But here is the thing - is that Reddit's actions will hurt traffic to places like IMGUR for quite some time... So by cutting off 3rd party access to Reddit API

But here is the thing - is that Reddit's actions will hurt traffic to places like IMGUR for quite some time... So by cutting off 3rd party access to Reddit API, they cull traffic reflected from reddit at pretty much every goddamn egress link from reddit's billion-user-base.