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r/IllegallySmol

119.8K members. The best post we have captured here reached 8K upvotes, which works out to 67 per 1,000 members.

67peak upvotes per 1,000 members
119.8Kmembers
8Kbest post
4.9Kmost comments
300posts 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 50% Video 21% Gallery 19% Link 10%

The topics it labels

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

Illegally smol cat 82 Illegally smol Animal 29 Illegally smol frog 23 Illegally smol dog 13 Illegally smol reptile 11 Illegally smol birb 6 Illegally smol snek 3 Illegally smol bunny 3 Illegally smol hooman 1 misc/meta 1

What the ceiling looks like

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

The Japanese dwarf flying squirrel.

↑ 8K πŸ’¬ 57 video 2026

The last thing you ate is what you have to name it

↑ 6.6K πŸ’¬ 4.9K image 2026

I was told y'all like smol kitties here

↑ 4.5K πŸ’¬ 33 gallery 2026

smol

↑ 3.5K πŸ’¬ 71 video 2026

I HAD to call the police on him

↑ 3.4K πŸ’¬ 40 gallery 2026

Somebody said my little dude belongs here!

↑ 3.3K πŸ’¬ 50 gallery 2026

Average orange behaviour

↑ 2.9K πŸ’¬ 27 image 2026

Felony charge

↑ 2.5K πŸ’¬ 32 gallery 2026

πŸ”₯ A very round little shrew inspecting a skier’s glove

↑ 2.4K πŸ’¬ 33 video 2026

Small but terribleπŸ˜ŠπŸ˜‚

↑ 2.4K πŸ’¬ 36 image 2026

Communities its size

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

r/IllegallySmol, in numbers

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

How many members does r/IllegallySmol have?
r/IllegallySmol has about 119.8K members. ViralHunt has tracked 300 of its posts; the biggest reached 8K upvotes, which is 67 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/IllegallySmol?
"The Japanese dwarf flying squirrel." reached 8K upvotes and 57 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/IllegallySmol.
What subreddits are similar to r/IllegallySmol?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/greenland, r/Leakednews, r/stevehofstetter, r/StrikeAtPsyche, r/PopularCultureZone, r/topofreddit.
What kind of posts do best on r/IllegallySmol?
Of the posts we hold, 50% are image posts and 21% are video posts.
When is the best time to post on r/IllegallySmol?
Across 300 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Sunday at 17:00 UTC (2.7K avg upvotes), Thursday at 17:00 UTC (2.7K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 12:00 UTC (1.1K 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/IllegallySmol?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/IllegallySmol has 1.8K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 40 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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ViralHunt tracks Reddit and eight other networks, records how every post grows, and puts what is taking off in front of your team in one list.

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