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Sympathetic Monsters. Monsters need love too. A place to collect hugs for silly, brave, humble, fabulous, homesick, terrified, or sympathetic monsters. Founded 2015 · 194.8K members

196.4K members. The best post we have captured here reached 19.5K upvotes, which works out to 99 per 1,000 members.

99peak upvotes per 1,000 members
196.4Kmembers
19.5Kbest post
230most comments
381posts 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.

69% 23%
Image 69% Gallery 23% Link 6% Video 2%

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 80

What the ceiling looks like

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

by my_your_ban on X

↑ 19.5K 💬 65 image 2025

Art by beetle moses

↑ 14.6K 💬 41 image 2025

Even more Dandy Lions!

↑ 14.3K 💬 52 image 2017

Healthcare professional (by @pocketss)

↑ 13.5K 💬 95 gallery 2026

Bring your kids to work day.

↑ 13.3K 💬 38 image 2017

Dandy Lion by Iguana Mouth

↑ 12.8K 💬 66 image 2017

Eldritch Baby by Sarah Andersen

↑ 12.5K 💬 28 image 2024

What a day....

↑ 11.8K 💬 54 image 2017

Megalodon by beetle moses

↑ 11.6K 💬 33 image 2026

THRALLS, boost my engagement (by @_pocketss_)

↑ 11.2K 💬 51 gallery 2026

Communities its size

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

r/SympatheticMonsters, in numbers

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

What is r/SympatheticMonsters?
r/SympatheticMonsters ("Sympathetic Monsters") describes itself this way: Monsters need love too. A place to collect hugs for silly, brave, humble, fabulous, homesick, terrified, or sympathetic monsters. It was founded in 2015 and has 194.8K members.
How many members does r/SympatheticMonsters have?
r/SympatheticMonsters has about 196.4K members. ViralHunt has tracked 381 of its posts; the biggest reached 19.5K upvotes, which is 99 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/SympatheticMonsters?
"by my_your_ban on X" reached 19.5K upvotes and 65 comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/SympatheticMonsters.
What subreddits are similar to r/SympatheticMonsters?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/Leakednews, r/circled, r/International, r/Global_News_Hub, r/FBI, r/Trumpvirus.
What kind of posts do best on r/SympatheticMonsters?
Of the posts we hold, 69% are image posts and 23% are gallery posts.
When is the best time to post on r/SympatheticMonsters?
Across 381 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Monday at 23:00 UTC (7.3K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 15:00 UTC (6.6K avg upvotes), Sunday at 04:00 UTC (6.2K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Wednesday. 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/SympatheticMonsters?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/SympatheticMonsters has 9.3K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 6 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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