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PLEASE READ OUR GUIDELINES FIRST. Nosleep is a place for redditors to share their scary personal experiences. Founded 2010 · 18.2M members · text posts only

18.2M members. The best post we have captured here reached 73.2K upvotes, which works out to 4 per 1,000 members.

4peak upvotes per 1,000 members
18.2Mmembers
73.2Kbest post
7Kmost comments
852posts 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.

97%
Text 97% Question 3%

The topics it labels

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

Series 231 Self Harm 14 Child Abuse 7 Animal Abuse 6 Sexual Violence 2 Spooktober 1 Beyond Belief 1

What the ceiling looks like

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

My sugar daddy asks me for weird favors

↑ 73.2K 💬 1.4K text 2019

My wife has been peeking at me from around corners and behind furniture. It's gone from weird to terrifying

↑ 70.3K 💬 1.3K text 2022

Something walks whistling past my house every night at 3:03.

↑ 50K 💬 901 text 2019

She Sold Happiness in Glass Jars

↑ 44.1K 💬 634 text 2019

A Shattered Life

↑ 35.5K 💬 690 text 2018

My job is watching a woman trapped in a room.

↑ 32.1K 💬 450 text 2019

I'm a Search and Rescue Officer for the US Forest Service, I have some stories to tell

↑ 31.5K 💬 1.4K text 2015

The previous tenant of my new flat left a survival guide. I’m not sure I want to live here anymore.

↑ 29.1K 💬 491 text 2019

If you’re armed and at the Glenmont metro, please shoot me

↑ 27.7K 💬 861 text 2019

Spacegirl

↑ 27K 💬 782 text 2019

Communities its size

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

r/nosleep, in numbers

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

What is r/nosleep?
r/nosleep describes itself this way: PLEASE READ OUR GUIDELINES FIRST. Nosleep is a place for redditors to share their scary personal experiences. It was founded in 2010 and has 18.2M members.
How many members does r/nosleep have?
r/nosleep has about 18.2M members. ViralHunt has tracked 852 of its posts; the biggest reached 73.2K upvotes, which is 4 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/nosleep?
"My sugar daddy asks me for weird favors" reached 73.2K upvotes and 1.4K comments in 2019, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/nosleep.
What subreddits are similar to r/nosleep?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/PublicFreakout, r/dankmemes, r/BikiniBottomTwitter, r/KidsAreFuckingStupid, r/Eldenring, r/painting.
What kind of posts do best on r/nosleep?
Of the posts we hold, 97% are text posts and 3% are question posts.
When is the best time to post on r/nosleep?
Across 852 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Tuesday at 20:00 UTC (14.2K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 16:00 UTC (10.3K avg upvotes), Monday at 11:00 UTC (10.2K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Friday. 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/nosleep?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/nosleep has 22K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 301 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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