I keep seeing these types of posts and my curiosity got the better of me. Finally opened Reddit (on a 3rd party app) after a week and a half. Aaaand.... It looks exactly the same as before.
So I did some research and searched for r/interestingasfuck. And yeah. Might like it better how it is now lol.
As part of the protest they're (mods) marking their subs as NSFW which I find hilarious and clever (because advertisers are adverse to porn), BUT, the side effect is NSFW subs aren't promoted to front page/all by default
The mods of /r/austria wanted to do Tom Turbo content. For those who don't know who or what Tom Turbo is: it's a 90s children's book and TV series about is a talking and self-driving bicycle with 111 gadgets that solves crimes together with a bunch of children. Funnily enough, this was not particulary popular and stopped quite quickly.