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A place for snake owners and lovers to share snake related stories, pictures, advice, and ask questions. Founded 2010 · 989.6K members

990.7K members. The best post we have captured here reached 22.6K upvotes, which works out to 23 per 1,000 members.

23peak upvotes per 1,000 members
990.7Kmembers
22.6Kbest post
1.5Kmost comments
411posts 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.

27% 24% 20% 11% 9% 9%
Image 27% Gallery 24% Video 20% Text 11% Link 9% Question 9%

The topics it labels

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

Pet Snake Questions 120 Pet Snake Pictures 103 General Question / Discussion 80 Wild Snake Photos and Questions - Not for ID 65 Wild Snake ID - Go To /r/whatsthissnake and Include Location 2 Wild Snake ID - Include Location 1 Wild Snake Photos and Questions 1 Pet Snake or "morph" ID 1

What the ceiling looks like

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

Two dudes chillin in a hot tub…

↑ 22.6K 💬 214 video 2025

Corn on the course ⛳️

↑ 15.8K 💬 378 gallery 2026

He will be squished.

↑ 15K 💬 197 video 2025

Helping an elderly corn snake shed (read description before commenting)

↑ 14.4K 💬 308 video 2026

I think they like their new hide

↑ 14.2K 💬 143 image 2025

Today he escaped, please roast him.

↑ 13.5K 💬 1.5K gallery 2024

My MIL sent me this picture along with the following text message.

↑ 12.2K 💬 329 image 2026

My grandma recently got dementia and forgot that she hates snakes 😂😂😂

↑ 12.1K 💬 201 image 2025

It’s happened- I don’t have much longer now…

↑ 11.8K 💬 513 gallery 2025

I moved a tarp and this garter was napping in the folds. Then he noticed the worms that I had also disturbed. He ate over 8 of them. It was wonderful…

↑ 10.1K 💬 456 video 2026

Communities its size

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

r/snakes, in numbers

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

What is r/snakes?
r/snakes describes itself this way: A place for snake owners and lovers to share snake related stories, pictures, advice, and ask questions. It was founded in 2010 and has 989.6K members.
How many members does r/snakes have?
r/snakes has about 990.7K members. ViralHunt has tracked 411 of its posts; the biggest reached 22.6K upvotes, which is 23 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/snakes?
"Two dudes chillin in a hot tub…" reached 22.6K upvotes and 214 comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/snakes.
What subreddits are similar to r/snakes?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/popculture, r/StarWarsBattlefront, r/BlackPeopleofReddit, r/Archaeology, r/illinois, r/ChicagoSuburbs.
What kind of posts do best on r/snakes?
Of the posts we hold, 27% are image posts and 24% are gallery posts.
When is the best time to post on r/snakes?
Across 411 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Friday at 02:00 UTC (5.1K avg upvotes), Monday at 17:00 UTC (4.8K avg upvotes), Sunday at 17:00 UTC (4.6K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Friday. 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/snakes?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/snakes has 7.9K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 80 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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