I get the feeling that Reddit only does this when “outsiders” become aware of particular subreddits, but they don’t actually care if another sub with the same content gets created afterwards.
To take just r/strugglefucking:
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The subreddits in the comment with an icon before the name are still live, and this comment is from two years ago.
Edit: And regarding r/gooned mentioned in the front page link, it may be gone but all these still exist, and this is just the first three pages of subreddit results:
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For the IPO Reddit is going to play up the idea that it’s just a collection of communities about politics, sports, knitting or whatever. But Reddit is a pornography website, with (as mentioned earlier) a ton of user-uploaded images and videos that are not age-verified. Reddit should be treated like pre-scrutiny PornHub.