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r/MakeMeSmile

Beat The Grumps. Not every day is easy. That's why this place exists: to fight for the smile anyway! Post what can break through a bad day and make someone smile - uncontrollably. Part of the Reddit Safe Community Network. "The light must always win. Even if all we've ever known is dark." Founded 2011 · 185.2K members

188.8K members. The best post we have captured here reached 57.5K upvotes, which works out to 304 per 1,000 members.

304peak upvotes per 1,000 members
188.8Kmembers
57.5Kbest post
588most comments
399posts 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.

79% 9%
Video 79% Image 9% Gallery 5% Text 4% Link 4%

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 the ceiling looks like

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

I love how mom was like "let me do it"

↑ 57.5K 💬 228 video 2026

The homeowner saw on the security camera that a bear was playing on the outdoor swing every day, but couldn’t get on. So he had a bigger swing built,…

↑ 46.4K 💬 297 video 2026

He started like pink panther ended as jack sparrow

↑ 42.4K 💬 227 video 2026

My wife gave birth to two baby boys 15 years apart at the same hospital, and we got the same nurse!

↑ 39.4K 💬 298 gallery 2026

The simplicity of men

↑ 39.4K 💬 175 image 2026

A little Lorax 🥺😍

↑ 39K 💬 498 video 2025

So sweet 🥹

↑ 36.3K 💬 65 image 2026

Teen with cerebral palsy and his twin sister find out he's getting into Harvard.

↑ 32.5K 💬 121 video 2026

Beaver Tantrum sounds like a great metal band name

↑ 30.8K 💬 436 video 2026

The cleaner he got, the calmer he got.

↑ 29.1K 💬 588 video 2026

Communities its size

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

r/MakeMeSmile, in numbers

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

What is r/MakeMeSmile?
r/MakeMeSmile ("Beat The Grumps") describes itself this way: Not every day is easy. That's why this place exists: to fight for the smile anyway! Post what can break through a bad day and make someone smile - uncontrollably. Part of the Reddit Safe Community Network. "The light must always win. Even if all we've ever known is dark.". It was founded in 2011 and has 185.2K members.
How many members does r/MakeMeSmile have?
r/MakeMeSmile has about 188.8K members. ViralHunt has tracked 399 of its posts; the biggest reached 57.5K upvotes, which is 304 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/MakeMeSmile?
"I love how mom was like "let me do it"" reached 57.5K upvotes and 228 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/MakeMeSmile.
What subreddits are similar to r/MakeMeSmile?
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/MakeMeSmile?
Of the posts we hold, 79% are video posts and 9% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/MakeMeSmile?
Across 399 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Saturday at 09:00 UTC (20.7K avg upvotes), Saturday at 20:00 UTC (17.3K avg upvotes), Thursday at 07:00 UTC (12.9K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Saturday. 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/MakeMeSmile?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/MakeMeSmile has 25.7K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 22 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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