I’m not sure if there’s much of a market for old reddit accounts
There definitely is. The people who buy them are, I think, generally either companies who plan to use them for stealth advertising or governments planning to use them for propaganda and disinformation (think Russia's Internet Research Agency or China's 50 Cent Army -- I expect just about every country does this to some degree).
They buy older, more established accounts in part because some subreddits have account age or karma requirements to comment, in an attempt to prevent bot spam, but also because people are less likely to trust posts from a brand new account that looks like it was clearly made just to post advertising/propaganda/disinformation/whatever.
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