For all the ironic moments!. Irony is a figure of speech defining an outcome of events which occur in a way that is contrary to what was, or might have been expected. It can often be funny, but is also characterized in tragic events. Tag flair onto posts to help identify particular types of irony. These tags are not set in stone, please comment your opinion if you disagree with the sub-category in which a post is tagged. An Entertaining & Educational sub-Reddit. Founded 2008 · 100.1K members
100.1K members. The best post we have captured here reached
79.9K upvotes, which works out to
798 per 1,000 members.
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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The topics it labels
Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.
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What is r/Irony?
r/Irony ("For all the ironic moments!") describes itself this way: Irony is a figure of speech defining an outcome of events which occur in a way that is contrary to what was, or might have been expected. It can often be funny, but is also characterized in tragic events. Tag flair onto posts to help identify particular types of irony. These tags are not set in stone, please comment your opinion if you disagree with the sub-category in which a post is tagged. An Entertaining & Educational sub-Reddit. It was founded in 2008 and has 100.1K members.
How many members does r/Irony have?
r/Irony has about 100.1K members. ViralHunt has tracked 400 of its posts; the biggest reached 79.9K upvotes, which is 798 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/Irony?
"The most ironic administration in history!" reached 79.9K upvotes and 1.7K comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/Irony.
What subreddits are similar to r/Irony?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/greenland, r/Leakednews, r/LetsDiscussThis, r/stevehofstetter, r/StrikeAtPsyche, r/InvictaSolaris.
What kind of posts do best on r/Irony?
Of the posts we hold, 75% are image posts and 10% are video posts.
When is the best time to post on r/Irony?
Across 400 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Thursday at 17:00 UTC (13.7K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 20:00 UTC (11.5K avg upvotes), Friday at 18:00 UTC (9.8K 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/Irony?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/Irony has 16.1K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 53 posts from it in the last 30 days.
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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/Irony, 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.
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