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Admit your wrongdoings.. /r/Confession is a place to admit your wrongdoings, acknowledge your guilt, and alleviate your conscience. Founded 2008 · 12M members · text posts only

12M members. The best post we have captured here reached 27.3K upvotes, which works out to 2 per 1,000 members.

2peak upvotes per 1,000 members
12Mmembers
27.3Kbest post
1.9Kmost comments
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.

91%
Text 91% Link 6% Question 3%

What the ceiling looks like

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

My identical twin sister and me work as the same barista

↑ 27.3K 💬 1.9K text 2026

A lady keeps putting my email down for things so i cancelled her appointment

↑ 25.6K 💬 1.9K text 2026

I successfully lived in a storage unit for a year until I got back on my feet.

↑ 25K 💬 1K text 2026

I didn’t correct a rude McDonald’s employees mistake

↑ 21.6K 💬 538 text 2026

I’ve been letting my coworker take credit for fixing a recurring system bug because explaining how I actually fixed it would expose how much time I s…

↑ 14K 💬 370 text 2026

I accidentally contributed to my friends death by changing his plans

↑ 8.9K 💬 504 text 2026

I was a retail manager. I helped a shoplifter at my new store.

↑ 8.8K 💬 366 text 2026

I ignored a typo on my mortgage documents to get to closing

↑ 8K 💬 755 text 2026

Vending machine at work has been giving me 2 drinks for the price of 1 since 2023, and i've never told anyone

↑ 7.7K 💬 856 text 2026

I bullied my friends r4pist so hard that he attempted suicide multiple times

↑ 7.6K 💬 905 text 2026

Communities its size

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

r/confession, in numbers

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

What is r/confession?
r/confession ("Admit your wrongdoings.") describes itself this way: /r/Confession is a place to admit your wrongdoings, acknowledge your guilt, and alleviate your conscience. It was founded in 2008 and has 12M members.
How many members does r/confession have?
r/confession has about 12M members. ViralHunt has tracked 1K of its posts; the biggest reached 27.3K upvotes, which is 2 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/confession?
"My identical twin sister and me work as the same barista" reached 27.3K upvotes and 1.9K comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/confession.
What subreddits are similar to r/confession?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/antiwork, r/PrequelMemes, r/MurderedByWords, r/meirl, r/hacking, r/PublicFreakout.
What kind of posts do best on r/confession?
Of the posts we hold, 91% are text posts and 6% are link posts.
When is the best time to post on r/confession?
Across 1K timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Sunday at 02:00 UTC (8.5K avg upvotes), Monday at 20:00 UTC (5.6K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 17:00 UTC (3.1K 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/confession?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/confession has 3.5K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 554 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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