Zero of the top 25 posts of the last twelve months are younger than five months. Two of the top 50 posts are younger than five months.
Comments (using subredditstats from a sister comment) have gone from around 70k per day to around 12k per day.
That said, on second glance there is something weirdly fucky here. This post [0] from a day ago has 4.2k upvotes- and yet, it does not appear in the spot it should in the top of year [1]. Tf?
[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/185g0tf/whats_th...
[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/top/?sort=top&t=year&coun...
I remember during the blackout that there was an extra push (by reddit paid mods) of pushing content to AskReddit (or maybe they made up a similar sub) and were noticeably creating topics there