[badRNG]

<1% of Reddit users make the content that provides value to the site. This 1% is disproportionately likely to know who spez is and care about his shenanigans. Even less perform the moderation tasks that keep the site running, and they basically all care about this change.

[edgyquant]

Source for this? I think this is a commonly spouted stat that applied to non-social media websites. I have trouble believing social media sites have the same demographic makeup.

[badRNG]

It's a pretty well-known rule [0]. There's a good post about this in r/dataisbeautiful, but it is currently private.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule