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For those who did everything our parents told us to do... now what?

For those who did everything our parents told us to do... now what? --- Hello everyone! We've gone dark to protest Reddit's API changes towards third party apps.

404k subscribers580 posts / mo in Sep 2026223 authors / mosince 2009

r/lostgeneration has 404k members (+5.2% over the last 12 months). It gets about 580 posts a month from 223 people. Top topics: College Controversies, Student Debt Crisis and Generational Wealth Gap.

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Size and growth

How r/lostgeneration has grown

r/lostgeneration

Subscriber growth

Subscribers over time

+5.2%in 12 months · +0.7% in 3 months · +0.2% in 1 month
Oct 2026404k
Growing404k subscribers
Data since Mar 2018Live · through Oct 2026
r/lostgeneration

Monthly activity

Posts, comments and authors per month

+62%vs Sep 2025 · +26% last 3 months vs the 3 before
Sep 2026580
BusierPeaked at 2k in Jun 2022
Data through Sep 2026 · October usually lands mid-November

What people talk about

Topics and brands on r/lostgeneration

Top topics

Share of the subreddit's posts

  1. College Controversies0.3%
  2. Student Debt Crisis0.3%
  3. Generational Wealth Gap0.3%
  4. College Degrees & Graduates0.3%
  5. Student Debt0.3%

Brands people mention

Most-mentioned brands and sites, last 12 months

  1. GoFundMe
  2. Substack
  3. The General Strike
  4. Futurism
  5. Archive

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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