their eyes.

Superstraight gave us allies, and they're still speaking about it even to this day on Reddit. About the same time, the Aimee/Ashton Challenor scandal broke, and that shifted the perspective of even hardcore TQ+ supporters. They heard about a pedo problem on Reddit being protected under the alphabet umbrella, and users are not letting anyone forget about it. I still see some copypasta about it, or people referring to Reddit as "Peddit/Preddit".

Little-by-little, real people are seeing the propaganda machine that Reddit has become. They're watching subs about real-life concerns being taken over with trans-inclusive pandering for no identifiable reason. They're seeing their game/animal meme subs being hit by astroturfing in the comments. When everyone is called a TERF or a bigot no matter what the perspective or subject matter is, people start questioning and fighting back.

Once Reddit goes public, I expect to see a huge shift in content (not for the better) - and then an exodus as people realize just how bad it's become and how there is no hope of it changing. It'll be Digg all over again. I hope M7 and D3 are prepared.