If you celebrate ignorance our policy is we hate you! Posts are a mix of feigned intelligentsia, blatant dumb-assery, geek things, and more. The road to adequacy leads through the dark forest of your own inadequacy. For those of you wondering what this sub is about, if you need it explained you won't understand, if you understand you wont need it explained. Vague and mostly harmless. Founded 2020 · 75.4K members
76.2K members. The best post we have captured here reached
47.5K upvotes, which works out to
623 per 1,000 members.
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.
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Image 80%Video 13%Link 8%
The topics it labels
Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.
Delusions Of Adequacy 48Just writing things 36A smartass is as a smartass does 36No gain, all pain... 35This is why I have trust issues 31Stop being so stupid! 28Adequacy 28BooksAreNice 25The Geek is strong in this one 24AllWholesomeAndShit 20
What the ceiling looks like
The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.
Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.
What is r/DelusionsOfAdequacy?
r/DelusionsOfAdequacy describes itself this way: If you celebrate ignorance our policy is we hate you! Posts are a mix of feigned intelligentsia, blatant dumb-assery, geek things, and more. The road to adequacy leads through the dark forest of your own inadequacy. For those of you wondering what this sub is about, if you need it explained you won't understand, if you understand you wont need it explained. Vague and mostly harmless. It was founded in 2020 and has 75.4K members.
How many members does r/DelusionsOfAdequacy have?
r/DelusionsOfAdequacy has about 76.2K members. ViralHunt has tracked 392 of its posts; the biggest reached 47.5K upvotes, which is 623 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/DelusionsOfAdequacy?
"Never Forget!" reached 47.5K upvotes and 111 comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/DelusionsOfAdequacy.
What subreddits are similar to r/DelusionsOfAdequacy?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/greenland, r/Leakednews, r/LetsDiscussThis, r/stevehofstetter, r/StrikeAtPsyche, r/InvictaSolaris.
What kind of posts do best on r/DelusionsOfAdequacy?
Of the posts we hold, 80% are image posts and 13% are video posts.
When is the best time to post on r/DelusionsOfAdequacy?
Across 392 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Monday at 07:00 UTC (13.9K avg upvotes), Monday at 10:00 UTC (13.2K avg upvotes), Monday at 08:00 UTC (11.5K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Thursday. 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/DelusionsOfAdequacy?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/DelusionsOfAdequacy has 20K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 40 posts from it in the last 30 days.
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.
Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/DelusionsOfAdequacy, 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.