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For ugly kids that got cute. Celebrating transformations of all kinds. Share your personal journey of growth, confidence, and self-love. Whether it’s physical, emotional, or style-related, this is a space to inspire and be inspired. Everyone is welcome. Founded 2018 · 613.5K members

618K members. The best post we have captured here reached 122.6K upvotes, which works out to 198 per 1,000 members.

198peak upvotes per 1,000 members
618Kmembers
122.6Kbest post
5Kmost comments
723posts 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.

81% 18%
Gallery 81% Image 18% Text 1%

The topics it labels

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

GLOW UP! 367 Glow up? 170 Grow up 66 Trans 60 Holistic Transformations 32 Weight Gain 20 Weight loss 2 Tips & Advice 2 Puberty 1

What the ceiling looks like

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

(28) morbidly obese, dying to (33) graduating and thriving

↑ 122.6K 💬 5K gallery 2025

Addicted to opioids (18) to (20). Now (21), sober, and grateful.

↑ 85.6K 💬 4.1K gallery 2025

From [16] with cancer to [28] and thriving

↑ 77.2K 💬 2K gallery 2025

(24) to (26) - Jaw surgery changed my life

↑ 75.3K 💬 2.4K image 2026

(17) to (28) I did it!

↑ 67.8K 💬 2K gallery 2025

(19)-(27)

↑ 65.2K 💬 1.5K gallery 2025

I don’t get bullied anymore! (12) to (22)

↑ 64.1K 💬 4K image 2024

(37) to (38) Exactly one year ago I decided I was going to change.

↑ 63.4K 💬 2.5K gallery 2026

severely anorexic - in recovery (22)

↑ 63.1K 💬 2.2K gallery 2026

(29) to (32) Stopped drinking, walked every morning, proper hydration and sleep

↑ 61.8K 💬 1.6K gallery 2025

Communities its size

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

r/GlowUps, in numbers

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

What is r/GlowUps?
r/GlowUps ("For ugly kids that got cute") describes itself this way: Celebrating transformations of all kinds. Share your personal journey of growth, confidence, and self-love. Whether it’s physical, emotional, or style-related, this is a space to inspire and be inspired. Everyone is welcome. It was founded in 2018 and has 613.5K members.
How many members does r/GlowUps have?
r/GlowUps has about 618K members. ViralHunt has tracked 723 of its posts; the biggest reached 122.6K upvotes, which is 198 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/GlowUps?
"(28) morbidly obese, dying to (33) graduating and thriving" reached 122.6K upvotes and 5K comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/GlowUps.
What subreddits are similar to r/GlowUps?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/popculture, r/ProgressiveHQ, r/Snorkblot, r/Yosemite, r/StarWarsBattlefront, r/thescoop.
What kind of posts do best on r/GlowUps?
Of the posts we hold, 81% are gallery posts and 18% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/GlowUps?
Across 723 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Wednesday at 10:00 UTC (29.3K avg upvotes), Sunday at 16:00 UTC (23.2K avg upvotes), Thursday at 20:00 UTC (23K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Tuesday. 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/GlowUps?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/GlowUps has 43.4K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 312 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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