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A community for disabled/ chronically ill artists and all types of art Founded 2023 · 100K members

100.7K members. The best post we have captured here reached 18.5K upvotes, which works out to 183 per 1,000 members.

183peak upvotes per 1,000 members
100.7Kmembers
18.5Kbest post
551most comments
113posts 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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Gallery 51% Image 46% Video 2% Link 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.

Art 26 mental illness 14 Mental Health 11 physical health 4 Discussion 3 Trauma 2 chronic illness 1 Disability 1

What the ceiling looks like

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

Been a bit art blocked, but politics is making me mad enough to create

↑ 18.5K 💬 95 image 2025

mental hospital inspired clothing I made

↑ 18.4K 💬 351 gallery 2025

Fuck Anthem. Fuck them all.

↑ 16.2K 💬 87 image 2024

Inspired by a church I tried going to

↑ 14.8K 💬 137 image 2026

I’ve gained a lot of weight due to chronic illness, and I’m learning to accept that through art - representation matters, even if I have to make it m…

↑ 13.3K 💬 541 gallery 2025

First Halloween in a wheelchair, and I took full advantage

↑ 12K 💬 202 video 2023

Him and her

↑ 11.6K 💬 197 gallery 2026

Why didn't you say so?

↑ 10.8K 💬 206 gallery 2026

In hurting myself, I was snuffing out the last bit of good in me.

↑ 9.9K 💬 165 image 2025

I have severe ADHD and have so much trouble finishing my art. This was an unfinished painting I found on the sidewalk that I decided to finish myself…

↑ 9.9K 💬 287 gallery 2024

Communities its size

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

r/Artisticallyill, in numbers

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

What is r/Artisticallyill?
r/Artisticallyill describes itself this way: A community for disabled/ chronically ill artists and all types of art. It was founded in 2023 and has 100K members.
How many members does r/Artisticallyill have?
r/Artisticallyill has about 100.7K members. ViralHunt has tracked 113 of its posts; the biggest reached 18.5K upvotes, which is 183 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/Artisticallyill?
"Been a bit art blocked, but politics is making me mad enough to create" reached 18.5K upvotes and 95 comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/Artisticallyill.
What subreddits are similar to r/Artisticallyill?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/greenland, r/Leakednews, r/LetsDiscussThis, r/stevehofstetter, r/StrikeAtPsyche, r/InvictaSolaris.
What kind of posts do best on r/Artisticallyill?
Of the posts we hold, 51% are gallery posts and 46% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/Artisticallyill?
Across 113 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Wednesday at 23:00 UTC (8.4K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 22:00 UTC (6.3K avg upvotes), Friday at 14:00 UTC (5.9K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Thursday. 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/Artisticallyill?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/Artisticallyill has 7.2K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 5 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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