#cryptids

Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #cryptids from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.

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4
Uses / 7 days
Mastodon
3
Accounts / 7 days
Mastodon
40
Recent posts
Mastodon
~0/hr
Recent pace
Mastodon · last 40
0.2
Avg reactions / post
Mastodon · last 40
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Reddit posts / month
Reddit search
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Open-web mentions
hashtag.org Firehose

Day-by-day usage

measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-11-09 00:29 UTC
2
11-03
1
11-04
0
11-05
0
11-06
0
11-07
1
11-08
0
11-09

4 uses by 3 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.

Related hashtags

measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-11-09 00:29 UTC

Live pulse

measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-11-09 00:29 UTC

Everything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~1392 hours).

Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 01:00

00:0012:0023:00

Languages: English (38)

Avg boosts / post: 0.7

Top of the latest posts

  • This is the one that kicked my imagination off. There are so many iterations of the Bigfoot legend I could only think of a Reunion as a fitting tribute. I had hoped to make it more dense, but that's a lot of squatch to draw! #Inktober #Draw

    Darwin Comics@Darwin@artistalley.space♥ 1↻ 02026-10-31 16:50 UTCView post →
  • A creature said to haunt the indigenous peoples around Illinois. #Inktober #Drawing #Cryptids

    Darwin Comics@Darwin@artistalley.space♥ 1↻ 02026-10-29 02:43 UTCView post →
  • A creature said to latch onto the tops of steep mountains in wait of its prey. When it lets go it slides down the hill, mouth open to swallow it's prey. #Inktober #Drawing #Cryptids

    Darwin Comics@Darwin@artistalley.space♥ 1↻ 02026-10-26 14:17 UTCView post →

What “cryptids” means

Wiktionary · Wikipedia

cryptids

  • nounA creature known only from folklore or legend, the existence of which is not proven by scientific observation.
Full entry on Wiktionary →

Cryptids are animals or other beings whose present existence is disputed or unsubstantiated by science. Cryptozoology, the study of cryptids, is a pseudoscience claiming that such beings may exist somewhere in the wild; it has been widely critiqued by scientists. The subculture is regularly criticized for reliance on anecdotal information and because in the course of investigating animals that most scientists believe are unlikely to have existed, cryptozoologists do not follow the scientific met

“List of cryptids” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →

#cryptids across platforms

every network with a public tag surface

Follow #cryptids straight to each platform’s own tag page. Where a platform publishes open data we measure it above; the rest lock their numbers behind paid APIs, so we link rather than guess.

Every number above is measured from a named public API at the shown fetch time. Nothing is estimated or extrapolated. Platforms that lock their data behind paid APIs are not shown. Agents: the same numbers, as JSON, at /api/hashtags/cryptids