Medium “Humor” tag statistics
How busy the Humor tag is, how stories perform there and where they get published. Competition is moderate, and the tag is tough for new writers.
Updated Oct 20, 2026 · based on 800 stories from the last 10.7 days
Busier than 44% of 73 tracked tags
5% of top stories are by writers with <100 followers
Competition and chances for new writers
With roughly 75 stories a day, Humor is busier than 44% of the 73 tags we track. Its reader-to-story ratio (72,576 followers per daily story) is higher than 78% of tags — more readers per story than average.
39% of stories here come from writers with fewer than 100 followers, and they account for 5% of the best-performing quarter of stories. 60% of stories are behind the paywall (Partner Program), and the average story takes 4.1 minutes to read.
Publications that publish Humor stories
| Publication | Followers | Humor stories (last 10.7d) |
|---|---|---|
| The Haven | 52K | 47 |
| MuddyUm | 14K | 30 |
| the Challenged | 2.3K | 21 |
| ILLUMINATION | 327K | 18 |
| Quirky Rants | 6.7K | 18 |
| Doctor Funny | 2.4K | 13 |
| Frequency Change | 392 | 13 |
| The Quintessential Q | 4.6K | 12 |
| Big List Energy | 3.7K | 9 |
| Frazzled | 9.1K | 8 |
Top Humor stories right now
- 11 Things That Are Classy If You’re Rich and Trashy If You’re Poor
- My Bookreading Habits are a Little… Weird.
- These Dumb MFs Really Believe Trump Will Give Them $5,000
- Death Needs a Rebrand
- Event Horizon in the Lint Trap
- Aloha to Doha — The Botoxed Lips of the Middle East
- THIS Is Why I Keep My Earbuds On Low
- 13 Food Packaging Fails That Drive Me Batshit Crazy
- We visit the village of Popeye the Sailor Man!
- Taradiddles and Trishuls
FAQ
- How many stories are published in the Humor tag on Medium?
- About 75 per day (526 per week), based on 800 stories published in the 10.7-day window before our last scan. The tag has 234,526 stories in total.
- Is the Humor tag competitive?
- Competition is moderate: it is busier than 44% of the 73 tags we track. There are about 72,576 tag followers per new daily story.
- Can new writers succeed in Humor?
- 5% of the top-performing stories (top 25% by claps) came from writers with fewer than 100 followers, so the tag is tough for newcomers. 39% of all stories in the tag come from such writers.