r/FanTheories peaks Thursdays 4pm-6pm UTC
r/FanTheories was created on May 30, 2012, making it 14 years old and one of the older subreddits on Reddit. With 2,980,943 members, this is a large and well-established subreddit with significant reach and influence on Reddit.
r/FanTheories is slowly growing, with 1,706 new members in the last 30 days.
r/FanTheories shows typical engagement for a community of this scale, with an average of 97.1 upvotes per post across its 2,980,943 members. The community is primarily content-consumption focused, with a comment-to-upvote ratio of 0.07.
Posts on r/FanTheories receive an average of 7.1 comments, indicating a community that primarily engages through upvoting content. Posts tend to be appreciated more through voting than through discussion in the comments.
Based on an analysis of 26 top posts from the past week, Thursday is the most active day with 7 posts reaching the top, while Friday sees the least activity with 2 posts. Weekend activity tends to outpace weekdays, suggesting a more leisure-oriented community.
The peak posting hours are around 4pm UTC (3 posts), 1am UTC (3 posts), and 10pm UTC (3 posts). The quietest hours are 7am UTC, 5pm UTC, and 2pm UTC, with only 1-1 posts each reaching the top during these times.
Weekly breakdown: Monday (2), Tuesday (3), Wednesday (2), Thursday (7), Friday (2), Saturday (3), Sunday (7) posts reaching the top.
r/FanTheories currently has 2,980,943 subscribers. Over the past 30 days, the community has grown by 1,706 members (0.06%), averaging 55 new subscribers per day. This growth rate places r/FanTheories in the top 64% of all tracked subreddits.
Over the past 90 days, r/FanTheories has gained 4,932 subscribers (0.17%). Since tracking began 662 days ago, the community has added 314,465 total subscribers.
r/FanTheories is slowly growing, with 1,706 new members in the last 30 days.
r/FanTheories has 2,980,943 subscribers as of June 2026.
The best time to post on r/FanTheories is Thursdays 4pm-6pm UTC, based on analysis of top-performing posts from the past week.
r/FanTheories is slowly growing, with 1,706 new members in the last 30 days.
r/FanTheories was created on May 30, 2012, making it 14 years old.
r/FanTheories is a Reddit community with 2,980,943 subscribers. The community describes itself as: "This is a place for fans of various creative works to share theories, interpretations and speculation related to that particular creative work." The best time to post on r/FanTheories is Thursdays 4pm-6pm UTC. Posts receive an average of 97.1 upvotes and 7.1 comments. The subreddit is adding approximately 55 new members each day. Founded 14 years ago, r/FanTheories is tracked and analyzed by RedditList as part of its comprehensive database of over 106,357 subreddits.
Last updated: 2026-06-01 18:38:43