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A subreddit for sharing those miniature epiphanies that make the mundane more amazing. Founded 2011 · 34.2M members · text posts only

34.2M members. The best post we have captured here reached 219.2K upvotes, which works out to 6 per 1,000 members.

6peak upvotes per 1,000 members
34.2Mmembers
219.2Kbest post
8.6Kmost comments
475posts 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.

96%
Text 96% Question 4%

The topics it labels

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

Casual Thought 226 Speculation 92 Musing 46 Crazy Idea 6 Showerthought 2 Excellent Showerthought 1 Removed 1 [Speculation] 1

What the ceiling looks like

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

Whoever created the tradition of not seeing the bride in the wedding dress beforehand saved countless husbands everywhere from hours of dress shoppin…

↑ 219.2K 💬 2K text 2019

We laugh at dogs getting excited when they hear a bark on TV, but if TV was a nonstop stream of unintelligible noises and then someone suddenly spoke…

↑ 182.2K 💬 1.1K text 2020

When you're a kid, you don't realize you're also watching your mom and dad grow up.

↑ 173.5K 💬 2.8K text 2019

Dads probably bond with dogs so much because, in our society, men don’t get shown a lot of affection but dogs give tons of affection regardless

↑ 160.1K 💬 3.6K text 2019

Being able to tolerate the sound of your own voice in a video is probably the highest form of self acceptance.

↑ 152.6K 💬 2.3K text 2020

Girls don't compliment guys because they're likely to take it non-platonically, guys take it non-platonically because it happens so infrequently they…

↑ 144.4K 💬 5.9K text 2019

If elevators hadn't been invented, all the CEOs and important people would have their offices on the first floor as a sign of status.

↑ 143.1K 💬 1.6K text 2020

If EA suffers big enough losses from the backlash of Battlefront 2, and it all started because some guy couldn't unlock Vader, this will be the secon…

↑ 139.5K 💬 2.6K text 2017

During a nuclear explosion, there is a certain distance of the radius where all the frozen supermarket pizzas are cooked to perfection.

↑ 138.5K 💬 2.3K text 2019

Anxiety is like when video game combat music is playing but you can't find any enemies.

↑ 137.9K 💬 2.1K text 2017

Communities its size

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r/Showerthoughts, in numbers

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

What is r/Showerthoughts?
r/Showerthoughts describes itself this way: A subreddit for sharing those miniature epiphanies that make the mundane more amazing. It was founded in 2011 and has 34.2M members.
How many members does r/Showerthoughts have?
r/Showerthoughts has about 34.2M members. ViralHunt has tracked 475 of its posts; the biggest reached 219.2K upvotes, which is 6 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/Showerthoughts?
"Whoever created the tradition of not seeing the bride in the wedding dress beforehand saved countless husbands everywhere from hours of dres" reached 219.2K upvotes and 2K comments in 2019, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/Showerthoughts.
What subreddits are similar to r/Showerthoughts?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/nextfuckinglevel, r/oddlysatisfying, r/MadeMeSmile, r/BeAmazed, r/wallstreetbets, r/europe.
What kind of posts do best on r/Showerthoughts?
Of the posts we hold, 96% are text posts and 4% are question posts.
When is the best time to post on r/Showerthoughts?
Across 475 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Saturday at 21:00 UTC (84.3K avg upvotes), Thursday at 15:00 UTC (83.2K avg upvotes), Thursday at 12:00 UTC (83.2K 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/Showerthoughts?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/Showerthoughts has 122K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 48 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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