r/antiwork
Antiwork: Unemployment for all, not just the rich!
Founded August 2013 · Public — anyone can post
A subreddit for those who want to end work, are curious about ending work, want to get the most out of a work-free life, want more information on anti-work ideas and want personal help with their own jobs/work-related struggles.
Members
3,002,451
3M
Online now
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not captured in the last snapshot
Posts per day
23.3
from the last 100 posts, spanning 4.2 days
Comments per post
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no sample yet
Growth · 7d
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not enough history yet
Growth · 30d
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not enough history yet
Promo tolerance
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not assessed yet
Last post
Sep 14
sampled Sep 15
Distinct posters
88%
of the last 100 posts
Tracking since Sep 15 · growth spans are the real distance between snapshots, not rounded windows. Posts/day is measured from the community’s own newest posts on Reddit, not from what Prowlo happens to crawl.
Member growth
Tracking since Sep 15 — growth charts appear after a week of history.
Similar by content
Communities that discuss what r/antiwork discusses.
A space for sharing office horror stories, advice on how to quit, & suggestions for how to earn a living outside a cubicle.
Breaking free of the work/spend/borrow cycle in order to live more fully, sustainably, and cooperatively.
This is a place for people who are or want to become Financially Independent (FI), which means not having to work for money. Financial Independence is closely related to the concept of Early Retirement/Retiring Early (RE) - quitting your job/career and pursuing other activities with your time. At its core, FI/RE is about maximizing your savings rate (through less spending and/or higher income) to achieve FI and have the freedom to RE as fast as possible.
Work multiple jobs during the same 40 hours, reach financial freedom.
See the full lists on similar subreddits.
r/antiwork — frequently asked
How many members does r/antiwork have?
r/antiwork has 3,002,451 members as of our most recent crawl on Sep 15. Prowlo re-checks tracked communities on a rolling schedule, so this figure moves rather than sitting frozen at whatever it was when a scraper last ran.
Is r/antiwork growing?
We don't have 30 days of snapshot history for r/antiwork yet, so we're not going to invent a growth number. We've been tracking it since Sep 15; the chart fills in as history accumulates.
How active is r/antiwork?
Around 23.3 posts per day, measured from the newest 100 posts on Reddit, which span 4.2 days. Posting rate matters more than subscriber count when you're deciding where to spend your time — it determines how long your comment stays visible.
When was r/antiwork created?
r/antiwork was founded in August 2013 and is a public — anyone can post community. Age matters: an older community with steady growth has survived Reddit's moderation churn; a young one with a spike may not.
Who posts in r/antiwork?
Of the last 100 posts we sampled, 88% came from distinct accounts; the newest was published Sep 14. A low share means a feed dominated by a handful of accounts (bots, mods, or one prolific poster) rather than a community.
Can I promote my product in r/antiwork?
We don't have a promo-tolerance read for r/antiwork yet. Default to the safe approach: read the sidebar rules, contribute in threads where you gain nothing, and mention your product only when it is the honest answer to someone's question.
How do I monitor r/antiwork for mentions?
Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/antiwork into your Dataset — every new post indexed and embedded, searchable semantically, queryable by your AI agent over MCP, and able to trigger keyword alerts in Slack. Prowlo is read-only; it never posts on your behalf.
Can my AI agent read r/antiwork's stats?
Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/antiwork's members, growth, promo tolerance and similar communities as typed JSON — free, no credits. Connect your agent to api.prowlo.com/mcp and it can vet the community and start watching it in the same conversation.
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