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Top 10 Reddit IAmA by Year: 2009–2015

Top Q&A sessions on Reddit over seven years. For Q&A sessions in subreddits other than /r/IAmA, see this file. See README for details.

2009

Rank Title Comments Score
212 10 years from now I am a scientist working at the Large Hadron Collider. 922 4099
2352 I am a Grammy Award-winning career musician who has been actively playing and recording for almost three decades. AMA. 656 1606
2629 Roger Ebert: Ask Him Anything! 983 1473
2882 I am the editor of The Big Picture blog on boston.com. AMA 492 1351
2905 IAmA Has-been rock star who sold 5 million+ records and lost twice at the Grammys AMA 1130 1338
3060 I Am Justin from shitmydadsays 831 1273
3352 I'm the guy who does Dinosaur 1542 1155
3500 IAMA jury member who caused a hung jury. Two months later, evidence showed the guy was indeed not guilty. AMAA. 675 1096
3513 I found and wrote the exploit which crashed reddit yesterday. AmA 985 1091
3778 I'm the Imgur guy, AMA! 1148 975

2010

Rank Title Comments Score
775 IAMA:JohnK Ren and Stimpy Creator 1429 2869
941 Stephen Colbert has answered your questions 1110 2690
959 I am Maddox, AMA. 2068 2664
1198 IAmA Democratic congressional candidate for Virginia's 4th district and an atheist; my opponent, founder of the Prayer Congress, won't debate me. If elected, I'll create a sub-reddit and have my aides monitor it for suggested legislation and input in general. 619 2412
1242 Roger Ebert 336 2373
1435 o/--< AMA 1979 2220
1449 Ask Stephen Colbert anything. 2412 2207
1561 I was born in Shchigry, RU, in 1932. I worked as a cosmonaut for 20 years and served as head rocket engineer for the Red Army. I've sailed >70,000km and made >2,000 parachute jumps. I've soloed the Atlantic, had my town occupied by Nazis, and spent time in a Russian prison and a sub w/ SLBMs. AMA. 964 2116
1674 IAmA HS teacher. This is a list of "suggestions" we got in our mailboxes today on how to dumb-down our classes even more than they already are. I'm so angry I can hardly see straight. AMAA 2910 2032
1732 I saved a girl from drowning. She then sued me. AMA. 2183 1989

2011

Rank Title Comments Score
14 I am Neil deGrasse Tyson -- AMA 10747 7044
48 IAmA 74-time Jeopardy! champion, Ken Jennings. I will not be answering in the form of a question. 5149 5513
185 Hi I'm Louis C.K. and this is a thing 8919 4236
356 51 hours left to live 9047 3597
444 I'm Bruce Campbell: AMA 4651 3408
472 I am Bear Grylls. Ask me Anything. 6300 3356
480 I AMA Zach Braff. 8142 3343
485 I am Neil deGrasse Tyson -- AMA 7506 3331
583 I am Salman Khan founder of Khan Academy-AMA 2988 3175
837 IAM Christopher Poole, aka "moot," founder of 4chan & Canvas. AMA! 3747 2805

2012

Rank Title Comments Score
1 I am Barack Obama, President of the United States -- AMA 23768 14756
17 IAM Bill Nye the Science Guy, AMA 11696 6859
22 I'm Snoop Lion! Ask me anything!! 24682 6448
25 We are engineers and scientists on the Mars Curiosity Rover Mission, Ask us Anything! 8565 6201
46 I'm Nick Offerman. I play Ron Swanson on Parks and Rec. AMA. 7035 5551
82 I am South Korean Singer, Rapper, Composer, Dancer and Creator of Gangnam Style PSY. AMA 13286 4985
87 I am Adam Savage. Co-host of Mythbusters. AMA 10475 4897
198 I Am Astronaut Chris Hadfield, Commander of Expedition 35. 3316 4157
230 I am Neil deGrasse Tyson, Ask Me Anything... 11343 4050
231 I am Jón Gnarr, Mayor of Reykjavík. AMA. 5678 4049

2013

Rank Title Comments Score
5 I’m Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. AMA 27274 8435
16 I was mauled by a bear, fought it off, and drove 4 miles down a mountain with my face hanging off. AMA 5276 6907
19 I am "The Excited Biologist!" AMA! 7317 6602
30 We are Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost: Ask Us Anything. 4475 6015
31 IamA Vacuum Repair Technician, and I can't believe people really wanted it, but, AMA! 7407 5945
41 IAmArnold... Ask me anything. 14772 5645
54 I am Bryan Cranston, AMA 9408 5389
56 I Am Astronaut Chris Hadfield, currently orbiting planet Earth. 7508 5382
89 Keanu Reeves. Ask me, if you want, almost anything. 10923 4879
96 Eric Idle here. I've brought John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones and Michael Palin with me. We are Monty Python. AUA. 7716 4835

2014

Rank Title Comments Score
3 I am Sir David Attenborough, I'm on reddit, AMA. 5369 8982
7 I am the guy with two penises. AMA. 17118 7755
11 I run Skiplagged, a site being sued by United Airlines and Orbitz for exposing pricing inefficiencies that save consumers lots of money on airfare. Ask me almost anything! 3168 7237
12 I am Peter Dinklage. You probably know me as Tyrion Lannister from Game of Thrones. AMA! 13508 7172
20 I am Buzz Aldrin, engineer, American astronaut, and the second person to walk on the moon during the Apollo 11 moon landing. AMA! 7123 6553
34 Bill Murray here: OK, I'll TALK! I'll TALK! 11355 5901
41 I spent 18 years in prison for a murder I didn’t commit. AMA. 9107 5645
51 Jeff Bridges here, abiding with you all. AMA. 3285 5439
55 Keanu Reeves - HELLO! 7647 5387
63 I am Harrison Harrison Ford. AMA. 9531 5308

2015

Rank Title Comments Score
2 I am Gordon Ramsay. AMA. 11400 10097
4 I am actor Patrick Stewart of Yorkshire, X-Men, Star Trek and Blunt Talk. AMA! 8029 8914
6 I am Elon Musk, CEO/CTO of a rocket company, AMA! 11360 8105
8 Oh look. It’s that CISA surveillance bill again. Didn’t we defeat that? Not yet. One last chance (for real) to #StopCISA. Ask activists from Fight for the Future, Access, EFF, and Demand Progress anything about CISA. 1477 7586
9 United Airlines sued me last year for creating Skiplagged, a site that saves consumers money on airfare by exposing secrets. Instead of shutting it down, United made Skiplagged go viral worldwide and supporters donated over $80,000! Today, there's no lawsuit and Skiplagged is still marching on. AMA 3765 7422
10 We are Edward Snowden, Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald from the Oscar-winning documentary CITIZENFOUR. AUAA. 11163 7398
13 "Rowdy" Ronda Rousey here, AMA! 16464 7105
15 We're NASA Mars scientists. Ask us anything about today's news announcement of liquid water on Mars. 7590 7038
18 We're scientists on the NASA New Horizons team, which is at Pluto. Ask us anything about the mission & Pluto! 5016 6730
21 I am Senator Bernie Sanders, Democratic candidate for President of the United States — AMA 12859 6522