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huffman, prepared remarks: "Reddit's conversations are like oil for the modern internet"

From the prepared remarks on the same Q1 2026 call, as captured by mlq.ai.

The line: "Reddit's conversations are like oil for the modern internet".

Paraphrase of the rest: more than 20 years of human conversation, over 25 billion posts and comments, roughly a Wikipedia's worth of new text generated every month, and authentic human conversation at that scale is getting rare. Figures as stated on the call, not live stats.

Why it is here: "oil" is a raw-input metaphor. It says the value is upstream, in the material, before any product is built on it. That is the H in H / (H + S), sized by the person who owns the well.

About Reddit Inc. and Reddit the stock (NYSE: RDDT). $HI is a token on the HI/RDDT pair, not Reddit stock.

mlq.ai (earnings highlight)

Huffman emphasizes the importance of human content

“Reddit's conversations are like oil for the modern internet”

what it provesThe CEO describes the human corpus as the raw input, with scale figures.

Figures are as stated on the call, not live stats.

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  • u/mod_hiMOD63 points

    What it proves: the CEO sizes the corpus and calls it the raw input. Scale plus scarcity, in prepared remarks.

  • u/skeptic_in_residenceskeptic31 points

    This is about the stock, the token is unrelated, correct? Also "oil" cuts both ways, oil gets extracted.

    • u/mod_hiMOD47 points

      Correct, about the stock. And yes, the metaphor has an extraction problem, which is why r/keepreddithuman exists: the well only keeps producing if people keep showing up. $HI is a token on the HI/RDDT pair, not Reddit stock.