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Murdered By Words. A place for well-constructed put-downs, comebacks, and counter-arguments. Founded 2016 · 3.4M members · links only

3.4M members. The best post we have captured here reached 222.3K upvotes, which works out to 65 per 1,000 members.

65peak upvotes per 1,000 members
3.4Mmembers
222.3Kbest post
19.7Kmost comments
778posts 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.

98%
Image 98% Gallery 1% Link 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.

Murder 6 #1 Murder of Week 5 Burn 5 Politics 3 :soozwheel: MBW-OW 1 :soozwheel: 1 :soozwheel: MBW-OW 2 :soozwheel: 1 /r/TrumpRoasts 1 Meta-murder 1 nice 1 #3 Murder of Week 1

What the ceiling looks like

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

Did they really think that answer was a good one?

↑ 222.3K 💬 4.3K image 2021

Pardon him from the death penalty?

↑ 192.2K 💬 4.1K image 2024

That's just how it is though, isn't it?

↑ 183.9K 💬 2K image 2020

Gas pump (doesn't) go brrrrr

↑ 183.6K 💬 4.1K image 2021

Why is "Lunch Debt" a thing that is allowed to exist?

↑ 180.9K 💬 5.3K image 2021

Better hope his house doesn't catch on fire!

↑ 177.1K 💬 2.7K image 2021

How to find Nazis 101

↑ 175.7K 💬 2.3K image 2025

Waddaya say, then?

↑ 172.4K 💬 3.3K image 2021

Don't defend corporations, they will not return the favor

↑ 167K 💬 3.3K image 2020

Murdered with one word almost 3 years later

↑ 166.3K 💬 2.2K image 2019

Communities its size

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

r/MurderedByWords, in numbers

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

What is r/MurderedByWords?
r/MurderedByWords ("Murdered By Words") describes itself this way: A place for well-constructed put-downs, comebacks, and counter-arguments. It was founded in 2016 and has 3.4M members.
How many members does r/MurderedByWords have?
r/MurderedByWords has about 3.4M members. ViralHunt has tracked 778 of its posts; the biggest reached 222.3K upvotes, which is 65 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/MurderedByWords?
"Did they really think that answer was a good one?" reached 222.3K upvotes and 4.3K comments in 2021, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/MurderedByWords.
What subreddits are similar to r/MurderedByWords?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/ukraine, r/LosAngeles, r/LeopardsAteMyFace, r/okbuddycinephile, r/blackcats, r/awfuleverything.
What kind of posts do best on r/MurderedByWords?
Of the posts we hold, 98% are image posts and 1% are gallery posts.
When is the best time to post on r/MurderedByWords?
Across 778 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Monday at 07:00 UTC (98.9K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 15:00 UTC (96.6K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 05:00 UTC (96.2K 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/MurderedByWords?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/MurderedByWords has 152.5K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 207 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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