ChatGPT citations shift away from listicles and Reddit
Tomek Rudzki's comparison of one million prompts before and after the GPT-5.6 rollout found listicles losing half their citation share and comparison pages falling 32.1%, alongside more fan-out searches and more direct-source retrieval. Aleyda Solís separately observed declining Reddit citations across several markets and verticals, with competitors, specialist publications, platforms, and government sites gaining visibility; neither dataset proves the same effect for every brand or model.
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