r/GetMotivated on SubMouse

About r/GetMotivated

It sits just behind r/food (#24) and ahead of r/explainlikeimfive (#26) in our ranking.

What sets r/GetMotivated apart

Compared with other large communities, r/GetMotivated leans heavily on text posts (60% of recent posts; the typical Top 100 subreddit sits at 17%). People mostly look and upvote here rather than comment — about 7.8 comments per post, against 16.2 for a typical large subreddit. Relative to its huge audience, posting is calm — around 0.4 new posts a day per million members, which puts it in the quietest fifth of the Top 100. A good post has less competition here.

All-time top posts

The highest-ranked posts in the history of r/GetMotivated, from 2017 to 2021, ranked by Reddit.

[Image] Some people just don’t make excuses.u/SoDakZak · Mar 19, 2018 · 139,842 points · 3,356 comments · image
[Image] Jonah Hill on doing stuff that used to make you insecure.u/OMGLMAOWTF_com · Jan 15, 2019 · 122,659 points · 3,387 comments · image
[Image] Life gives you two pathsu/Aeogor · Mar 2, 2018 · 109,499 points · 2,380 comments · image
[Image] Truly ascended in career pathDec 17, 2018 · 109,403 points · 1,799 comments · image
[image] Absolute Motivationu/iBleeedorange · May 29, 2017 · 97,022 points · 2,226 comments · image
[Image]If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at changeu/Sumit316 · Mar 8, 2019 · 99,368 points · 2,310 comments · image
[Image] In 2006 my boyfriend asked me an epic painting for his birthday. 10 years later I decided it was time to finally do what I really wanted. I quit my old job and started to learn how tho paint.…u/AsurM · Aug 28, 2020 · image
[Image] Malala Yousafzai's first day as a student at Oxford.u/Just_Dance_Ok · Oct 9, 2017 · 94,229 points · 2,931 comments · link
[Image] Found a note from 2 months ago, made a few updatesu/thequietguy_ · Feb 20, 2018 · 91,415 points · 1,619 comments · image
[Video] The Rock and the best thing that never happened.u/Two_Inches_Of_Fun · Jan 9, 2018 · 89,693 points · 1,430 comments · image

What r/GetMotivated talks about

Across 40 recent posts (Oct 21–Oct 28), the words that come up most are “discussion”, “video”, “life”, “image” and “story”. Other frequent themes are text, motivated, happy, helped, thought and turn. Recurring phrases include “personal growth”. By format, 60% are text posts, 20% are videos and 18% are images.

discussion 17
video 9
life 6
image 6
story 5
text 3
motivated 2
happy 2
helped 2
thought 2
turn 2
personal 2
growth 2

Popular post flairs: DISCUSSION (16), IMAGE (7), VIDEO (7), STORY (4), TEXT (3), Successful Sundays (1).

Activity and best time to post

r/GetMotivated gets about 9.5 new posts a day. The public archive holds 468,332 posts and 3,648,547 comments in total, about 7.8 comments per post. Last week the busiest day was Friday (8 posts) and the quietest was Tuesday (2). Posting peaks around 02:00 UTC and is lowest around 00:00 UTC.

Posts per hour of the day, UTC, Oct 21, 2026 – Oct 27, 2026

Text posts 60%Videos 20%Images 18%Links 3%

Rules of r/GetMotivated

The moderators of r/GetMotivated list 10 rules. In short:

All post must be tagged
Hate speech
Posting rights require minimum qualifications.
No advertising, fundraising, surveys or studies.
Comments must be on-topic
Posts must be motivational.
No walls of text or cross links allowed. Videos must be 3 minutes or less.
No emojis
No progress pictures.
Titles should clearly explain the nature of the motivation.

How to join

Open reddit.com/r/GetMotivated and press “Join”. Read the community rules in the sidebar before you post: every subreddit is run by its own volunteer moderators.

Frequently asked questions

How big is r/GetMotivated?

r/GetMotivated has 24,094,400 subscribers (Oct 29, 2026), which makes it the #25 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking.

Is r/GetMotivated still active?

Yes. r/GetMotivated gets about 9.5 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 468,332 posts and 3,648,547 comments.

What is the best time to post in r/GetMotivated?

Based on post counts from Oct 21, 2026 to Oct 27, 2026, the busiest day was Friday and the quietest Tuesday, and most posts arrive around 02:00 UTC, with the fewest around 00:00 UTC. More posts also means more competition, so a quieter hour can help a post get noticed.

What kind of posts are on r/GetMotivated?

r/GetMotivated is a large Reddit community. Recent post titles often mention discussion, video, life, image and story. Most posts are text posts (60%).

Is r/GetMotivated SFW?

Yes. Reddit does not mark r/GetMotivated as an 18+ (NSFW) community. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.

What are the rules of r/GetMotivated?

Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/GetMotivated accepts both text and link posts, with images, videos and galleries enabled. It has 10 posted rules, starting with: “All post must be tagged”; “Hate speech”; “Posting rights require minimum qualifications.”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.

What subreddits are similar to r/GetMotivated?

Communities with similar topics include r/FunnyAnimals (8.7M), r/funny (67.6M), r/LifeProTips (23.1M), r/philosophy (18.6M) and r/AnimalsBeingDerps (8.5M).

Stats from public data (data updated Oct 29, 2026; activity, rules and archive totals via the Arctic Shift archive, Oct 29, 2026; top posts from Reddit’s public feeds). Point and comment counts are archive snapshots and can be lower than on Reddit today. SubMouse is an independent directory and is not affiliated with Reddit or the moderators of r/GetMotivated.

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