One of the things that drives Reddit as a social media platform is the anonymity.

Once you start tying monetization mechanisms to pay users for content, similar to YouTube or Instagram, you lose the anonymity.

Reddit is already walking the path to destroy everything that made it a different social media platform.

Someone is holding that bag, though. Unfortunately for us, the people holding that bag have the kind of money to make our lives hell just for a fraction of a percentage point of value for their bottom line.