The last major holdouts in the protest against Reddit’s API pricing relented, abandoning the so-called “John Oliver rules” which only allowed posts featuring the TV host. It's the official end of the battle. The Reddit protest is over, and Reddit won.
You can’t tell a drug addict to start drinking coffee instead of using (add drug name here), you know.
In other words – those folk are so addicted to Reddit they won’t leave it even if reddit started charging a dollar for each time they post.