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Accidental Renaissance. r/AccidentalRenaissance is a subreddit for photos that accidentally resemble Renaissance style art. Founded 2014 · 1.6M members · links only

1.6M members. The best post we have captured here reached 141.5K upvotes, which works out to 91 per 1,000 members.

91peak upvotes per 1,000 members
1.6Mmembers
141.5Kbest post
4Kmost comments
603posts 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.

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The topics it labels

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True Accidental Renaissance 6 Shit Title 1 Allowing this one. Keep it civil please 1 American Western Art Genre 1 Repost but see sticky 1 Mod Approved Exception 1

What the ceiling looks like

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

My wife just out of the shower checking email

↑ 141.5K 💬 890 image 2024

My window’s view looks like a painting

↑ 126.7K 💬 549 image 2024

Look at my beautiful son

↑ 123.2K 💬 687 image 2025

A photo I took of my husband and firstborn after moving across the country to somewhere we had never been before

↑ 110.3K 💬 764 image 2025

Accidental Renaissance

↑ 99.6K 💬 402 image 2025

Claudia Sheinbaum, President of Mexico, on International Women’s Day, 2025

↑ 99.5K 💬 1.7K image 2025

Girl with the pearl earring

↑ 98.2K 💬 780 image 2024

Man passed out drunk on his wedding night.

↑ 97.7K 💬 1.1K image 2025

Summoning demons

↑ 89.4K 💬 482 image 2024

The Labour of the Mattress

↑ 89.4K 💬 1.1K image 2026

Communities its size

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

r/AccidentalRenaissance, in numbers

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What is r/AccidentalRenaissance?
r/AccidentalRenaissance ("Accidental Renaissance") describes itself this way: r/AccidentalRenaissance is a subreddit for photos that accidentally resemble Renaissance style art. It was founded in 2014 and has 1.6M members.
How many members does r/AccidentalRenaissance have?
r/AccidentalRenaissance has about 1.6M members. ViralHunt has tracked 603 of its posts; the biggest reached 141.5K upvotes, which is 91 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/AccidentalRenaissance?
"My wife just out of the shower checking email" reached 141.5K upvotes and 890 comments in 2024, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/AccidentalRenaissance.
What subreddits are similar to r/AccidentalRenaissance?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/StarWarsBattlefront, r/alberta, r/goodnews, r/AnarchyChess, r/minnesota, r/Amazing.
What kind of posts do best on r/AccidentalRenaissance?
Of the posts we hold, 100% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/AccidentalRenaissance?
Across 603 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Sunday at 22:00 UTC (44K avg upvotes), Sunday at 15:00 UTC (39K avg upvotes), Friday at 03:00 UTC (33.5K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Saturday. 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/AccidentalRenaissance?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/AccidentalRenaissance has 70.8K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 183 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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