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r/1970sNSFW

The 1970s. That amazing decade that took place after the 1960s and before the 1980s. Founded 2011 · 119.5K members

120.8K members. The best post we have captured here reached 17.5K upvotes, which works out to 145 per 1,000 members.

145peak upvotes per 1,000 members
120.8Kmembers
17.5Kbest post
2.4Kmost comments
402posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

69% 17%
Image 69% Video 17% Gallery 7% Link 3% Text 2% Question 1%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Television 31 Music 31 Movies 18 Everyday Life 12 Discussion 9 Advertising 8 Toys Hobbies Collectibles 7 Sports & Recreation 6 Fashion 5 Style & Design 5

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Did anyone else have to take a nap in kindergarten and first grade?

↑ 17.5K 💬 1.8K image 2026

Everyone had this end table at one point in their life! Did you?

↑ 12.1K 💬 1.7K image 2026

Butter Rum Lifesavers. My grandma carried these in her "pocketbook" all the time. They were my favorite!

↑ 10.2K 💬 705 image 2026

Did anyone else have to do this with only a 2" pad underneath to catch you if you fell?

↑ 9.6K 💬 1.7K image 2026

Remember when your AC/Heater panel looked like this?

↑ 8.4K 💬 374 image 2026

Almost every house I went into as a kid had the same, or some version of, this Afghan! Did yours?

↑ 7.9K 💬 625 image 2026

Lee Majors (The Six Million Dollar Man) and Lindsay Wagner (The Bionic Woman) — 50 years apart and still going strong!

↑ 7.8K 💬 151 image 2026

Did you know anyone who used bread bags inside of their boots?

↑ 7.6K 💬 1.3K image 2026

Did any of you watch this back in the day?

↑ 7.5K 💬 1.3K image 2026

Remember ice cream in these cardboard/paper cartons?

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Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/1970s, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/1970s?
r/1970s ("The 1970s") describes itself this way: That amazing decade that took place after the 1960s and before the 1980s. It was founded in 2011 and has 119.5K members.
How many members does r/1970s have?
r/1970s has about 120.8K members. ViralHunt has tracked 402 of its posts; the biggest reached 17.5K upvotes, which is 145 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/1970s?
"Did anyone else have to take a nap in kindergarten and first grade?" reached 17.5K upvotes and 1.8K comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/1970s.
What subreddits are similar to r/1970s?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/greenland, r/Leakednews, r/stevehofstetter, r/StrikeAtPsyche, r/PopularCultureZone, r/topofreddit.
What kind of posts do best on r/1970s?
Of the posts we hold, 69% are image posts and 17% are video posts.
When is the best time to post on r/1970s?
Across 402 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Friday at 14:00 UTC (6.1K avg upvotes), Monday at 12:00 UTC (4.4K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 14:00 UTC (4.2K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Tuesday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/1970s?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/1970s has 5K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 15 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/1970s, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.