About r/SubredditDrama
In its own words:
The place where people can come and talk about reddit fights and other dramatic happenings from other subreddits.
Community guide
r/SubredditDrama (#912, about 1.2 million) documents fights and dramatic threads from elsewhere on Reddit—with neutrality rules and a hard ban on brigading the linked threads.
What belongs
Write-ups of Reddit drama (about 8 posts/day). Rules ban trolling/slurs, flamewars, summoning users, posting drama you’re in, call-out-only links, biased titles, making readers hunt for the drama, off-site non-drama, and voting in linked threads.
Versus HobbyDrama
HobbyDrama covers niche hobby scandals. SRD is meta-Reddit conflict coverage with “don’t touch the popcorn source” norms.
Practical pointers
Stay neutral in titles; never vote or comment in the linked thread from SRD.
The community was created on Aug 25, 2011, which makes it 15 years old. Since Nov 2, 2026, it has gained 1,089 subscribers (+0.09%). It sits just behind r/Kanye (#911) and ahead of r/netflixwitcher (#913) in our ranking.
What sets r/SubredditDrama apart
r/SubredditDrama is far more text-driven than most big subreddits: 82% of its recent posts are text posts, against a median of 35% across the Top 100. Posts here spark a lot of conversation: the archive averages 69.2 comments per post, roughly 5.3× the typical big subreddit (13.0).
Subscriber growth
Between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 9, 2026, r/SubredditDrama went up from 1,161,490 to 1,168,649 subscribers (+7.2K, +0.62%). That is about 140 new members per day. The chart shows 10 weekly subscriber counts.
Top posts on r/SubredditDrama this week
What the community upvoted most over the last seven days, as ranked by Reddit (collected Nov 8, 2026).
- r/conservative bemoans El-Sayed’s Michican victoryu/itsthefunkydiabetic · Nov 4 · link
- "Still insane Texas has fallen but I guess all those California, New York, and Hispanic imports did a number. " The few users left on R/conservative crash out over losing Texas (and several other sta…u/CummingInTheNile · Nov 4 · text post
- Head mod of r/BlackPeopleofReddit makes post claiming “This Is a Space for Black Voices, Black Culture, Black Consciousness, and Black Community.“ All comments calling them out for how they acted lea…u/BBunny821 · Nov 6 · text post
- "Looks like Soros won this one, can't wait to own nothing and be gay." r/elonmusk reacts to Musk spending nearly 500 million dollars on republicans candidates in the 2026 midterm electionsu/CummingInTheNile · Nov 5 · text post
- r/teenIndia fouder gets outed as a 24 yr old CP promoter. Mods delete posts calling him outu/biryani-ankle · Nov 2 · text post
- r/DoomerCircleJerk reacts to the US midterm election resultsu/Francis_J_Eva · Nov 4 · text post
- Journalist Jason Schreier reports that The Elder Scrolls VI is still at least 2 years away from releasing. r/TESVI wants to shoot an arrow into his kneeu/beary_neutral · Nov 5 · text post
- "I was sent from Somalia to vote in Michigan and Texas." r/Doomercirclejerk ponders whether the midterms will lead to an Islamic takeover of Americau/bayonettaisonsteam · Nov 6 · text post
- "Do you support this AI manifesto, and do you think your colleagues are losers? “ Protonmail tries to astroturf its way out of public criticism of its latest Management decision. Proton users are not…u/TheWeirdestEd · Nov 1 · text post
- "How is a billionaire being realist doomerism?" Sam Altman says it's terrible for people to own their own RAM. r/doomercirclejerk discusses if he has a point.u/bayonettaisonsteam · Nov 3 · text post
All-time top posts
The highest-ranked posts in the history of r/SubredditDrama, from 2016 to 2025, ranked by Reddit.
- /r/The_Donald has been quarantined. Discuss this dramatic happening here!u/DramaMod · Jun 26, 2019 · 65,481 points · 24,078 comments · text post
- Right wingers of r/Conservative have realized their mistake of previously supporting Trump and have been expressing their concerns against him, only for the subreddit to now ban their own members and…u/AnotherRightDoc · Mar 1, 2025 · text post
- Conservative Sub is fighting with itself - paranoia about being ‘infiltrated’u/BanjoSpaceMan · Feb 21, 2025 · text post
- Elon Musk directly pressured Reddit CEO to ban r/WhitePeopleTwitter, delete subreddit's DOGE post, and undo bans on X links, new report reveals.Mar 28, 2025 · text post
- r/conservative is having a very hard time coming to terms that Vance Boelter is hardline conservativeu/FAMUgolfer · Jun 17, 2025 · link
- r/The_Donald is imploding, following Trump's pro-gun control comments, users upset and expressing distaste with Trump, mods are banning countless longtime posters / anyone disagreeing with Trump. It'…u/VatoCabron · Mar 1, 2018 · 41,074 points · 6,525 comments · text post
- Top Moderator of r/conspiracy, axolotl_peyotl, has been permanently suspended.u/-GovernmentBirdDrone · Jan 7, 2021 · text post
- The_donald has gone private in protest of their clash with the adminsu/stopscopiesme · May 20, 2017 · 39,328 points · 10,391 comments · text post
- "He could literally r*pe a child on Fox News, look to the camera and say "Are you enjoying this America?" and his cult would still find an excuse for him." Trumpers in r/TikTokCringe get triggered ov…u/CummingInTheNile · Aug 5, 2025 · text post
- Obama says that Republicans foster a victim complex in white males. r/conservative takes great offense to this.Nov 26, 2020 · text post
What r/SubredditDrama talks about
Looking at the titles of 45 recent posts (Oct 29–Nov 4), the words that come up most are “users”, “election”, “left”, “pics” and “discussion”. Other frequent themes are sub, debate, game, texas, political and history. Recurring phrases include “election results”. By format, 82% are text posts and 18% are links.
Activity and best time to post
r/SubredditDrama gets about 7.9 new posts a day. The public archive holds 175,649 posts and 12,154,912 comments in total, about 69.2 comments per post. Last week the busiest day was Wednesday (9 posts) and the quietest was Saturday (2). Posting peaks around 13:00 UTC and is lowest around 00:00 UTC.
Rules of r/SubredditDrama
The moderators of r/SubredditDrama list 9 rules. In short:
- No trolling, hate speech, or using slurs
- Avoid insults, flamewars, or flamebait
- No /u/ summoning user from linked thread
- Do not post drama you are involved in.
- SRD is not a call-out subreddit. Don't post links just to point out bad behavior
- Avoid bias in your title or in your write-up. Try to stay neutral.
- Don't make us hunt for the drama
- Don't submit off-site drama or posts that aren't drama at all.
- Don't post or vote in linked threads
How to join
Open reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama 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/SubredditDrama?
r/SubredditDrama has 1,168,649 subscribers (Nov 9, 2026), which makes it the #912 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 7,159 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 9, 2026.
When was r/SubredditDrama created?
r/SubredditDrama was created on Aug 25, 2011, so it has been around for 15 years.
Is r/SubredditDrama still active?
Yes. r/SubredditDrama gets about 7.9 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 175,649 posts and 12,154,912 comments.
What is the best time to post in r/SubredditDrama?
Based on post counts from Oct 29, 2026 to Nov 4, 2026, the busiest day was Wednesday and the quietest Saturday, and most posts arrive around 13:00 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/SubredditDrama?
The community describes itself as: “The place where people can come and talk about reddit fights and other dramatic happenings from other subreddits.” Recent post titles often mention users, election, left, pics and discussion. Most posts are text posts (82%).
Is r/SubredditDrama SFW?
Yes. Reddit does not mark r/SubredditDrama as an 18+ (NSFW) community. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.
What are the rules of r/SubredditDrama?
Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/SubredditDrama accepts both text and link posts. It has 9 posted rules, starting with: “No trolling, hate speech, or using slurs”; “Avoid insults, flamewars, or flamebait”; “No /u/ summoning user from linked thread”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.
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/SubredditDrama.