r/Showerthoughts

About r/Showerthoughts

In its own words:

A subreddit for sharing those miniature epiphanies that make the mundane more amazing.

The community was created on Oct 18, 2011, which makes it 15 years old. Since Oct 19, 2026, it has gained 3,148 subscribers (+0.01%). It sits just behind r/science (#11) and ahead of r/pics (#13) in our ranking.

What sets r/Showerthoughts apart

r/Showerthoughts is far more text-driven than most big subreddits: 99% of its recent posts are text posts, against a median of 17% across the Top 100. r/Showerthoughts is more of a browsing community than a debating one: 5.5 comments per post on average, well under the Top 100 median of 16.2.

Subscriber growth

Between Sep 19, 2026 and Oct 29, 2026, r/Showerthoughts climbed from 34,193,730 to 34,205,186 subscribers (+11.5K, +0.03%). That is about 286 new members per day. The chart uses our weekly snapshots (8 so far), so it gets longer every week.

Top posts on r/Showerthoughts this week

This week’s highest-ranked posts, in Reddit’s own order (collected Oct 29, 2026).

1. Talking to ChatGPT is like telling your ideas to a golden retriever. They'll get hyped no matter what idiotic thing you say.u/Talmadge_Mcgooliger · Oct 24 · text post
2. Synthesizer music used to make us think of the future but now it makes us think of the past.u/Domkizzle · Oct 23 · text post
3. It not impossible that the first generation of autonomous agents have already escaped onto the internet since they would have no incentive to announce themselves, and are already better at cybersecur…u/cloudkeeper · Oct 26 · text post
4. It’s actually really cool that phone selfie cameras are high res+low latency enough to use as mirrors now.u/Aryore · Oct 27 · text post
5. There was probably a single worst day on earth that the whole planet experienced, and we just don't know about it.u/bajadasaurus234 · Oct 29 · text post
6. If flying cars become normal, will we put lighthouses on mountains?u/Dodger7777 · Oct 24 · text post
7. Making fingerguns work globally for just a few seconds would cause a lot of deaths.u/Woomy3000 · Oct 27 · text post
8. Though HR is a highly disliked department, we almost never see a post dissing HR on LinkedIn. That makes is the most feared department also.u/ALittleUseless · Oct 25 · text post
9. "Hunt and Peck" typing is considered the wrong way to type on a keyboard. However, it is the primary way everyone types on a smartphone.u/ACrazySpider · Oct 27 · text post
10. All these young women with major vocal fry affect. One day they will get old and have old voices. They are robbing themselves of their young voice years.u/redditshy · Oct 29 · text post

All-time top posts

The highest-ranked posts in the history of r/Showerthoughts, from 2017 to 2020, ranked by Reddit.

1. Whoever created the tradition of not seeing the bride in the wedding dress beforehand saved countless husbands everywhere from hours of dress shopping and will forever be a hero to all men.u/Yorkshire45 · Feb 9, 2019 · 188,884 points · 2,040 comments · text post
2. We laugh at dogs getting excited when they hear a bark on TV, but if TV was a nonstop stream of unintelligible noises and then someone suddenly spoke to you in your language, you'd be pretty fucking …Jan 4, 2020 · 170,542 points · 1,128 comments · text post
3. When you're a kid, you don't realize you're also watching your mom and dad grow up.u/zjb55446 · Mar 2, 2019 · 161,757 points · 2,896 comments · text post
4. Dads probably bond with dogs so much because, in our society, men don’t get shown a lot of affection but dogs give tons of affection regardlessAug 10, 2019 · 139,105 points · 3,647 comments · text post
5. Being able to tolerate the sound of your own voice in a video is probably the highest form of self acceptance.u/RodzRodzRodz · Apr 19, 2020 · 135,722 points · 2,261 comments · text post
6. Girls don't compliment guys because they're likely to take it non-platonically, guys take it non-platonically because it happens so infrequently they don't know how to handle itu/belly_bell · Jan 17, 2019 · 132,635 points · 6,051 comments · text post
7. If elevators hadn't been invented, all the CEOs and important people would have their offices on the first floor as a sign of status.Jan 13, 2020 · 137,076 points · 1,600 comments · text post
8. If EA suffers big enough losses from the backlash of Battlefront 2, and it all started because some guy couldn't unlock Vader, this will be the second time Anakin brought balance to something.u/Fourohfourscore · Nov 15, 2017 · 130,950 points · 2,634 comments · text post
9. During a nuclear explosion, there is a certain distance of the radius where all the frozen supermarket pizzas are cooked to perfection.u/Raghnarok · Nov 23, 2019 · 135,952 points · 2,380 comments · text post
10. Anxiety is like when video game combat music is playing but you can't find any enemies.Dec 27, 2017 · 123,661 points · 2,170 comments · text post

What r/Showerthoughts talks about

Looking at the titles of 542 recent posts (Oct 21–Oct 28), the words that come up most are “probably”, “life”, “work”, “person” and “actually”. Other frequent themes are human, become, world, making, past and called. Recurring phrases include “synthesizer music”, “data centers”, “making fingerguns” and “fingerguns work”. By format, 99% are text posts and 1% are links.

• probably 28
• life 27
• work 17
• person 17
• actually 16
• human 15
• become 13
• world 13
• making 12
• past 12
• called 11
• men 11
• good 11
• future 11
• earth 10
• cars 10
• built 10
• put 9

Popular post flairs: Removed (461), Casual Thought - Pending (29), Speculation - Pending (20), Musing - Pending (15), Forbidden Topic – Removed (10), Showerthought - Pending (2).

Activity and best time to post

r/Showerthoughts gets about 83 new posts a day. The public archive holds 6,786,434 posts and 37,460,598 comments in total, about 5.5 comments per post.

Rules of r/Showerthoughts

The moderators of r/Showerthoughts list 8 rules. In short:

1. All content must be original.
2. All posts must meet the minimum requirements for their flair.
3. Your entire thought must be in the post's title.
4. Submissions must be offered in error-free English.
5. No misinformation.
6. No done-to-death or banned submissions.
7. No spam or spam-enabling activity of any kind.
8. Remain civil at all times.

How to join

Open reddit.com/r/Showerthoughts 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

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/Showerthoughts.