[hackernewds]

As an avid user, in my personal opinion there are multiple factors, but the most significant one is that during lockdown and school closures, a lot of kids, blue collar workers and amateur investors (/r/wallstreetbets) were suddenly attracted to reddit due to the abundance of content, community and opportunity. In the reddit community, this used to be called summer reddit when kids were on summer vacations, but this time it seems the userbase has been retained.