About r/HumansAreMetal
In its own words:
People doing badass and impressive things.
Community guide
r/HumansAreMetal (#693, about 1.5 million subscribers) — People doing badass and impressive things. A recent sample averaged 0.4 posts a day (~50% image, ~33% link, ~17% text). Its public rules include: No animal cruelty.; Don't be a dick.; Mark NSFW posts.; Content must be impressive.; Name must be included in the title.
What belongs here
Stay inside the room’s stated scope rather than adjacent off-topic dumps. Match posts to: No animal cruelty.; Don't be a dick.; Mark NSFW posts.; Content must be impressive.
How it differs from lookalikes
Prefer this room when your post matches its description and rules—not merely a larger sibling community.
Practical pointers
Read the live sidebar/rules before posting; rules can change.
The community was created on May 3, 2016, which makes it 10 years old. Since Nov 2, 2026, it has gained 675 subscribers (+0.04%). It sits just behind r/IndiaCricket (#693) and ahead of r/VietNam (#695) in our ranking.
What sets r/HumansAreMetal apart
Posts here spark a lot of conversation: the archive averages 29.7 comments per post, roughly 2.3× the typical big subreddit (13.0). Relative to its huge audience, posting is calm — around 0.3 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.
Subscriber growth
Between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 9, 2026, r/HumansAreMetal climbed from 1,536,606 to 1,538,002 subscribers (+1.4K, +0.09%). That is about 27 new members per day. The chart shows 10 weekly subscriber counts.
All-time top posts
The highest-ranked posts in the history of r/HumansAreMetal, from 2019 to 2023, ranked by Reddit.
- Dads are metalu/d3333p7 · May 1, 2020 · image
- Stumbled upon this pic and thought the shirt was just a vulgar cry for attention. Turns out, these are the words this jogger screamed at her would-be rapist in a public restroom, and the squiggly lin…Jul 10, 2019 · 51,635 points · 1,358 comments · image
- This morning, Mike Bruno continued his tradition on 9/11. Climbing 110 flights of stairs in full gear to honor the firefighters who lost their lives.u/PigsCanFly2day · Sep 12, 2020 · video
- Student Archers Take Position to Battle Police After Writing their Last Wordsu/Cumzilla-420 · Nov 17, 2019 · 55,285 points · 2,729 comments · image
- Nadya Tolokonnikova risks her life to protest authoritarianism in Russia.u/loooofa · Apr 5, 2020 · 52,113 points · 1,467 comments · image
- Literally metalu/thugstudios · Jan 20, 2020 · 49,642 points · 745 comments · image
- Dude fights off 3 cops at once, then drives off in a car while being tazedu/SuccYaNan69 · Jun 28, 2022 · 53,345 points · 5,889 comments · video
- SS guard moments before he’s beaten to death by Jewish prisoners after the liberation of Dachauu/lol62056 · Oct 15, 2020 · image
- At age 71 Jack Wilson eliminates would be mass shooter with a headshot 30 ft awayMay 15, 2020 · image
- Dr. Alfa Sa'adu, 68, came out of retirement to fight this pandemic. Today, he became 4th doctor to die from the virus in the UK.Apr 1, 2020 · 48,953 points · 612 comments · image
What r/HumansAreMetal talks about
Looking at the titles of 6 recent posts (Oct 29–Nov 3), the words that come up most are “sentenced”, “setting”, “fire”, “proposed” and “ice”. Other frequent themes are facility, dara, oconnor and woman. Recurring phrases include “setting fire”, “proposed ice”, “dara oconnor” and “ice facility”.
Activity and best time to post
r/HumansAreMetal gets about 0.4 new posts a day. The public archive holds 26,856 posts and 796,950 comments in total, about 29.7 comments per post.
Rules of r/HumansAreMetal
The moderators of r/HumansAreMetal list 5 rules. In short:
- No animal cruelty.
- Don't be a dick.
- Mark NSFW posts.
- Content must be impressive.
- Name must be included in the title.
How to join
Open reddit.com/r/HumansAreMetal 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 many subscribers does r/HumansAreMetal have?
r/HumansAreMetal has 1,538,002 subscribers (Nov 9, 2026), which makes it the #694 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 1,396 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 9, 2026.
How old is r/HumansAreMetal?
r/HumansAreMetal was created on May 3, 2016, so it has been around for 10 years.
How active is r/HumansAreMetal?
Moderately: r/HumansAreMetal gets about 0.4 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 26,856 posts and 796,950 comments.
What is r/HumansAreMetal about?
The community describes itself as: “People doing badass and impressive things.” Recent post titles often mention sentenced, setting, fire, proposed and ice.
Is r/HumansAreMetal safe for work?
Yes. Reddit does not mark r/HumansAreMetal as an 18+ (NSFW) community, and its own rules forbid NSFW content. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.
How do I post on r/HumansAreMetal?
Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/HumansAreMetal accepts both text and link posts, with images, galleries and polls enabled. It has 5 posted rules, starting with: “No animal cruelty.”; “Don't be a dick.”; “Mark NSFW posts.”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.
Which communities are like r/HumansAreMetal?
Communities with similar topics include r/natureismetal (2.4M), r/Metal (2.6M) and r/HumansBeingBros (6.8M).
Stats from public data (data updated Nov 9, 2026; activity, rules and archive totals via the Arctic Shift archive, Nov 6, 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/HumansAreMetal.