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Anime huh. Relatable screenshots from anime and manga. Post who you are behind the keyboard. All posts must be titled anime_irl. Founded 2015 · 5.8M members · links only

5.8M members. The best post we have captured here reached 68.2K upvotes, which works out to 12 per 1,000 members.

12peak upvotes per 1,000 members
5.8Mmembers
68.2Kbest post
1.5Kmost comments
1.1Kposts 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% 24%
Image 69% Gallery 24% Video 7%

What the ceiling looks like

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

anime_irl

↑ 68.2K 💬 540 image 2022

anime_irl

↑ 52.5K 💬 365 image 2022

anime_irl

↑ 49.7K 💬 235 image 2021

anime_irl

↑ 47.8K 💬 174 image 2020

Anime_irl

↑ 44.4K 💬 261 image 2025

anime_irl

↑ 43.8K 💬 293 gallery 2025

anime_irl

↑ 42.6K 💬 429 image 2025

anime_irl

↑ 41.9K 💬 422 video 2021

anime_irl

↑ 41.9K 💬 295 image 2020

anime_irl

↑ 40.7K 💬 414 image 2022

Communities its size

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

r/anime_irl, in numbers

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

What is r/anime_irl?
r/anime_irl ("Anime huh") describes itself this way: Relatable screenshots from anime and manga. Post who you are behind the keyboard. All posts must be titled anime_irl. It was founded in 2015 and has 5.8M members.
How many members does r/anime_irl have?
r/anime_irl has about 5.8M members. ViralHunt has tracked 1.1K of its posts; the biggest reached 68.2K upvotes, which is 12 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/anime_irl?
"anime_irl" reached 68.2K upvotes and 540 comments in 2022, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/anime_irl.
What subreddits are similar to r/anime_irl?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/interesting, r/JustGuysBeingDudes, r/antiwork, r/urbanexploration, r/youseeingthisshit, r/AccidentalRenaissance.
What kind of posts do best on r/anime_irl?
Of the posts we hold, 69% are image posts and 24% are gallery posts.
When is the best time to post on r/anime_irl?
Across 1.1K timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Friday at 19:00 UTC (29.1K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 23:00 UTC (25.8K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 23:00 UTC (22.8K 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/anime_irl?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/anime_irl has 37.9K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 370 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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