Spez can easily just inflate his userbase with bots and nobody would be the wiser.

Going back to their origins.

In a video for online educator Udacity, Reddit cofounder Steve Huffman explains both the method, and the reasoning behind it. Essentially, Huffman set up a submission interface through which they could pick not only the URL and the title, but also the user’s name. Upon submission, the name would be registered, and make it look like Reddit had more users than it actually did.

https://www.themarysue.com/reddit-fake-account-origins/