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The very human ability to see patterns or shapes in randomness.. r/pareidolia is all about those unexpected moments when you see faces or familiar shapes in totally normal stuff, a wall that looks like it’s staring at you, food that gives attitude, real-life Rorschach test. Founded 2009 · 1.2M members

1.2M members. The best post we have captured here reached 111.6K upvotes, which works out to 91 per 1,000 members.

91peak upvotes per 1,000 members
1.2Mmembers
111.6Kbest post
2.1Kmost comments
436posts 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.

Original Content 76 Photo by (Thomas Regembal @stom01) 1

What the ceiling looks like

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

These water stains on my car look like gorillas

↑ 111.6K 💬 696 image 2025

Ricecooker

↑ 84.8K 💬 807 image 2026

Grumpy purse strap

↑ 79.1K 💬 761 image 2025

I see a stoned bear waving

↑ 72.5K 💬 615 image 2025

The pepper my mom grew looks like it'll steal Christmas

↑ 66K 💬 632 image 2024

Eric Cartman appearing from sunlight reflected through a crystal

↑ 65.9K 💬 316 image 2025

Upgraded cameras have a whole new vibe...

↑ 64.8K 💬 536 image 2024

This almond in my salad looks very unimpressed

↑ 57K 💬 319 image 2024

The two faces of humidity

↑ 53.1K 💬 225 image 2026

Smash my thumb last week now it looks like nuclear fallout

↑ 49.2K 💬 2.1K image 2026

Communities its size

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

r/Pareidolia, in numbers

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

What is r/Pareidolia?
r/Pareidolia ("The very human ability to see patterns or shapes in randomness.") describes itself this way: r/pareidolia is all about those unexpected moments when you see faces or familiar shapes in totally normal stuff, a wall that looks like it’s staring at you, food that gives attitude, real-life Rorschach test. It was founded in 2009 and has 1.2M members.
How many members does r/Pareidolia have?
r/Pareidolia has about 1.2M members. ViralHunt has tracked 436 of its posts; the biggest reached 111.6K upvotes, which is 91 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/Pareidolia?
"These water stains on my car look like gorillas" reached 111.6K upvotes and 696 comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/Pareidolia.
What subreddits are similar to r/Pareidolia?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/StarWarsBattlefront, r/BlackPeopleofReddit, r/illinois, r/alberta, r/massachusetts, r/TooMeIrlForMeIrl.
What kind of posts do best on r/Pareidolia?
Of the posts we hold, 98% are image posts and 1% are gallery posts.
When is the best time to post on r/Pareidolia?
Across 436 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Thursday at 03:00 UTC (27.6K avg upvotes), Monday at 03:00 UTC (27.4K avg upvotes), Monday at 01:00 UTC (26.3K 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/Pareidolia?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/Pareidolia has 31.3K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 39 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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