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r/AmItheAsshole

Am I the Asshole?. A catharsis for the frustrated moral philosopher in all of us, and a place to finally find out if you were wrong in an argument that's been bothering you. Tell us about any non-violent conflict you have experienced; give us both sides of the story, and find out if you're right, or you're the asshole. See our ~~*Best Of*~~ "Most Controversial" at /r/AITAFiltered! Founded 2013 · 24.6M members · text posts only

24.6M members. The best post we have captured here reached 81K upvotes, which works out to 3 per 1,000 members.

3peak upvotes per 1,000 members
24.6Mmembers
81Kbest post
8.8Kmost comments
1.5Kposts 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.

71% 29%
Question 71% Text 29%

The topics it labels

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

Not the A-hole 741 Asshole 191 Everyone Sucks 54 No A-holes here 32 UPDATE 23 Not enough info 19 TL;DR 5 META 4 POO Mode Activated 💩 4 Asshole POO Mode 3

What the ceiling looks like

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

AITA for telling my wife the lock on my daughter's door does not get removed til my brother inlaw and his daughters are out of our house?

↑ 81K 💬 5.2K question 2021

META: This sub is moving towards a value system that frequently doesn't align with the rest of the world

↑ 80.9K 💬 6.1K text 2019

UPDATE, AITA for despising my mentally handicap sister?

↑ 72.8K 💬 2K question 2019

AITA For suing my girlfriend after she had my 1967 impala project taken to the scrapyard?

↑ 70.8K 💬 2.7K question 2020

UPDATE: AITA for wanting to go to the funeral of a girl that I helped get addicted to drugs?

↑ 67.6K 💬 2 question 2019

AITA for pretending to get fired when customers get a temper with me?

↑ 63.5K 💬 3.6K question 2019

AITA for bringing up my brother's "premature" birth at Christmas dinner to get my parents to shut up?

↑ 60.4K 💬 3.3K question 2022

UPDATE: WIBTA if I took over planning my own funeral from my very religious parents?

↑ 58.5K 💬 2 question 2020

AITA for making a dad joke?

↑ 57K 💬 2K question 2019

AITA for not taking down my video that was a gift from my best man.

↑ 55.8K 💬 6K text 2022

Communities its size

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

r/AmItheAsshole, in numbers

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

What is r/AmItheAsshole?
r/AmItheAsshole ("Am I the Asshole?") describes itself this way: A catharsis for the frustrated moral philosopher in all of us, and a place to finally find out if you were wrong in an argument that's been bothering you. Tell us about any non-violent conflict you have experienced; give us both sides of the story, and find out if you're right, or you're the asshole. See our ~~*Best Of*~~ "Most Controversial" at /r/AITAFiltered. It was founded in 2013 and has 24.6M members.
How many members does r/AmItheAsshole have?
r/AmItheAsshole has about 24.6M members. ViralHunt has tracked 1.5K of its posts; the biggest reached 81K upvotes, which is 3 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/AmItheAsshole?
"AITA for telling my wife the lock on my daughter's door does not get removed til my brother inlaw and his daughters are out of our house?" reached 81K upvotes and 5.2K comments in 2021, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/AmItheAsshole.
What subreddits are similar to r/AmItheAsshole?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/therewasanattempt, r/BlackPeopleTwitter, r/me_irl, r/nextfuckinglevel, r/WatchPeopleDieInside, r/oddlysatisfying.
What kind of posts do best on r/AmItheAsshole?
Of the posts we hold, 71% are question posts and 29% are text posts.
When is the best time to post on r/AmItheAsshole?
Across 1.5K timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Saturday at 12:00 UTC (22.9K avg upvotes), Monday at 17:00 UTC (19.6K avg upvotes), Friday at 11:00 UTC (18.9K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Sunday. 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/AmItheAsshole?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/AmItheAsshole has 50.4K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 347 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/AmItheAsshole, 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.