Rising on Substack this week: Humor

Two signals nobody else shows: the writers picking up new recommendations from other publications, and the ones climbing the leaderboards between my reads. Follower growth joins them on Nov 7, once there's a week of daily readings.

Category Any size Under 10k followers 10k to 100k 100k or more Recommendations read 6 days ago

Most new recommenders, last 30 days

Publications that started recommending each writer in the last 30 days, by Substack's own start date, with 12 weeks of context. Big writers collect recommenders fastest; pick a size to see who's rising among writers like you.

The Babylon Bee

503k followers · #12 Humor Bestsellers

+41 in 30 days 50 in all

50 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Dave Barry

127k followers · #4 Humor Bestsellers

+21 in 30 days 63 in all

41 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

God

254k followers · #1 Humor Bestsellers

+15 in 30 days 59 in all

30 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

caleb hearon

114k followers · #15 Humor Bestsellers

+9 in 30 days 51 in all

23 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

In Otter News

71k followers · #68 Humor Bestsellers

+8 in 30 days · +1 in 7 days 50 in all

16 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Political Humor

133k followers · #100 Humor Bestsellers

+8 in 30 days 51 in all

14 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Cartoons Hate Her

95k followers · #2 Humor Bestsellers

+7 in 30 days 68 in all

18 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

The Old Grey Thinker

25k followers · #17 Humor Bestsellers

+7 in 30 days 54 in all

22 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Mycal Latravious Dédé III

9.9k followers

+7 in 30 days 37 in all

21 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Hilde von Bingen

2k followers · #54 Humor Rising

+7 in 30 days 12 in all

8 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Carlah

367 followers

+7 in 30 days 7 in all

7 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Bill Maher

252k followers · #51 Humor Bestsellers

+6 in 30 days 52 in all

21 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

New recommenders per week, last 12 weeks; the orange bar is this week to date. Same scale in every panel. Dated by Substack; only recommendations still live. Outlined weeks are incomplete: Substack lists only a publication's 50 newest recommenders, so for busy writers older weeks can't be counted, and a 30-day count marked + is a floor.