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r/whatisit

People post photos of objects, marks, sounds or sightings they cannot identify and ask the room to work out what they are looking at.

Weekly data through Sep 27, 2026

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Posts and comments, every week since October 2023
496K+63.4%in 4 weeks, year over year
202420252026Peak 160K · Aug 9, 2026
Members2.8M+110.8% year over yearRead Sep 27, 2026
Posts and comments in 4 weeks496K+63.4% year over year4 weeks to Sep 27, 2026
Unique contributors per week75.5K+71.1% year over year4-week average to Aug 30, 2026
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Three years, week by week

Weekly activity in r/whatisit

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

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

Week ending Sep 27, 2026134K+70.6% on the same week a year earlier

Posts and comments per week050K100K150K200KNov ’252026MarMayJulSepWeek, dated by the Sunday it endedDownload this chart as a PNG imageDownload PNGPeak 160K · Aug 9, 2026Low 60K · Oct 5, 2025Posts and comments per week0100K200K300KNov ’252026MarMayJulSepWeek, dated by the Sunday it endedDownload this chart as a PNG imagePNGPeak 160K · Aug 9, 2026Low 60K · Oct 5, 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/whatisit

Week ending Aug 30, 202665.7K+46.1% on the same week a year earlier

Unique contributors per week050K100K150KNov ’252026MarMayJulWeek, dated by the Sunday it endedDownload this chart as a PNG imageDownload PNGPeak 91.6K · Aug 9, 2026Unique contributors per week050K100K150KNov ’252026MarMayJulWeek, dated by the Sunday it endedDownload this chart as a PNG imagePNGPeak 91.6K · Aug 9, 2026

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

Members · 1 yearMembers of r/whatisit

Week ending Sep 27, 20262.8M+110.8% 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 · 1 yearPosts against comments, r/whatisit

Week ending Sep 27, 2026Weekly posts2,389−23.4% on the same week a year earlierWeekly comments132K+74.5% on the same week a year earlier

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

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Weekly contributions · Indexed · 3 yearsr/whatisit and r/MaliciousCompliance
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Week ending Sep 27, 2026
CommunityIndexedSince Oct 8, 2023Since the week before
r/whatisit2267.823×+8.6% from Sep 20
r/MaliciousCompliance53.6−46.4%−21.4% from Sep 20
Index, 100 at the start of the range01000200030004000MarAugJan ’25JunNovAprSepWeek, dated by the Sunday it endedDownload this chart as a PNG imageDownload PNGIndex, 100 at the start of the range01000200030004000Jun ’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. 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/whatisit 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/whatisit both trend upward across their displayed periods.

How the label is read

Concentration1.51×
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+78.1%/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+62.1%/yr
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RisingSteadyCoolingSeasonalEvent-drivenVariableNew
Posts and comments per weekThe newest 52 weeks against the 52 before, r/whatisit

Week ending Sep 27, 2026Newest 52 weeks134KThe 52 weeks before78.5K

Posts and comments per week050K100K150K200KNov ’252026MarMayJulSepWeek, dated by the Sunday it endedDownload this chart as a PNG imageDownload PNGPeak 160K · Aug 9, 2026Posts and comments per week0100K200K300KNov ’252026MarMayJulSepWeek, dated by the Sunday it endedDownload this chart as a PNG imagePNGPeak 160K · Aug 9, 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/whatisit 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/whatisit among every subreddit on Oscylo; the diamond marks the middle of its topic.

Comments per post

38.8 comments for each new post

LowerHigher

Higher than 82% of subreddits. Q&As & stories middle: 48.2.

Threaded replies

42% of comments reply to another comment

LowerHigher

Higher than 19% of subreddits. Q&As & stories middle: 48%.

Text posts

5.1% of new posts are text rather than links or media

LowerHigher

Higher than 12% of subreddits. Q&As & stories middle: 100%.

Activity per contributor

1.8 posts and comments per unique contributor each week

LowerHigher

Higher than 14% of subreddits. Q&As & stories middle: 2.7.

Most active 1%

3.7% of posts come from the busiest 1% of posting accounts

LowerHigher

Higher than 20% of subreddits. Q&As & stories middle: 4.7%.

Participation

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

LowerHigher

Higher than 84% of subreddits. Q&As & stories middle: 9.3.

How contributions landPosts and comments by score
r/whatisitAverage subreddit
Share of posts and comments0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%0–1: 66%66%0–12–3: 17%17%2–34–7: 7.1%7.1%4–78–15: 4.2%4.2%8–1516–31: 2.4%2.4%16–3132–127: 2.2%2.2%32–127128–511: 0.7%0.7%128–511512–2K: 0.3%0.3%512–2K2K+: 0.2%0.2%2K+Score (upvotes minus downvotes)Download this chart as a PNG imageDownload PNGShare of posts and comments0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%0–1: 66%0-12–3: 17%2-34–7: 7.1%4-78–15: 4.2%8-1516–31: 2.4%16-3132–127: 2.2%32-127128–511: 0.7%128-511512–2K: 0.3%512-2K2K+: 0.2%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/whatisit beside every Q&As & stories subreddit

Posts and comments in r/whatisit are +63.4% year over year. The middle Q&As & stories subreddit is at +57.3%.

Year-on-year changeEvery Q&As & stories subreddit, posts and comments year over year
−75%−50%−25%0+25%+50%+100%+200%+400%Middle +57.3%r/AskReddit: +57.3%r/AmItheAsshole: −2.6%r/confession: −12.7%r/AITAH: −70.2%r/NoStupidQuestions: +76.8%r/unpopularopinion: +49.2%r/AmIOverreacting: −61.6%r/MaliciousCompliance: −16.6%r/BestofRedditorUpdates: −16.8%r/PeterExplainsTheJoke: +114.8%r/Advice: +10.5%r/explainitpeter: +77.0%r/askanything: 24×r/luftablassen: +68.9%r/identifyThisForMe: +264.3%r/AskRedditr/AmItheAssholer/confessionr/AITAHr/NoStupidQuestionsr/unpopularopinionr/AmIOverreactingr/MaliciousCompliancer/BestofRedditorUpdatesr/PeterExplainsTheJoker/whatisit +63.4%Posts and comments, year over yearDownload this chart as a PNG imageDownload PNG−75%−25%0+25%+100%+400%Middle +57.3%r/AskReddit: +57.3%r/AmItheAsshole: −2.6%r/confession: −12.7%r/AITAH: −70.2%r/NoStupidQuestions: +76.8%r/unpopularopinion: +49.2%r/AmIOverreacting: −61.6%r/MaliciousCompliance: −16.6%r/BestofRedditorUpdates: −16.8%r/PeterExplainsTheJoke: +114.8%r/Advice: +10.5%r/explainitpeter: +77.0%r/askanything: 24×r/luftablassen: +68.9%r/identifyThisForMe: +264.3%r/AskRedditr/AmItheAssholer/confessionr/AITAHr/NoStupidQuestionsr/whatisit +63.4%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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Weekly posts, comments, unique contributors and members for r/whatisit, one row per week across the three years shown here.

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