Timeline
Per-year volume of posts and comments in r/Aphantasia, plus the three dominant sub-themes (by chunk count) and the highest-scored post that year.
| Year | Posts | Comments | Dominant sub-themes | Top thread |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 23 | 100 | career_chosen_avoided, discovery_internet_moment, discovery_first_realisation | score 7 |
| 2016 | 161 | 1389 | memory_loved_ones, discovery_internet_moment, career_stem_overrep | score 16 |
| 2017 | 323 | 4172 | career_stem_overrep, reading_fiction_experience, creativity_artists | score 41 |
| 2018 | 909 | 13670 | career_stem_overrep, career_chosen_avoided, dreams_visual_dreaming | score 277 |
| 2019 | 1887 | 28559 | career_stem_overrep, phenomenology_voluntary_vs_involuntary, memory_autobiographical | score 575 |
| 2020 | 3003 | 45455 | phenomenology_thinking_in_concepts, discovery_internet_moment, memory_autobiographical | score 1046 |
| 2021 | 2894 | 51030 | phenomenology_thinking_in_concepts, discovery_telling_others, phenomenology_pure_blackness | score 1045 |
| 2022 | 2096 | 48136 | acquired_after_event, creativity_artists, dreams_visual_dreaming | score 935 |
| 2023 | 2461 | 50813 | discovery_internet_moment, memory_face_blindness, phenomenology_pure_blackness | score 1311 |
| 2024 | 3023 | 65885 | memory_loved_ones, discovery_telling_others, ptsd_protective | score 832 |
| 2025 | 2357 | 52240 | creativity_artists, ptsd_protective, memory_autobiographical | score 673 |
| 2026 | 825 | 18834 | creativity_writing, reading_fiction_experience, relationships_partner_explain | score 1030 |
CSV available at data/timeline.csv for plotting.