What Does This Mean?
Conflict, controversy and gossip inside or between Reddit communities, such as feuds between moderators and members, mass bans, or a subreddit going private. The phrase is used both for the events and for the habit of following and commenting on them.
REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
""I came for the knitting patterns and stayed for the subreddit drama about the mod team.""
LORE & ORIGIN
Wikipedia's article on Reddit documents several well-known community-wide disputes, including the 2015 moderator protest in which popular subreddits went private after the firing of Victoria Taylor, the 2021 protest over an administrator hire, and the 2023 moderator blackout over API pricing. These are examples of the kind of event people mean, not the origin of the phrase, and no dated first use of the phrase itself was confirmed. It is a general label, distinct from a single subreddit's name or a specific incident.
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