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r/traumatizeThemBackNSFW

Traumatizing those that traumatized you. Petty revenge, nuclear revenge, malicious compliance, FAFO, clever comebacks, matching their energy, no contact or just treating them they way they treated you. Founded 2022 · 397.5K members

398.3K members. The best post we have captured here reached 59.4K upvotes, which works out to 149 per 1,000 members.

149peak upvotes per 1,000 members
398.3Kmembers
59.4Kbest post
1.5Kmost 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.

78% 16%
Text 78% Question 16% Image 3% Gallery 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.

matched energy 88 petty revenge 59 Clever Comeback 40 now everyone knows 29 traumatized 23 oh no its the consequences of your actions 20 don't start none won't be none 16 justified asshole 11 FAFO 11 nuclear revenge 10

What the ceiling looks like

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

people on speaker phone in public space

↑ 59.4K 💬 720 image 2025

This felt like the right place for this

↑ 56.8K 💬 843 image 2024

I just witnessed a massacre...

↑ 46.7K 💬 959 text 2024

“That’s not your baby, is it?”

↑ 38.9K 💬 1.1K question 2025

A stranger put her hand on my pregnant wife’s belly.

↑ 37.5K 💬 1K text 2025

Substitute teacher asks student to turn off her insulin pump

↑ 37.1K 💬 1K text 2024

I changed my fiancés Tinder account

↑ 35.9K 💬 727 text 2025

Somebody at work didn't respect my out of office so I let them know what I was doing.

↑ 35.5K 💬 356 text 2025

I told him I’m gay

↑ 32.7K 💬 880 text 2024

Someone tried to stop me from using the women's bathroom because they mistake me for a guy.

↑ 31.1K 💬 1.3K text 2024

Communities its size

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

r/traumatizeThemBack, in numbers

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

What is r/traumatizeThemBack?
r/traumatizeThemBack describes itself this way: Traumatizing those that traumatized you. Petty revenge, nuclear revenge, malicious compliance, FAFO, clever comebacks, matching their energy, no contact or just treating them they way they treated you. It was founded in 2022 and has 397.5K members.
How many members does r/traumatizeThemBack have?
r/traumatizeThemBack has about 398.3K members. ViralHunt has tracked 381 of its posts; the biggest reached 59.4K upvotes, which is 149 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/traumatizeThemBack?
"people on speaker phone in public space" reached 59.4K upvotes and 720 comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/traumatizeThemBack.
What subreddits are similar to r/traumatizeThemBack?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/Trumpvirus, r/alaska, r/Louisiana, r/popculture, r/Antimoneymemes, r/BlueskySkeets.
What kind of posts do best on r/traumatizeThemBack?
Of the posts we hold, 78% are text posts and 16% are question posts.
When is the best time to post on r/traumatizeThemBack?
Across 381 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Tuesday at 19:00 UTC (22K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 21:00 UTC (21.4K avg upvotes), Friday at 00:00 UTC (21.1K 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/traumatizeThemBack?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/traumatizeThemBack has 23.4K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 13 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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