I was really surprised they didn't launch a fark style "TotalReddit" with a monthly subscription fee. Learn from them - allow the subscription to be giftable s

I was really surprised they didn't launch a fark style "TotalReddit" with a monthly subscription fee. Learn from them - allow the subscription to be giftable so popular users get memberships from people who dont mind paying a lot per month. A recurring payment, not a 'donation' to a massive corporation. Have a separate subreddit for these pro users where the non paying users can't access. With their large core of highly active users, I would hazard a guess this should generate them 500k annually. Still - with their insanely high numbers of pageviews they should be able to monetize that traffic reasonably well. Their ad model just seems to work against normal advertiser campaigns, and they stated they didn't have anyone in sales until recently. This seems so bizarre to me - most big corps monetize products into the ground leveraging their existing ad channels.