I just tried to pick a date most similar to the present one :) If you dig through the archives, I think you may find that the politicisation of reddit happened

I just tried to pick a date most similar to the present one :) If you dig through the archives, I think you may find that the politicisation of reddit happened earlier than you thought. 2008 reddit already seems like mostly politics to me, which I think happened simply because the audience started trending less nerdy. I propose that politics are simply a very popular topic to discuss, and naturally rise to the top as the group becomes less homogenous.