I was mostly a mod protest, not a user protest. But mods get their power from their subscriber count (like influencers). So when users started complaining tha

I was mostly a mod protest, not a user protest. But mods get their power from their subscriber count (like influencers). So when users started complaining that they don't care about the protest, and more importantly, started looking for alternative related subreddits which were not part of the protest, the mods backed down and stopped the protest, fearing that they are loosing their power (subscriber count).