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r/darkpatterns

15.3K members. The best post we have captured here reached 539 upvotes, which works out to 35 per 1,000 members.

35peak upvotes per 1,000 members
15.3Kmembers
539best post
106most comments
181posts 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% 23% 9%
Image 51% Text 23% Link 9% Gallery 6% Question 6% Video 5%

What the ceiling looks like

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

New Instagram "feature"

↑ 539 πŸ’¬ 4 image 2020

Google are now loading ads a few seconds after the search results have loaded, making you accidentally click them

↑ 503 πŸ’¬ 14 image 2020

Virgin Media sign up: check the "Keeping in touch" checkbox to not keep in touch

↑ 483 πŸ’¬ 3 image 2018

Dominos Pizza: please enable to disable πŸ™ƒ

↑ 435 πŸ’¬ 2 image 2021

When turning off data collection on Xiaomi phones, you need to turn off every single system app and in between you need to wait 10 seconds.

↑ 404 πŸ’¬ 17 video 2021

Reddit is engaged in malware-like link injection in a desperate attempt to get people to misclick and view more ads

↑ 334 πŸ’¬ 20 image 2025

Hmmm

↑ 327 πŸ’¬ 1 image 2021

I made a mini-game about annoying pop-ups based on dark patterns I found in this subreddit

↑ 286 πŸ’¬ 39 text 2021

Neat Guide.

↑ 285 πŸ’¬ 4 image 2022

When you cancel subscriptions or trials, they keep working until the end of the term. Except apple doesn’t apply that rule to themselves.

↑ 269 πŸ’¬ 14 image 2022

Communities its size

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

See what is climbing here before you write

ViralHunt tracks Reddit and eight other networks, records how every post grows, and puts what is taking off in front of your team in one list.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/darkpatterns, 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 We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong.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.