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When Assholes Design Things. Founded 2014 · 3.1M members

3.1M members. The best post we have captured here reached 164.8K upvotes, which works out to 53 per 1,000 members.

53peak upvotes per 1,000 members
3.1Mmembers
164.8Kbest post
7.8Kmost comments
398posts 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% 11% 9% 8%
Image 69% Gallery 11% Video 9% Link 8% Text 3% Question 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.

Meta 17 Bait and Switch 8 Not Asshole Design 7 Satire 7 See Comments 6 Resource 4 Overdone 3 Possibly Hanlon's Razor 2 Lethal Enforcers 2 Bad Unsubscribe Function 2

What the ceiling looks like

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

Youtuber gets every single video on his channel copyright claimed despite having the rights to all the music in his videos

↑ 164.8K 💬 3.6K image 2019

Plastic is the new paper!

↑ 134.3K 💬 1.7K image 2021

The Stranger Things S1 Blu Ray has an unskippable ad for S2 that contains S1 spoilers. And the ad is over 5 minutes long.

↑ 129.4K 💬 3.8K video 2019

We have each other

↑ 124K 💬 2.9K video 2020

Taxes

↑ 123.6K 💬 2.4K image 2019

I love ads on my £250 console that I continue to pay £6 a month to play on

↑ 120.4K 💬 4.4K image 2020

Petition to change the logo of this sub

↑ 119.6K 💬 3.1K image 2019

Trashy company

↑ 115.7K 💬 1.1K image 2020

Heard we are having a rigged democracy binge

↑ 114.8K 💬 1.9K image 2020

This McDonalds menu

↑ 112.6K 💬 3.3K image 2019

Communities its size

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

r/assholedesign, in numbers

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

What is r/assholedesign?
r/assholedesign ("When Assholes Design Things") is a Reddit community. It was founded in 2014 and has 3.1M members.
How many members does r/assholedesign have?
r/assholedesign has about 3.1M members. ViralHunt has tracked 398 of its posts; the biggest reached 164.8K upvotes, which is 53 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/assholedesign?
"Youtuber gets every single video on his channel copyright claimed despite having the rights to all the music in his videos" reached 164.8K upvotes and 3.6K comments in 2019, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/assholedesign.
What subreddits are similar to r/assholedesign?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/PcBuild, r/ukraine, r/LosAngeles, r/LeopardsAteMyFace, r/okbuddycinephile, r/blackcats.
What kind of posts do best on r/assholedesign?
Of the posts we hold, 69% are image posts and 11% are gallery posts.
When is the best time to post on r/assholedesign?
Across 398 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Saturday at 14:00 UTC (82.6K avg upvotes), Friday at 14:00 UTC (65.2K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 09:00 UTC (59.8K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Wednesday. 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/assholedesign?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/assholedesign has 94.9K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 3 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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