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Do you REALLY want that on your body forever?. A place for shitty tattoos and stories behind shitty tattoos, either in taste or execution...or both. Let's all laugh at the awful creations people have volunteered to have on their bodies for the rest of their life (barring expensive and painful removal surgery). Founded 2012 · 848K members · links only

848.4K members. The best post we have captured here reached 109.4K upvotes, which works out to 129 per 1,000 members.

129peak upvotes per 1,000 members
848.4Kmembers
109.4Kbest post
9.5Kmost comments
672posts 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.

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The topics it labels

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What the ceiling looks like

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

Biggest regret.

↑ 109.4K 💬 4K image 2023

My 15y old brother tattooed this on me.

↑ 108.4K 💬 2.8K image 2024

Would you call this a shitty tattoo or just a dumb one?

↑ 95.9K 💬 9.5K gallery 2023

Is this shitty?

↑ 72.4K 💬 2.8K image 2023

For the people in my last post who requested the full chest tattoo - here ya go

↑ 45.6K 💬 4.2K image 2023

Why would anyone get a window tattooed? 🤔

↑ 45K 💬 1.7K image 2025

Been about a year, and I still love it. But be honest, is this a shitty tattoo?

↑ 43.1K 💬 4.2K image 2023

When I was 12, I stabbed my finger on accident trying to open a pen. I'm in my 30s and this has never gone away.

↑ 42.6K 💬 3.5K image 2023

Does this count? I’m an only child so this is weird to me

↑ 41.7K 💬 5K image 2024

This is shitty on so many levels

↑ 35.7K 💬 179 image 2023

Communities its size

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

r/shittytattoos, in numbers

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What is r/shittytattoos?
r/shittytattoos ("Do you REALLY want that on your body forever?") describes itself this way: A place for shitty tattoos and stories behind shitty tattoos, either in taste or execution...or both. Let's all laugh at the awful creations people have volunteered to have on their bodies for the rest of their life (barring expensive and painful removal surgery). It was founded in 2012 and has 848K members.
How many members does r/shittytattoos have?
r/shittytattoos has about 848.4K members. ViralHunt has tracked 672 of its posts; the biggest reached 109.4K upvotes, which is 129 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/shittytattoos?
"Biggest regret." reached 109.4K upvotes and 4K comments in 2023, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/shittytattoos.
What subreddits are similar to r/shittytattoos?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/popculture, r/ProgressiveHQ, r/StarWarsBattlefront, r/NoFilterNews, r/BlackPeopleofReddit, r/Archaeology.
What kind of posts do best on r/shittytattoos?
Of the posts we hold, 75% are image posts and 25% are gallery posts.
When is the best time to post on r/shittytattoos?
Across 672 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Tuesday at 20:00 UTC (28.4K avg upvotes), Friday at 17:00 UTC (24.1K avg upvotes), Monday at 14:00 UTC (23.6K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Sunday. 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/shittytattoos?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/shittytattoos has 25.5K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 210 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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