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🔥🔥A place to share interesting content that is extraordinary and fascinating! 🔥🔥👀 -- Please review the sub rules before posting. -- New accounts can participate in the comments section right away, but to submit a new post, your account must be at least 7 days old with at least 50 comment karma.

2.2M subscribers2,714 posts / mo in Sep 2026 (incl. <1% by known bots)1,449 authors / mosince 2008

r/interesting has 2.2M members (+60% over the last 12 months). It gets about 2,714 posts a month from 1,449 people. Top topics: Old Books & Literature, Egg Discussions and Fish Tanks & Critters.

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Size and growth

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Subscriber growth

Subscribers over time

+60%in 12 months · +9.6% in 3 months · +2.2% in 1 month
Oct 20262.2M
Growing2.2M subscribers
Data since Mar 2018Live · through Oct 2026
r/interesting

Monthly activity

Posts, comments and authors per month

+39%vs Sep 2025 · −4.8% last 3 months vs the 3 before
Sep 20262.7k
BusierPeaked at 3.4k in May 2026
Sep 2026: incl. <1% by known botsData through Sep 2026 · October usually lands mid-November

What people talk about

Topics and brands on r/interesting

Top topics

Share of the subreddit's posts

  1. Old Books & Literature<0.1%
  2. Egg Discussions<0.1%
  3. Fish Tanks & Critters<0.1%
  4. Cat Faces & Behaviors<0.1%
  5. Tiger Zoos & Populations<0.1%

Brands people mention

Most-mentioned brands and sites, last 12 months

  1. Tenor
  2. Yahoo!
  3. Wikimedia
  4. GIPHY
  5. Wolfram

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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