About r/awesome
In its own words:
For everything that is awesome!
Community guide
r/awesome (#778, about 1.4 million subscribers) covers For everything that is awesome!. A recent sample averaged 1.0 posts a day (~89% video, ~11% gallery). Its public rules include: No porn or gore content; No Screenshots; Don't post your own artwork; Moderator Discretion; No politics.
What belongs here
Stay inside the room’s stated scope rather than adjacent off-topic dumps. Match posts to: No porn or gore content; No Screenshots; Don't post your own artwork; Moderator Discretion.
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. Common flairs include: Video.
The community was created on Mar 14, 2008, which makes it 18 years old. Since Nov 2, 2026, it has gained 59 subscribers (+0.00%). It sits just behind r/Awww (#779) and ahead of r/awfuleverything (#781) in our ranking.
What sets r/awesome apart
r/awesome is more of a browsing community than a debating one: 5.9 comments per post on average, well under the Top 100 median of 13.0. Relative to its huge audience, posting is calm — around 0.7 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/awesome grew from 1,370,584 to 1,370,943 subscribers (+359, +0.03%). That is about 7 new members per day. The chart shows 10 weekly subscriber counts.
Top posts on r/awesome this week
What the community upvoted most over the last seven days, as ranked by Reddit (collected Nov 8, 2026).
- Years apart, but the bond never changed. These reunions are everything 😢u/Automatic-Algae443 · Nov 3 · video
- TIL: Origin of the Mission Impossible themeu/ateam1984 · Nov 5 · video
- Guy jumps into a moving school bus to save children after the driver suffered a medical emergencyu/New_Libran · Nov 3 · video
- B Unique Crew - Ranking The Talentu/Secure-Scientist4867 · Nov 2 · video
- Built This Thing To Inspect My House😅u/admin_raven · Nov 6 · link
- supernatural spinning activityu/giros2023 · Nov 1 · video
- Is this a new thing ? I’ve Never seen itu/cardoc22 · Nov 7 · video
All-time top posts
The highest-ranked posts in the history of r/awesome, from 2022 to 2025, ranked by Reddit.
- This bus driver reacted immediately she saw a car drifting into oncoming trafficu/New_Libran · Mar 10, 2025 · video
- Hatching of octopus eggu/LoinKing_ · Jun 27, 2023 · 81,781 points · 1,419 comments · video
- Such a nice guy!!u/gigagaming1256 · Aug 2, 2024 · image
- Cold front seen from aboveu/scalarfleabag67 · Jun 28, 2023 · 51,906 points · 592 comments · image
- You don't need lots of friends, just the right ones..🐕🐾🧓🎂😊u/GustoKoNaMagkaGF · May 11, 2025 · video
- This is peak performance.u/Mildred_Myles · Sep 17, 2023 · video
- The way they all lower their heads is preciousu/goodwellnessguide · Sep 1, 2024 · video
- Don't know what's her name, but it's amazingu/That_Arm3798 · Sep 5, 2024 · video
- A true example of courage, intelligence, and resilience under extreme conditions.u/StarrySkyHana · Feb 8, 2025 · image
- Not as easy as it looks!u/Mindnessss · Mar 31, 2025 · video
Activity and best time to post
r/awesome gets about 1.0 new post a day. The public archive holds 70,654 posts and 420,125 comments in total, about 5.9 comments per post.
Rules of r/awesome
The moderators of r/awesome list 5 rules. In short:
- No porn or gore content
- No Screenshots
- Don't post your own artwork
- Moderator Discretion
- No politics
How to join
Open reddit.com/r/awesome 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/awesome have?
r/awesome has 1,370,943 subscribers (Nov 9, 2026), which makes it the #780 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 359 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 9, 2026.
How old is r/awesome?
r/awesome was created on Mar 14, 2008, so it has been around for 18 years. The oldest post in the public archive is from Sep 23, 2008.
How active is r/awesome?
Moderately: r/awesome gets about 1.0 new post a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 70,654 posts and 420,125 comments.
What is r/awesome about?
The community describes itself as: “For everything that is awesome!”
Is r/awesome safe for work?
Yes. Reddit does not mark r/awesome as an 18+ (NSFW) community. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.
How do I post on r/awesome?
Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/awesome accepts link and media posts (no plain text posts), with images, videos and galleries enabled. It has 5 posted rules, starting with: “No porn or gore content”; “No Screenshots”; “Don't post your own artwork”. 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/awesome.