"Reddit is at war with the site's own volunteer moderators, who are protesting changes to the site intended to make it more appealing to investors" sounds like a Star Wars crawl. And it has a sequel already: "Reddit users are flooding the site with porn after system administrators threatened to take over subreddits which refused to surrender."
A handful of subreddits have classified themselves as not safe for work (NSFW) to protest Reddit's recent treatment of the platform's volunteer moderators, and as a result, some non-porn communities are starting to get a lot of porn. … Subreddits don't have to allow porn to be considered NSFW; Reddit defines things that should be tagged as NSFW as containing "nudity, pornography, or profanity" that "a reasonable viewer may not want to be seen accessing in a public or formal setting such as in a workplace." The rules do not explicitly tell users when not to mark something as NSFW. Subreddits that have made the NSFW switch include r/interestingasfuck, r/TIHI (Thanks I Hate It), r/formula1, r/videos, r/HomeKit, and r/HomePod.
It's a clever response to Reddit's directive to reopen communities or be replaced, but malicious compliance requires an authority that is bound by obvious rules, and Reddit isn't.
This, though, is a classic of the genre:
r/videos is now an NSFW subreddit, and like a few other huge communities, it only allows content about comedian John Oliver. (I can't believe I am writing this statement: so far, I have not seen porn about John Oliver on the subreddit.)
