Anyone else find it REALLY hard to believe there's that much Esports/no gameplay interest on Reddit?

Something really doesn't feel right about this. All these posts about things "Pros are saying" or "teams they're moving to" getting thousands to tens of thousands of upvotes when the Esports "hot" tab on these forums can barely pull 4 upvotes. I know that votebotting is a thing but could I really don't see how it could be that dramatic of a gap.

I saw a few gameplay posts on four pages, here are a couple examples:

One was Hashinshin talking about AD's being bad (1100 upvotes roughly)

Another one about the new Dark Harvest being bad (114 upvotes).

One more about a possible Jhin/Varus meta again (400 upvotes)

. . There's around 2.1million people in the LoL subreddit. I don't know the actual number on here, but I'd be amazed if it was more than 1 percent of that given the usual vote totals. . . . You mean to tell me on a board that has a tiny fraction the population of the reddit board not only has a thriving Esports scene where here has none, and only gets about double the gameplay upvotes on similar topics? Maybe it's just me or a bad take but it really does seem suspicious.