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r/gay_irl subreddit stats
Posts, comments, unique posters, link rates, and activity patterns from the last month, updated daily.
Updated . Reporting period: Oct 5, 2026–Nov 5, 2026 (UTC).
From October 5, 2026 to November 5, 2026, 2,218 users on r/gay_irl made 632 posts and 7,656 comments, or about 20 posts/day and 240 comments/day. The subreddit averaged 12.1 comments per post; 97.6% of posts and 15.3% of comments contained links. Its Health Score was 26.8/100, meaning unique posters divided by total posts and comments. The top 1% of users produced 62.5% of posts and 27.1% of comments. Activity is measured in UTC: the most active hour was 17:00 (1.4x avg), the most active day was Wednesday (1.2x avg), and normalized weekend volume was 0.85x weekday volume.
Daily activity in r/gay_irl
Daily totals combine posts and comments, grouped by UTC date. The lighter final bar shows a partial day through Nov 5 at 20:36 UTC.
Activity by day and hour
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