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r/cosplay

/r/cosplay: is for cosplayers or their photographers to post their work.. /r/cosplay: is a community where Cosplayers of all ages, and talent levels can post their work. Read the community rules in full here: https://www.reddit.com/r/cosplay/wiki/rules/ before posting. No NSFW content (our definition, not yours), no advertising, or pay sites of any kind. Violation of the rules typically result in being banned. Founded 2008 · 2.5M members · links only

2.5M members. The best post we have captured here reached 22.3K upvotes, which works out to 9 per 1,000 members.

9peak upvotes per 1,000 members
2.5Mmembers
22.3Kbest post
831most comments
407posts 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.

63% 31%
Gallery 63% Image 31% Video 6%

The topics it labels

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

Self 370 Photographer 24

What the ceiling looks like

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

[Self] 2 sides of Violet from Incredibles

↑ 22.3K 💬 296 image 2020

[Self] [Spiderman]My friends and I traveled to the real life location to film a certain Marvel scene. Enjoy...

↑ 18.1K 💬 263 video 2019

Attempt at Mirage from The Incredibles

↑ 16.5K 💬 236 image 2025

My Dimitrescu cosplay

↑ 13K 💬 282 gallery 2025

Finally met Simon Pegg while wearing my Shaun of the Dead cosplay

↑ 12.5K 💬 153 image 2026

[self] My Bokoblin Cosplay (100% made by me, no 3D printing)

↑ 11.8K 💬 191 image 2019

My DOCTOR DOOM cosplay is finally finished ! So, Victoria or Valeria ?

↑ 11.6K 💬 277 video 2024

My Mrs. Incredible Cosplay

↑ 10.8K 💬 284 gallery 2024

[self] Everyone starts small!

↑ 10.6K 💬 113 image 2021

My Lurtz Cosplay from Lord of the Rings (All handmade by me!)

↑ 10.4K 💬 462 gallery 2025

Communities its size

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

r/cosplay, in numbers

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

What is r/cosplay?
r/cosplay ("/r/cosplay: is for cosplayers or their photographers to post their work.") describes itself this way: /r/cosplay: is a community where Cosplayers of all ages, and talent levels can post their work. Read the community rules in full here: https://www.reddit.com/r/cosplay/wiki/rules/ before posting. No NSFW content (our definition, not yours), no advertising, or pay sites of any kind. Violation of the rules typically result in being banned. It was founded in 2008 and has 2.5M members.
How many members does r/cosplay have?
r/cosplay has about 2.5M members. ViralHunt has tracked 407 of its posts; the biggest reached 22.3K upvotes, which is 9 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/cosplay?
"[Self] 2 sides of Violet from Incredibles" reached 22.3K upvotes and 296 comments in 2020, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/cosplay.
What subreddits are similar to r/cosplay?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/PcBuild, r/ukraine, r/GlowUps, r/LosAngeles, r/Scotland, r/AmongUs.
What kind of posts do best on r/cosplay?
Of the posts we hold, 63% are gallery posts and 31% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/cosplay?
Across 407 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Sunday at 13:00 UTC (8K avg upvotes), Thursday at 18:00 UTC (5.9K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 16:00 UTC (5.7K 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/cosplay?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/cosplay has 8.9K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 23 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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