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r/cottagecore

your grandma, but like, hip.. Cottagecore is an aesthetic depicting a simple, romanticized life in nature. It features pastoral themes, sustainability, handmade creations, and more. Founded 2018 · 285K members

285.9K members. The best post we have captured here reached 31K upvotes, which works out to 108 per 1,000 members.

108peak upvotes per 1,000 members
285.9Kmembers
31Kbest post
773most comments
402posts 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.

51% 37%
Gallery 51% Image 37% Video 6% Text 3% Question 2%

The topics it labels

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

Art 80 Fashion 74 Home Decor 41 Nature Pic 40 Food 33 Thrift Finds 16 Question 11 General Discussion 7

What the ceiling looks like

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

This year's Fairy Fence is in full bloom now

↑ 31K 💬 166 image 2026

Sharing our fairytale cottage with you!

↑ 29K 💬 773 gallery 2025

16th-century beesuit I sewed for the opening of a new apiary at Oxford University

↑ 20.6K 💬 214 gallery 2026

My grandpa took these photos of me, he understood the assignment

↑ 18.6K 💬 401 gallery 2024

My house was built in the 40s. All of the knobs on the kitchen cabinets have herbs or flowers in them

↑ 17.2K 💬 111 gallery 2024

vintage enamel table i got today at a secondhand store

↑ 16.9K 💬 272 gallery 2024

Life vs. Expectations

↑ 16.7K 💬 96 image 2025

Thought you guys would appreciate my wedding outfit. 👰🏻‍♀️💒

↑ 15.6K 💬 704 gallery 2026

My sister and cousins threw me a fairy themed party for my 30th

↑ 15.5K 💬 99 image 2024

My Renfaire outfit this year! 🕊️✨

↑ 13.7K 💬 343 gallery 2026

Communities its size

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

r/cottagecore, in numbers

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

What is r/cottagecore?
r/cottagecore ("your grandma, but like, hip.") describes itself this way: Cottagecore is an aesthetic depicting a simple, romanticized life in nature. It features pastoral themes, sustainability, handmade creations, and more. It was founded in 2018 and has 285K members.
How many members does r/cottagecore have?
r/cottagecore has about 285.9K members. ViralHunt has tracked 402 of its posts; the biggest reached 31K upvotes, which is 108 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/cottagecore?
"This year's Fairy Fence is in full bloom now" reached 31K upvotes and 166 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/cottagecore.
What subreddits are similar to r/cottagecore?
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/cottagecore?
Of the posts we hold, 51% are gallery posts and 37% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/cottagecore?
Across 402 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Monday at 00:00 UTC (9.7K avg upvotes), Thursday at 17:00 UTC (7.6K avg upvotes), Sunday at 14:00 UTC (7.1K 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/cottagecore?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/cottagecore has 9.7K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 8 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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