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r/aww

A subreddit for cute and cuddly pictures. Things that make you go AWW! -- like puppies, bunnies, babies, and so on... Feel free to post original pictures and videos of cute things. Founded 2008 · 37.9M members · links only

37.9M members. The best post we have captured here reached 343.2K upvotes, which works out to 9 per 1,000 members.

9peak upvotes per 1,000 members
37.9Mmembers
343.2Kbest post
7.4Kmost comments
5.4Kposts 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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Image 58% Gallery 21% Video 20%

The topics it labels

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

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What the ceiling looks like

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

Heat index was 110 degrees so we offered him a cold drink. He went for a full body soak instead

↑ 343.2K 💬 4.4K video 2018

Man stops to rescue kitten, gets ambushed by platoon

↑ 334.1K 💬 7.4K video 2022

Meet the newest member of the family, Dutch!

↑ 290.8K 💬 3.6K image 2020

Ever since my niece saw Toy Story, she shouts “I’m leaving!” and then peeks at her room like this

↑ 281.8K 💬 2.3K image 2019

Bunnies flop over when they feel completely safe

↑ 248.1K 💬 1.8K video 2020

My deaf puppy doesn’t notice whenever I come home, so I get to wake her up gently and see her innocent excitement.

↑ 230.8K 💬 2.7K video 2021

The dog is supposed to run up in front of her and sit.

↑ 221.7K 💬 2.8K video 2019

Update on the 13 kittens that ambushed this man. They’re getting their first bath this morning.

↑ 218K 💬 3.5K video 2022

While showing my 3 year old my Game Boy, I discovered a picture of my best friend from 1999.

↑ 204K 💬 1.4K image 2020

His favorite spot when traveling.

↑ 202.5K 💬 1.9K video 2019

Communities its size

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

r/aww, in numbers

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

What is r/aww?
r/aww ("A subreddit for cute and cuddly pictures") describes itself this way: Things that make you go AWW! -- like puppies, bunnies, babies, and so on... Feel free to post original pictures and videos of cute things. It was founded in 2008 and has 37.9M members.
How many members does r/aww have?
r/aww has about 37.9M members. ViralHunt has tracked 5.4K of its posts; the biggest reached 343.2K upvotes, which is 9 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/aww?
"Heat index was 110 degrees so we offered him a cold drink. He went for a full body soak instead" reached 343.2K upvotes and 4.4K comments in 2018, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/aww.
What subreddits are similar to r/aww?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/nextfuckinglevel, r/oddlysatisfying, r/MadeMeSmile, r/BeAmazed, r/wallstreetbets, r/europe.
What kind of posts do best on r/aww?
Of the posts we hold, 58% are image posts and 21% are gallery posts.
When is the best time to post on r/aww?
Across 5.4K timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Thursday at 01:00 UTC (39.8K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 23:00 UTC (37.6K avg upvotes), Thursday at 08:00 UTC (36.8K 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/aww?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/aww has 185.3K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 670 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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