Original Characters. A place to share and discuss your original characters. Both original and fandom OCs allowed! LGBTQ+ friendly! Founded 2013 · 194.1K members
196.2K members. The best post we have captured here reached
8.2K upvotes, which works out to
42 per 1,000 members.
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.
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Image 50%Gallery 40%Video 5%Text 3%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.
OC Art 218Community Interaction 82Need Feedback or Ideas 29OC Lore and Bios 29OC Animation 19OC Comic 16OC Interview 9Questions/Fun! 5Trend 4Worldbuilding 4
What the ceiling looks like
The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.
Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.
What is r/OriginalCharacter?
r/OriginalCharacter ("Original Characters") describes itself this way: A place to share and discuss your original characters. Both original and fandom OCs allowed! LGBTQ+ friendly. It was founded in 2013 and has 194.1K members.
How many members does r/OriginalCharacter have?
r/OriginalCharacter has about 196.2K members. ViralHunt has tracked 425 of its posts; the biggest reached 8.2K upvotes, which is 42 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/OriginalCharacter?
"Some early works of Cat Lady" reached 8.2K upvotes and 284 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/OriginalCharacter.
What subreddits are similar to r/OriginalCharacter?
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/OriginalCharacter?
Of the posts we hold, 50% are image posts and 40% are gallery posts.
When is the best time to post on r/OriginalCharacter?
Across 425 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Monday at 14:00 UTC (3.6K avg upvotes), Sunday at 12:00 UTC (3.2K avg upvotes), Saturday at 23:00 UTC (3.1K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Wednesday. 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/OriginalCharacter?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/OriginalCharacter has 3.5K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 316 posts from it in the last 30 days.
See what is climbing here before you write
ViralHunt tracks Reddit and eight other networks, records how every post grows, and puts what is taking off in front of your team in one list.
Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/OriginalCharacter, 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.