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r/Obsessive_Love↗

This is a subreddit dedicated to yandere content, mostly stories from personal experiences, or just casual conversations. Due to the fractured nature of the yandere community as a whole, this place is meant to serve as a safe heaven for both the tamest and the most extreme yanderes out there.

47k subscribers1,341 posts / mo in Sep 2026776 authors / mosince 2019

r/Obsessive_Love has 47k members (+382% over the last 12 months). It gets about 1,341 posts a month from 776 people. Top topics: YandereCharacters, Longing for Love and Love Unspoken.

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Size and growth

How r/Obsessive_Love has grown

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Subscriber growth

Subscribers over time

+382%in 12 months · +40% in 3 months · +6.5% in 1 month
Oct 202646k
Growing46k subscribers
Data since Jun 2019Live · through Oct 2026
r/Obsessive_Love

Monthly activity

Posts, comments and authors per month

+225%vs Sep 2025 · +106% last 3 months vs the 3 before
Sep 20261.3k
BusierPeaked at 1.3k in Sep 2026
Data through Sep 2026 · October usually lands mid-November

What people talk about

Topics and brands on r/Obsessive_Love

Top topics

Share of the subreddit's posts

  1. YandereCharacters2.7%
  2. Longing for Love1.5%
  3. Love Unspoken0.9%
  4. Pain and Poetry0.7%
  5. Heartbreak Stories0.6%

Brands people mention

Most-mentioned brands and sites, last 12 months

  1. American Psychological Association
  2. Spotify
  3. Character
  4. itch
  5. TikTok

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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