This was extremely intriguing to me- I started looking and noticed that I was getting into the 400-500s of posts in the top/year, and not a single had been from within 8 months.
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...