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We are here for you :). A community for all the lonely people. Everyone is welcome here, no matter your age, race, sex, sexuality, relationship status. All that we request is that you be accepting of people, and kind. Any problems at all, please let the moderators know. Founded 2008 · 513.4K members · text posts only

516.4K members. The best post we have captured here reached 8.4K upvotes, which works out to 16 per 1,000 members.

16peak upvotes per 1,000 members
516.4Kmembers
8.4Kbest post
452most comments
406posts 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.

87% 13%
Text 87% Question 13%

The topics it labels

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

Venting 137 Discussion 41 Birthday post 🎁 4 TW: Suicide talk 2 TW: Abuse 2 TW: custom 2 TW: Drugs 2 Moderator post 1

What the ceiling looks like

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

Does anyone ever feel so lonely that whenever a person of the opposite sex/same sex treats you like a human being, you instantly fall in love with th…

↑ 8.4K 💬 234 question 2020

I am dying and no one is coming to my funeral.

↑ 6.5K 💬 189 text 2019

I am so lonely that I smile after seeing someone upvoted me!

↑ 5.9K 💬 108 text 2020

Does anybody have friends and family, but still feel lonely because nobody knows the "real" you.

↑ 5.2K 💬 213 text 2020

Do you ever get so lonely you start reading old messages from people you liked/loved at the time?

↑ 4.4K 💬 152 question 2019

You know what sucks? Thinking about someone and knowing damn well they aren’t thinking of you.

↑ 4.2K 💬 152 question 2020

I stopped texting first and guess what

↑ 3.5K 💬 213 text 2021

With all due respect, some of you are annoying

↑ 3.3K 💬 245 text 2021

Does anyone else watch a lot of YouTube to feel less alone?

↑ 3.1K 💬 183 question 2020

This is my goodbye

↑ 3.1K 💬 141 text 2020

Communities its size

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

r/lonely, in numbers

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

What is r/lonely?
r/lonely ("We are here for you :)") describes itself this way: A community for all the lonely people. Everyone is welcome here, no matter your age, race, sex, sexuality, relationship status. All that we request is that you be accepting of people, and kind. Any problems at all, please let the moderators know. It was founded in 2008 and has 513.4K members.
How many members does r/lonely have?
r/lonely has about 516.4K members. ViralHunt has tracked 406 of its posts; the biggest reached 8.4K upvotes, which is 16 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/lonely?
"Does anyone ever feel so lonely that whenever a person of the opposite sex/same sex treats you like a human being, you instantly fall in lov" reached 8.4K upvotes and 234 comments in 2020, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/lonely.
What subreddits are similar to r/lonely?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/alaska, r/popculture, r/ProgressiveHQ, r/Snorkblot, r/Yosemite, r/DailyShow.
What kind of posts do best on r/lonely?
Of the posts we hold, 87% are text posts and 13% are question posts.
When is the best time to post on r/lonely?
Across 406 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Wednesday at 14:00 UTC (6.2K avg upvotes), Thursday at 07:00 UTC (2.5K avg upvotes), Saturday at 20:00 UTC (1.1K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Monday. 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/lonely?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/lonely has 2.3K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 303 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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