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For those times when people are way too smug about their wrong answer Founded 2020 · 1.2M members · links only

1.2M members. The best post we have captured here reached 134.9K upvotes, which works out to 110 per 1,000 members.

110peak upvotes per 1,000 members
1.2Mmembers
134.9Kbest post
7.8Kmost comments
403posts 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.

70% 18% 12%
Image 70% Gallery 18% Video 12%

The topics it labels

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

Smug 71 Comment Thread 39 Image 34 Tik Tok 10 Celebrity 7 Embarrased 5 Humor 3 Meta 3 Game Show 1 Sports 1

What the ceiling looks like

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

Communism is when you are only allowed to buy one share of a stock

↑ 134.9K 💬 3.5K image 2021

"No nation older than 250 years"

↑ 120.3K 💬 3.9K image 2025

This takes confidently incorrect to a whole new level

↑ 113.3K 💬 7.8K video 2021

You’ve read the entire thing?

↑ 105.6K 💬 2.9K image 2021

"Thank God I'm a math major."

↑ 96.6K 💬 1.3K image 2020

Hercules doesn't know what the word boycott means

↑ 89.1K 💬 2.3K image 2021

Happy 8 month old birthday!

↑ 86.3K 💬 1.5K image 2021

The President of the United States, totally ignorant of history that took place during his own lifetime.

↑ 85.6K 💬 1.8K image 2020

$15 an hour = $100k per year

↑ 78.8K 💬 2K image 2021

Uh, no.

↑ 77.7K 💬 1.6K image 2022

Communities its size

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

r/confidentlyincorrect, in numbers

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

What is r/confidentlyincorrect?
r/confidentlyincorrect describes itself this way: For those times when people are way too smug about their wrong answer. It was founded in 2020 and has 1.2M members.
How many members does r/confidentlyincorrect have?
r/confidentlyincorrect has about 1.2M members. ViralHunt has tracked 403 of its posts; the biggest reached 134.9K upvotes, which is 110 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/confidentlyincorrect?
"Communism is when you are only allowed to buy one share of a stock" reached 134.9K upvotes and 3.5K comments in 2021, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/confidentlyincorrect.
What subreddits are similar to r/confidentlyincorrect?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/StarWarsBattlefront, r/BlackPeopleofReddit, r/illinois, r/alberta, r/massachusetts, r/TooMeIrlForMeIrl.
What kind of posts do best on r/confidentlyincorrect?
Of the posts we hold, 70% are image posts and 18% are gallery posts.
When is the best time to post on r/confidentlyincorrect?
Across 403 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Saturday at 12:00 UTC (62.7K avg upvotes), Friday at 10:00 UTC (53.7K avg upvotes), Friday at 14:00 UTC (51.1K 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/confidentlyincorrect?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/confidentlyincorrect has 63.5K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 6 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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