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Badmathematics: You need to take a long hard look at your life.

A place for sharing the bad math that plagues Reddit and the internet as a whole. For jokey, intentionally wrong stuff, go to r/shittymath. If you should want to discuss badmath elsewhere, a community has been opened up on [kbin](https://kbin.social/m/badmathematics). We also have a discord server [here](https://discord.gg/rCDHtrW).

78k subscribers12 posts / mo in Sep 202612 authors / mosince 2013

r/badmathematics has 78k members (+7.5% over the last 12 months). It gets about 12 posts a month from 12 people. Top topics: Math Equations, Philosophy Discussions and Mathematics Classroom Experience.

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How r/badmathematics has grown

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Subscriber growth

Subscribers over time

+7.5%in 12 months · +1.0% in 3 months · +0.2% in 1 month
Oct 202678k
Growing78k subscribers
Data since Mar 2018Live · through Oct 2026
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Monthly activity

Posts, comments and authors per month

−71%vs Sep 2025 · −11% last 3 months vs the 3 before
Sep 202612
QuieterPeaked at 50 in Mar 2022
Data through Sep 2026 · October usually lands mid-November

What people talk about

Topics and brands on r/badmathematics

Top topics

Share of the subreddit's posts

  1. Math Equations2.1%
  2. Philosophy Discussions0.4%
  3. Mathematics Classroom Experience0.3%
  4. FractalArt0.3%
  5. Math Class Doodles & Jokes0.3%

Brands people mention

Most-mentioned brands and sites, last 12 months

  1. Medium
  2. arXiv.org e-Print archive
  3. Academia

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Posting rules and account requirements, how often posts get removed, who writes here (age, gender, countries), what people ask for, how they talk, and related subreddits — all in the full report.

Posts and activity for Sep 2026. Members from Reddit's subscriber counts. Read from the same data the app runs on. Our research