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Break-Ups. "Pain makes you stronger, fear makes you braver, heartbreak makes you wiser" - A global peer-support community for navigating relationship loss. Founded 2009 · 585.3K members

586.8K members. The best post we have captured here reached 15.5K upvotes, which works out to 26 per 1,000 members.

26peak upvotes per 1,000 members
586.8Kmembers
15.5Kbest post
842most comments
417posts 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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Text 77% Question 20% Image 2% Gallery 1%

The topics it labels

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venting/ranting 310 Trigger Warning 13

What the ceiling looks like

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

A reason why they're able to move on so quickly

↑ 15.5K 💬 674 text 2018

30 things I learned from my last relationship

↑ 9.2K 💬 418 text 2020

"You probably don't want back the relationship you actually had. What you mourn for is the relationship you thought you could've had if things had be…

↑ 7.1K 💬 181 text 2019

It happened. He reached out.

↑ 6.8K 💬 272 text 2020

You are going to be okay

↑ 6.6K 💬 176 text 2024

How many of you and me are in a breakup atm?

↑ 6.1K 💬 307 question 2020

What I learned from my worst breakup

↑ 5.9K 💬 402 text 2022

It doesn't hurt because you lost him, it hurts because you lost the fantasy you created with him. But always remember that fantasy can be created wit…

↑ 5.2K 💬 135 text 2019

Just got some of the best wisdom of my life

↑ 4.9K 💬 97 text 2018

Love this quote: “Why should I be sad? I have lost someone who didn’t love me. But they lost someone who loved them.”

↑ 4.7K 💬 59 question 2019

Communities its size

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r/BreakUps, in numbers

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What is r/BreakUps?
r/BreakUps ("Break-Ups") describes itself this way: "Pain makes you stronger, fear makes you braver, heartbreak makes you wiser" - A global peer-support community for navigating relationship loss. It was founded in 2009 and has 585.3K members.
How many members does r/BreakUps have?
r/BreakUps has about 586.8K members. ViralHunt has tracked 417 of its posts; the biggest reached 15.5K upvotes, which is 26 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/BreakUps?
"A reason why they're able to move on so quickly" reached 15.5K upvotes and 674 comments in 2018, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/BreakUps.
What subreddits are similar to r/BreakUps?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/popculture, r/ProgressiveHQ, r/Snorkblot, r/Yosemite, r/DailyShow, r/asheville.
What kind of posts do best on r/BreakUps?
Of the posts we hold, 77% are text posts and 20% are question posts.
When is the best time to post on r/BreakUps?
Across 417 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Friday at 00:00 UTC (4K avg upvotes), Thursday at 21:00 UTC (3.4K avg upvotes), Sunday at 18:00 UTC (1.9K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Tuesday. 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/BreakUps?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/BreakUps has 3.1K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 303 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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