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r/ThriftStoreCats

SHOW ME THE CATS. A place to get all that sweet karma you deserve for being a special kind of crazy cat lady (or lad). Founded 2018 · 69.5K members

69.7K members. The best post we have captured here reached 19.5K upvotes, which works out to 280 per 1,000 members.

280peak upvotes per 1,000 members
69.7Kmembers
19.5Kbest post
206most comments
394posts 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.

57% 41%
Gallery 57% Image 41% Link 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.

Show & Tail 127 Seen in the Wild 92 Meta 2

What the ceiling looks like

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

My holy grail Estate Sale find

↑ 19.5K 💬 206 image 2024

Found this little guy at the thrift store. Someone loved him once, and now I will (:

↑ 14K 💬 96 image 2024

Saw this dirty chipped kitty bowl at Goodwill, then I flipped it over 😭

↑ 13.6K 💬 109 gallery 2025

Scored for $5

↑ 9.5K 💬 118 image 2025

Found an old digital camera in the bins. It had ONE photo in its memory.

↑ 9.1K 💬 43 image 2025

Best find of my life

↑ 7.2K 💬 96 image 2025

Bought at a bar from a guy for way too much money. The cats are padded from the back so they pop out a little.

↑ 6.9K 💬 81 gallery 2025

I regret not buying this plate every single day

↑ 6.9K 💬 70 image 2026

Scored at the thrift store today!! 🥰

↑ 6.2K 💬 95 gallery 2025

Before and after

↑ 6.1K 💬 120 gallery 2025

Communities its size

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

r/ThriftStoreCats, in numbers

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

What is r/ThriftStoreCats?
r/ThriftStoreCats ("SHOW ME THE CATS") describes itself this way: A place to get all that sweet karma you deserve for being a special kind of crazy cat lady (or lad). It was founded in 2018 and has 69.5K members.
How many members does r/ThriftStoreCats have?
r/ThriftStoreCats has about 69.7K members. ViralHunt has tracked 394 of its posts; the biggest reached 19.5K upvotes, which is 280 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/ThriftStoreCats?
"My holy grail Estate Sale find" reached 19.5K upvotes and 206 comments in 2024, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/ThriftStoreCats.
What subreddits are similar to r/ThriftStoreCats?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/greenland, r/Leakednews, r/LetsDiscussThis, r/stevehofstetter, r/StrikeAtPsyche, r/InvictaSolaris.
What kind of posts do best on r/ThriftStoreCats?
Of the posts we hold, 57% are gallery posts and 41% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/ThriftStoreCats?
Across 394 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Wednesday at 14:00 UTC (7.9K avg upvotes), Thursday at 17:00 UTC (7K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 01:00 UTC (3.4K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Saturday. 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/ThriftStoreCats?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/ThriftStoreCats has 3.9K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 14 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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