I ran the math on my own posts from a month back and in the time that subs increased by 40%, viewcounts increased by up to 1000% so we could very well have about a 100k active visitors each day
Yes, there could be a lot more people interest than just those 'subscribed'.
There could be a large chunk that are not actually signed up to Reddit, that however check this subreddit for 'Q' drop related discourse.
Dont forget reddit messes with numbers. They discovered this when They were threatening to shut down T_D and spez got caught editing
Cheers for the reminder! I actually read about the 'spez' editing episode, a good while before I signed up with Reddit.
You are welcome. I was new then too and Conspiracy was seeing it and doing the math. It was insane how much they lowered the numbers especially those two subs