About r/cosplayers
In its own words:
This is a subreddit specifically for people who cosplay and people looking to cosplay. Want to share the outfit you just made? Share it here! Want some advice on a costume? Ask here! Want to show some cool pics you took at the last convention you went to? Post them here!
Community guide
r/cosplayers (#929, about 1.2 million) is for people who cosplay—and those learning how—sharing builds, advice and con photos with mandatory formatting and a focus on the costume itself.
What belongs
Cosplays you’re involved in (about 42 posts/day; gallery-heavy). Rules: kindness; mandatory formatting; only cosplays you’re part of; NSFW only if canonical; no suggestive posing focus; no spam/self-promo; no “who should I cosplay?”.
Versus cosplay appreciation dumps
Lurker gallery subs reshare others’ work. cosplayers wants maker involvement and craft advice flairs.
Practical pointers
Follow the formatting template; keep the frame on the costume craft.
SubMouse Editorial
The community was created on Mar 5, 2012, which makes it 14 years old. Since Oct 26, 2026, it has gained 921 subscribers (+0.08%). It sits just behind r/Romania (#928) and ahead of r/evangelion (#930) in our ranking.
What sets r/cosplayers apart
r/cosplayers is more of a browsing community than a debating one: 3.5 comments per post on average, well under the Top 100 median of 13.1. For its size it is unusually busy: about 36.7 new posts a day per million members, more than 80% of the Top 100. Its rhythm is strongly tied to time zones: the busiest hour (00:00 UTC) sees about 15.5× as many posts as the quietest (08:00 UTC).
Subscriber growth
Between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026, r/cosplayers climbed from 1,137,973 to 1,144,757 subscribers (+6.8K, +0.60%). That is about 154 new members per day. The chart uses our weekly snapshots (9 so far), so it gets longer every week.
What r/cosplayers talks about
Looking at the titles of 377 recent posts (Oct 29–Nov 4), the words that come up most are “cosplay”, “halloween”, “costume”, “man” and “marvel”. Other frequent themes are help, hotel, black, devil, chainsaw and mavis. Recurring phrases include “chainsaw man”, “hotel transylvania”, “halloween costume” and “marvel rivals”. By format, 71% are galleries, 19% are images and 5% are text posts.
Popular post flairs: COSPLAYER (316), ADVICE (34), ORIGINAL CHARACTER (11), COSPLAY IN PROGRESS (10), PHOTOGRAPHER (3), PROP (3).
Activity and best time to post
r/cosplayers gets about 42 new posts a day. The public archive holds 105,974 posts and 373,903 comments in total, about 3.5 comments per post. Last week the busiest day was Sunday (84 posts) and the quietest was Thursday (37). Posting peaks around 00:00 UTC and is lowest around 08:00 UTC.
Rules of r/cosplayers
The moderators of r/cosplayers list 8 rules. In short:
- Be kind and respectful.
- Please follow the mandatory formatting.
- Only post cosplays in which you are directly involved.
- NSFW content MUST be canonical.
- Posts must focus on the cosplay itself: no suggestive angles, content or poses.
- No spamming.
- No self promotions.
- No "Who Should I Cosplay?" posts.
How to join
Open reddit.com/r/cosplayers and press “Join”. Read the community rules in the sidebar before you post: every subreddit is run by its own volunteer moderators.
Frequently asked questions
How big is r/cosplayers?
r/cosplayers has 1,144,757 subscribers (Nov 2, 2026), which makes it the #929 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 6,784 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026.
How old is r/cosplayers?
r/cosplayers was created on Mar 5, 2012, so it has been around for 14 years.
How active is r/cosplayers?
Very active: r/cosplayers gets about 42 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 105,974 posts and 373,903 comments. In a sample of 377 recent posts we counted 311 different authors.
When is r/cosplayers most active?
Based on post counts from Oct 29, 2026 to Nov 4, 2026, the busiest day was Sunday and the quietest Thursday, and most posts arrive around 00:00 UTC, with the fewest around 08:00 UTC. More posts also means more competition, so a quieter hour can help a post get noticed.
What is r/cosplayers about?
The community describes itself as: “This is a subreddit specifically for people who cosplay and people looking to cosplay. Want to share the outfit you just made? Share it here! Want some advice on a costume? Ask here! Want to show some cool pics you took…” Recent post titles often mention cosplay, halloween, costume, man and marvel. Most posts are galleries (71%).
Is r/cosplayers safe for work?
Yes. Reddit does not mark r/cosplayers as an 18+ (NSFW) community, and its own rules forbid NSFW content. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.
How do I post on r/cosplayers?
Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/cosplayers accepts both text and link posts, with images, videos, galleries and polls enabled. It has 8 posted rules, starting with: “Be kind and respectful.”; “Please follow the mandatory formatting.”; “Only post cosplays in which you are directly involved.”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.
Which communities are like r/cosplayers?
Communities with similar topics include r/pics (33.6M), r/steak (1.1M), r/buildapc (8.5M), r/thelastofus (2.3M) and r/MakeNewFriendsHere (1.2M).
Stats from public data (data updated Nov 2, 2026; activity, rules and archive totals via the Arctic Shift archive, Nov 6, 2026). Point and comment counts are archive snapshots and can be lower than on Reddit today. SubMouse is an independent directory and is not affiliated with Reddit or the moderators of r/cosplayers.