[gkoberger]

Well, subreddits were initially a way to move content off the main page, not necessarily to indulge it. So the first subreddit was r/nsfw followed by r/programming and r/politics.

I can't find anything that says r/obama was an early Reddit-created subreddit, but if it was, then they would have done it to have less Obama content on the homepage rather than to celebrate Obama.

Source: https://www.quora.com/What-were-the-first-subreddits-and-how...