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Science Memes. Founded 2012 · 3.9M members · links only

3.9M members. The best post we have captured here reached 64.7K upvotes, which works out to 17 per 1,000 members.

17peak upvotes per 1,000 members
3.9Mmembers
64.7Kbest post
2.8Kmost comments
404posts 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.

93%
Image 93% Video 6%

The topics it labels

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

🪩Science!!🪩 52 🦩Biology!🧫 42 💥Physics!🧲 40 📐Math!🥧 30 🧪Chemistry!⚗️ 28 🌖Astronomy!🌔 20 💻Computer Sci!💾 8 Mod Post 2 🏔️Geology!🌋 1

What the ceiling looks like

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

Sadly this is a common mental illness among scientists

↑ 64.7K 💬 318 image 2024

Is this really true? Can you enjoy yourself after enough time theoretically?

↑ 62.4K 💬 1.6K image 2025

Boiling water

↑ 58.6K 💬 1.3K image 2025

Expectations Vs reality

↑ 53.5K 💬 458 image 2024

Textbooks have limitations

↑ 46.8K 💬 144 image 2025

I wonder if this actually ever happened

↑ 46.3K 💬 136 image 2024

Really?

↑ 46K 💬 102 image 2024

better see what you inhaling.

↑ 45.7K 💬 928 image 2024

Can't escape the flawless logic.

↑ 42.9K 💬 254 image 2025

Documentation is important for scientific progress

↑ 39.1K 💬 204 image 2024

Communities its size

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

r/sciencememes, in numbers

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

What is r/sciencememes?
r/sciencememes ("Science Memes") is a Reddit community. It was founded in 2012 and has 3.9M members.
How many members does r/sciencememes have?
r/sciencememes has about 3.9M members. ViralHunt has tracked 404 of its posts; the biggest reached 64.7K upvotes, which is 17 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/sciencememes?
"Sadly this is a common mental illness among scientists" reached 64.7K upvotes and 318 comments in 2024, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/sciencememes.
What subreddits are similar to r/sciencememes?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/LeopardsAteMyFace, r/awfuleverything, r/interesting, r/doordash, r/dogpictures, r/youngpeopleyoutube.
What kind of posts do best on r/sciencememes?
Of the posts we hold, 93% are image posts and 6% are video posts.
When is the best time to post on r/sciencememes?
Across 404 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Sunday at 22:00 UTC (26.2K avg upvotes), Friday at 10:00 UTC (24.2K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 07:00 UTC (21.6K 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/sciencememes?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/sciencememes has 29.6K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 12 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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