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18.2M subscribers1,731 posts / mo in Sep 20261,072 authors / mosince 2010

r/nosleep has 18.2M members (+0.9% over the last 12 months). It gets about 1,731 posts a month from 1,072 people. Top topics: Cryptid Hunter Chronicles, Missing Persons & Strange Occurrences and Final Parts.

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Size and growth

How r/nosleep has grown

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Subscriber growth

Subscribers over time

+0.9%in 12 months · +0.2% in 3 months · +0.0% in 1 month
Oct 202618.2M
Growing18.2M subscribers
Data since Mar 2018Live · through Oct 2026
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Monthly activity

Posts, comments and authors per month

−20%vs Sep 2025 · −10% last 3 months vs the 3 before
Sep 20261.7k
QuieterPeaked at 3.1k in Jun 2025
Data through Sep 2026 · October usually lands mid-November

What people talk about

Topics and brands on r/nosleep

Top topics

Share of the subreddit's posts

  1. Cryptid Hunter Chronicles1.3%
  2. Missing Persons & Strange Occurrences1.1%
  3. Final Parts1.0%
  4. Night Shift Tales1.0%
  5. Nosleep Stories0.9%

Brands people mention

Most-mentioned brands and sites, last 12 months

  1. TikTok
  2. Promarkia

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Everything else about r/nosleep

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