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r/PeriodDramas

Period Dramas. A place to discuss any kinds of period pieces. Also feel free to post about news, trailers, costumes, classical music, memes, or even anything history related! Founded 2013 · 115.9K members

116.1K members. The best post we have captured here reached 8.3K upvotes, which works out to 72 per 1,000 members.

72peak upvotes per 1,000 members
116.1Kmembers
8.3Kbest post
1.2Kmost comments
399posts 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.

24% 22% 19% 14% 10% 10%
Image 24% Gallery 22% Text 19% Video 14% Link 10% Question 10%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Discussion 146 Recommendations 📺 50 Pics & Stills 🏞 43 Trailer 🎬 34 Funny 😂 27 News 📰 23 Other 17 Costume 🎩 14 Video Clips 🎥 12 History⏳ 8

What the ceiling looks like

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

Every Lead Girl in a Period Drama

↑ 8.3K 💬 219 video 2025

i really appreciated the natural body hair in the other bennet sister

↑ 7.8K 💬 342 image 2026

Delete if not allowed, but this was a real missed opportunity.

↑ 7.4K 💬 294 image 2026

My husband said that Alan Tudyk looks like Jane and I can’t unsee it now

↑ 7.3K 💬 114 image 2025

Who has the opposite of Iphone face? A face built for period dramas?

↑ 5.7K 💬 1.2K gallery 2025

Matthew MacFadyen is the best Mr. Darcy ever. Change my mind

↑ 5.2K 💬 577 gallery 2025

This review of Pride and Prejudice never fails to make me laugh 😭

↑ 5.1K 💬 47 image 2025

I love when a period piece still reflects the era it was filmed in

↑ 5K 💬 384 gallery 2025

Winona Ryder as Mina Murray in Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)

↑ 4.7K 💬 101 gallery 2025

I'm more mad at myself for only noticing this 7 year later

↑ 4.5K 💬 135 image 2026

Communities its size

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

r/PeriodDramas, in numbers

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

What is r/PeriodDramas?
r/PeriodDramas ("Period Dramas") describes itself this way: A place to discuss any kinds of period pieces. Also feel free to post about news, trailers, costumes, classical music, memes, or even anything history related. It was founded in 2013 and has 115.9K members.
How many members does r/PeriodDramas have?
r/PeriodDramas has about 116.1K members. ViralHunt has tracked 399 of its posts; the biggest reached 8.3K upvotes, which is 72 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/PeriodDramas?
"Every Lead Girl in a Period Drama" reached 8.3K upvotes and 219 comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/PeriodDramas.
What subreddits are similar to r/PeriodDramas?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/greenland, r/Leakednews, r/stevehofstetter, r/StrikeAtPsyche, r/PopularCultureZone, r/topofreddit.
What kind of posts do best on r/PeriodDramas?
Of the posts we hold, 24% are image posts and 22% are gallery posts.
When is the best time to post on r/PeriodDramas?
Across 399 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Thursday at 22:00 UTC (3.2K avg upvotes), Sunday at 02:00 UTC (2.9K avg upvotes), Saturday at 03:00 UTC (2.4K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Thursday. 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/PeriodDramas?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/PeriodDramas has 3.2K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 144 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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