Weekly release
Posts published 21–27 Sep 2026 on Reddit, Bluesky, YouTube, Hacker News, arXiv, Google News and Exa, each measured on its own: 93 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.
10,887 distinct people on Reddit
On Reddit, 10,887 distinct people posted about Claude between 21 and 27 September 2026: 16,714 posts, an estimated 6.13% 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 21–27 Sep 2026 · n 16,714 posts · author coverage 99.9% · 7 days: 7 active, 2 late heavy
1,422 distinct people on Bluesky
On Bluesky, 1,422 distinct people posted about Claude between 21 and 27 September 2026: 2,226 posts, 3.55% 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 21–27 Sep 2026 · n 2,226 posts · author coverage 100.0% · 7 days: 7 active
159 distinct people on YouTube
On YouTube, 159 distinct people posted about Claude between 21 and 27 September 2026: 169 posts, 6.27% of that week's YouTube posts about AI, leaving out spam, bot and incentive posts (100.0% of these posts had an identifiable author).
Claude · YouTube · posts from 21–27 Sep 2026 · n 169 posts · author coverage 100.0% · 7 days: 7 active
20 distinct people on Hacker News
On Hacker News, 20 distinct people posted about Claude between 21 and 27 September 2026: 20 posts, 5.35% 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 21–27 Sep 2026 · n 20 posts · author coverage 100.0% · 7 days: 7 active, 2 late heavy
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 272,719 postsbar: people, #1 = 10,887 | Blueskyn 62,628 postsbar: people, #1 = 1,422 | YouTuben 2,694 postsbar: people, #1 = 159 | Hacker Newsn 374 postsbar: people, #1 = 20 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ClaudeAnthropic | 10,887#1 | 1,422#1 | 159#1 | 20#1 |
| 2 | ChatGPTOpenAI | 5,191#2 | 1,248#2 | 151#2 | Hidden · n 8 people: n 8 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 3 | QwenAlibaba | 2,566#3 | 351#9 | Hidden · n 7 people: n 7 people, below the threshold of 20 people. | Hidden · n 1 people: n 1 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 4 | GPTOpenAI | 2,516#4 | 464#5 | 50#4 | Hidden · n 8 people: n 8 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 5 | GeminiGoogle DeepMind | 2,062#5 | 716#3 | 54#3 | Hidden · n 3 people: n 3 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 6 | CodexOpenAI | 1,947#6 | 185#11 | Hidden · n 11 people: n 11 people, below the threshold of 20 people. | Hidden · n 5 people: n 5 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 7 | Claude CodeAnthropic › Claude | 1,697#7 | 352#8 | Hidden · n 14 people: n 14 people, below the threshold of 20 people. | Hidden · n 7 people: n 7 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 8 | DeepSeekDeepSeek | 1,297#8 | 374#6 | Hidden · n 15 people: n 15 people, below the threshold of 20 people. | Hidden · n 4 people: n 4 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 9 | GrokxAI | 1,070#9 | 353#7 | Hidden · n 18 people: n 18 people, below the threshold of 20 people. | Hidden · n 2 people: n 2 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 10 | MuseMeta | 630#10 | 624#4 | 35#5 | Hidden · n 8 people: n 8 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 11 | MiniMax H-seriesMiniMax | 590#11 | Hidden · n 11 people: n 11 people, below the threshold of 20 people. | 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. |
| 12 | Microsoft CopilotMicrosoft AI | 580#12 | 289#10 | Hidden · n 4 people: n 4 people, below the threshold of 20 people. | Hidden · n 1 people: n 1 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 13 | GLMZhipu AI | 474#13 | 77#14 | Hidden · n 1 people: n 1 people, below the threshold of 20 people. | Hidden · n 1 people: n 1 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 14 | GemmaGoogle DeepMind | 446#14 | 42#18 | Hidden · n 5 people: n 5 people, below the threshold of 20 people. | Hidden · n 0 people: n 0 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 15 | KimiMoonshot AI | 252#15 | 62#15 | Hidden · n 4 people: n 4 people, below the threshold of 20 people. | Hidden · n 1 people: n 1 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
People on Reddit · n 272,719 posts#1 = 10,887
People on Bluesky · n 62,628 posts#1 = 1,422
People on YouTube · n 2,694 posts#1 = 159
People on Hacker News · n 374 posts#1 = 20
Distinct people who posted about each subject, 21–27 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 8 people, below the threshold of 20 people”. Each column’s n 272,719 posts on Reddit, 62,628 on Bluesky, 2,694 on YouTube and 374 on Hacker News.
Posts, no peoplearXiv and Exa are not ranked. Article sources have no authors, so people aren’t counted. Posts per subject, largest first:
arXiv n 815 posts · 81 subjects
Qwen 32, GPT 26, Claude 14, Llama 13 posts, and 77 more subjects
Exa n not recorded · 81 subjects
Not counted this week: Exa has no day between 21 and 27 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. Gemini grew on Reddit while ChatGPT 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 (22 on Reddit, 13 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 272,719 and 272,647 posts; Bluesky n 62,628 and 66,804 posts. 2026-W39 and 2026-W40 follow on from each other, so their lines are joined.
The shape of the week on each platform: when people posted, drawn from what was published each day.
Reddit272,719
Bluesky62,628
YouTube2,694
Hacker News374
arXiv815
Google News
Exa
Posts published each day, 21–27 Sep 2026 (Mon to Sun), each platform on its own scale; the number is the week’s posts. Nothing was published on Exa on the Saturday or the Sunday.
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.
25 Sep: published 128,027 · captured 31,180,423 · late 31,068,872 · late heavy
own scale, top = 31,180,423
23 Sep: published 19,904 · captured 21,819 · late 5
own scale, top = 21,819
24 Sep: published 1,319 · captured 1,328
own scale, top = 1,328
24 Sep: published 184 · captured 27,157 · late 26,985 · late heavy
own scale, top = 27,157
24 Sep: published 200 · captured 16,154 · late 16,054 · late heavy
own scale, top = 16,154
No capture this week: collection hadn’t started. Posts published on these days were counted from later captures.
own scale, top = 1
21 Sep: published 55 · captured 144 · late 46 · partial
own scale, top = 144
Per platform and day, 21–27 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 19:23Z. 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.21–27 Sep 2026, from conditions.coverage, computed 2 Oct 2026 19:23Z. 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 API (Google AI Studio) 52 · Gemini app 32
› DeepSeek Harness 91 · DeepSeek API 37
› Grok app 31
› Muse (agent app) 58
People on Reddit, 21–27 Sep 2026, as of 2 Oct 2026 04:00Z, all on Reddit’s one scale (#1 = 10,887). 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% | ||
| Exa | hidden | hidden | not applicable |
21–27 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 272,719 posts on Reddit, 62,628 on Bluesky, 2,694 on YouTube, 374 on Hacker News, 815 on arXiv 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 21 | Tue 22 | Wed 23 | Thu 24 | Fri 25 | Sat 26 | Sun 27 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mon 21 Sep: active | Tue 22 Sep: active | Wed 23 Sep: active | late heavyThu 24 Sep: active, late heavy | late heavyFri 25 Sep: active, late heavy | Sat 26 Sep: active | Sun 27 Sep: active | |
| Bluesky | Mon 21 Sep: active | Tue 22 Sep: active | Wed 23 Sep: active | Thu 24 Sep: active | Fri 25 Sep: active | Sat 26 Sep: active | Sun 27 Sep: active |
| YouTube | Mon 21 Sep: active | Tue 22 Sep: active | Wed 23 Sep: active | Thu 24 Sep: active | Fri 25 Sep: active | Sat 26 Sep: active | Sun 27 Sep: active |
| Hacker News | Mon 21 Sep: active | Tue 22 Sep: active | Wed 23 Sep: active | late heavyThu 24 Sep: active, late heavy | late heavyFri 25 Sep: active, late heavy | Sat 26 Sep: active | Sun 27 Sep: active |
| arXiv | late heavyMon 21 Sep: active, late heavy | Tue 22 Sep: active | Wed 23 Sep: active | late heavyThu 24 Sep: active, late heavy | Fri 25 Sep: active | low captureSat 26 Sep: active, low capture | low captureSun 27 Sep: active, low capture |
| Google News | Mon 21 Sep: no lane | Tue 22 Sep: no lane | Wed 23 Sep: no lane | Thu 24 Sep: no lane | Fri 25 Sep: no lane | Sat 26 Sep: no lane | Sun 27 Sep: no lane |
| Exa | partialMon 21 Sep: episodic, partial | Tue 22 Sep: episodic | Wed 23 Sep: episodic | Thu 24 Sep: episodic | Fri 25 Sep: episodic | Sat 26 Sep: episodic | Sun 27 Sep: episodic |
Coverage computed 2 Oct 2026 19:23Z · 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-W39.
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