r/characters
A Place To Discuss your Favorite Character!
Founded March 2009 · Public — anyone can post
Talk about your favorite Character from TV Shows, Anime, Video Games, Movies, Comics, Manga, etc
Members
31,326
31K
Online now
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not captured in the last snapshot
Posts per day
66.9
from the last 100 posts, spanning 35.5h
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
Oct 10
sampled Oct 10
Distinct posters
43%
of the last 100 posts
Tracking since Oct 10 · 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 Oct 10 — growth charts appear after a week of history.
Similar by content
Communities that discuss what r/characters discusses.
Come here to talk about fictional characters, fictional events, concepts, objects, etc. Join our Discord! https://discord.gg/E92zdkH
A community to share and appreciate your favorite designs from throughout fiction. This can include characters, vehicles, weapons, environments or whatever, feel free to post what you love and or hate.
A community to share your favourite character tropes with the community. From characters with similar themes, to weapons with matching vibes.
A place to share and discuss your original characters. Both original and fandom OCs allowed! LGBTQ+ friendly!
See the full lists on similar subreddits.
r/characters — frequently asked
How many members does r/characters have?
r/characters has 31,326 members as of our most recent crawl on Oct 10. 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/characters growing?
We don't have 30 days of snapshot history for r/characters yet, so we're not going to invent a growth number. We've been tracking it since Oct 10; the chart fills in as history accumulates.
How active is r/characters?
Around 66.9 posts per day, measured from the newest 100 posts on Reddit, which span 35.5h. 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/characters created?
r/characters was founded in March 2009 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/characters?
Of the last 100 posts we sampled, 43% came from distinct accounts; the newest was published Oct 10. 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/characters?
We don't have a promo-tolerance read for r/characters 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/characters for mentions?
Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/characters 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/characters's stats?
Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/characters'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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