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Recreated Photographs From Your Past!. Hilarious and Awesome Re-Enacted Pics, Interesting Photos Years Later, Recreated Photographs, Then and Now, Before and After , Young Me Now Me, You Get the Picture! Founded 2012 · 288.9K members

293.6K members. The best post we have captured here reached 119.9K upvotes, which works out to 408 per 1,000 members.

408peak upvotes per 1,000 members
293.6Kmembers
119.9Kbest post
3.5Kmost comments
660posts 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.

83% 14%
Gallery 83% Image 14% Link 2% Video 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.

Life Timeline 240 Self Photo 142 Family 77 Transformation 60 Re-enactment 36 Other 22 In Loving Memory Of 18 Pets 14 Generational 10 Location 7

What the ceiling looks like

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

Grandpa at 15 and 79

↑ 119.9K 💬 2.2K gallery 2025

My wife and I from 17 to 37

↑ 104.6K 💬 3.5K gallery 2024

Me and my son, 2006, 2016, 2021, 2023.

↑ 57.6K 💬 881 gallery 2025

My wife and I -- 1994 - 2024

↑ 53.9K 💬 1.6K image 2024

First Year of Law School vs. Last Year of Law School

↑ 53.9K 💬 1.1K gallery 2026

Our wedding (1994) | At our son’s wedding (2023)

↑ 51.1K 💬 590 gallery 2025

22 years together

↑ 49.1K 💬 760 gallery 2025

My wife and I. 1997-2025

↑ 48.5K 💬 784 gallery 2025

My dad and I, on his wedding day and on mine

↑ 47.6K 💬 391 gallery 2026

1994/2026 (32 years ago). Married 30 years this month.

↑ 46.8K 💬 692 image 2026

Communities its size

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

r/PastAndPresentPics, in numbers

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

What is r/PastAndPresentPics?
r/PastAndPresentPics ("Recreated Photographs From Your Past!") describes itself this way: Hilarious and Awesome Re-Enacted Pics, Interesting Photos Years Later, Recreated Photographs, Then and Now, Before and After , Young Me Now Me, You Get the Picture. It was founded in 2012 and has 288.9K members.
How many members does r/PastAndPresentPics have?
r/PastAndPresentPics has about 293.6K members. ViralHunt has tracked 660 of its posts; the biggest reached 119.9K upvotes, which is 408 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/PastAndPresentPics?
"Grandpa at 15 and 79" reached 119.9K upvotes and 2.2K comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/PastAndPresentPics.
What subreddits are similar to r/PastAndPresentPics?
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/PastAndPresentPics?
Of the posts we hold, 83% are gallery posts and 14% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/PastAndPresentPics?
Across 660 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Sunday at 00:00 UTC (32.2K avg upvotes), Saturday at 14:00 UTC (25.7K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 22:00 UTC (20.7K 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/PastAndPresentPics?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/PastAndPresentPics has 36.7K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 220 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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