Skray

Based on the language where they say there is something coming in the future, I would bet it’s that system.

They want to invalidate all existing awards so they cannot be used to give people money under the new system and likely also remove the premium feature of getting awards for free.

People who want to reward content creators will pay for premium and awards instead of just premium now.

I don’t think reddit or any social media company gains copyright or ownership of what you post
There’s no guarantee that what’s being posted even belongs to or is the original creation of the poster.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman sat on the reddit board for years and was briefly CEO for 8 days.