Why is reddit down

In response to Reddit's decision to increase their API prices to an extreme amount, third party app developers have decided to shut down, and in response to this multiple redditors, subreddits, and reddit mods have decided to protest the decision.
On June 12th multiple large and small subreddits are going private and will not be able to be seen on reddit.com. Redditors hope this display will help stop or amend reddit's decisions which have forced out a lot of third party app developers.
#redditprotest #thedeathofreddit #redditblackout

[@TheToxicPlayuh]

Thanks bro, no one else has a straight forward abswer

[@cryptex3151]

why the name change ? :V

[@yjw2]

Trying to come up with a more unique and more easily searchable name. YJW isn't great either since its some K-Pop chad's nickname.