Why ChatGPT Reddit Citations Fell and Why I’m Not Panicking | Cap Puckhaber
Why ChatGPT Reddit Citations Fell and Why I’m Not Panicking By Cap Puckhaber, Reno, Nevada I still remember the morning I searched my own name and landed on page three. The day before, I’d been the first result for Cap Puckhaber. Nothing on my site had changed, so the shift came from Google’s side. That same kind of overnight drop just hit ChatGPT Reddit citations, and plenty of marketers are treating it like a fire alarm. My read is that it’s closer to a weather report. The short version fits in a few sentences. Reddit’s share of ChatGPT Search citations fell about 86% in mid-August, and nobody outside OpenAI has confirmed why. ChatGPT also seems to still read Reddit, even though it credits Reddit far less often. That gap between reading and citing matters for your AI search visibility. It’s also why I’m telling clients to slow down before they change anything. What happened to Reddit in ChatGPT The numbers trackers caught The clearest data came from Promptwatch, a firm that tra...