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Posts and comments, every week since October 2023
63.2K+332.1%in 4 weeks, year over year
202420252026Peak 34.9K · Feb 1, 2026
Members420K34× year over yearRead Sep 27, 2026
Posts and comments in 4 weeks63.2K+332.1% year over year4 weeks to Sep 27, 2026
Unique contributors per week7,462+497.1% year over year4-week average to Aug 30, 2026
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Weekly activity in r/isthisAI

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Posts and comments per week · 1 yearPublic posts plus comments, r/isthisAI

Week ending Sep 27, 202616.9K+363.6% on the same week a year earlier

Posts and comments per week010K20K30K40KNov ’252026MarMayJulSepWeek, dated by the Sunday it endedDownload this chart as a PNG imageDownload PNGPeak 34.9K · Feb 1, 2026Low 3,351 · Oct 26, 2025Posts and comments per week020K40KNov ’252026MarMayJulSepWeek, dated by the Sunday it endedDownload this chart as a PNG imagePNGPeak 34.9K · Feb 1, 2026Low 3,351 · Oct 26, 2025

Each point is a complete Monday–Sunday UTC week, dated by the Sunday it closed. The busiest week in the range is marked, and the quietest where it stands well apart.

Weekly unique contributors · 1 yearUnique contributors to r/isthisAI

Week ending Aug 30, 20267,059+444.7% on the same week a year earlier

Unique contributors per week0500010K15K20KNov ’252026MarMayJulWeek, dated by the Sunday it endedDownload this chart as a PNG imageDownload PNGPeak 17.6K · Feb 1, 2026Unique contributors per week010K20K30KNov ’252026MarMayJulWeek, dated by the Sunday it endedDownload this chart as a PNG imagePNGPeak 17.6K · Feb 1, 2026

Accounts that posted or commented in the week, each counted once. Updated monthly.

Members · 1 yearMembers of r/isthisAI

Week ending Sep 27, 2026420K34× on the same week a year earlier

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Posts and comments · 1 yearPosts against comments, r/isthisAI

Week ending Sep 27, 2026Weekly posts554+196.3% on the same week a year earlierWeekly comments16.3K+372.6% on the same week a year earlier

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Weekly contributions · Indexed · 3 yearsr/isthisAI and r/Bumble
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Week ending Sep 27, 2026
CommunityIndexedSince Oct 8, 2023Since the week before
r/isthisAI100 on Mar 24, its first week1689700.016,897×+5.5% from Sep 20
r/Bumble561.4+461.4%+1.5% from Sep 20
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Public posts plus comments in each complete Monday-to-Sunday week, UTC. Indexed, each line reads 100 on its first point in the range, so communities of very different sizes share one axis.

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Activity pattern

Why r/isthisAI is classified as Event-driven

Oscylo reads the newest 52 weeks of posts, comments and unique contributors and gives each subreddit one of the patterns below. The figures behind the label are shown beside it.

Activity patternEvent-driven

Activity in r/isthisAI is concentrated in bursts, with less consistent timing across years. That pattern points to event-driven activity, though it stops short of naming a cause.

How the label is read

Concentration4.78×
2.5×

The busiest four weeks against the quietest, with the yearly trend taken out. At 2.5× or more the year counts as concentrated: Seasonal if the busy weeks came at the same time in earlier years, Event-driven if they did not, and Variable when there is too little history to tell.

Repeats on earlier years0.04
00.60

How closely this year's busy weeks match their timing in the three years before, on a scale from −1 to 1. At 0.60 or more the pattern counts as Seasonal.

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Posts and comments per weekThe newest 52 weeks against the 52 before, r/isthisAI

Week ending Sep 27, 2026Newest 52 weeks16.9KThe 52 weeks before3,645

Posts and comments per week010K20K30K40KNov ’252026MarMayJulSepWeek, dated by the Sunday it endedDownload this chart as a PNG imageDownload PNGPeak 34.9K · Feb 1, 2026Posts and comments per week020K40KNov ’252026MarMayJulSepWeek, dated by the Sunday it endedDownload this chart as a PNG imagePNGPeak 34.9K · Feb 1, 2026

The 52 weeks before are drawn on the same calendar, so each week lines up with the matching week of the previous year.

Community anatomy

r/isthisAI statistics

Six measures of how the community posts and replies, averaged over the twelve weeks from Jun 8, 2026 to Aug 30, 2026. Each bar places r/isthisAI among every subreddit on Oscylo; the diamond marks the middle of its topic.

Comments per post

26.8 comments for each new post

LowerHigher

Higher than 69% of subreddits. Technology middle: 12.2.

Threaded replies

45% of comments reply to another comment

LowerHigher

Higher than 32% of subreddits. Technology middle: 52%.

Text posts

8.8% of new posts are text rather than links or media

LowerHigher

Higher than 17% of subreddits. Technology middle: 59%.

Activity per contributor

1.9 posts and comments per unique contributor each week

LowerHigher

Higher than 27% of subreddits. Technology middle: 2.2.

Most active 1%

2.6% of posts come from the busiest 1% of posting accounts

LowerHigher

Higher than 5% of subreddits. Technology middle: 4.3%.

Participation

18 unique contributors in the latest week for every 1,000 members

LowerHigher

Higher than 80% of subreddits. Technology middle: 4.1.

How contributions landPosts and comments by score
r/isthisAIAverage subreddit
Share of posts and comments0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%0–1: 56%56%0–12–3: 20%20%2–34–7: 9.9%9.9%4–78–15: 6%6%8–1516–31: 3.4%3.4%16–3132–127: 2.9%2.9%32–127128–511: 1%1%128–511512–2K: 0.3%0.3%512–2K2K+: <0.1%<0.1%2K+Score (upvotes minus downvotes)Download this chart as a PNG imageDownload PNGShare of posts and comments0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%0–1: 56%0-12–3: 20%2-34–7: 9.9%4-78–15: 6%8-1516–31: 3.4%16-3132–127: 2.9%32-127128–511: 1%128-511512–2K: 0.3%512-2K2K+: <0.1%2K+Score (upvotes minus downvotes)Download this chart as a PNG imagePNG

Score is upvotes minus downvotes a day or more after the post or comment was made, over the same twelve weeks. Outlined bars show the average mix across every subreddit on Oscylo.

Against its category

r/isthisAI beside every Technology subreddit

Posts and comments in r/isthisAI are +332.1% year over year. The middle Technology subreddit is at −6.8%.

Year-on-year changeEvery Technology subreddit, posts and comments year over year
−75%−50%−25%0+25%+50%+100%+200%+400%Middle −6.8%r/Futurology: −31.4%r/technology: −4.2%r/pcmasterrace: +41.0%r/ChatGPT: −30.8%r/buildapc: −28.3%r/apple: −20.4%r/ProgrammerHumor: −24.7%r/iphone: −64.2%r/learnprogramming: −22.9%r/pcgaming: −5.3%r/singularity: +176.3%r/youtube: −31.5%r/techsupport: −35.6%r/3Dprinting: −6.8%r/webdev: −40.8%r/raspberry_pi: −58.4%r/mac: −8.9%r/OpenAI: +38.7%r/nvidia: +7.3%r/hbo: +21.7%r/virtualreality: +57.2%r/gamedev: +2.4%r/netflix: −9.2%r/privacy: −13.7%r/developersIndia: +48.3%r/discordapp: −45.1%r/Scams: −35.8%r/sysadmin: −9.9%r/GooglePixel: −54.7%r/ClaudeAI: +162.9%r/homelab: +5.6%r/Instagram: −2.0%r/AppleWatch: +3.4%r/ios: −65.7%r/AskElectronics: −31.3%r/SideProject: +81.8%r/selfhosted: +7.0%r/LocalLLaMA: +65.9%r/arduino: −30.2%r/OculusQuest: −15.7%r/ipad: −46.8%r/MacOS: −24.3%r/functionalprint: −38.8%r/homeassistant: −0.5%r/appletv: −31.9%r/HomeNetworking: −25.1%r/oculus: −48.2%r/BambuLab: −16.6%r/Bumble: +335.8%r/ClaudeCode: +343.7%r/ExperiencedDevs: −29.9%r/PleX: −56.4%r/godot: +12.7%r/vibecoding: +36.7%r/antiai: +153.0%r/pchelp: +30.8%r/firefox: −14.6%r/AskElectricians: −19.8%r/embedded: +2.9%r/PSVR: −55.4%r/electrical: +6.7%r/ender3: −60.2%r/samsunggalaxy: +23.6%r/LocalLLM: 12×r/esp32: +19.7%r/dropout: −3.9%r/FixMyPrint: −35.0%r/codex: 52×r/VRGaming: +37.3%r/claude: 28×r/SteamVR: +40.4%r/SolarDIY: +12.3%r/resinprinting: −23.8%r/prusa3d: +21.0%r/youtubeindia: +1.8%r/MetaQuestVR: −28.3%r/ValveIndex: −28.3%r/accelerate: +621.4%r/aislop: 20×r/batteries: −17.5%r/3dprinter: −11.9%r/SleeperApp: −29.1%r/augmentedreality: −4.0%r/Creality: −25.5%r/SteamFrame: 833×r/elegoo: −41.1%r/SolarUK: +167.7%r/Futurologyr/technologyr/pcmasterracer/ChatGPTr/buildapcr/appler/ProgrammerHumorr/iphoner/learnprogrammingr/pcgamingr/isthisAI +332.1%Posts and comments, year over yearDownload this chart as a PNG imageDownload PNG−75%−25%0+25%+100%+400%Middle −6.8%r/Futurology: −31.4%r/technology: −4.2%r/pcmasterrace: +41.0%r/ChatGPT: −30.8%r/buildapc: −28.3%r/apple: −20.4%r/ProgrammerHumor: −24.7%r/iphone: −64.2%r/learnprogramming: −22.9%r/pcgaming: −5.3%r/singularity: +176.3%r/youtube: −31.5%r/techsupport: −35.6%r/3Dprinting: −6.8%r/webdev: −40.8%r/raspberry_pi: −58.4%r/mac: −8.9%r/OpenAI: +38.7%r/nvidia: +7.3%r/hbo: +21.7%r/virtualreality: +57.2%r/gamedev: +2.4%r/netflix: −9.2%r/privacy: −13.7%r/developersIndia: +48.3%r/discordapp: −45.1%r/Scams: −35.8%r/sysadmin: −9.9%r/GooglePixel: −54.7%r/ClaudeAI: +162.9%r/homelab: +5.6%r/Instagram: −2.0%r/AppleWatch: +3.4%r/ios: −65.7%r/AskElectronics: −31.3%r/SideProject: +81.8%r/selfhosted: +7.0%r/LocalLLaMA: +65.9%r/arduino: −30.2%r/OculusQuest: −15.7%r/ipad: −46.8%r/MacOS: −24.3%r/functionalprint: −38.8%r/homeassistant: −0.5%r/appletv: −31.9%r/HomeNetworking: −25.1%r/oculus: −48.2%r/BambuLab: −16.6%r/Bumble: +335.8%r/ClaudeCode: +343.7%r/ExperiencedDevs: −29.9%r/PleX: −56.4%r/godot: +12.7%r/vibecoding: +36.7%r/antiai: +153.0%r/pchelp: +30.8%r/firefox: −14.6%r/AskElectricians: −19.8%r/embedded: +2.9%r/PSVR: −55.4%r/electrical: +6.7%r/ender3: −60.2%r/samsunggalaxy: +23.6%r/LocalLLM: 12×r/esp32: +19.7%r/dropout: −3.9%r/FixMyPrint: −35.0%r/codex: 52×r/VRGaming: +37.3%r/claude: 28×r/SteamVR: +40.4%r/SolarDIY: +12.3%r/resinprinting: −23.8%r/prusa3d: +21.0%r/youtubeindia: +1.8%r/MetaQuestVR: −28.3%r/ValveIndex: −28.3%r/accelerate: +621.4%r/aislop: 20×r/batteries: −17.5%r/3dprinter: −11.9%r/SleeperApp: −29.1%r/augmentedreality: −4.0%r/Creality: −25.5%r/SteamFrame: 833×r/elegoo: −41.1%r/SolarUK: +167.7%r/Futurologyr/technologyr/pcmasterracer/ChatGPTr/buildapcr/isthisAI +332.1%Year over yearDownload this chart as a PNG imagePNG

Each subreddit's newest four weeks of posts and comments against the same four weeks a year earlier. The scale stretches near zero and compresses the extremes, and changes beyond +400% sit at the edge.

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