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AI Citations aren’t Earned — They’re Licensed, Zoned, & Occasionally Blocked
Reddit blocked AI crawlers from its entire domain on August 20, and within days its share of ChatGPT Search citations fell roughly 86%, from about 3.83% to 0.52%. Documentation and help-center pages jumped from 2% to 32% of ChatGPT’s citation mix; review sites like G2 and Capterra collapsed toward zero alongside Reddit.