I tracked every public, non-NSFW subreddit for 24 hours straight. Here's what Reddit actually looks like.

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Every week in this section, it's the same threads. "Reddit is banning everything." "My CQS is low." "Everything I post gets removed." "Is the ban wave starting?" And every reply is somebody's gut feeling.


Nobody has numbers. So here are numbers.

I've been watching Reddit for a while now: every public subreddit that isn't flagged NSFW, every new post, how each post does over its first day (upvotes, comments, shares, whether it got removed), plus subscriber counts and account karma over time. I've now got well over 24 hours of continuous numbers, so I took one clean 24-hour window and went digging.

I haven't seen anyone post numbers like these here, so here they are. Everything below is measured, not estimated, not copied from a Reddit blog post.


Before someone asks:

• Are these numbers real? YES 100% real. I constantly fetch + monitor every single post that gets submitted to Reddit, every single author that posts, every single subreddit that gets activity. So nothing ever skips. I filter out: the nsfw posts, posts from nsfw subs, the deleted/removed, and the post profiles.
  
  
• Every public subreddit that is NOT marked NSFW. Posts, the accounts that made them, the subs they landed in.
  
  
• NSFW subs (not included), private subs (can't see them), and comment TEXT. Comment numbers are the comment counts shown on each post. I only looked at the counts, not the comments themselves.
  
  
• Window: 24 hours ending the evening of Aug 27 (UTC). Where I say "a full day" I mean Wednesday Aug 26, UTC, which has had time to settle.
  
  
• No, I'm not selling anything in this thread.
  
  
• This post was written by me, and I gave it to AI to make it well organized.
  
  
• Why are you not counting NSFW? I absolutely can, but I'm concerned about the payment providers (stripe) in the future

1. The headline numbers​

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642,325 new posts in 24 hours. 446 a minute. 7.4 every second. All day.

• 386,447 different accounts made them. 74% posted exactly once.
• 75,024 subreddits got at least one post. 29,626 of them got exactly one.
• Those posts pulled 22.5 million upvotes, 6.39 million comments and 3.81 million shares.
• 134,681 posts were removed or deleted in the same 24 hours.
• Full week: 4.2 million posts, 1.83 million unique posting accounts, 154,617 subreddits touched.

Reddit's COO was quoted in June saying "over 100,000 active communities". I count 224,817 subreddits with real weekly activity, and 3.63 million that have ever existed (SFW active subs throughout Reddit's history).

Reddit is big. But keep the two numbers apart. The "hundreds of millions of users" Reddit talks about are people who VIEW Reddit, most of them without an account, a lot of them landing from Google. The people who actually make Reddit are a much smaller crowd: 386k accounts posted today. That's the whole posting population of Reddit on a Wednesday. Everyone else is audience.

The current rate is ~1.4M raw posts, and ~11M raw comments a day.

2. When Reddit posts​

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Peak is 17:00 UTC (36,584 posts in one hour, US afternoon). Low point is 07:00 UTC (19,034, US 2-3 a.m.). Peak is 2x the trough. Reddit never goes below 19k posts an hour, ever.


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Day to day it barely moves: 555k to 650k posts per day. Sunday is the quiet day (555k), Wednesday the loud one (650k). Unique posting accounts sit at about 350k-390k per day no matter what.

3. What people actually post​

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• Text 44.5%. Images 25.3%. Links 12.9%. Galleries 11.1%. Video 6.0%. Polls 0.2%.
• 63% of posts have a body text. 7.5% are crossposts.
• 80.9% English. 10.1% no clear language (emoji, one-word titles). Then Spanish 1.4%, Portuguese 1.3%, Arabic 1.0%, German 0.8%, Turkish 0.6%, French 0.5%.
• Most used flairs: "Discussion" (21,593), "Question" (15,172), then News, Meme, Help, Advice.

Remember the type split. What gets POSTED and what gets UPVOTED are two completely different pictures (section 7).

4. The "busiest subreddits" are half bots​

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Look at the right column. Several of the busiest "communities" on Reddit are one account posting into its own sub:

• r/automationContentCom: 5,225 posts, 1 account.
• r/AutoNewspaper: 2,303 posts, 1 account.
• r/BotBouncer: 1,561 posts, 1 account.
• r/devplatform_triggers and r/devvittriggerscontrol: ~1,425 posts each, 1 account each. Reddit's own developer platform test subs.
• r/jobboardsearch: 2,019 posts, 4 accounts.

The human-heavy ones are mobile game subs (SwordAndSupperGame, Monopoly_GO, PokemonGoRaids, FarmMergeValley, PieceOfCakeGame) where thousands of players post trade and raid requests, plus AskReddit / teenagers / Advice / NoStupidQuestions.

Only 19 subreddits got 1,000+ posts in the whole day. 29,626 got exactly one.



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The 20 most prolific accounts on Reddit are almost all automation. Nine accounts made 23,654 posts between them, 3.7% of everything Reddit saw that day. AutoModerator alone posted 1,672 times across 1,176 subs.

Reddit itself marks some accounts as bots. 1,388 of those marked accounts posted in the window and made 29,387 posts, 4.6% of all posts. Add the obvious ones that aren't marked (names starting with "auto", ending in "bot", the test accounts) and you're over 5%. So when people here say "Reddit is full of bots", yes, and Reddit knows exactly which ones, because they label them.

5. One in five posts is gone within a day​

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This is the one for everyone posting "everything I post gets removed". Of the 649,795 posts made on Aug 26, 118,196 (18.2%) were already removed or deleted by the next evening. That's not you. That's Reddit.

Why they went (last 24h, 134,681 removals):

• 57.5% the author deleted it themselves (77,457)
• 25.9% a moderator removed it (34,857)
• 11.0% Reddit's own spam / admin removal (14,848)
• 2.2% the account itself is gone (3,030)
• 1.5% taken down for legal/content reasons, 0.8% caught by AutoMod, 49 copyright takedowns

How fast: half of all removals happen inside the first hour (median 44 minutes). 75% inside 6 hours. Only 3.7% of removals happen after the first day. If your post is still up after 6 hours, it's staying.

Who gets removed: 67% of removed posts had 1 upvote or less when they died. But 684 posts with 1,000+ upvotes got removed in the same window, and posts removed by mods averaged 65 upvotes. It's not just junk that gets nuked.

Most removals: Monopoly_GO (1,429), PieceOfCakeGame (1,363), AskReddit (1,364), MakeNewFriendsHere (841), plus the dev test subs. These count everything removed in the 24 hours, including posts made earlier.

6. Who is actually posting, and who gets banned the same day​

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By account age:

• Under 1 day old: 4,284 accounts (1.1%) made 7,222 posts. 103 of them (2.4%) were suspended or deleted by the evening.
• 1-7 days: 6,376. 7-30 days: 14,825. 6.6% of the accounts posting today are younger than a month.
• 1-12 months: 18.4%. 1-5 years: 37.5%. 5+ years: 32.5%.
• 5.0% of posting accounts were suspended or deleted by the end of the day.

Now the part that matters for this forum. Same-day death rate by account age:

• Under 1 day: 2.4% gone by evening
• 1-7 days: 2.1%
• 7-30 days: 1.2%
• 1-12 months: 0.28%
• 1-5 years: 0.10%
• 5+ years: 0.05%

A day-old account is 48x more likely to be dead by evening than a 5-year-old one. Everyone here says "age your accounts". This is what that's worth, in numbers.

By karma:

• 5.8% of posters have 0 or negative karma. Another 25.4% are under 100.
• So almost a third of everyone posting on Reddit today has under 100 karma. The karma wall is real in specific subs. It is not Reddit-wide.
• 4.2% of posters (16,331 accounts) have 100k+ karma. They made 51,761 posts, about 8% of the total.

Age vs karma: the median 5+ year account posting today has 4,152 karma. Median 1-5 year account: 830. Median under-a-month account: 42.

7. What actually gets upvotes (read this part)​

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Average upvotes per post by type:

• Video: 96 (median 6)
• Image: 70.5 (median 5)
• Gallery: 48.5 (median 5)
• Link: 24.6 (median 1)
• Text: 6.7 (median 1)
• Poll: 3.3 (median 1)

Text is 44.5% of what gets posted and gets a median of ONE upvote. Video is 6% of posts and beats text 14x on average. Video also gets shared 7x more than text (18.8 shares per post vs 2.7).

Comments per post are flat across types: video 12.1, image 11.6, text 10.1, gallery 9.9, link 5.3. Want a discussion, text is fine. Want reach, it isn't.

Best hour to post (average upvotes on posts made that hour on Aug 26, UTC): 15:00 (70.9) and 12:00 (69.5), then 01:00 (64.8) and 16:00 (62.8). Worst: 05:00 (42.2), 23:00 (44.1), 22:00 (46.6). Best hour beats worst by about 70%.

Title length: 150+ character titles averaged 67 upvotes and 14.6 comments. Everything shorter: 31-38 upvotes, 7-12 comments. Long, specific titles win. Stop posting "Thoughts?".

8. Where the attention went​

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Upvotes: r/MadeMeSmile took 333k upvotes from 66 posts (5,053 per post). meirl 250k, mildlyinfuriating 218k, interestingasfuck 200k, SipsTea 197k, politics 189k. Compare r/cats: 580 posts for 164k, 283 per post. Volume is not reach.

Comments: AskReddit 114k comments on 3,763 posts. BigBrother 64,732 comments on 10 posts (live-episode megathreads, the top one had 22,528 comments and 48 upvotes). RedditGames 55k, BunnyTrials 36k, TierlistFills 34k.

Biggest single post of the day: a MadeMeSmile post, 150,647 upvotes, 4,013 comments, 7,243 shares. Second was r/cats at 65k.

9. How concentrated it is​

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• Top 100 subreddits get 12.6% of all posts. Top 1,000 get 30.4%. Top 10,000 get 69.8%. The other 65,000 subs share the last 30%.
• Top 100 POSTS take 9.5% of all upvotes on Reddit that day. Top 1,000 posts: 28.6%. Top 10,000 posts (1.6% of posts): 60.3% of all upvotes.
• 47.6% of posts end the day with 1 upvote or less. 32% get zero comments.
• 5.2% of posts reach 100 upvotes. 0.48% reach 1,000. 139 posts on the entire site (0.02%) crossed 10,000.

The median Reddit post gets 2 upvotes and 2 comments. If you're getting 20 you're already top 15%. 100 is top 5%. Calibrate your expectations, and your clients'.

10. 24-hour movers​

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Subscriber counts were tracked across 77k subs over the day (7.12 billion memberships total). Biggest gainers in 24h: AskReddit +5,900 (59.49M), NewToReddit +5,698, BlindRankings +5,629 (90k to 96k, +6.2% in a day), GirlDinnerDiaries +5,186, RedditGames +5,081. Fastest by percentage: AnimeCosplayers +22% (10,278 to 12,550) and Tornadoes +6.8% (33,223 to 35,466).

Karma: tracked for over 600k accounts over the same day. Top gainer u/Veshaad picked up 60,510 karma in a day. u/MarvelsGrantMan136 added 35k and now sits at 28.08 MILLION. u/Beneficial_Passion40 crossed 1M karma during the window (+34,697).

11. The bigger picture: all of Reddit's subs and accounts​

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• 3,632,601 subreddits have existed at some point. 1.2 million of them (33%) are dead and abandoned. Sub creation peaked in 2022 (578k). 2026 is at 281k so far.
• 224,817 subreddits are alive with real activity right now. 155k public, 70k restricted. 59,254 have 1,000+ weekly active users, 22,499 have 10k+, 4,206 have 100k+.
• Combined weekly active users across all live subs: 2.29 billion (people counted once per sub). Weekly contributions: 73.8 million.
• Top by weekly actives: AskReddit 16.8M, whatisit 13.7M, mildlyinfuriating 12.5M, NoStupidQuestions 9.9M, interestingasfuck 9.3M, PeterExplainsTheJoke 8.8M, SipsTea 8.5M.
• 83,388,482 accounts that have posted publicly. Among them, account creation peaked in 2020 (10.4M), 2026 is at 2.8M so far. 240,395 have 100k+ karma, 4,359 have 1M+, the top one has 61.7M. Median karma: 16.
• Reddit itself marks 13,357 of them as bots. 993 are verified accounts.
  
  

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Of the 75,024 subs that got a post, 4,066 have 100k+ weekly actives and those 4,066 made 30% of all posts. The 10k-99k tier (16,472 subs) made another 38%. Subs older than 5 years produced 62% of all posts. Subs under 30 days old that got any post at all: 463.

12. What I'd take from this if I was marketing on Reddit​

• Post video or images, not text, if reach is the goal. 14x average upvotes, 7x shares. Text is for discussion only.
• 12:00-16:00 UTC is the window. 05:00 UTC is dead. Posting at the volume peak (17:00) is not a disaster (about 50 average upvotes vs 71 at the best hour) but you're competing with the most posts of the day.
• Long, specific titles. 150+ chars roughly doubles average upvotes and comments vs short ones.
• Expect 1 in 5 posts to vanish. Half of removals are inside the first hour. Survive 6 hours and you're staying up.
• Age your accounts. Not as a saying, as a number. Day-old accounts die at 2.4% per day. 5-year accounts at 0.05%. 48x.
• Karma is less of a wall than people think. A third of today's posters have under 100. It's the specific subs' AutoMod rules that bite, not Reddit-wide.
• The middle of Reddit is where the volume is. 10k-99k weekly-active subs produce more posts than the giants and have far less competition per post than the top 100.
• Bots are ~5% of posts and Reddit labels them. Mod + admin removals are 37% of all removals. They are not asleep.
• A 2-upvote post is the median. If a service promises you "hundreds of upvotes" on every post, you now know what that means.
  

That's the day. if there's an interest, I'll do the same breakdown for a full week, or split it per niche (gaming, crypto, dating, whatever people want).

Very interesting, would love something similar for NSFW only side of reddit.

1MAO1 said:

Very interesting, would love something similar for NSFW only side of reddit.

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I'll do it and post an update on this thread

I should mention that i count only subreddits that have ≥100 members OR ≥10 weekly active users.

I can turn off the floor, but below this is not worth measuring.

The post-type and posting-time averages are probably distorted by subreddit mix and a few viral posts. A per-subreddit median or matched comparison would make those conclusions much stronger.

Houcinovic said:

Karma is less of a wall than people think. A third of today's posters have under 100. It's the specific subs' AutoMod rules that bite, not Reddit-wide.

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This is why I prefer to create my own subreddits, I don't like to rely on some random subs automod.

Houcinovic said:

I'll do it and post an update on this thread

Click to expand...

This is some really interesting data. Funny that right on 5pm everyone posts on Reddit, almost as if it aligns with work finishing
Can't wait to see the NSFW data and compare

damn thank you for your time

thaaz said:

The post-type and posting-time averages are probably distorted by subreddit mix and a few viral posts. A per-subreddit median or matched comparison would make those conclusions much stronger.

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i did some tests inside a couple of subs and found this:










i can run a test like this on any subreddit you like just make sure it gets 50+ posts per day

I had to create new thread for the nsfw:

https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/i...instream-one-the-difference-is-the-c.1846100/

Houcinovic said:

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Every week in this section, it's the same threads. "Reddit is banning everything." "My CQS is low." "Everything I post gets removed." "Is the ban wave starting?" And every reply is somebody's gut feeling.


Nobody has numbers. So here are numbers.

I've been watching Reddit for a while now: every public subreddit that isn't flagged NSFW, every new post, how each post does over its first day (upvotes, comments, shares, whether it got removed), plus subscriber counts and account karma over time. I've now got well over 24 hours of continuous numbers, so I took one clean 24-hour window and went digging.

I haven't seen anyone post numbers like these here, so here they are. Everything below is measured, not estimated, not copied from a Reddit blog post.


Before someone asks:

• Are these numbers real? YES 100% real. I constantly fetch + monitor every single post that gets submitted to Reddit, every single author that posts, every single subreddit that gets activity. So nothing ever skips. I filter out: the nsfw posts, posts from nsfw subs, the deleted/removed, and the post profiles.
  
  
• Every public subreddit that is NOT marked NSFW. Posts, the accounts that made them, the subs they landed in.
  
  
• NSFW subs (not included), private subs (can't see them), and comment TEXT. Comment numbers are the comment counts shown on each post. I only looked at the counts, not the comments themselves.
  
  
• Window: 24 hours ending the evening of Aug 27 (UTC). Where I say "a full day" I mean Wednesday Aug 26, UTC, which has had time to settle.
  
  
• No, I'm not selling anything in this thread.
  
  
• This post was written by me, and I gave it to AI to make it well organized.
  
  
• Why are you not counting NSFW? I absolutely can, but I'm concerned about the payment providers (stripe) in the future

1. The headline numbers​

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642,325 new posts in 24 hours. 446 a minute. 7.4 every second. All day.

• 386,447 different accounts made them. 74% posted exactly once.
• 75,024 subreddits got at least one post. 29,626 of them got exactly one.
• Those posts pulled 22.5 million upvotes, 6.39 million comments and 3.81 million shares.
• 134,681 posts were removed or deleted in the same 24 hours.
• Full week: 4.2 million posts, 1.83 million unique posting accounts, 154,617 subreddits touched.

Reddit's COO was quoted in June saying "over 100,000 active communities". I count 224,817 subreddits with real weekly activity, and 3.63 million that have ever existed (SFW active subs throughout Reddit's history).

Reddit is big. But keep the two numbers apart. The "hundreds of millions of users" Reddit talks about are people who VIEW Reddit, most of them without an account, a lot of them landing from Google. The people who actually make Reddit are a much smaller crowd: 386k accounts posted today. That's the whole posting population of Reddit on a Wednesday. Everyone else is audience.

The current rate is ~1.4M raw posts, and ~11M raw comments a day.

2. When Reddit posts​

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Peak is 17:00 UTC (36,584 posts in one hour, US afternoon). Low point is 07:00 UTC (19,034, US 2-3 a.m.). Peak is 2x the trough. Reddit never goes below 19k posts an hour, ever.


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Day to day it barely moves: 555k to 650k posts per day. Sunday is the quiet day (555k), Wednesday the loud one (650k). Unique posting accounts sit at about 350k-390k per day no matter what.

3. What people actually post​

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• Text 44.5%. Images 25.3%. Links 12.9%. Galleries 11.1%. Video 6.0%. Polls 0.2%.
• 63% of posts have a body text. 7.5% are crossposts.
• 80.9% English. 10.1% no clear language (emoji, one-word titles). Then Spanish 1.4%, Portuguese 1.3%, Arabic 1.0%, German 0.8%, Turkish 0.6%, French 0.5%.
• Most used flairs: "Discussion" (21,593), "Question" (15,172), then News, Meme, Help, Advice.

Remember the type split. What gets POSTED and what gets UPVOTED are two completely different pictures (section 7).

4. The "busiest subreddits" are half bots​

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Look at the right column. Several of the busiest "communities" on Reddit are one account posting into its own sub:

• r/automationContentCom: 5,225 posts, 1 account.
• r/AutoNewspaper: 2,303 posts, 1 account.
• r/BotBouncer: 1,561 posts, 1 account.
• r/devplatform_triggers and r/devvittriggerscontrol: ~1,425 posts each, 1 account each. Reddit's own developer platform test subs.
• r/jobboardsearch: 2,019 posts, 4 accounts.

The human-heavy ones are mobile game subs (SwordAndSupperGame, Monopoly_GO, PokemonGoRaids, FarmMergeValley, PieceOfCakeGame) where thousands of players post trade and raid requests, plus AskReddit / teenagers / Advice / NoStupidQuestions.

Only 19 subreddits got 1,000+ posts in the whole day. 29,626 got exactly one.



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The 20 most prolific accounts on Reddit are almost all automation. Nine accounts made 23,654 posts between them, 3.7% of everything Reddit saw that day. AutoModerator alone posted 1,672 times across 1,176 subs.

Reddit itself marks some accounts as bots. 1,388 of those marked accounts posted in the window and made 29,387 posts, 4.6% of all posts. Add the obvious ones that aren't marked (names starting with "auto", ending in "bot", the test accounts) and you're over 5%. So when people here say "Reddit is full of bots", yes, and Reddit knows exactly which ones, because they label them.

5. One in five posts is gone within a day​

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This is the one for everyone posting "everything I post gets removed". Of the 649,795 posts made on Aug 26, 118,196 (18.2%) were already removed or deleted by the next evening. That's not you. That's Reddit.

Why they went (last 24h, 134,681 removals):

• 57.5% the author deleted it themselves (77,457)
• 25.9% a moderator removed it (34,857)
• 11.0% Reddit's own spam / admin removal (14,848)
• 2.2% the account itself is gone (3,030)
• 1.5% taken down for legal/content reasons, 0.8% caught by AutoMod, 49 copyright takedowns

How fast: half of all removals happen inside the first hour (median 44 minutes). 75% inside 6 hours. Only 3.7% of removals happen after the first day. If your post is still up after 6 hours, it's staying.

Who gets removed: 67% of removed posts had 1 upvote or less when they died. But 684 posts with 1,000+ upvotes got removed in the same window, and posts removed by mods averaged 65 upvotes. It's not just junk that gets nuked.

Most removals: Monopoly_GO (1,429), PieceOfCakeGame (1,363), AskReddit (1,364), MakeNewFriendsHere (841), plus the dev test subs. These count everything removed in the 24 hours, including posts made earlier.

6. Who is actually posting, and who gets banned the same day​

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By account age:

• Under 1 day old: 4,284 accounts (1.1%) made 7,222 posts. 103 of them (2.4%) were suspended or deleted by the evening.
• 1-7 days: 6,376. 7-30 days: 14,825. 6.6% of the accounts posting today are younger than a month.
• 1-12 months: 18.4%. 1-5 years: 37.5%. 5+ years: 32.5%.
• 5.0% of posting accounts were suspended or deleted by the end of the day.

Now the part that matters for this forum. Same-day death rate by account age:

• Under 1 day: 2.4% gone by evening
• 1-7 days: 2.1%
• 7-30 days: 1.2%
• 1-12 months: 0.28%
• 1-5 years: 0.10%
• 5+ years: 0.05%

A day-old account is 48x more likely to be dead by evening than a 5-year-old one. Everyone here says "age your accounts". This is what that's worth, in numbers.

By karma:

• 5.8% of posters have 0 or negative karma. Another 25.4% are under 100.
• So almost a third of everyone posting on Reddit today has under 100 karma. The karma wall is real in specific subs. It is not Reddit-wide.
• 4.2% of posters (16,331 accounts) have 100k+ karma. They made 51,761 posts, about 8% of the total.

Age vs karma: the median 5+ year account posting today has 4,152 karma. Median 1-5 year account: 830. Median under-a-month account: 42.

7. What actually gets upvotes (read this part)​

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Average upvotes per post by type:

• Video: 96 (median 6)
• Image: 70.5 (median 5)
• Gallery: 48.5 (median 5)
• Link: 24.6 (median 1)
• Text: 6.7 (median 1)
• Poll: 3.3 (median 1)

Text is 44.5% of what gets posted and gets a median of ONE upvote. Video is 6% of posts and beats text 14x on average. Video also gets shared 7x more than text (18.8 shares per post vs 2.7).

Comments per post are flat across types: video 12.1, image 11.6, text 10.1, gallery 9.9, link 5.3. Want a discussion, text is fine. Want reach, it isn't.

Best hour to post (average upvotes on posts made that hour on Aug 26, UTC): 15:00 (70.9) and 12:00 (69.5), then 01:00 (64.8) and 16:00 (62.8). Worst: 05:00 (42.2), 23:00 (44.1), 22:00 (46.6). Best hour beats worst by about 70%.

Title length: 150+ character titles averaged 67 upvotes and 14.6 comments. Everything shorter: 31-38 upvotes, 7-12 comments. Long, specific titles win. Stop posting "Thoughts?".

8. Where the attention went​

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Upvotes: r/MadeMeSmile took 333k upvotes from 66 posts (5,053 per post). meirl 250k, mildlyinfuriating 218k, interestingasfuck 200k, SipsTea 197k, politics 189k. Compare r/cats: 580 posts for 164k, 283 per post. Volume is not reach.

Comments: AskReddit 114k comments on 3,763 posts. BigBrother 64,732 comments on 10 posts (live-episode megathreads, the top one had 22,528 comments and 48 upvotes). RedditGames 55k, BunnyTrials 36k, TierlistFills 34k.

Biggest single post of the day: a MadeMeSmile post, 150,647 upvotes, 4,013 comments, 7,243 shares. Second was r/cats at 65k.

9. How concentrated it is​

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• Top 100 subreddits get 12.6% of all posts. Top 1,000 get 30.4%. Top 10,000 get 69.8%. The other 65,000 subs share the last 30%.
• Top 100 POSTS take 9.5% of all upvotes on Reddit that day. Top 1,000 posts: 28.6%. Top 10,000 posts (1.6% of posts): 60.3% of all upvotes.
• 47.6% of posts end the day with 1 upvote or less. 32% get zero comments.
• 5.2% of posts reach 100 upvotes. 0.48% reach 1,000. 139 posts on the entire site (0.02%) crossed 10,000.

The median Reddit post gets 2 upvotes and 2 comments. If you're getting 20 you're already top 15%. 100 is top 5%. Calibrate your expectations, and your clients'.

10. 24-hour movers​

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Subscriber counts were tracked across 77k subs over the day (7.12 billion memberships total). Biggest gainers in 24h: AskReddit +5,900 (59.49M), NewToReddit +5,698, BlindRankings +5,629 (90k to 96k, +6.2% in a day), GirlDinnerDiaries +5,186, RedditGames +5,081. Fastest by percentage: AnimeCosplayers +22% (10,278 to 12,550) and Tornadoes +6.8% (33,223 to 35,466).

Karma: tracked for over 600k accounts over the same day. Top gainer u/Veshaad picked up 60,510 karma in a day. u/MarvelsGrantMan136 added 35k and now sits at 28.08 MILLION. u/Beneficial_Passion40 crossed 1M karma during the window (+34,697).

11. The bigger picture: all of Reddit's subs and accounts​

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• 3,632,601 subreddits have existed at some point. 1.2 million of them (33%) are dead and abandoned. Sub creation peaked in 2022 (578k). 2026 is at 281k so far.
• 224,817 subreddits are alive with real activity right now. 155k public, 70k restricted. 59,254 have 1,000+ weekly active users, 22,499 have 10k+, 4,206 have 100k+.
• Combined weekly active users across all live subs: 2.29 billion (people counted once per sub). Weekly contributions: 73.8 million.
• Top by weekly actives: AskReddit 16.8M, whatisit 13.7M, mildlyinfuriating 12.5M, NoStupidQuestions 9.9M, interestingasfuck 9.3M, PeterExplainsTheJoke 8.8M, SipsTea 8.5M.
• 83,388,482 accounts that have posted publicly. Among them, account creation peaked in 2020 (10.4M), 2026 is at 2.8M so far. 240,395 have 100k+ karma, 4,359 have 1M+, the top one has 61.7M. Median karma: 16.
• Reddit itself marks 13,357 of them as bots. 993 are verified accounts.
  

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Of the 75,024 subs that got a post, 4,066 have 100k+ weekly actives and those 4,066 made 30% of all posts. The 10k-99k tier (16,472 subs) made another 38%. Subs older than 5 years produced 62% of all posts. Subs under 30 days old that got any post at all: 463.

12. What I'd take from this if I was marketing on Reddit​

• Post video or images, not text, if reach is the goal. 14x average upvotes, 7x shares. Text is for discussion only.
• 12:00-16:00 UTC is the window. 05:00 UTC is dead. Posting at the volume peak (17:00) is not a disaster (about 50 average upvotes vs 71 at the best hour) but you're competing with the most posts of the day.
• Long, specific titles. 150+ chars roughly doubles average upvotes and comments vs short ones.
• Expect 1 in 5 posts to vanish. Half of removals are inside the first hour. Survive 6 hours and you're staying up.
• Age your accounts. Not as a saying, as a number. Day-old accounts die at 2.4% per day. 5-year accounts at 0.05%. 48x.
• Karma is less of a wall than people think. A third of today's posters have under 100. It's the specific subs' AutoMod rules that bite, not Reddit-wide.
• The middle of Reddit is where the volume is. 10k-99k weekly-active subs produce more posts than the giants and have far less competition per post than the top 100.
• Bots are ~5% of posts and Reddit labels them. Mod + admin removals are 37% of all removals. They are not asleep.
• A 2-upvote post is the median. If a service promises you "hundreds of upvotes" on every post, you now know what that means.

That's the day. if there's an interest, I'll do the same breakdown for a full week, or split it per niche (gaming, crypto, dating, whatever people want).

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Great breakdown! Thank you for this!

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Every week in this section, it's the same threads. "Reddit is banning everything." "My CQS is low." "Everything I post gets removed." "Is the ban wave starting?" And every reply is somebody's gut feeling.


Nobody has numbers. So here are numbers.

I've been watching Reddit for a while now: every public subreddit that isn't flagged NSFW, every new post, how each post does over its first day (upvotes, comments, shares, whether it got removed), plus subscriber counts and account karma over time. I've now got well over 24 hours of continuous numbers, so I took one clean 24-hour window and went digging.

I haven't seen anyone post numbers like these here, so here they are. Everything below is measured, not estimated, not copied from a Reddit blog post.


Before someone asks:

• Are these numbers real? YES 100% real. I constantly fetch + monitor every single post that gets submitted to Reddit, every single author that posts, every single subreddit that gets activity. So nothing ever skips. I filter out: the nsfw posts, posts from nsfw subs, the deleted/removed, and the post profiles.
  
  
• Every public subreddit that is NOT marked NSFW. Posts, the accounts that made them, the subs they landed in.
  
  
• NSFW subs (not included), private subs (can't see them), and comment TEXT. Comment numbers are the comment counts shown on each post. I only looked at the counts, not the comments themselves.
  
  
• Window: 24 hours ending the evening of Aug 27 (UTC). Where I say "a full day" I mean Wednesday Aug 26, UTC, which has had time to settle.
  
  
• No, I'm not selling anything in this thread.
  
  
• This post was written by me, and I gave it to AI to make it well organized.
  
  
• Why are you not counting NSFW? I absolutely can, but I'm concerned about the payment providers (stripe) in the future

1. The headline numbers​

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642,325 new posts in 24 hours. 446 a minute. 7.4 every second. All day.

• 386,447 different accounts made them. 74% posted exactly once.
• 75,024 subreddits got at least one post. 29,626 of them got exactly one.
• Those posts pulled 22.5 million upvotes, 6.39 million comments and 3.81 million shares.
• 134,681 posts were removed or deleted in the same 24 hours.
• Full week: 4.2 million posts, 1.83 million unique posting accounts, 154,617 subreddits touched.

Reddit's COO was quoted in June saying "over 100,000 active communities". I count 224,817 subreddits with real weekly activity, and 3.63 million that have ever existed (SFW active subs throughout Reddit's history).

Reddit is big. But keep the two numbers apart. The "hundreds of millions of users" Reddit talks about are people who VIEW Reddit, most of them without an account, a lot of them landing from Google. The people who actually make Reddit are a much smaller crowd: 386k accounts posted today. That's the whole posting population of Reddit on a Wednesday. Everyone else is audience.

The current rate is ~1.4M raw posts, and ~11M raw comments a day.

2. When Reddit posts​

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Peak is 17:00 UTC (36,584 posts in one hour, US afternoon). Low point is 07:00 UTC (19,034, US 2-3 a.m.). Peak is 2x the trough. Reddit never goes below 19k posts an hour, ever.


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Day to day it barely moves: 555k to 650k posts per day. Sunday is the quiet day (555k), Wednesday the loud one (650k). Unique posting accounts sit at about 350k-390k per day no matter what.

3. What people actually post​

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• Text 44.5%. Images 25.3%. Links 12.9%. Galleries 11.1%. Video 6.0%. Polls 0.2%.
• 63% of posts have a body text. 7.5% are crossposts.
• 80.9% English. 10.1% no clear language (emoji, one-word titles). Then Spanish 1.4%, Portuguese 1.3%, Arabic 1.0%, German 0.8%, Turkish 0.6%, French 0.5%.
• Most used flairs: "Discussion" (21,593), "Question" (15,172), then News, Meme, Help, Advice.

Remember the type split. What gets POSTED and what gets UPVOTED are two completely different pictures (section 7).

4. The "busiest subreddits" are half bots​

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Look at the right column. Several of the busiest "communities" on Reddit are one account posting into its own sub:

• r/automationContentCom: 5,225 posts, 1 account.
• r/AutoNewspaper: 2,303 posts, 1 account.
• r/BotBouncer: 1,561 posts, 1 account.
• r/devplatform_triggers and r/devvittriggerscontrol: ~1,425 posts each, 1 account each. Reddit's own developer platform test subs.
• r/jobboardsearch: 2,019 posts, 4 accounts.

The human-heavy ones are mobile game subs (SwordAndSupperGame, Monopoly_GO, PokemonGoRaids, FarmMergeValley, PieceOfCakeGame) where thousands of players post trade and raid requests, plus AskReddit / teenagers / Advice / NoStupidQuestions.

Only 19 subreddits got 1,000+ posts in the whole day. 29,626 got exactly one.



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The 20 most prolific accounts on Reddit are almost all automation. Nine accounts made 23,654 posts between them, 3.7% of everything Reddit saw that day. AutoModerator alone posted 1,672 times across 1,176 subs.

Reddit itself marks some accounts as bots. 1,388 of those marked accounts posted in the window and made 29,387 posts, 4.6% of all posts. Add the obvious ones that aren't marked (names starting with "auto", ending in "bot", the test accounts) and you're over 5%. So when people here say "Reddit is full of bots", yes, and Reddit knows exactly which ones, because they label them.

5. One in five posts is gone within a day​

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This is the one for everyone posting "everything I post gets removed". Of the 649,795 posts made on Aug 26, 118,196 (18.2%) were already removed or deleted by the next evening. That's not you. That's Reddit.

Why they went (last 24h, 134,681 removals):

• 57.5% the author deleted it themselves (77,457)
• 25.9% a moderator removed it (34,857)
• 11.0% Reddit's own spam / admin removal (14,848)
• 2.2% the account itself is gone (3,030)
• 1.5% taken down for legal/content reasons, 0.8% caught by AutoMod, 49 copyright takedowns

How fast: half of all removals happen inside the first hour (median 44 minutes). 75% inside 6 hours. Only 3.7% of removals happen after the first day. If your post is still up after 6 hours, it's staying.

Who gets removed: 67% of removed posts had 1 upvote or less when they died. But 684 posts with 1,000+ upvotes got removed in the same window, and posts removed by mods averaged 65 upvotes. It's not just junk that gets nuked.

Most removals: Monopoly_GO (1,429), PieceOfCakeGame (1,363), AskReddit (1,364), MakeNewFriendsHere (841), plus the dev test subs. These count everything removed in the 24 hours, including posts made earlier.

6. Who is actually posting, and who gets banned the same day​

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By account age:

• Under 1 day old: 4,284 accounts (1.1%) made 7,222 posts. 103 of them (2.4%) were suspended or deleted by the evening.
• 1-7 days: 6,376. 7-30 days: 14,825. 6.6% of the accounts posting today are younger than a month.
• 1-12 months: 18.4%. 1-5 years: 37.5%. 5+ years: 32.5%.
• 5.0% of posting accounts were suspended or deleted by the end of the day.

Now the part that matters for this forum. Same-day death rate by account age:

• Under 1 day: 2.4% gone by evening
• 1-7 days: 2.1%
• 7-30 days: 1.2%
• 1-12 months: 0.28%
• 1-5 years: 0.10%
• 5+ years: 0.05%

A day-old account is 48x more likely to be dead by evening than a 5-year-old one. Everyone here says "age your accounts". This is what that's worth, in numbers.

By karma:

• 5.8% of posters have 0 or negative karma. Another 25.4% are under 100.
• So almost a third of everyone posting on Reddit today has under 100 karma. The karma wall is real in specific subs. It is not Reddit-wide.
• 4.2% of posters (16,331 accounts) have 100k+ karma. They made 51,761 posts, about 8% of the total.

Age vs karma: the median 5+ year account posting today has 4,152 karma. Median 1-5 year account: 830. Median under-a-month account: 42.

7. What actually gets upvotes (read this part)​

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Average upvotes per post by type:

• Video: 96 (median 6)
• Image: 70.5 (median 5)
• Gallery: 48.5 (median 5)
• Link: 24.6 (median 1)
• Text: 6.7 (median 1)
• Poll: 3.3 (median 1)

Text is 44.5% of what gets posted and gets a median of ONE upvote. Video is 6% of posts and beats text 14x on average. Video also gets shared 7x more than text (18.8 shares per post vs 2.7).

Comments per post are flat across types: video 12.1, image 11.6, text 10.1, gallery 9.9, link 5.3. Want a discussion, text is fine. Want reach, it isn't.

Best hour to post (average upvotes on posts made that hour on Aug 26, UTC): 15:00 (70.9) and 12:00 (69.5), then 01:00 (64.8) and 16:00 (62.8). Worst: 05:00 (42.2), 23:00 (44.1), 22:00 (46.6). Best hour beats worst by about 70%.

Title length: 150+ character titles averaged 67 upvotes and 14.6 comments. Everything shorter: 31-38 upvotes, 7-12 comments. Long, specific titles win. Stop posting "Thoughts?".

8. Where the attention went​

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Upvotes: r/MadeMeSmile took 333k upvotes from 66 posts (5,053 per post). meirl 250k, mildlyinfuriating 218k, interestingasfuck 200k, SipsTea 197k, politics 189k. Compare r/cats: 580 posts for 164k, 283 per post. Volume is not reach.

Comments: AskReddit 114k comments on 3,763 posts. BigBrother 64,732 comments on 10 posts (live-episode megathreads, the top one had 22,528 comments and 48 upvotes). RedditGames 55k, BunnyTrials 36k, TierlistFills 34k.

Biggest single post of the day: a MadeMeSmile post, 150,647 upvotes, 4,013 comments, 7,243 shares. Second was r/cats at 65k.

9. How concentrated it is​

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• Top 100 subreddits get 12.6% of all posts. Top 1,000 get 30.4%. Top 10,000 get 69.8%. The other 65,000 subs share the last 30%.
• Top 100 POSTS take 9.5% of all upvotes on Reddit that day. Top 1,000 posts: 28.6%. Top 10,000 posts (1.6% of posts): 60.3% of all upvotes.
• 47.6% of posts end the day with 1 upvote or less. 32% get zero comments.
• 5.2% of posts reach 100 upvotes. 0.48% reach 1,000. 139 posts on the entire site (0.02%) crossed 10,000.

The median Reddit post gets 2 upvotes and 2 comments. If you're getting 20 you're already top 15%. 100 is top 5%. Calibrate your expectations, and your clients'.

10. 24-hour movers​

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Subscriber counts were tracked across 77k subs over the day (7.12 billion memberships total). Biggest gainers in 24h: AskReddit +5,900 (59.49M), NewToReddit +5,698, BlindRankings +5,629 (90k to 96k, +6.2% in a day), GirlDinnerDiaries +5,186, RedditGames +5,081. Fastest by percentage: AnimeCosplayers +22% (10,278 to 12,550) and Tornadoes +6.8% (33,223 to 35,466).

Karma: tracked for over 600k accounts over the same day. Top gainer u/Veshaad picked up 60,510 karma in a day. u/MarvelsGrantMan136 added 35k and now sits at 28.08 MILLION. u/Beneficial_Passion40 crossed 1M karma during the window (+34,697).

11. The bigger picture: all of Reddit's subs and accounts​

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• 3,632,601 subreddits have existed at some point. 1.2 million of them (33%) are dead and abandoned. Sub creation peaked in 2022 (578k). 2026 is at 281k so far.
• 224,817 subreddits are alive with real activity right now. 155k public, 70k restricted. 59,254 have 1,000+ weekly active users, 22,499 have 10k+, 4,206 have 100k+.
• Combined weekly active users across all live subs: 2.29 billion (people counted once per sub). Weekly contributions: 73.8 million.
• Top by weekly actives: AskReddit 16.8M, whatisit 13.7M, mildlyinfuriating 12.5M, NoStupidQuestions 9.9M, interestingasfuck 9.3M, PeterExplainsTheJoke 8.8M, SipsTea 8.5M.
• 83,388,482 accounts that have posted publicly. Among them, account creation peaked in 2020 (10.4M), 2026 is at 2.8M so far. 240,395 have 100k+ karma, 4,359 have 1M+, the top one has 61.7M. Median karma: 16.
• Reddit itself marks 13,357 of them as bots. 993 are verified accounts.
  

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Of the 75,024 subs that got a post, 4,066 have 100k+ weekly actives and those 4,066 made 30% of all posts. The 10k-99k tier (16,472 subs) made another 38%. Subs older than 5 years produced 62% of all posts. Subs under 30 days old that got any post at all: 463.

12. What I'd take from this if I was marketing on Reddit​

• Post video or images, not text, if reach is the goal. 14x average upvotes, 7x shares. Text is for discussion only.
• 12:00-16:00 UTC is the window. 05:00 UTC is dead. Posting at the volume peak (17:00) is not a disaster (about 50 average upvotes vs 71 at the best hour) but you're competing with the most posts of the day.
• Long, specific titles. 150+ chars roughly doubles average upvotes and comments vs short ones.
• Expect 1 in 5 posts to vanish. Half of removals are inside the first hour. Survive 6 hours and you're staying up.
• Age your accounts. Not as a saying, as a number. Day-old accounts die at 2.4% per day. 5-year accounts at 0.05%. 48x.
• Karma is less of a wall than people think. A third of today's posters have under 100. It's the specific subs' AutoMod rules that bite, not Reddit-wide.
• The middle of Reddit is where the volume is. 10k-99k weekly-active subs produce more posts than the giants and have far less competition per post than the top 100.
• Bots are ~5% of posts and Reddit labels them. Mod + admin removals are 37% of all removals. They are not asleep.
• A 2-upvote post is the median. If a service promises you "hundreds of upvotes" on every post, you now know what that means.

That's the day. if there's an interest, I'll do the same breakdown for a full week, or split it per niche (gaming, crypto, dating, whatever people want).

Click to expand...

Nice Insights. Is there any way I can do paid collaborations with top performers like u/Veshaad
I can see this Redditor promoting others (other social media) which seems like paid promotion. But he is not willing to discuss about paid collaboration via Reddit chat. How can I connect with him to do long-term paid collaboration?