Right, but they pretty much all came back. I'm not saying some don't do the blackout for protests, but none I have ever subscribed to have gone away 100% forever.

That’s different than your initial statement that none have vanished overnight. Hundreds or thousands vanished overnight. Many returned, but it was very unclear whether they ever would. Thank goodness the Reddit admins stepped in and basically forced lots of them to come back. Even major ones like r/video are still gone.

In fact, the biggest losers were the users of the small, niche subreddits that the admins couldn’t strongarm into returning.

Your statements are really baffling to me.

They all came back because the admins allowed anyone to volunteer to overtake them. So, either the existing mods changed their minds to remain at the wheel of a subject they're passionate about, or they were replaced with new mods.

That's fair. That was just poor phrasing on my part. I meant "forever" vanish.