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r/superheroes

Costumed heroes from every publisher, compared by power, drawn by fans and argued over in long threads.

Weekly data through Sep 27, 2026

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Posts and comments, every week since October 2023
102K+5.5%in 4 weeks, year over year
202420252026Peak 49.9K · Jun 15, 2025
Members398K+45.0% year over yearRead Sep 27, 2026
Posts and comments in 4 weeks102K+5.5% year over year4 weeks to Sep 27, 2026
Unique contributors per week11.1K+2.8% year over year4-week average to Aug 30, 2026
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Three years, week by week

Weekly activity in r/superheroes

Three years of weekly history. Download any chart as a PNG.

Posts and comments per week · 3 yearsPublic posts plus comments, r/superheroes

Week ending Sep 27, 202620.8K+4.3% on the same week a year earlier

Posts and comments per week020K40K60KNov ’232024MarMayJulSepNov2025MarMayJulSepNov2026MarMayJulSepWeek, dated by the Sunday it endedDownload this chart as a PNG imageDownload PNGPeak 49.9K · Jun 15, 2025Low 16 · Apr 21, 2024Posts and comments per week025K50K75K2024Jul2025Jul2026JulWeek, dated by the Sunday it endedDownload this chart as a PNG imagePNGPeak 49.9K · Jun 15, 2025Low 16 · Apr 21, 2024

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 · 3 yearsUnique contributors to r/superheroes

Week ending Aug 30, 202611.5K+48.4% on the same week a year earlier

Unique contributors per week010K20K30K2024AprJulOct2025AprJulOct2026AprJulWeek, dated by the Sunday it endedDownload this chart as a PNG imageDownload PNGPeak 24.4K · Jun 15, 2025Unique contributors per week020K40K2024Jul2025Jul2026JulWeek, dated by the Sunday it endedDownload this chart as a PNG imagePNGPeak 24.4K · Jun 15, 2025

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

Members · 3 yearsMembers of r/superheroes

Week ending Sep 27, 2026398K+45.0% on the same week a year earlier

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The member count Reddit shows for the community, read once a week.

Posts and comments · 3 yearsPosts against comments, r/superheroes

Week ending Sep 27, 2026Weekly posts543+10.1% on the same week a year earlierWeekly comments20.2K+4.1% on the same week a year earlier

Posts per weekComments per week02505007501000020K40K60K2024AprJulOct2025AprJulOct2026AprJulWeek, dated by the Sunday it endedDownload this chart as a PNG imageDownload PNGPosts per weekComments per week05001000020K40K60K2024Jul2025Jul2026JulWeek, dated by the Sunday it endedDownload this chart as a PNG imagePNG

Posts on the left scale, comments on the right. Each series is auto-scaled.

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Week ending Sep 27, 2026
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ValueSince Oct 8, 2023Since the week beforeValueSince Oct 8, 2023Since the week before
r/superheroes20.8K340×−28.1% from Sep 20398K71×+4.4% from Sep 20
Posts and comments per weekMembers010K20K30K40K50K0100K200K300K400K500KMarAugJan ’25JunNovAprSepWeek, dated by the Sunday it endedDownload this chart as a PNG imageDownload PNGPosts and comments per weekMembers020K40K60K0200K400K600KJun ’24Mar ’25Dec ’25Sep ’26Week, dated by the Sunday it endedDownload this chart as a PNG imagePNG

Public posts plus comments in each complete Monday-to-Sunday week, UTC. Members are the member count Reddit shows for the community, one reading a week. Solid lines use the left scale and dashed lines the right. Each scale is auto-scaled.

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Activity pattern

Why r/superheroes is classified as Rising

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 patternRising

Contributions and the number of contributing accounts in r/superheroes both trend upward across their displayed periods.

How the label is read

Concentration1.69×
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.

Posts and comments, yearly trend+36.4%/yr
−20%0+20%

To be considered Rising, a subreddit needs posts and comments up 20% or more over the year, with unique contributors also rising. Cooling is the same in reverse, and anything between is Steady. The trend is a line fitted through all 52 weeks, so a single busy week barely moves it.

Unique contributors, yearly trend+39.2%/yr
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Posts and comments per weekThe newest 52 weeks against the 52 before, r/superheroes

Week ending Sep 27, 2026Newest 52 weeks20.8KThe 52 weeks before19.9K

Posts and comments per week020K40K60KNov ’252026MarMayJulSepWeek, dated by the Sunday it endedDownload this chart as a PNG imageDownload PNGPeak 33.5K · Jun 7, 2026Posts and comments per week020K40K60KNov ’252026MarMayJulSepWeek, dated by the Sunday it endedDownload this chart as a PNG imagePNGPeak 33.5K · Jun 7, 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/superheroes 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/superheroes among every subreddit on Oscylo; the diamond marks the middle of its topic.

Comments per post

42.9 comments for each new post

LowerHigher

Higher than 85% of subreddits. Reading & writing middle: 20.4.

Threaded replies

45% of comments reply to another comment

LowerHigher

Higher than 31% of subreddits. Reading & writing middle: 52%.

Text posts

17% of new posts are text rather than links or media

LowerHigher

Higher than 24% of subreddits. Reading & writing middle: 38%.

Activity per contributor

2.1 posts and comments per unique contributor each week

LowerHigher

Higher than 41% of subreddits. Reading & writing middle: 2.4.

Most active 1%

9.5% of posts come from the busiest 1% of posting accounts

LowerHigher

Higher than 78% of subreddits. Reading & writing middle: 5.8%.

Participation

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

LowerHigher

Higher than 88% of subreddits. Reading & writing middle: 5.1.

How contributions landPosts and comments by score
r/superheroesAverage subreddit
Share of posts and comments0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%0–1: 64%64%0–12–3: 20%20%2–34–7: 7.8%7.8%4–78–15: 4.3%4.3%8–1516–31: 2.2%2.2%16–3132–127: 1.8%1.8%32–127128–511: 0.5%0.5%128–511512–2K: <0.1%<0.1%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: 64%0-12–3: 20%2-34–7: 7.8%4-78–15: 4.3%8-1516–31: 2.2%16-3132–127: 1.8%32-127128–511: 0.5%128-511512–2K: <0.1%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/superheroes beside every Reading & writing subreddit

Posts and comments in r/superheroes are +5.5% year over year. The middle Reading & writing subreddit is at +11.5%.

Year-on-year changeEvery Reading & writing subreddit, posts and comments year over year
−75%−50%−25%0+25%+50%+100%+200%+400%Middle +11.5%r/books: −25.4%r/nosleep: −29.5%r/marvelmemes: −6.8%r/gameofthrones: +9.1%r/Fantasy: −20.4%r/comics: +16.9%r/harrypotter: −2.2%r/Marvel: +82.0%r/writing: −65.0%r/lotrmemes: −36.3%r/worldbuilding: +16.4%r/TwoSentenceHorror: −14.8%r/freefolk: +76.0%r/witcher: +18.2%r/lotr: −11.6%r/Spiderman: +61.1%r/batman: −23.0%r/SCP: +47.5%r/kindle: −16.2%r/writers: +79.4%r/AO3: +11.5%r/xmen: +53.8%r/DungeonCrawlerCarl: +126.3%r/HPfanfiction: −37.6%r/HandwritingAnalysis: +175.6%r/DCU_: +52.5%r/Greenlantern: +405.0%r/writingscaling: +258.2%r/booksr/nosleepr/marvelmemesr/gameofthronesr/Fantasyr/comicsr/harrypotterr/Marvelr/writingr/lotrmemesr/superheroes +5.5%Posts and comments, year over yearDownload this chart as a PNG imageDownload PNG−75%−25%0+25%+100%+400%Middle +11.5%r/books: −25.4%r/nosleep: −29.5%r/marvelmemes: −6.8%r/gameofthrones: +9.1%r/Fantasy: −20.4%r/comics: +16.9%r/harrypotter: −2.2%r/Marvel: +82.0%r/writing: −65.0%r/lotrmemes: −36.3%r/worldbuilding: +16.4%r/TwoSentenceHorror: −14.8%r/freefolk: +76.0%r/witcher: +18.2%r/lotr: −11.6%r/Spiderman: +61.1%r/batman: −23.0%r/SCP: +47.5%r/kindle: −16.2%r/writers: +79.4%r/AO3: +11.5%r/xmen: +53.8%r/DungeonCrawlerCarl: +126.3%r/HPfanfiction: −37.6%r/HandwritingAnalysis: +175.6%r/DCU_: +52.5%r/Greenlantern: +405.0%r/writingscaling: +258.2%r/booksr/nosleepr/marvelmemesr/gameofthronesr/Fantasyr/superheroes +5.5%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.

Data and sharing

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