The last major holdouts in the protest against Reddit’s API pricing relented, abandoning the so-called “John Oliver rules” which only allowed posts featuring the TV host. It's the official end of the battle. The Reddit protest is over, and Reddit won.
This is like a martial arts movie where the immotal fighter thinks that they’ve won, but doesn’t yet realise that they’ve been cut in half.
Damn that’s probably the best analogy here so far.