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r/fountainpensNSFW

This community is private, banned or no longer exists on Reddit. The numbers below are what we captured while it was public.

515K members. The best post we have captured here reached 10.2K upvotes, which works out to 20 per 1,000 members.

20peak upvotes per 1,000 members
515Kmembers
10.2Kbest post
737most 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.

43% 30% 12% 8%
Image 43% Gallery 30% Text 12% Question 8% Video 4% Link 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.

New Pen Day 83 Question 70 Discussion 31 Advice 29 Ink 28 Vintage Pen Day 20 Art 15 Currently Inked 14 Meme 13 New Ink Day 13

What the ceiling looks like

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

Found this journal in Raleigh NC. On Monday. Had a beat up fountain pen. Says he had just joined this sub Reddit.. trying to find owner... help...

↑ 10.2K 💬 737 image 2021

Mods are asleep, upvote pictures of Bic Cristals

↑ 8.2K 💬 216 image 2021

Found this hidden under my daughter’s bed should I be worried?

↑ 8.1K 💬 445 image 2025

Love fades, Lamy doesn’t 😂

↑ 7.5K 💬 218 image 2025

All the ink bottles I emptied while completing my PhD

↑ 6.9K 💬 502 gallery 2026

Anybody else?

↑ 6.6K 💬 107 image 2020

The quest for an infinite ink supply continues. Achieved 2.5 liters for now.

↑ 6.4K 💬 290 video 2026

My two sexy Japanese beauties

↑ 6.4K 💬 116 image 2016

u/QuiteARoughCustomer is about to pass away at 27 from leukemia. The r/fountainpens community was his special little sanctuary. Thank you for giving …

↑ 5.8K 💬 199 image 2021

Was told I wasn’t allowed to write my math test unless I put my “vape” away

↑ 5.6K 💬 286 image 2018

Communities its size

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

r/fountainpens, in numbers

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

How many members does r/fountainpens have?
r/fountainpens has about 515K members. ViralHunt has tracked 448 of its posts; the biggest reached 10.2K upvotes, which is 20 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/fountainpens?
"Found this journal in Raleigh NC. On Monday. Had a beat up fountain pen. Says he had just joined this sub Reddit.. trying to find owner... h" reached 10.2K upvotes and 737 comments in 2021, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/fountainpens.
What subreddits are similar to r/fountainpens?
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/fountainpens?
Of the posts we hold, 43% are image posts and 30% are gallery posts.
When is the best time to post on r/fountainpens?
Across 448 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Saturday at 00:00 UTC (6.6K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 14:00 UTC (4.9K avg upvotes), Sunday at 16:00 UTC (2.5K 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/fountainpens?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/fountainpens has 4.8K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 251 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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