r/FanTheories peaks Sundays 7pm-9pm UTC
r/FanTheories was created on May 30, 2012, making it 13 years and 9 months old and one of the older subreddits on Reddit. With 2,976,546 members, this is a large and well-established subreddit with significant reach and influence on Reddit.
r/FanTheories is slowly growing, with 1,662 new members in the last 30 days.
r/FanTheories shows typical engagement for a community of this scale, with an average of 62.6 upvotes per post across its 2,976,546 members. The community is primarily content-consumption focused, with a comment-to-upvote ratio of 0.17.
Posts on r/FanTheories receive an average of 10.7 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 13 top posts from the past week, Sunday is the most active day with 5 posts reaching the top, while Tuesday sees the least activity with 1 posts. Weekend activity tends to outpace weekdays, suggesting a more leisure-oriented community.
The peak posting hours are around 7pm UTC (2 posts), 5pm UTC (2 posts), and 9pm UTC (2 posts). The quietest hours are 4am UTC, 11pm UTC, and 11am UTC, with only 1-1 posts each reaching the top during these times.
Weekly breakdown: Monday (4), Tuesday (1), Wednesday (1), Thursday (2), Friday (0), Saturday (0), Sunday (5) posts reaching the top.
r/FanTheories currently has 2,976,546 subscribers. Over the past 30 days, the community has grown by 1,662 members (0.06%), averaging 55 new subscribers per day. This growth rate places r/FanTheories in the top 78% of all tracked subreddits.
Over the past 90 days, r/FanTheories has gained 5,804 subscribers (0.2%). Since tracking began 581 days ago, the community has added 310,068 total subscribers. Growth has been accelerating recently compared to the longer-term trend.
r/FanTheories is slowly growing, with 1,662 new members in the last 30 days.
r/FanTheories has 2,976,546 subscribers as of March 2026.
The best time to post on r/FanTheories is Sundays 7pm-9pm UTC, based on analysis of top-performing posts from the past week.
r/FanTheories is slowly growing, with 1,662 new members in the last 30 days.
r/FanTheories was created on May 30, 2012, making it 13 years old.
r/FanTheories is a Reddit community with 2,976,546 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 Sundays 7pm-9pm UTC. Posts receive an average of 62.6 upvotes and 10.7 comments. The subreddit is adding approximately 55 new members each day. Founded 13 years ago, r/FanTheories is tracked and analyzed by RedditList as part of its comprehensive database of over 106,347 subreddits.
Last updated: 2026-03-12 05:10:55