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Averages 5 posts/day, top 50% activity. Most active Wednesdays around 4 PM UTC. Mostly text posts (100%).

Posts / Day Average posts per day this month. Arrow is change vs the prior calendar month.
5 23%
Avg Upvotes Mean net upvotes per post this month (upvotes minus downvotes). Arrow is change vs the prior month.
7 65%
Avg Comments Mean number of comments per post this month. Arrow is change vs the prior month when that month’s data is available.
15 12%
Activity Rank #23,451 by posts/day among 90,883 tracked SFW subreddits as of Sep 2026 (Top 50%). Arrow is spots gained or lost vs the prior month.
#23,451 3,406
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Posts w/ Links The percentage of posts that link off-site. This counts true link posts plus text posts with a URL in the body. Image and video posts are not counted.
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Low-Reply Rate Share of posts with 0 or 1 comment. A single comment is often an automated mod reply rather than real community discussion.
34%

r/showerthoughs Traffic & Engagement

Volume and engagement over time

Posts/DayAvg Upvotes05101520050100150Sep 1Sep 8Sep 15Sep 22Sep 29
Posts/Day Avg Upvotes Mean net upvotes per post in this bucket.

Post Format

Top Post Type Text
Typical Title Length Medium (92 chars)
Peak Day Wednesday

Upvote Distribution

How upvoted posts perform Only posts with 2+ upvotes. The bands below show how those posts are spread by upvote count.

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Posts that get upvoted Share of posts that received at least one upvote (2+ net upvotes). Most posts at 1 upvote are excluded. 36%
Median upvoted post Median upvotes among posts that received upvotes. Differs from Avg Upvotes in the snapshot, which includes every post. 8
Top post Highest upvote count on a single post this month. 368

r/showerthoughs Most Active Times

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Most Active by Day

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Mon 6 PM
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Thu 8 AM
Fri 12 PM
Sat 9 PM

r/showerthoughs Flair Performance

Upvotes and volume by flair

This subreddit doesn't use post flairs.

No flaired posts were found in this month's data.

Post Type Breakdown

Share by text, image, or link

100%text posts

r/showerthoughs Trending Keywords

Ranked by how often they appear

KeywordMentions ▼UpvotesComments
people
26 (16.3%)
512
never
19 (11.9%)
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ever
10 (6.3%)
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time
10 (6.3%)
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r/showerthoughs Mentioned Domains

Most linked sites

This community doesn't link off-site.

Its posts are text, images, or discussion rather than outbound links.

r/showerthoughs Top Posts

Highest-performing posts

After military service, Israelis travel the world with a government stipend. The US bankrolls Israel's military and subsidizes a travel experience most Americans can't afford to take.

368 upvotes 607 comments text Sep 2

What single food/meal could we survive on if it's all we ate indefinitely?

93 upvotes 278 comments text Sep 28

Microwaves let you know your food is done with the kind of urgency that the oven should be using.

74 upvotes 25 comments text Sep 25

There is an invention out there that hasnt yet been invented, that when it's invented we'll all wonder how we never thought of it and wonder how we lived our lives without it

57 upvotes 52 comments text Sep 19

It's weird that the legal age for watching porn is the same age as for performing in it.

35 upvotes 12 comments text Sep 22

People think the world's coming to ab end but the sun has approximately 5 billion years left and the earth is 4.5 billion years old. Fair to say earth is just approaching a midlife crisis.

34 upvotes 44 comments text Sep 20

There are people out there who have never watched SpongeBob.

33 upvotes 90 comments text Sep 14

If humanity ever becomes a spacefaring species, “I’ve never left Earth” might one day sound as strange as “I’ve never left my hometown” does today.

20 upvotes 21 comments text Sep 27

Why does my cat watch me poop?

20 upvotes 41 comments text Sep 12

there’s something out there that nobody’s thought of, but we will never know because nobody thought of it ever.

19 upvotes 18 comments text Sep 24

r/showerthoughs Audience Overlap

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r/showerthoughs FAQ

What's the best time to post on r/showerthoughs?

Based on posting volume, r/showerthoughs is most active on Wednesdays around 4 PM UTC. That window has the most community activity, but busier hours also mean more competition for attention.

How active is r/showerthoughs?

r/showerthoughs averages 5 posts per day and ranks in the top 50% for activity among tracked SFW subreddits.

How many upvotes do posts on r/showerthoughs get?

Posts on r/showerthoughs average about 7 upvotes this month (net score per post).

What kind of posts does r/showerthoughs get most?

On r/showerthoughs, most posts are text posts (100%)