Almost anything involving poking holes in flesh with sharp metal. | New here? Welcome! In the app, tap on "see more" first. On desktop, check the sidebar Founded 2008 · 1M members · text posts only
1M members. The best post we have captured here reached
17K upvotes, which works out to
16 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 48%Gallery 26%Text 15%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.
Troubleshooting/question existing piercing 165Showing off set up! 65Question about a piercing I (maybe) want 43Set up advice 24:metadisk_flair: discussion 16Club House Lite 15Genital/nipple piercings 15all things jewelry 15Club House 8would I look good with....? 8
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/piercing?
r/piercing describes itself this way: Almost anything involving poking holes in flesh with sharp metal. | New here? Welcome! In the app, tap on "see more" first. On desktop, check the sidebar. It was founded in 2008 and has 1M members.
How many members does r/piercing have?
r/piercing has about 1M members. ViralHunt has tracked 413 of its posts; the biggest reached 17K upvotes, which is 16 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/piercing?
"Does anyone know why piercing would do this?" reached 17K upvotes and 130 comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/piercing.
What subreddits are similar to r/piercing?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/popculture, r/StarWarsBattlefront, r/BlackPeopleofReddit, r/Archaeology, r/illinois, r/economicCollapse.
What kind of posts do best on r/piercing?
Of the posts we hold, 48% are image posts and 26% are gallery posts.
When is the best time to post on r/piercing?
Across 413 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Friday at 21:00 UTC (3.9K avg upvotes), Sunday at 06:00 UTC (3.4K avg upvotes), Saturday at 20:00 UTC (3.3K 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/piercing?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/piercing has 5.3K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 301 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/piercing, 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.