We study how Reddit actually behaves, using public Reddit archives back to 2005 plus our own collection for recent months. Each study shows its method, says what the data can't tell you, and ships with the numbers as CSV. How we work
We counted em dashes in 15.8 million long Reddit posts and 242 million long comments, from 2016 through September 2026. Posts changed a lot. Comments in the same subreddits changed far less.
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