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Creepy PMs

A place for people to share the strange and disturbing PMs they get from all over the internet. **We encourage all kinds of posts from mildly off-putting to slightly weird to downright scary.**

787k subscribers236 posts / mo in Sep 2026144 authors / mosince 2012

r/creepyPMs has 787k members (+1.4% over the last 12 months). It gets about 236 posts a month from 144 people. Top topics: Random DMs, Blocked Friends and Message Conflicts.

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Size and growth

How r/creepyPMs has grown

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Subscriber growth

Subscribers over time

+1.4%in 12 months · +0.2% in 3 months · +0.1% in 1 month
Oct 2026787k
Growing787k subscribers
Data since Mar 2018Live · through Oct 2026
r/creepyPMs

Monthly activity

Posts, comments and authors per month

−16%vs Sep 2025 · −13% last 3 months vs the 3 before
Sep 2026236
QuieterPeaked at 2.1k in Jul 2022
Data through Sep 2026 · October usually lands mid-November

What people talk about

Topics and brands on r/creepyPMs

Top topics

Share of the subreddit's posts

  1. Random DMs0.6%
  2. Blocked Friends0.5%
  3. Message Conflicts0.4%
  4. Blocked Accounts0.4%
  5. UnsolicitedNudes0.3%

Brands people mention

Most-mentioned brands and sites, last 12 months

  1. Tenor
  2. GIPHY

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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