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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Gallery 39%Image 38%Video 20%Link 3%
The topics it labels
Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.
Criminally Smol 156Extra Extra Smol 67Floofy Smol Kitty 59Smol Gang of Criminals 49Smol and Snoozy 41Orange You Smol 37Pile of Smols 35Smol to Lorge 31Smol Void Detected 29Standard Issue Smol 28
What the ceiling looks like
The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.
Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.
How many members does r/IllegallySmolCats have?
r/IllegallySmolCats has about 1.5M members. ViralHunt has tracked 720 of its posts; the biggest reached 76.5K upvotes, which is 52 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/IllegallySmolCats?
"This is Marshmallow. Marshmallow is literally in jail for assaulting his siblings." reached 76.5K upvotes and 976 comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/IllegallySmolCats.
What subreddits are similar to r/IllegallySmolCats?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/StarWarsBattlefront, r/alberta, r/massachusetts, r/goodnews, r/AnarchyChess, r/minnesota.
What kind of posts do best on r/IllegallySmolCats?
Of the posts we hold, 39% are gallery posts and 38% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/IllegallySmolCats?
Across 720 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Wednesday at 22:00 UTC (24.4K avg upvotes), Thursday at 23:00 UTC (21.9K avg upvotes), Friday at 10:00 UTC (21.7K 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/IllegallySmolCats?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/IllegallySmolCats has 33.9K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 332 posts from it in the last 30 days.
See what is climbing here before you write
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.
Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/IllegallySmolCats, 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 We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is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.