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r/AmITheJerk

This community is private, banned or no longer exists on Reddit. The numbers below are what we captured while it was public.

257.2K members. The best post we have captured here reached 5.8K upvotes, which works out to 23 per 1,000 members.

23peak upvotes per 1,000 members
257.2Kmembers
5.8Kbest post
2.1Kmost comments
305posts 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.

55% 24% 12%
Question 55% Video 24% Text 12% Link 6% Gallery 2% Image 2%

What the ceiling looks like

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

UPDATE: AITJ for having my neighbor's car towed after repeatedly asking them not to block my driveway?

↑ 5.8K 💬 321 question 2026

AITJ for refusing to babysit after my sister auctioned off 4 hours of my time at her kids school fundraiser?

↑ 3.3K 💬 774 question 2026

Am I the jerk for saying my MIL can't wear a dress with white on it to my wedding?

↑ 3.2K 💬 1K image 2026

AITJ Am I the jerk for not wanting to spend the night after I felt he was mean?

↑ 2.8K 💬 2.1K gallery 2026

AITJ for refusing to switch seats with a pregnant woman on an 11-hour flight?

↑ 2.3K 💬 1.5K question 2026

AITJ for changing my garage code after my brother started using my freezer without asking?

↑ 2.3K 💬 178 question 2026

Am I the jerk for dumping my cousin’s clothes at her parents house after she started sending strangers to my address?

↑ 2.2K 💬 170 question 2026

AITJ for keeping something I was giving away after finding out my friend had already listed it for sale?

↑ 2.1K 💬 129 question 2026

Am I the jerk for making my cousin pay for a jacket after he had it altered without asking me?

↑ 2.1K 💬 273 question 2026

Am I the jerk for telling my friend’s girlfriend that I never agreed to cover his half of their rent?

↑ 2K 💬 180 question 2026

Communities its size

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

r/AmITheJerk, in numbers

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

How many members does r/AmITheJerk have?
r/AmITheJerk has about 257.2K members. ViralHunt has tracked 305 of its posts; the biggest reached 5.8K upvotes, which is 23 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/AmITheJerk?
"UPDATE: AITJ for having my neighbor's car towed after repeatedly asking them not to block my driveway?" reached 5.8K upvotes and 321 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/AmITheJerk.
What subreddits are similar to r/AmITheJerk?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/Trumpvirus, r/alaska, r/Louisiana, r/popculture, r/Antimoneymemes, r/BlueskySkeets.
What kind of posts do best on r/AmITheJerk?
Of the posts we hold, 55% are question posts and 24% are video posts.
When is the best time to post on r/AmITheJerk?
Across 305 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Sunday at 02:00 UTC (1.4K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 00:00 UTC (1.4K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 01:00 UTC (1.2K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Monday. 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/AmITheJerk?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/AmITheJerk has 978 upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 249 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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