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r/heartwarming

Heartwarming: For everything that makes you feel better.. /r/heartwarming is a place where you can post things that you come across that bring you joy and make you feel a little better. Submissions can be videos or images, or even stories of good experiences. We hope that this is also a place where you can come to find some of that joy when you need it. Sharing our gratitude and happiness with each other can be one of the best things we can do for ourselves and others. Thanks for joining us! Founded 2010 · 155.7K members · text posts only

161.6K members. The best post we have captured here reached 45K upvotes, which works out to 278 per 1,000 members.

278peak upvotes per 1,000 members
161.6Kmembers
45Kbest post
1.1Kmost 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.

77% 14%
Video 77% Image 14% Text 4% Gallery 2% 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.

People 301 Animals 57 Reunion 16 News 11 TikTok videos 1 Mod News 1 Meme 1

What the ceiling looks like

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

A son’s love for his mother is one of the strongest in this world

↑ 45K 💬 288 video 2026

Hardworking dad worked 3 jobs in order to buy his daughter her dream dress for the school dance.

↑ 34.7K 💬 625 video 2026

He won at life ❤️

↑ 34.5K 💬 211 video 2026

This is why men want daughters.

↑ 30.9K 💬 309 video 2026

She’s a real hero. The way she treats this girl with so much patience and gentleness is beautiful to see. ❤️

↑ 25.5K 💬 373 video 2026

A father fought through a windstorm to save the tree his late daughter planted. A parent’s love truly never ends. 🥹🤍

↑ 24.8K 💬 157 video 2026

Appreciative kids are the best!

↑ 23.8K 💬 291 video 2026

The purest reunion after long day at school ♥️🥹

↑ 23.4K 💬 104 video 2026

This brother with Down syndrome meeting his baby sister for the first time

↑ 22.1K 💬 129 video 2026

Little girl bows to thank every driver who waited as she crossed the street with her dad in a wheelchair

↑ 20.7K 💬 144 video 2026

Communities its size

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

r/heartwarming, in numbers

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

What is r/heartwarming?
r/heartwarming ("Heartwarming: For everything that makes you feel better.") describes itself this way: /r/heartwarming is a place where you can post things that you come across that bring you joy and make you feel a little better. Submissions can be videos or images, or even stories of good experiences. We hope that this is also a place where you can come to find some of that joy when you need it. Sharing our gratitude and happiness with each other can be one of the best things we can do for ourselves and others. Thanks for joining us. It was founded in 2010 and has 155.7K members.
How many members does r/heartwarming have?
r/heartwarming has about 161.6K members. ViralHunt has tracked 407 of its posts; the biggest reached 45K upvotes, which is 278 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/heartwarming?
"A son’s love for his mother is one of the strongest in this world" reached 45K upvotes and 288 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/heartwarming.
What subreddits are similar to r/heartwarming?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/Leakednews, r/SpaceXBets, r/circled, r/International, r/Global_News_Hub, r/FBI.
What kind of posts do best on r/heartwarming?
Of the posts we hold, 77% are video posts and 14% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/heartwarming?
Across 407 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Wednesday at 06:00 UTC (17.1K avg upvotes), Sunday at 00:00 UTC (14.5K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 23:00 UTC (13.1K 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/heartwarming?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/heartwarming has 15.9K 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/heartwarming, 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.