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r/CreepyArt - Appreciating art that is beautiful and creepy. CreepyArt is for the appreciation of paintings, sculptures, or photographs that give you that creepy feeling. Is there a photo of an old abandoned house that gives you the chills or a painting that you can’t stop looking at and you don’t know why? Then maybe it belongs in r/CreepyArt. Founded 2014 · 138.5K members

138.9K members. The best post we have captured here reached 11.3K upvotes, which works out to 81 per 1,000 members.

81peak upvotes per 1,000 members
138.9Kmembers
11.3Kbest post
1.2Kmost 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.

61% 27%
Image 61% Gallery 27% Link 5% Video 5% Text 1%

The topics it labels

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

Modern Art 262 Classic Art 88 Sculpture 36 Photograph 17

What the ceiling looks like

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

my drawings during the divorce

↑ 11.3K 💬 141 image 2025

Everyone posing with my millipede ex-boyfriend (himself included)

↑ 8K 💬 212 gallery 2025

Layers of fear

↑ 7.7K 💬 76 image 2025

"I don't recognize my wife anymore" by me, 2024 [OC]

↑ 7.1K 💬 139 image 2025

A real mask I made with my own hands.

↑ 6.6K 💬 113 image 2026

My first attempts at Trevor Henderson´s style

↑ 6.6K 💬 222 gallery 2025

My 12 Year Old Daughter Loves To Make Creepy Art

↑ 6.5K 💬 144 gallery 2026

The Watcher, by The Phantom Painter

↑ 5.7K 💬 39 image 2024

Formless Dancer. By me (Ljósfælni), 2021

↑ 5.1K 💬 172 video 2021

I created a mask that doesn't have a name. The texture is made with a 3d pen.

↑ 4.8K 💬 113 image 2025

Communities its size

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

r/CreepyArt, in numbers

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

What is r/CreepyArt?
r/CreepyArt ("r/CreepyArt - Appreciating art that is beautiful and creepy") describes itself this way: CreepyArt is for the appreciation of paintings, sculptures, or photographs that give you that creepy feeling. Is there a photo of an old abandoned house that gives you the chills or a painting that you can’t stop looking at and you don’t know why? Then maybe it belongs in r/CreepyArt. It was founded in 2014 and has 138.5K members.
How many members does r/CreepyArt have?
r/CreepyArt has about 138.9K members. ViralHunt has tracked 403 of its posts; the biggest reached 11.3K upvotes, which is 81 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/CreepyArt?
"my drawings during the divorce" reached 11.3K upvotes and 141 comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/CreepyArt.
What subreddits are similar to r/CreepyArt?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/Leakednews, r/stevehofstetter, r/topofreddit, r/PopCultureV2, r/SpaceXBets, r/interestingnewsworld.
What kind of posts do best on r/CreepyArt?
Of the posts we hold, 61% are image posts and 27% are gallery posts.
When is the best time to post on r/CreepyArt?
Across 403 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Saturday at 20:00 UTC (3K avg upvotes), Friday at 00:00 UTC (2.8K avg upvotes), Thursday at 15:00 UTC (2.2K 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/CreepyArt?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/CreepyArt has 3.9K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 63 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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