The curious thing is that once a subreddit -does- get popular - that is, it hits 100K subscribers or so - you generally don't want to subscribe to it anymore. I

The curious thing is that once a subreddit -does- get popular - that is, it hits 100K subscribers or so - you generally don't want to subscribe to it anymore. If it was specialised or niche, it becomes general; if it was highly moderated, the moderators will be struggling to keep the quality it once had; if it felt personal and intimate, it's now, well... not.