Here’s a link to the episode dedicated to r/NoSleep, Creepypasta, and internet horror.Īlong the way, a few stories from the sub have made a splash outside of the online horror community. If you want a more detailed breakdown of the history of NoSleep, I highly recommend author Nick Botic’s clever 100% True series on YouTube. Started as a spooky subreddit in 2010, became a depository for some classic creepypasta, exploded in growth, got some mainstream attention when stories got optioned by Hollywood, the vanilla goldfish incident, a big push for copyright awareness, and boom, we’re all caught up. The elevator archive summarizing NoSleep is this: Let’s take a look at NoSleep and the communities that whirl around in its orbit. The subreddit is a weird, wonderful, occasionally frustrating, perpetually unique experience. There’s nothing like NoSleep online in terms of daily reach or reader participation. For any amateur writer seeking an audience, those numbers are bonkers in the best way.
Top posts for the month often crack 10k and the highest of the year might see 20k+. While not all of those are active (NoSleep spent years as a default sub so there are certainly millions of dead accounts), the top daily post on the sub will usually see between 2k and 5k upvotes, Reddit’s basic marker for engagement. Here at the tail end of 2020, the subreddit has 14.4M members. And if NoSleep has anything to spare, it’s eyeballs.
A forum for short horror fiction, the subreddit sees roughly 100 posts per day uploaded by amateur writers searching for eyeballs. There aren’t many places on the internet like NoSleep. And r/NoSleep is the current king of stories that go bump in the night. That’s a perennial option but if your main focus is simply finding readers, Reddit’s thriving creative writing platforms are worth checking out. But what do you do with the piece once you’ve polished it until the words are shiny as old bones? The traditional route would be to seek publication, often as part of an anthology. My last blog was about writing a horror story.
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