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🗓️Joined Substack in 2025 — 1 year ago.
📤Posts about 76.2× per week.
💬0.03% engagement rate.
🏅Earned the 100K Subscribers for passing 100K subscribers.

👥 Audience demographics

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Gender split
Male 47% Female 53%
Age · peak 25-34
13-175%
18-2426%
25-3430%
35-4421%
45+18%
Top geographies
  • United States34%
  • India11%
  • United Kingdom8%
  • Brazil6%
  • Indonesia5%
Likely interests
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💬 Newsletter engagement

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Real reader activity from the last 12 posts — reactions, comments and restacks are public on every Substack post.

121
❤ avg reactions / post
10
💬 avg comments / post
21
🔁 avg restacks / post
0.03%
Fairreaction rate
Free issues (reach the whole list) vs paywalled
100% free

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