Once in a blue moon.... Once in a blue moon redditors almost transform into self aware creatures. Almost. Submit posts (from anywhere) where people unknowingly describe themselves. ("what did they say about someone else that really applied to them?") NB: Memes aren't people, they can't be Selfawarewolves. Founded 2016 · 650.9K members
650.9K members. The best post we have captured here reached
40.8K upvotes, which works out to
63 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 84%Gallery 13%Text 2%Link 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.
Alpha of the pack 3OP is the Selfawarewolf 1100% original title 1Non-political wolf, best wolf 1Ye gods, that font! 1The post was about Reagan 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/SelfAwarewolves?
r/SelfAwarewolves ("Once in a blue moon...") describes itself this way: Once in a blue moon redditors almost transform into self aware creatures. Almost. Submit posts (from anywhere) where people unknowingly describe themselves. ("what did they say about someone else that really applied to them?") NB: Memes aren't people, they can't be Selfawarewolves. It was founded in 2016 and has 650.9K members.
How many members does r/SelfAwarewolves have?
r/SelfAwarewolves has about 650.9K members. ViralHunt has tracked 301 of its posts; the biggest reached 40.8K upvotes, which is 63 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/SelfAwarewolves?
"Comparing oneself to Nazis… is telling" reached 40.8K upvotes and 3.1K comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/SelfAwarewolves.
What subreddits are similar to r/SelfAwarewolves?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/popculture, r/ProgressiveHQ, r/Yosemite, r/StarWarsBattlefront, r/madisonwi, r/NoFilterNews.
What kind of posts do best on r/SelfAwarewolves?
Of the posts we hold, 84% are image posts and 13% are gallery posts.
When is the best time to post on r/SelfAwarewolves?
Across 301 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Sunday at 15:00 UTC (9.1K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 20:00 UTC (8.2K avg upvotes), Sunday at 19:00 UTC (8.1K 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/SelfAwarewolves?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/SelfAwarewolves has 12.8K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 8 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/SelfAwarewolves, 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.