Weekly release
Posts published 14–20 Sep 2026 on Reddit, Bluesky, YouTube, Hacker News, arXiv, Google News and Exa, each measured on its own: 97 readings.
Published 2 Oct 2026. Its figures never change. Cite it with its permanent link. What these states mean
September eraCaptured live from 16 Sep and filled in from archives.
This release’s conditions
No prose is stored for this release.
The first place on each of the four platforms that count people, in its reading’s own words. Four platforms, four rankings; nothing here is added across them.
8,811 distinct people on Reddit
On Reddit, 8,811 distinct people posted about Claude between 14 and 20 September 2026: 12,463 posts, an estimated 4.39% of that week's Reddit posts about AI, leaving out spam, bot, incentive and templated automated posts (99.9% of these posts had an identifiable author).
Claude · Reddit · posts from 14–20 Sep 2026 · n 12,463 posts · author coverage 99.9% · 7 days: 4 active, 3 backfilled, 1 partial
895 distinct people on Bluesky
On Bluesky, 895 distinct people posted about Claude between 14 and 20 September 2026: 1,283 posts, 3.40% of that week's Bluesky posts about AI, leaving out spam, bot, incentive and templated automated posts (100.0% of these posts had an identifiable author).
Claude · Bluesky · posts from 14–20 Sep 2026 · n 1,283 posts · author coverage 100.0% · 7 days: 4 active, 3 not started, 1 partial, 1 late heavy
65 distinct people on YouTube
On YouTube, 65 distinct people posted about ChatGPT between 14 and 20 September 2026: 66 posts, 5.68% of that week's YouTube posts about AI, leaving out spam, bot and incentive posts (100.0% of these posts had an identifiable author).
ChatGPT · YouTube · posts from 14–20 Sep 2026 · n 66 posts · author coverage 100.0% · 7 days: 4 active, 3 not started, 1 partial
25 distinct people on Hacker News
On Hacker News, 25 distinct people posted about Claude between 14 and 20 September 2026: 25 posts, 6.43% of that week's Hacker News posts about AI, leaving out spam, bot and incentive posts (100.0% of these posts had an identifiable author).
Claude · Hacker News · posts from 14–20 Sep 2026 · n 25 posts · author coverage 100.0% · 7 days: 5 active, 2 backfilled, 1 partial
Each card is the lead measured statement of one platform’s first place: the stored statement whose figures include that platform’s people count, shown verbatim. Platforms rank separately; a subject leading two platforms appears twice.
Every subject’s place on each platform that counts people, side by side. Read down a column for one platform’s ranking; read across a row to see how differently the platforms rank one subject.
| Rank | Subject · lineage | Reddit ▼ sortedn 284,133 postsbar: people, #1 = 8,811 | Blueskyn 37,727 postsbar: people, #1 = 895 | YouTuben 1,162 postsbar: people, #1 = 65 | Hacker Newsn 389 postsbar: people, #1 = 25 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ClaudeAnthropic | 8,811#1 | 895#1 | 65#1 | 25#1 |
| 2 | ChatGPTOpenAI | 5,479#2 | 701#2 | 65#1 | Hidden · n 6 people: n 6 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 3 | GPTOpenAI | 2,362#3 | 210#7 | Hidden · n 18 people: n 18 people, below the threshold of 20 people. | Hidden · n 3 people: n 3 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 4 | QwenAlibaba | 2,246#4 | 206#8 | Hidden · n 4 people: n 4 people, below the threshold of 20 people. | Hidden · n 8 people: n 8 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 5 | GeminiGoogle DeepMind | 2,235#5 | 554#3 | Hidden · n 15 people: n 15 people, below the threshold of 20 people. | Hidden · n 7 people: n 7 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 6 | CodexOpenAI | 1,874#6 | 123#10 | Hidden · n 8 people: n 8 people, below the threshold of 20 people. | Hidden · n 2 people: n 2 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 7 | DeepSeekDeepSeek | 1,754#7 | 227#5 | Hidden · n 4 people: n 4 people, below the threshold of 20 people. | Hidden · n 6 people: n 6 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 8 | Claude CodeAnthropic › Claude | 1,564#8 | 248#4 | Hidden · n 8 people: n 8 people, below the threshold of 20 people. | Hidden · n 10 people: n 10 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 9 | GrokxAI | 953#9 | 218#6 | Hidden · n 3 people: n 3 people, below the threshold of 20 people. | Hidden · n 0 people: n 0 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 10 | GLMZhipu AI | 648#10 | 55#13 | Hidden · n 0 people: n 0 people, below the threshold of 20 people. | Hidden · n 0 people: n 0 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 11 | MiniMax H-seriesMiniMax | 585#11 | Hidden · n 6 people: n 6 people, below the threshold of 20 people. | Hidden · n 0 people: n 0 people, below the threshold of 20 people. | Hidden · n 0 people: n 0 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 12 | GemmaGoogle DeepMind | 415#12 | 34#15 | Hidden · n 1 people: n 1 people, below the threshold of 20 people. | Hidden · n 0 people: n 0 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 13 | Microsoft CopilotMicrosoft AI | 391#13 | 129#9 | Hidden · n 2 people: n 2 people, below the threshold of 20 people. | Hidden · n 2 people: n 2 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 14 | KimiMoonshot AI | 360#14 | 39#14 | Hidden · n 0 people: n 0 people, below the threshold of 20 people. | Hidden · n 0 people: n 0 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 15 | MuseMeta | 296#15 | 73#11 | Hidden · n 6 people: n 6 people, below the threshold of 20 people. | Hidden · n 1 people: n 1 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
People on Reddit · n 284,133 posts#1 = 8,811
People on Bluesky · n 37,727 posts#1 = 895
People on YouTube · n 1,162 posts#1 = 65
People on Hacker News · n 389 posts#1 = 25
Distinct people who posted about each subject, 14–20 Sep 2026, as of 2 Oct 2026 04:00Z; published. Each column is scaled to its own #1 and ranks on its own; nothing is added across platforms, because one person can post on several. Rows follow Reddit, the default platform. Hatched cells are hidden, never shown as a number. The stored reason, e.g. Hacker News ChatGPT: “n 6 people, below the threshold of 20 people”. Each column’s n 284,133 posts on Reddit, 37,727 on Bluesky, 1,162 on YouTube and 389 on Hacker News.
Posts, no peoplearXiv, Google News and Exa are not ranked. Article sources have no authors, so people aren’t counted. Posts per subject, largest first:
arXiv n 591 posts · 85 subjects
Qwen 35, GPT 23, Gemini 14, Llama 11 posts, and 81 more subjects
Google News n not recorded · 85 subjects
Not counted this week: Google News has no day between 14 and 20 September 2026 that AIDRAN counts, so there’s no figure to show.
Exa n not recorded · 85 subjects
Not counted this week: Exa has no day between 14 and 20 September 2026 that AIDRAN counts, so there’s no figure to show.
The same subjects one week later, on the two platforms with enough people. Claude grew on Reddit while DeepSeek eased.
Reddit · people per subject
Bluesky · people per subject
Distinct people per subject on each release’s board, for subjects with n ≥ 100 posts in both weeks (24 on Reddit, 10 on Bluesky), as of 2 Oct 2026 04:00Z; published. Each panel on its own scale; lines join one subject’s two weeks. Each week’s n is its platform’s posts: Reddit n 284,133 and 272,719 posts; Bluesky n 37,727 and 62,628 posts. 2026-W38 and 2026-W39 follow on from each other, so their lines are joined.
When a post was written and when AIDRAN caught it are different days. For each platform, what was published each day against what was captured that day, and how much of the capture was catching up.What was published each day against what AIDRAN captured that day, and how much of it was catching up.
17 Sep: published 143,290 · captured 202,876 · late 98,989 · partial
own scale, top = 202,876
17 Sep: published 20,456 · captured 131,899 · late 98,171 · partial, late heavy
own scale, top = 131,899
18 Sep: published 1,177 · captured 1,195
own scale, top = 1,195
16 Sep: published 147 · captured 285 · late 45 · partial
own scale, top = 285
18 Sep: published 176 · captured 200
own scale, top = 200
17 Sep: published 156 · captured 196 · late 7 · partial
own scale, top = 196
17 Sep: published 20 · captured 7,195 · late 6,874 · partial, late heavy
own scale, top = 7,195
Per platform and day, 14–20 Sep 2026: posts published that day (published_n), posts captured that day whatever their publish date (captured_n), and the part of those captured late (late_captured_n), from conditions.coverage, computed 2 Oct 2026 16:23Z. Each platform on its own scale. A flag bar marks a partial, low-capture or late-heavy day. Not-started days show published only: those posts were captured later and do count.14–20 Sep 2026, from conditions.coverage, computed 2 Oct 2026 16:23Z. Each platform on its own scale; a flag bar marks a partial, low-capture or late-heavy day.
Families and their products on Reddit. A post about Claude Code usually also counts for Claude, so the bars sit together and are never summed.Families and their products on Reddit, side by side and never summed.
The family entry already includes its products; not added.
Gemini family · Google DeepMind
› Gemini API (Google AI Studio) 58 · Gemini app 33 · Gemini CLI 22
› DeepSeek Harness 107 · DeepSeek API 88 · DeepSeek app 27
› Grok app 27
› Muse (agent app) 25
People on Reddit, 14–20 Sep 2026, as of 2 Oct 2026 04:00Z, all on Reddit’s one scale (#1 = 8,811). Groups follow each subject’s stored lineage.
Posts, threads and distinct people on each platform: the context for every share in this release. Each platform stands alone.The context for every share. Each platform stands alone.
| Platform | Posts | Threads | People | Author cov. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| hidden | hidden | |||
| Bluesky | 100.0% | |||
| YouTube | 100.0% | |||
| Hacker News | 100.0% | |||
| arXiv | not applicable | 0.0% | ||
| Google News | hidden | hidden | not applicable | |
| Exa | hidden | hidden | not applicable |
14–20 Sep 2026 · as of 2 Oct 2026 04:00Z · counted from posts’ own data · no platform coverage-limited. People count distinct platform identities and are never added across platforms, so there is no total row. People are not applicable on article sources. Reddit’s posts include its comments. Each figure’s n 284,133 posts on Reddit, 37,727 on Bluesky, 1,162 on YouTube, 389 on Hacker News, 591 on arXiv, not recorded on Google News and not recorded on Exa.
Each subject against its previous stored reading under the same method, share and people, platform by platform. Each has its own page, for its size: one cell a subject and platform.
What AIDRAN was collecting on each platform, each day of the week. A day can hold posts even when collection hadn’t started: they were captured later.What AIDRAN was collecting on each platform, each day.
| Platform | Mon 14 | Tue 15 | Wed 16 | Thu 17 | Fri 18 | Sat 19 | Sun 20 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mon 14 Sep: backfilled | Tue 15 Sep: backfilled | Wed 16 Sep: backfilled | partialThu 17 Sep: active, partial | Fri 18 Sep: active | Sat 19 Sep: active | Sun 20 Sep: active | |
| Bluesky | Mon 14 Sep: not started | Tue 15 Sep: not started | Wed 16 Sep: not started | partiallate heavyThu 17 Sep: active, partial, late heavy | Fri 18 Sep: active | Sat 19 Sep: active | Sun 20 Sep: active |
| YouTube | Mon 14 Sep: not started | Tue 15 Sep: not started | Wed 16 Sep: not started | partialThu 17 Sep: active, partial | Fri 18 Sep: active | Sat 19 Sep: active | Sun 20 Sep: active |
| Hacker News | Mon 14 Sep: backfilled | Tue 15 Sep: backfilled | partialWed 16 Sep: active, partial | Thu 17 Sep: active | Fri 18 Sep: active | Sat 19 Sep: active | Sun 20 Sep: active |
| arXiv | Mon 14 Sep: backfilled | Tue 15 Sep: backfilled | partialWed 16 Sep: active, partial | Thu 17 Sep: active | Fri 18 Sep: active | low captureSat 19 Sep: active, low capture | low captureSun 20 Sep: active, low capture |
| Google News | Mon 14 Sep: not started | Tue 15 Sep: not started | partialWed 16 Sep: active, partial | partialThu 17 Sep: active, partial | Fri 18 Sep: no lane | Sat 19 Sep: no lane | Sun 20 Sep: no lane |
| Exa | Mon 14 Sep: not started | Tue 15 Sep: not started | Wed 16 Sep: not started | partiallate heavyThu 17 Sep: episodic, partial, late heavy | Fri 18 Sep: episodic | Sat 19 Sep: episodic | Sun 20 Sep: episodic |
Coverage computed 2 Oct 2026 16:23Z · as of 2 Oct 2026 04:00Z · frozen with the release, never recomputed. Each day opens what it holds.A bar marks a flagged day.
Published 2 Oct 2026. Its figures never change. Cite it with its permanent link.
AIDRAN. Release 2026-W38.
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