How does Reddit think this is going to end well for them?
How will it not? Sure, there might be some controversy but within a month, most people will either have forgotten or gotten banned from there. That's it. Reddit will continue to exist.
You forgot some facts; first of all, Reddit already employed a child molester in the past, Violentacrez or something, who went to jail. On top of that, he literally modded a (semi?) childporn subreddit called r/jailbait (idk if it's "semi" cp because if it were legal, you wouldn't be baited to jail, to me "jailbait" basically implies CP)
Then there's the (although not concrete) proof that Bardfinn and AHS spam CP on other subreddits to get them banned.
There was also some famous mod who went to jail for molesting his kid, although I forgot his name - he was well liked and promoted by the Reddit community for years
All in all, Reddit has always been filled with pedos, and Reddit has always protected them. This is nothing new. If violentacrez, Bardfinn and that mod who's name I forgot, did not lead to anything - then neither will this.
And in the end, Reddit wouldn't be the first company or organization that protects pedophiles, and continuous to do business for years. Colorclimax is a company that made literal hardcore childporn throughout the 70s and 80s. And guess what, they're still around. And this guy is from the UK, protecting childmolesters is part and parcel of their culture and coporations. It'll only get worse, with so little punishment to these companies and individuals, it will only make it more likely for others to do the same.
It's all so tiresome, if this were a just world, these people would get the bullet, or atleast jailtime and Reddit would either be forced to make drastic changes, or outright killed off if they don't comply. But this is not a just world
im tired bros