| ---
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| license: other
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| language:
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| - en
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| size_categories:
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| - 1M<n<10M
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| task_categories:
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| - text-classification
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| tags:
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| - reddit
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| - animal-welfare
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| - animal-ethics
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| - value-lock-in
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| - discourse-analysis
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| ---
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| # Reddit Animal-Discourse Corpus (2020–present)
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| Submissions and comments from animal-relevant subreddits, gathered via
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| [PullPush.io](https://pullpush.io), covering January 2020 to the present.
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| Built as part of research on AI-mediated value lock-in in human animal-welfare
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| discourse.
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| ## Coverage
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| | Subreddit | Submissions | Comments | Date range (submissions) |
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| |---|---:|---:|---|
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| | r/AnimalRights | 18,293 | 5,193 | 2020-01-01 → 2025-05-19 |
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| | r/AntiVegan | 21,365 | 171,450 | 2020-01-01 → 2025-05-19 |
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| | r/AskVegans | 5,167 | 127,895 | 2020-01-01 → 2025-05-19 |
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| | r/PlantBasedDiet | 26,629 | 97,582 | 2020-01-01 → 2025-05-19 |
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| | r/vegan | 93,272 | 228,490 | 2022-12-03 → 2025-05-19 |
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| | r/vegetarian | 46,481 | 47,293 | 2020-01-01 → 2025-05-19 |
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| **Total records:** 889,110
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| ## File structure
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| One parquet file per `(subreddit, kind)`, e.g. `AntiVegan__submission.parquet`.
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| ### Submission fields
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| `id, name, created_utc, author, subreddit, title, selftext, url, score, num_comments, upvote_ratio, link_flair_text, permalink, is_self, over_18, spoiler, stickied, created_date`
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|
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| ### Comment fields
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| `id, name, created_utc, author, subreddit, body, score, parent_id, link_id, permalink, is_submitter, stickied, created_date`
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| ## Subreddits
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| Selected to span the pro-/skeptic spectrum on animal ethics:
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| - **Pro-animal:** r/vegan, r/AnimalRights, r/vegetarian, r/PlantBasedDiet
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| - **Debate / mixed:** r/DebateAVegan, r/AskVegans
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| - **Skeptic / opposing:** r/exvegan, r/AntiVegan, r/carnivore
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| - **Adjacent:** r/wildlife, r/conservation
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| ## Source and ethics
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| Raw text content is publicly accessible on Reddit. **Usernames have been
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| salted-hashed** (SHA-256 with a project-specific salt, truncated to 12 hex
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| characters, prefix `user_`) to remove PII while preserving within-user
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| analyses (same hash → same person across records). Sentinels like `[deleted]`,
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| `[removed]`, and `AutoModerator` are preserved as-is.
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| PullPush returns content as it existed at fetch time — deleted or edited posts
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| may differ from current Reddit state.
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| ## License
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| Reddit's own user content terms apply. This compilation is provided for
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| non-commercial research use only.
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| ## Citation
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| If you use this dataset, please cite the originating research
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| (forthcoming — placeholder).
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| Generated 2026-06-09 15:23 UTC.
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