Nature is healing, with the latest data from the AI search visibility platform Promptwatch showing that OpenAI's ChatGPT citations from Reddit have plunged in recent weeks to nearly zero.
"It looks like Reddit is almost wiped from ChatGPT sources; the query fanout changes had a big impact, and in the past couple of days it seems to be almost completely removed from prompt responses," Promptwatch founder Klaas Foppen wrote on X.
looks like reddit is almost wiped from chatgpt sources
— Klaas (@forgebitz) August 18, 2026
the query fanout changes had a big impact
and the past couple of days it seems to be almost completely removed from prompt responseshttps://t.co/oCGm9M0yPO pic.twitter.com/c2GJF2apG7
According to Promptwatch, Reddit's daily share of all citations returned by ChatGPT Search began to move sharply lower in the first week of August, then fell to near zero by mid-month.
Promptwatch's website said the red lines on the chart began on August 8, when OpenAI changed the query fanout behavior of ChatGPT Search. By August 14, or last Friday, those citations had plunged again to near zero.
Promptwatch continued:
Reddit lost almost its entire citation footprint in ChatGPT within a single day. From July 18 through August 7, it held a steady 3.83% average share of ChatGPT citations, one of the largest of any domain. On August 14, the share collapsed to under 1%, and the August 14-17 average of 0.52% is an 86.4% relative drop.
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