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r/23andMe

The official unofficial 23andMe subreddit! Talk about your genes and their possible implications! Discord: https://discord.gg/3Jjc3GdmtB

169k subscribers656 posts / mo in Sep 2026 (incl. ~1% by known bots)486 authors / mosince 2011

r/23andme has 169k members (+11% over the last 12 months). It gets about 656 posts a month from 486 people. Top topics: Italian Ancestry, African American Ancestry and Eastern European Ancestry Results.

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Size and growth

How r/23andme has grown

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Subscriber growth

Subscribers over time

+11%in 12 months · +2.2% in 3 months · +0.5% in 1 month
Oct 2026168k
Growing168k subscribers
Data since Mar 2018Live · through Oct 2026
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Monthly activity

Posts, comments and authors per month

−50%vs Sep 2025 · +2.1% last 3 months vs the 3 before
Sep 2026656
QuieterPeaked at 4.3k in Oct 2025
Sep 2026: incl. ~1% by known botsData through Sep 2026 · October usually lands mid-November

What people talk about

Topics and brands on r/23andme

Top topics

Share of the subreddit's posts

  1. Italian Ancestry1.1%
  2. African American Ancestry1.1%
  3. Eastern European Ancestry Results0.9%
  4. DNA Results Analysis0.9%
  5. DNA Ancestry Results0.6%

Brands people mention

Most-mentioned brands and sites, last 12 months

  1. FamilyTreeDNA
  2. Nature
  3. YFull
  4. ScienceDirect
  5. Ancestry

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Posts and activity for Sep 2026. Members from Reddit's subscriber counts. Read from the same data the app runs on. Our research