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Deep Thoughts

/r/DeepThoughts is a community for thoughtful reflection, discussion, and the exploration of unique or profound concepts and ideas. This subreddit is a space for thinking critically about our world and its ideas. Please read our community rules before posting. Any post may be removed at moderator discretion.

605k subscribers1,090 posts / mo in Sep 2026883 authors / mosince 2009

r/DeepThoughts has 605k members (+20% over the last 12 months). It gets about 1,090 posts a month from 883 people. Top topics: Consciousness and Existence, Meaning of Life and Pain and Suffering.

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Size and growth

How r/DeepThoughts has grown

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Subscriber growth

Subscribers over time

+20%in 12 months · +3.0% in 3 months · +0.7% in 1 month
Oct 2026604k
Growing604k subscribers
Data since Mar 2018Live · through Oct 2026
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Monthly activity

Posts, comments and authors per month

−39%vs Sep 2025 · −23% last 3 months vs the 3 before
Sep 20261.1k
QuieterPeaked at 2.2k in Jul 2025
Data through Sep 2026 · October usually lands mid-November

What people talk about

Topics and brands on r/DeepThoughts

Top topics

Share of the subreddit's posts

  1. Consciousness and Existence0.8%
  2. Meaning of Life0.6%
  3. Pain and Suffering0.3%
  4. Happiness Key0.3%
  5. Pain and Poetry0.2%

Brands people mention

Most-mentioned brands and sites, last 12 months

  1. Substack
  2. Medium
  3. ScienceDirect
  4. Stanford University
  5. ResearchGate

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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