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Confess your secrets. Get that heavy secret off your chest. See the unfiltered confessions of strangers. Founded 2008 · 1.4M members · text posts only

1.4M members. The best post we have captured here reached 38.4K upvotes, which works out to 27 per 1,000 members.

27peak upvotes per 1,000 members
1.4Mmembers
38.4Kbest post
4.8Kmost comments
1.5Kposts 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.

93%
Text 93% Question 7%

What the ceiling looks like

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

I stood by and allowed my wife to almost kill our son. I was happy she did it.

↑ 38.4K 💬 2.5K text 2019

I am a foot and a half taller than my wife. So when I take a shower I make sure to set the shower head as high as possible. Then when she gets in she…

↑ 38.1K 💬 1.1K text 2018

Why I am Aunt Susan the Karma Farming Facebook Fiend

↑ 33.9K 💬 590 text 2018

I broke up with my boyfriend because he yelled at me.

↑ 32.1K 💬 4.5K text 2021

I made over 16 calls today trying to find mental health services in my area. More specifically a psychologist that could help. In the end I just gave…

↑ 28.2K 💬 994 text 2019

I used to pay my middle school bully not to bully me then I found out he actually needed the money

↑ 26.1K 💬 319 text 2018

Today, my next door pregnant neighbor knocked on my door.

↑ 26K 💬 744 text 2018

I bought 40000 Reddit coins

↑ 21.4K 💬 3.4K text 2019

I quit Facebook so I would stop wasting time staring at my phone. I now spend more time on Reddit then I ever have on Facebook.

↑ 20.8K 💬 567 text 2018

I secretly put money in my pants pockets so my husband will do the laundry

↑ 19.4K 💬 627 text 2019

Communities its size

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r/confessions, in numbers

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What is r/confessions?
r/confessions ("Confess your secrets") describes itself this way: Get that heavy secret off your chest. See the unfiltered confessions of strangers. It was founded in 2008 and has 1.4M members.
How many members does r/confessions have?
r/confessions has about 1.4M members. ViralHunt has tracked 1.5K of its posts; the biggest reached 38.4K upvotes, which is 27 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/confessions?
"I stood by and allowed my wife to almost kill our son. I was happy she did it." reached 38.4K upvotes and 2.5K comments in 2019, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/confessions.
What subreddits are similar to r/confessions?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/StarWarsBattlefront, r/alberta, r/massachusetts, r/goodnews, r/AnarchyChess, r/Indiana.
What kind of posts do best on r/confessions?
Of the posts we hold, 93% are text posts and 7% are question posts.
When is the best time to post on r/confessions?
Across 1.5K timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Thursday at 14:00 UTC (8K avg upvotes), Sunday at 02:00 UTC (5.9K avg upvotes), Friday at 00:00 UTC (5.9K 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/confessions?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/confessions has 15.1K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 314 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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