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Well... That sucks.... Posts that make you go: "Well.. that sucks.." Founded 2013 · 4.5M members · links only

4.5M members. The best post we have captured here reached 175.4K upvotes, which works out to 39 per 1,000 members.

39peak upvotes per 1,000 members
4.5Mmembers
175.4Kbest post
11.3Kmost comments
731posts 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% 24% 18%
Image 57% Video 24% Gallery 18%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

/r/all 84 Misleading, cat is just sleeping 1 Possibly fake 1

What the ceiling looks like

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

What really kill us are the "Memories".

↑ 175.4K 💬 4.9K video 2020

I wore a white headband in my Costco ID photo

↑ 168.3K 💬 2.8K image 2026

$80 to felony in 3...2...1...

↑ 149.3K 💬 11.3K video 2019

If you're having a bad day just remember, you could be the guy who's driving a bus full of potential Coronavirus carriers to quarantine while being o…

↑ 148.7K 💬 1.8K image 2020

Company owner decided to stop paying his drivers so one of them parked their semi on the owners Ferrari and just left it there.

↑ 144.1K 💬 3.9K image 2020

my compensation for working through a pandemic for the past 3 months...

↑ 137K 💬 6.9K image 2020

My friend works as an extra in movies and does stock photography.... just saw him pictured as a sex offender on a bus in Florida

↑ 135.7K 💬 1.6K image 2019

"Can you pick out the one who robbed you...?"

↑ 135.2K 💬 1.9K video 2020

My worst nightmare finally became a reality

↑ 134.5K 💬 3.6K image 2025

My dad says, “Google is doing this stupid thing where the blur the top left part of the results. Facebook is doing it too actually.” He melted the to…

↑ 131.2K 💬 1.4K image 2020

Communities its size

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

r/Wellthatsucks, in numbers

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What is r/Wellthatsucks?
r/Wellthatsucks ("Well... That sucks...") describes itself this way: Posts that make you go: "Well.. that sucks..". It was founded in 2013 and has 4.5M members.
How many members does r/Wellthatsucks have?
r/Wellthatsucks has about 4.5M members. ViralHunt has tracked 731 of its posts; the biggest reached 175.4K upvotes, which is 39 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/Wellthatsucks?
"What really kill us are the "Memories"." reached 175.4K upvotes and 4.9K comments in 2020, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/Wellthatsucks.
What subreddits are similar to r/Wellthatsucks?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/LeopardsAteMyFace, r/awfuleverything, r/interesting, r/im14andthisisdeep, r/JustGuysBeingDudes, r/freefolk.
What kind of posts do best on r/Wellthatsucks?
Of the posts we hold, 57% are image posts and 24% are video posts.
When is the best time to post on r/Wellthatsucks?
Across 731 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Wednesday at 21:00 UTC (74.9K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 15:00 UTC (74.8K avg upvotes), Sunday at 13:00 UTC (71.6K 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/Wellthatsucks?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/Wellthatsucks has 119.4K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 235 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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