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r/uglyduckling

293.1K members. The best post we have captured here reached 37.7K upvotes, which works out to 129 per 1,000 members.

129peak upvotes per 1,000 members
293.1Kmembers
37.7Kbest post
1.7Kmost comments
101posts 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.

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What the ceiling looks like

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

27-35 after opioid addiction and prison

↑ 37.7K πŸ’¬ 1.3K gallery 2024

15 to 22! Still working on confidence

↑ 34.4K πŸ’¬ 1.7K gallery 2025

Middle school (age 12) β€”> Senior year graduation photo (age 18) β€”> Now (age 21)

↑ 22.7K πŸ’¬ 1.4K gallery 2024

18 to 25

↑ 22.2K πŸ’¬ 1.3K gallery 2024

4 years between the photos. Used to really dislike how I looked but slowly and bit by bit I started to treat myself a lil nicer, didn't realize the d…

↑ 18.4K πŸ’¬ 622 image 2017

(20) to (25)

↑ 18.3K πŸ’¬ 403 image 2026

21/31

↑ 18K πŸ’¬ 595 image 2024

17 to 23: How far some self care can take you :)

↑ 16.3K πŸ’¬ 940 gallery 2025

2020 to present (age 25 to age 31)

↑ 14.8K πŸ’¬ 212 gallery 2026

4th grade me & 22 year old me. The photographer even made me push my glasses up because I liked to wear them on the tip of my nose -_-

↑ 14.3K πŸ’¬ 434 image 2017

Communities its size

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/uglyduckling, 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 We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong.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.