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NovelAI

Subreddit for the in-development AI storyteller & AI anime image generator NovelAI. If you want to follow the progress, come join our Discord server!

46k subscribers187 posts / mo in Sep 2026133 authors / mosince 2021

r/NovelAi has 46k members (+12% over the last 12 months). It gets about 187 posts a month from 133 people. Top topics: AI Roleplay Issues, Bot Creation & Management and Bot Memory.

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How r/NovelAi has grown

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Subscriber growth

Subscribers over time

+12%in 12 months · +2.1% in 3 months · +0.5% in 1 month
Oct 202646k
Growing46k subscribers
  • no data — drawn from 0 at creation (Apr 2021)
Live · through Oct 2026
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Monthly activity

Posts, comments and authors per month

−6.0%vs Sep 2025 · +14% last 3 months vs the 3 before
Sep 2026187
QuieterPeaked at 2.3k in Oct 2022
Data through Sep 2026 · October usually lands mid-November

What people talk about

Topics and brands on r/NovelAi

Top topics

Share of the subreddit's posts

  1. AI Roleplay Issues1.7%
  2. Bot Creation & Management0.5%
  3. Bot Memory0.4%
  4. AI Art Exploration0.3%
  5. ChatGPT Issues0.2%

Brands people mention

Most-mentioned brands and sites, last 12 months

  1. GenTube
  2. Hugging Face
  3. Medium
  4. arXiv.org e-Print archive
  5. Venice AI

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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