[thomascgalvin]

People on Reddit vastly overestimate how closely Reddit's opinion lines up with that of the general public.

If the last US Presidential election was held on Reddit, Bernie Sanders would have won in a landslide. He obviously did not.

When Netflix announced it was cracking down on password sharing, Reddit declared that this would be the final nail in their coffin. Instead, subscriptions skyrocketed.

Reddit power users are angry at spez and claim that this will be the end of the site, but the average Reddit user has maybe heard about all of this, and mostly doesn't care.