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American Horror Story. Fan subreddit for the hit TV franchise American Horror Story. Visit r/AmericanHorrorStories for the Hulu exclusive spin-off. Founded 2011 · 861K members

867.3K members. The best post we have captured here reached 7.3K upvotes, which works out to 8 per 1,000 members.

8peak upvotes per 1,000 members
867.3Kmembers
7.3Kbest post
856most comments
406posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

39% 28% 16% 12%
Image 39% Text 28% Question 16% Gallery 12% Video 3% Link 2%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Discussion 5 General 4 Season 8 2 Spoiler 2 Announcement 1 Hover to view 1 Season 3 1 Season 1 1 FAN THEORY 1

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Jessica lange is back😭

↑ 7.3K 💬 357 image 2025

There's nothing I hate more, than a racist.

↑ 7.2K 💬 115 image 2025

Please

↑ 7.2K 💬 122 image 2018

Frances Conroy is “Happily Retired” From Acting (According to Family)

↑ 5.7K 💬 111 image 2024

Great news!

↑ 5K 💬 62 image 2019

No one recognized our costumes last night, so I thought you guys might appreciate them more

↑ 4.8K 💬 130 image 2017

Can we all take a sec and show some love to this extremely versatile actor!

↑ 4.7K 💬 176 image 2018

<----Number of people who want to see Denis O'Hare return to AHS

↑ 4.7K 💬 130 image 2017

This always gets me😂

↑ 4.5K 💬 92 image 2024

First and third season remains the best in my books.

↑ 4.4K 💬 95 image 2024

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/AmericanHorrorStory, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/AmericanHorrorStory?
r/AmericanHorrorStory ("American Horror Story") describes itself this way: Fan subreddit for the hit TV franchise American Horror Story. Visit r/AmericanHorrorStories for the Hulu exclusive spin-off. It was founded in 2011 and has 861K members.
How many members does r/AmericanHorrorStory have?
r/AmericanHorrorStory has about 867.3K members. ViralHunt has tracked 406 of its posts; the biggest reached 7.3K upvotes, which is 8 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/AmericanHorrorStory?
"Jessica lange is back😭" reached 7.3K upvotes and 357 comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/AmericanHorrorStory.
What subreddits are similar to r/AmericanHorrorStory?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/popculture, r/StarWarsBattlefront, r/NoFilterNews, r/BlackPeopleofReddit, r/Archaeology, r/illinois.
What kind of posts do best on r/AmericanHorrorStory?
Of the posts we hold, 39% are image posts and 28% are text posts.
When is the best time to post on r/AmericanHorrorStory?
Across 406 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Friday at 16:00 UTC (2.8K avg upvotes), Monday at 14:00 UTC (2.5K avg upvotes), Sunday at 22:00 UTC (2.4K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Thursday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/AmericanHorrorStory?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/AmericanHorrorStory has 3.8K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 75 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/AmericanHorrorStory, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.