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r/facepalmNSFW

now double verified. Facepalm๐Ÿคฆ๐Ÿปโ€โ™‚๏ธ for silly, cringey, and embarrassing moments. Do not post memes, breaking news, or Reddit screenshots. Founded 2009 ยท 8.1M members ยท links only

8.1M members. The best post we have captured here reached 197.1K upvotes, which works out to 24 per 1,000 members.

24peak upvotes per 1,000 members
8.1Mmembers
197.1Kbest post
12.8Kmost comments
448posts 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.

44% 27% 26%
Image 44% Link 27% Video 26% Gallery 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.

:Misc: ๐Ÿ‡ฒโ€‹๐Ÿ‡ฎโ€‹๐Ÿ‡ธโ€‹๐Ÿ‡จโ€‹ 44 Politics 14 Misc 11 :Misc: :M::I::S::C: 7 :Coronavirus::C::O::R::O::N::A: 5 :Protest:๐Ÿ‡ตโ€‹๐Ÿ‡ทโ€‹๐Ÿ‡ดโ€‹๐Ÿ‡นโ€‹๐Ÿ‡ชโ€‹๐Ÿ‡ธโ€‹๐Ÿ‡นโ€‹ 4 Coronavirus 4 :Coronavirus:๐Ÿ‡จโ€‹๐Ÿ‡ดโ€‹๐Ÿ‡ปโ€‹๐Ÿ‡ฎโ€‹๐Ÿ‡ฉโ€‹ 3 :Protest::P::R::O::T::E::S::T: 2 Protests 2

What the ceiling looks like

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

Cops pepper sprayed their own Senator without realizing he's an authority figure

โ†‘ 197.1K ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5.6K image 2020

german riot police defeated and humiliated by some kind of mud wizard

โ†‘ 189.2K ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6.7K video 2023

Amber Heard's lawyer objecting to his own question

โ†‘ 170.8K ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5.6K video 2022

Math is a Myth.

โ†‘ 160.9K ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1.7K image 2022

The state of the world.

โ†‘ 157K ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3.5K image 2021

Scientific name = poison

โ†‘ 156.6K ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3K image 2020

the USPS is not a business

โ†‘ 154.9K ๐Ÿ’ฌ 419 image 2020

YouTuber is facing 20 years in prison after deliberately crashing a plane for views.

โ†‘ 154.6K ๐Ÿ’ฌ 9.8K video 2023

โ€œIf masks were necessary we would have evolved one by nowโ€ lmao

โ†‘ 149.5K ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2.2K image 2020

Shouldnโ€™t happen in a developed country

โ†‘ 148.5K ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7.3K image 2020

Communities its size

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

r/facepalm, in numbers

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

What is r/facepalm?
r/facepalm ("now double verified") describes itself this way: Facepalm๐Ÿคฆ๐Ÿปโ€โ™‚๏ธ for silly, cringey, and embarrassing moments. Do not post memes, breaking news, or Reddit screenshots. It was founded in 2009 and has 8.1M members.
How many members does r/facepalm have?
r/facepalm has about 8.1M members. ViralHunt has tracked 448 of its posts; the biggest reached 197.1K upvotes, which is 24 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/facepalm?
"Cops pepper sprayed their own Senator without realizing he's an authority figure" reached 197.1K upvotes and 5.6K comments in 2020, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/facepalm.
What subreddits are similar to r/facepalm?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/interesting, r/antiwork, r/urbanexploration, r/youseeingthisshit, r/law, r/perfectlycutscreams.
What kind of posts do best on r/facepalm?
Of the posts we hold, 44% are image posts and 27% are link posts.
When is the best time to post on r/facepalm?
Across 448 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Wednesday at 13:00 UTC (123.4K avg upvotes), Sunday at 09:00 UTC (120.2K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 12:00 UTC (96K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Friday. 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/facepalm?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/facepalm has 137.7K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 27 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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