B
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86% -- reddit citation share decline for Perplexity (2025-10)
Perplexity's Reddit citation share dropped by 86% in one month following the October 2025 lawsuit.
- Partial recovery began afterward
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86%
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Data Vintage
2025-10
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Extraction
95
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
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Visibility Stack
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Tier A
https://www.visibilitystack.ai/academy/geo/why-ai-cites-reddit-platform-differences ↗
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Why AI Engines Cite Reddit and How Each Platform Differs
TL;DR
- Reddit's licensing deals with Google and OpenAI made it an official AI source, so every practitioner thread in your category is read and retrieved by AI engines, while your product page is not.
- AI favors Reddit because one thread carries the category, tools, use case, and outcome that a ma…
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Perplexity: 86% reddit citation share decline. Source: Visibility Stack (2025-10). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/perplexity-reddit-citation-drop-86
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