Reddit banned my first account in three days. Not because I was posting garbage links or spamming promo codes. I got banned because I tried to be helpful too fast. Jumped into five different subreddits, dropped value, mentioned my product once. That was enough. Shadowban. Took me two months to figure out what actually works. Now Reddit sends me a consistent 8-12% of all traffic to xeroaiagency.com, it shows up in my Perplexity and Claude citations, and I've had people find the starter guide from a comment I left three weeks earlier. Here's the actual system. Why Reddit Works When Every Other Channel Doesn't Reddit generates 68% of all AI-cited sources in consumer-facing LLM responses. If you want Perplexity or ChatGPT to mention your brand when someone asks "how do I build an AI co-founder," you need to be in the subreddits where that conversation happens. Google also indexes Reddit threads heavily.…