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r/MotivationalThoughts

Motivational Thoughts is for people who want more from themselves and their lives. We bring together motivation, personal growth, practical wisdom, and accountability to help you turn intentions into action. Founded 2020 · 200.4K members

200.6K members. The best post we have captured here reached 26.9K upvotes, which works out to 134 per 1,000 members.

134peak upvotes per 1,000 members
200.6Kmembers
26.9Kbest post
841most comments
405posts 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.

81% 9%
Image 81% Video 9% Text 6% Gallery 2% Link 1% Question 1%

The topics it labels

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

Motivation Boost 🔥 73 Quote 27 Advice 19 Question 4 Weekly Wins 3

What the ceiling looks like

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

Man wins the Delaware Marathon by outsprinting his opponent who was celebrating, thinking he had secured the win

↑ 26.9K 💬 728 video 2026

John Cena preached 👏🏼

↑ 18.3K 💬 210 video 2026

You got this

↑ 18.3K 💬 134 image 2024

A homeless dog walked into a veterinary clinic and showed its wounded paw, hoping someone would help, and they did

↑ 17.6K 💬 57 video 2026

Not boring at all

↑ 16.7K 💬 124 image 2026

Stay Strong

↑ 12K 💬 187 image 2025

Never ever

↑ 9.7K 💬 61 image 2026

Kindness

↑ 9.5K 💬 31 image 2026

Agree?

↑ 9K 💬 321 image 2026

Grateful everyday

↑ 8.6K 💬 48 image 2025

Communities its size

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

r/MotivationalThoughts, in numbers

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

What is r/MotivationalThoughts?
r/MotivationalThoughts describes itself this way: Motivational Thoughts is for people who want more from themselves and their lives. We bring together motivation, personal growth, practical wisdom, and accountability to help you turn intentions into action. It was founded in 2020 and has 200.4K members.
How many members does r/MotivationalThoughts have?
r/MotivationalThoughts has about 200.6K members. ViralHunt has tracked 405 of its posts; the biggest reached 26.9K upvotes, which is 134 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/MotivationalThoughts?
"Man wins the Delaware Marathon by outsprinting his opponent who was celebrating, thinking he had secured the win" reached 26.9K upvotes and 728 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/MotivationalThoughts.
What subreddits are similar to r/MotivationalThoughts?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/Leakednews, r/circled, r/International, r/Global_News_Hub, r/FBI, r/Trumpvirus.
What kind of posts do best on r/MotivationalThoughts?
Of the posts we hold, 81% are image posts and 9% are video posts.
When is the best time to post on r/MotivationalThoughts?
Across 405 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Saturday at 19:00 UTC (12.3K avg upvotes), Saturday at 16:00 UTC (7.7K avg upvotes), Saturday at 10:00 UTC (3.7K 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/MotivationalThoughts?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/MotivationalThoughts has 7.1K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 213 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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