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OldSchoolCool: History's cool kids, looking fantastic. /r/OldSchoolCool **History's cool kids, looking fantastic!** A pictorial and video celebration of history's coolest kids, everything from beatniks to bikers, mods to rude boys, hippies to ravers. And everything in between. If you've found a photo, or a photo essay, of people from the past looking fantastic, here's the place to share it. Founded 2012 · 19.6M members

19.6M members. The best post we have captured here reached 152.9K upvotes, which works out to 8 per 1,000 members.

8peak upvotes per 1,000 members
19.6Mmembers
152.9Kbest post
4.7Kmost comments
1.2Kposts 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.

75% 13% 10%
Image 75% Gallery 13% Video 10% Link 1% Text 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.

1970s 143 1980s 125 1990s 123 1960s 89 1950s 75 1940s 27 1800s 15 1920s 12 1910s 12 1900s 11

What the ceiling looks like

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

In 1974, Masahisa Fukase photographed his wife, Yōko Wanibe, every morning from the window of their apartment in Tokyo as she left for work.

↑ 152.9K 💬 1.7K gallery 2025

Just retired after 42 years as an obstetrical nurse, at the same hospital. Here I am at the start (1979) and end of my career!

↑ 148.4K 💬 3.7K image 2021

The Paramount Pictures logo on the day it was originally painted. [1965]

↑ 142.8K 💬 1.3K image 2018

My uncle getting caught growing weed in the backyard. Circa 1970s.

↑ 128.6K 💬 3.2K image 2017

My parents on their wedding day in 1964 and then again at Christmas 2021

↑ 122.8K 💬 2.3K gallery 2022

My deaf father, hugging a speaker to his chest to feel the vibrations of music. Early 1970s.

↑ 122.3K 💬 1.1K image 2020

Since everyone is posting their mom's in bikinis for some reason, here's my mom coming to see me during her lunch break for my kindergarten graduatio…

↑ 121.4K 💬 1.5K image 2025

My Uncle Billy just turned 90, so here’s him on his boat during the early 80’s

↑ 120.6K 💬 2.1K image 2020

1967 - Me (front) and my Dad's band. Dad is left rear.

↑ 116.8K 💬 2K image 2025

My Grandmother, a white Jewish woman, looked like Barack Obama in 1962

↑ 115.4K 💬 2.7K image 2017

Communities its size

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

r/OldSchoolCool, in numbers

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

What is r/OldSchoolCool?
r/OldSchoolCool ("OldSchoolCool: History's cool kids, looking fantastic") describes itself this way: /r/OldSchoolCool **History's cool kids, looking fantastic!** A pictorial and video celebration of history's coolest kids, everything from beatniks to bikers, mods to rude boys, hippies to ravers. And everything in between. If you've found a photo, or a photo essay, of people from the past looking fantastic, here's the place to share it. It was founded in 2012 and has 19.6M members.
How many members does r/OldSchoolCool have?
r/OldSchoolCool has about 19.6M members. ViralHunt has tracked 1.2K of its posts; the biggest reached 152.9K upvotes, which is 8 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/OldSchoolCool?
"In 1974, Masahisa Fukase photographed his wife, Yōko Wanibe, every morning from the window of their apartment in Tokyo as she left for work." reached 152.9K upvotes and 1.7K comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/OldSchoolCool.
What subreddits are similar to r/OldSchoolCool?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/dankmemes, r/KidsAreFuckingStupid, r/Eldenring, r/therewasanattempt, r/BlackPeopleTwitter, r/pokemon.
What kind of posts do best on r/OldSchoolCool?
Of the posts we hold, 75% are image posts and 13% are gallery posts.
When is the best time to post on r/OldSchoolCool?
Across 1.2K timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Saturday at 04:00 UTC (39.6K avg upvotes), Thursday at 22:00 UTC (36.5K avg upvotes), Thursday at 02:00 UTC (30.7K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Sunday. 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/OldSchoolCool?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/OldSchoolCool has 104.6K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 351 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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