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r/Cartoons. For fans of cartoons! We welcome all forms of professionally animated television shows and movies. Amateur shows, cartoon strips, live action, and self promotion should not be posted here. Please read over our rules before submitting. Welcome! Founded 2009 · 403.3K members

406.8K members. The best post we have captured here reached 67.5K upvotes, which works out to 166 per 1,000 members.

166peak upvotes per 1,000 members
406.8Kmembers
67.5Kbest post
6.1Kmost 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.

49% 22% 13%
Image 49% Gallery 22% Video 13% Text 7% Question 7% Link 1% Poll 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.

Discussion 654 Fanart 121 Meme 105 Video 90 News 51 Recommendation 23 Review 13 Game 11 Memes 4 Original Content 3

What the ceiling looks like

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

The first openly gay character in a childrens animated film (ParaNorman)

↑ 67.5K 💬 681 image 2025

Shows that drastically changed in art style over the years

↑ 41K 💬 1.2K gallery 2025

Jonathan Ross (VA for John Redcorn) was murdered in a homophobic hate crime

↑ 40.4K 💬 176 gallery 2025

Thoughts ?

↑ 40.2K 💬 1.3K image 2024

Who at Disney looked at these redesigns and went “Yeah, this is an improvement”?

↑ 39.7K 💬 655 image 2025

Eeyore does look disappointed, honestly.

↑ 38.1K 💬 210 image 2026

Name the downgrade

↑ 34.3K 💬 2.6K image 2026

Which henchman duo is this?

↑ 32.9K 💬 1K image 2024

Truth.

↑ 30.6K 💬 200 image 2025

This is extremely rosetinted but cartoons really have changed lately

↑ 29K 💬 697 image 2025

Communities its size

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

r/cartoons, in numbers

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

What is r/cartoons?
r/cartoons ("r/Cartoons") describes itself this way: For fans of cartoons! We welcome all forms of professionally animated television shows and movies. Amateur shows, cartoon strips, live action, and self promotion should not be posted here. Please read over our rules before submitting. Welcome. It was founded in 2009 and has 403.3K members.
How many members does r/cartoons have?
r/cartoons has about 406.8K members. ViralHunt has tracked 1.1K of its posts; the biggest reached 67.5K upvotes, which is 166 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/cartoons?
"The first openly gay character in a childrens animated film (ParaNorman)" reached 67.5K upvotes and 681 comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/cartoons.
What subreddits are similar to r/cartoons?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/Trumpvirus, r/alaska, r/Louisiana, r/popculture, r/Antimoneymemes, r/BlueskySkeets.
What kind of posts do best on r/cartoons?
Of the posts we hold, 49% are image posts and 22% are gallery posts.
When is the best time to post on r/cartoons?
Across 1.1K timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Tuesday at 21:00 UTC (10.6K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 22:00 UTC (9.6K avg upvotes), Thursday at 10:00 UTC (9.1K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Sunday. 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/cartoons?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/cartoons has 23.2K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 311 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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