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r/ShittyRestrictionFood

83.4K members. The best post we have captured here reached 954 upvotes, which works out to 11 per 1,000 members.

11peak upvotes per 1,000 members
83.4Kmembers
954best post
84most comments
301posts 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.

80% 17%
Image 80% Gallery 17% Text 1% Question 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.

100-200 cal 46 200-300 cal 39 50-100 cal 37 0-50 cal 34 300-400 cal 15 Dinner 9 Snack 9 Lunch 8 400-500 cal 6 Vegetarian 5

What the ceiling looks like

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

This is from a few years ago but it never fails to Crack me up.

↑ 954 💬 46 image 2026

White Russian with 30g of protein

↑ 933 💬 45 image 2026

Shittyfood deleted my blood clot toast for being "intentionally" shitty

↑ 788 💬 43 image 2026

protein bar

↑ 703 💬 84 image 2026

made some bullshitttt

↑ 457 💬 59 gallery 2026

getting admitted to inpatient on monday so i froze the last of my oat fibre cookie dough 😔 im going to miss having explosive diarrhea

↑ 398 💬 69 image 2026

Most Egregious Dessert On Planet Earth

↑ 290 💬 64 image 2026

Just straight up grapefruit because I'm unmedicated

↑ 262 💬 26 image 2026

called it mac and cheese and my mother looked ready to send me back to residential

↑ 258 💬 14 image 2026

Chocolate rice cake with laughing cow & cherry preserves

↑ 252 💬 23 image 2026

Communities its size

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

r/ShittyRestrictionFood, in numbers

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

How many members does r/ShittyRestrictionFood have?
r/ShittyRestrictionFood has about 83.4K members. ViralHunt has tracked 301 of its posts; the biggest reached 954 upvotes, which is 11 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/ShittyRestrictionFood?
"This is from a few years ago but it never fails to Crack me up." reached 954 upvotes and 46 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/ShittyRestrictionFood.
What subreddits are similar to r/ShittyRestrictionFood?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/greenland, r/InvictaSolaris, r/Leakednews, r/LetsDiscussThis, r/stevehofstetter, r/StrikeAtPsyche.
What kind of posts do best on r/ShittyRestrictionFood?
Of the posts we hold, 80% are image posts and 17% are gallery posts.
When is the best time to post on r/ShittyRestrictionFood?
Across 301 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Tuesday at 02:00 UTC (320 avg upvotes), Tuesday at 08:00 UTC (141 avg upvotes), Sunday at 13:00 UTC (97 avg upvotes). The busiest day is Monday. 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/ShittyRestrictionFood?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/ShittyRestrictionFood has 142 upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 301 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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