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r/OldSchoolRidiculousNSFW

This community is private, banned or no longer exists on Reddit. The numbers below are what we captured while it was public.

198.5K members. The best post we have captured here reached 4.6K upvotes, which works out to 23 per 1,000 members.

23peak upvotes per 1,000 members
198.5Kmembers
4.6Kbest post
686most comments
301posts 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.

73% 13%
Image 73% Video 13% Gallery 7% Link 6% 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.

Read 18 Watch 17 Photo Album 5 Joke/Satire 3 Turn of 20st Century 2 [Create Own Flair] 2 Advertising 1 Old menu 1 Skate Spidey 1

What the ceiling looks like

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

My Mom Cut These “Love Is” Cartoons Out in the 80s to Save…

↑ 4.6K 💬 686 gallery 2026

In 1946, a local election in Tennessee was run by corrupt politicians who used deputies to arrest voters and hide the ballots in the jail. World War …

↑ 3.3K 💬 82 image 2026

Clown Who Invented Pink Lemonade Dead (1800s)

↑ 3.2K 💬 162 image 2026

This ad, advertised in Marvel Comics in the 70s, was too much for Stan Lee.

↑ 3.2K 💬 224 gallery 2026

The male contestants of the 1988 National Aerobic Championship.

↑ 3.1K 💬 372 video 2026

Toll Booth Quarter Gun (1962)

↑ 2.3K 💬 67 image 2026

1992 introduced the world to Bat Boy

↑ 2.3K 💬 171 image 2026

Japanese novelty pocket calculator from the 1990s designed to look like an open pack of Mild Seven Lights cigarettes, with cylindrical number and op…

↑ 2.1K 💬 40 image 2026

Liberace and Art Carney celebrating the fourth in their hot pants.

↑ 1.9K 💬 146 video 2026

Ayds advertisement [1980s]

↑ 1.8K 💬 286 image 2026

Communities its size

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

r/OldSchoolRidiculous, in numbers

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

How many members does r/OldSchoolRidiculous have?
r/OldSchoolRidiculous has about 198.5K members. ViralHunt has tracked 301 of its posts; the biggest reached 4.6K upvotes, which is 23 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/OldSchoolRidiculous?
"My Mom Cut These “Love Is” Cartoons Out in the 80s to Save…" reached 4.6K upvotes and 686 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/OldSchoolRidiculous.
What subreddits are similar to r/OldSchoolRidiculous?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/Trumpvirus, r/alaska, r/Louisiana, r/popculture, r/Antimoneymemes, r/BlueskySkeets.
What kind of posts do best on r/OldSchoolRidiculous?
Of the posts we hold, 73% are image posts and 13% are video posts.
When is the best time to post on r/OldSchoolRidiculous?
Across 301 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Friday at 14:00 UTC (910 avg upvotes), Monday at 17:00 UTC (845 avg upvotes), Thursday at 05:00 UTC (754 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/OldSchoolRidiculous?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/OldSchoolRidiculous has 1.1K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 90 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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