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I'm not sure if I had more than 1000 comments, but I did manually delete everything that Power Delete Suite didn't catch. My account was completely empty except for a few comments that I posted after.
I think this needs more visibility though, maybe a sticky or something. If people delete their accounts after they think they've deleted everything, there's no way to go back and delete the stuff that reappears. Maybe if you're in the EU you can ask reddit to delete your old posts and comments but I'm not sure.
The word seems to be that reddit is claiming that they don't have the ability to do this after your account is deleted. They need you to make the GDPR request for deletion first, and then only delete your account once all your content is deleted.
I'm pretty sure that this is not GDPR compliant (they'd have to invest the effort - at their own expense - to find all the now unlinked content that used to be part of your account) but if you haven't deleted your account yet, you might have less of an uphill battle in getting reddit to comply.
The support page literally says that you have to delete everything manually. Their privacy policy has a bit more details and from what I can understand you can send them an email to request data deletion, but I'm not sure if they'd have to comply unless you're a EU or California user.