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Squirrels, Squirrels, and More Squirrels!. A community devoted to one of the most fascinating, mischievous, adorable critters on our planet. We feature photos, blogs, studies, videos, and up-to-date news on these bushy-tailed little guys! Founded 2009 · 123.4K members

124.1K members. The best post we have captured here reached 11.9K upvotes, which works out to 96 per 1,000 members.

96peak upvotes per 1,000 members
124.1Kmembers
11.9Kbest post
2.6Kmost comments
416posts 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.

33% 31% 31%
Image 33% Video 31% Gallery 31% Text 3% Question 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.

Original Content 119 Help! Baby Squirrel! 18 General Help 14 Help! Injured or ill adult squirrel! 12 Discussion 7 Repost 4

What the ceiling looks like

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

Watermelon is clearly his favorite!

↑ 11.9K 💬 221 video 2025

This squirrel ran up my leg when I was doing yard work! Help!

↑ 9.7K 💬 402 video 2025

My little Brodent left me a present where I usually leave his "lunch" on my way to work was this deliberate affection? or am I reading into a coincid…

↑ 8.9K 💬 231 gallery 2025

I found a squirrel butt up sticking out of box of garbage.....

↑ 8.7K 💬 643 gallery 2025

Meet Endo, she nearly died in a parking lot.

↑ 8.6K 💬 143 gallery 2025

This has to be one of the cutest things ive seen.

↑ 7.9K 💬 107 video 2025

This poor baby squirrel fell out of a tree and had to get a tiny cast on its leg.

↑ 6.1K 💬 82 image 2025

Suspect was found guilty of being too cute.

↑ 6K 💬 73 video 2025

Cute Baby climbed up me

↑ 5.9K 💬 138 gallery 2025

Adorable neighbor So cute!

↑ 5.9K 💬 139 image 2025

Communities its size

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

r/squirrels, in numbers

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

What is r/squirrels?
r/squirrels ("Squirrels, Squirrels, and More Squirrels!") describes itself this way: A community devoted to one of the most fascinating, mischievous, adorable critters on our planet. We feature photos, blogs, studies, videos, and up-to-date news on these bushy-tailed little guys. It was founded in 2009 and has 123.4K members.
How many members does r/squirrels have?
r/squirrels has about 124.1K members. ViralHunt has tracked 416 of its posts; the biggest reached 11.9K upvotes, which is 96 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/squirrels?
"Watermelon is clearly his favorite!" reached 11.9K upvotes and 221 comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/squirrels.
What subreddits are similar to r/squirrels?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/greenland, r/Leakednews, r/stevehofstetter, r/StrikeAtPsyche, r/PopularCultureZone, r/topofreddit.
What kind of posts do best on r/squirrels?
Of the posts we hold, 33% are image posts and 31% are video posts.
When is the best time to post on r/squirrels?
Across 416 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Tuesday at 21:00 UTC (3.6K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 02:00 UTC (3K avg upvotes), Thursday at 15:00 UTC (2.5K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Tuesday. 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/squirrels?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/squirrels has 4.8K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 306 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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