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r/FoundPaperNSFW

Found Pieces of Paper. Photographs of found pieces of paper with writing on them, photographs or discarded cutouts. Appreciate the forgotten artifacts of everyday life. Share any paper that you found (on the ground, stuck in some bushes or between cans of soup at the store for example) and you do not know who wrote it. Love letters, doodles, interesting to-do or grocery lists, notes from the past - share your discovery with us! Founded 2014 · 519.5K members

520.9K members. The best post we have captured here reached 70.7K upvotes, which works out to 136 per 1,000 members.

136peak upvotes per 1,000 members
520.9Kmembers
70.7Kbest post
3.9Kmost comments
407posts 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.

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Image 69% Gallery 30%

The topics it labels

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

Weird/Random 144 Other 94 Grocery Lists 44 Love Notes 38 Art 23 Antique 23 Book Inscriptions 22 NSFW 14 Old Newspaper 3

What the ceiling looks like

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

Child’s notebook at thrift store

↑ 70.7K 💬 562 image 2025

Is 54 years soon enough? (Found at a friend's house, taped to the inside of a heating duct grill)

↑ 68.2K 💬 464 image 2025

Found at O'Hare Airport

↑ 61.3K 💬 544 image 2025

136 year old note found on a shingle when my parents renovated their house

↑ 47.3K 💬 821 image 2024

I found this in a children’s book at Goodwill :(

↑ 33.5K 💬 700 image 2025

A kid left this in the seat pocket on my flight

↑ 30.8K 💬 362 image 2026

Found in neighbor’s yard

↑ 30.1K 💬 152 image 2025

Racist 1938 Hallmark Card that was hidden in my goodwill purchase

↑ 26.9K 💬 3.9K gallery 2025

Today everyone is named Javier!

↑ 26.2K 💬 262 image 2026

Found in a thrifted notebook

↑ 22.4K 💬 1.3K gallery 2026

Communities its size

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

r/FoundPaper, in numbers

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

What is r/FoundPaper?
r/FoundPaper ("Found Pieces of Paper") describes itself this way: Photographs of found pieces of paper with writing on them, photographs or discarded cutouts. Appreciate the forgotten artifacts of everyday life. Share any paper that you found (on the ground, stuck in some bushes or between cans of soup at the store for example) and you do not know who wrote it. Love letters, doodles, interesting to-do or grocery lists, notes from the past - share your discovery with us. It was founded in 2014 and has 519.5K members.
How many members does r/FoundPaper have?
r/FoundPaper has about 520.9K members. ViralHunt has tracked 407 of its posts; the biggest reached 70.7K upvotes, which is 136 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/FoundPaper?
"Child’s notebook at thrift store" reached 70.7K upvotes and 562 comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/FoundPaper.
What subreddits are similar to r/FoundPaper?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/alaska, r/popculture, r/ProgressiveHQ, r/Snorkblot, r/Yosemite, r/DailyShow.
What kind of posts do best on r/FoundPaper?
Of the posts we hold, 69% are image posts and 30% are gallery posts.
When is the best time to post on r/FoundPaper?
Across 407 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Thursday at 18:00 UTC (21.3K avg upvotes), Thursday at 22:00 UTC (20.7K avg upvotes), Monday at 17:00 UTC (20.5K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Wednesday. 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/FoundPaper?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/FoundPaper has 16.9K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 5 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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