r/PoliticalHumor 2025: DiD YOu eVEn sAY "ThaNK YoU?". A subreddit focused on the humor in US politics, and how it's … not going well, to be honest. Founded 2008 · 1.7M members · links only
1.7M members. The best post we have captured here reached
126.3K upvotes, which works out to
74 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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The topics it labels
Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.
POTM - Dec 2022 1Y'all Can't Behave! 1Fake tweet 1Barely Humor 1POTM - Nov 2022 1It's satire. 1METAPHORICALLY 1
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/PoliticalHumor?
r/PoliticalHumor ("r/PoliticalHumor 2025: DiD YOu eVEn sAY "ThaNK YoU?"") describes itself this way: A subreddit focused on the humor in US politics, and how it's … not going well, to be honest. It was founded in 2008 and has 1.7M members.
How many members does r/PoliticalHumor have?
r/PoliticalHumor has about 1.7M members. ViralHunt has tracked 1.1K of its posts; the biggest reached 126.3K upvotes, which is 74 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/PoliticalHumor?
"Just stop being poor" reached 126.3K upvotes and 4K comments in 2021, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/PoliticalHumor.
What subreddits are similar to r/PoliticalHumor?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/StarWarsBattlefront, r/alberta, r/goodnews, r/AnarchyChess, r/minnesota, r/Amazing.
What kind of posts do best on r/PoliticalHumor?
Of the posts we hold, 100% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/PoliticalHumor?
Across 1.1K timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Friday at 11:00 UTC (84.7K avg upvotes), Friday at 12:00 UTC (44.6K avg upvotes), Sunday at 12:00 UTC (42.8K 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/PoliticalHumor?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/PoliticalHumor has 100.6K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 367 posts from it in the last 30 days.
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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/PoliticalHumor, 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.
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