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r/RealOrAI↗

Real or synthetic? Post images and videos here, and let the community decide what’s human and what’s AI.

197k subscribers191 posts / mo in Sep 2026160 authors / mosince 2022

r/RealOrAI has 197k members (+308% over the last 12 months). It gets about 191 posts a month from 160 people. Top topics: AI vs Real, RealOrFake and Patterns & AI.

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Size and growth

How r/RealOrAI has grown

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Subscriber growth

Subscribers over time

+308%in 12 months · +2.5% in 3 months · +0.5% in 1 month
Oct 2026197k
Growing197k subscribers
  • no data — drawn from 0 at creation (Aug 2022)
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Monthly activity

Posts, comments and authors per month

−66%vs Sep 2025 · −22% last 3 months vs the 3 before
Sep 2026191
QuieterPeaked at 1.3k in Dec 2025
Data through Sep 2026 · October usually lands mid-November

What people talk about

Topics and brands on r/RealOrAI

Top topics

Share of the subreddit's posts

  1. AI vs Real28%
  2. RealOrFake0.5%
  3. Patterns & AI0.4%
  4. Cat Faces & Behaviors0.3%
  5. AI Art Controversy0.3%

Brands people mention

Most-mentioned brands and sites, last 12 months

  1. TikTok
  2. Google DeepMind
  3. Openai
  4. Wolfram
  5. etsy

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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