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Empaths Subreddit

A safe place for empaths and those wishing to understand what being an empath is all about. Empath - a person with the ability to directly experience the mental, emotional state, or physical pains of another individual despite the fact that they themselves are not going through the same situation.

140k subscribers171 posts / mo in Sep 2026145 authors / mosince 2013

r/Empaths has 140k members (+6.1% over the last 12 months). It gets about 171 posts a month from 145 people. Top topics: Empathy Discussions, Workplace Dynamics and Pain and Poetry.

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Size and growth

How r/Empaths has grown

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Subscriber growth

Subscribers over time

+6.1%in 12 months · +1.1% in 3 months · +0.2% in 1 month
Oct 2026140k
Growing140k subscribers
Data since Mar 2018Live · through Oct 2026
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Monthly activity

Posts, comments and authors per month

−18%vs Sep 2025 · +7.8% last 3 months vs the 3 before
Sep 2026171
QuieterPeaked at 459 in Oct 2021
Data through Sep 2026 · October usually lands mid-November

What people talk about

Topics and brands on r/Empaths

Top topics

Share of the subreddit's posts

  1. Empathy Discussions1.7%
  2. Workplace Dynamics0.1%
  3. Pain and Poetry0.1%
  4. Reading People & Intuition<0.1%
  5. Introvert Challenges at Work<0.1%

Brands people mention

Most-mentioned brands and sites, last 12 months

  1. Medium
  2. Spotify
  3. Substack
  4. TikTok
  5. Truity

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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