[speedgoose]

That's also my first bet. The strike was well covered in many medias.

Looking at the google trends, it was a big spike today compared to the classic daily workload: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=now%207-d&q=%2...

[throwaway4837]

The US trends are very telling... https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=now%201-d&geo=...

It coincides exactly with when Down Detector shows the Reddit report spike... https://downdetector.com/status/reddit/

I'm gonna go ahead and say my theory is probably right.

[Salgat]

This is more indicative of people just searching about reddit, possibly to figure out why the site they normally use is having issues.