About r/facepalm
In its own words:
/r/facepalm - please sir can I have some more?
The community was created on Aug 28, 2009, which makes it 17 years old. Since Oct 19, 2026, it has gained 433 subscribers (+0.01%). It sits just behind r/rarepuppers (#96) and ahead of r/Whatcouldgowrong (#98) in our ranking.
What sets r/facepalm apart
Compared with other large communities, r/facepalm leans heavily on videos (48% of recent posts; the typical Top 100 subreddit sits at 7%). It is a discussion-heavy community, with about 67.0 comments per post over its lifetime versus a Top 100 median of 16.2.
Subscriber growth
Between Sep 19, 2026 and Oct 29, 2026, r/facepalm went up from 8,107,175 to 8,109,443 subscribers (+2.3K, +0.03%). That is about 57 new members per day. The chart uses our weekly snapshots (8 so far), so it gets longer every week.
Top posts on r/facepalm this week
This week’s highest-ranked posts, in Reddit’s own order (collected Oct 30, 2026).
- Fox News picked the wrong guy to interview.u/westondeboer · Oct 29 · video
- Interviewing Texans about James Talaricou/Sindigo_ · Oct 27 · video
- What is wrong with these people?u/NuggetDaGoat27 · Oct 24 · video
- U.S President Trump keeping it classy by talking about Nicki Minaj's ass at a rally for Republican Senate Candidate Mike Rogers in Port Huronu/Reddit_grill · Oct 26 · video
- Apparently solar panels are so hot they fry the animals.u/Jarppakarppa · Oct 28 · image
- Many Americas think there are tens of THOUSANDS of trans student-athletes playing in women’s sports but according to the NCAA's own numbers, there were only 10 out of 500,000. Now, there are ZERO.u/McDowdy · Oct 27 · video
- If we had only known that behind the Iron Curtain, Stalin was playing in a girl's soccer gameu/McDowdy · Oct 26 · video
- Annoying political messages keep spamming me 3 times a day. (Read caption)u/TREXIBALL · Oct 26 · image
- No, TIFFANY. You don't SING at a LIVE PERFORMANCE! God, I LITERALLY facepalmed at this tiktok...u/Much-Hamster-8956 · Oct 24 · gallery
- 'A Botch Job': 5th Circuit Reassigns Case After Judge Misused AI to Draft Rulingu/miauguau44 · Oct 23 · link
All-time top posts
The highest-ranked posts in the history of r/facepalm, from 2020 to 2023, ranked by Reddit.
- Cops pepper sprayed their own Senator without realizing he's an authority figureu/thewrongun · Jun 1, 2020 · image
- german riot police defeated and humiliated by some kind of mud wizardu/dannybluey · Jan 15, 2023 · 173,022 points · 6,456 comments · video
- Amber Heard's lawyer objecting to his own questionu/Chinchillin09 · Apr 25, 2022 · 165,761 points · 5,655 comments · video
- Math is a Myth.u/_-ZORO-_ · Jan 31, 2022 · 158,599 points · 1,687 comments · image
- The state of the world.u/esberat · Mar 14, 2021 · image
- Scientific name = poisonu/Bonelesszeeebra · May 12, 2020 · image
- the USPS is not a businessu/Bmchris44 · Aug 13, 2020 · image
- YouTuber is facing 20 years in prison after deliberately crashing a plane for views.u/ilovekerma · May 12, 2023 · 152,652 points · 9,917 comments · video
- “If masks were necessary we would have evolved one by now” lmaou/nekkototoro · Aug 10, 2020 · image
- Shouldn’t happen in a developed countryu/lol62056 · Oct 15, 2020 · image
What r/facepalm talks about
We read the titles of 65 recent posts (Oct 21–Oct 28), the words that come up most are “woman”, “hours”, “playing”, “trump” and “president”. Other frequent themes are sobs, passenger, refuses, seat, 10-hour and flight. Recurring phrases include “woman sobs”, “passenger refuses”, “10-hour flight” and “english profrisency”. By format, 48% are videos, 31% are images and 12% are links.
Activity and best time to post
r/facepalm gets about 9.0 new posts a day. The public archive holds 743,913 posts and 49,866,484 comments in total, about 67.0 comments per post. Last week the busiest day was Monday (11 posts) and the quietest was Sunday (4). Posting peaks around 18:00 UTC and is lowest around 03:00 UTC.
Rules of r/facepalm
The moderators of r/facepalm list 10 rules. In short:
- No uncivil, bigoted, misogynist, misandrist, racist comments or posts.
- No Misinformation
- No Memes
- No language error posts
- No jokes/satire/trolls posts
- Remove identifying personal information
- No 'likes"/"shares" posts
- No "Reddit Meta" Posts
- No posts about politicians being politicians
- No posts attacking a political party or side
How to join
Open reddit.com/r/facepalm 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/facepalm?
r/facepalm has 8,109,443 subscribers (Oct 29, 2026), which makes it the #97 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 2,268 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Oct 29, 2026.
How old is r/facepalm?
r/facepalm was created on Aug 28, 2009, so it has been around for 17 years.
How active is r/facepalm?
Moderately: r/facepalm gets about 9.0 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 743,913 posts and 49,866,484 comments. In a sample of 65 recent posts we counted 53 different authors.
When is r/facepalm most active?
Based on post counts from Oct 21, 2026 to Oct 27, 2026, the busiest day was Monday and the quietest Sunday, and most posts arrive around 18:00 UTC, with the fewest around 03:00 UTC. More posts also means more competition, so a quieter hour can help a post get noticed.
What is r/facepalm about?
The community describes itself as: “/r/facepalm - please sir can I have some more?” Recent post titles often mention woman, hours, playing, trump and president. Most posts are videos (48%).
Is r/facepalm safe for work?
Yes. Reddit does not mark r/facepalm as an 18+ (NSFW) community. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.
How do I post on r/facepalm?
Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/facepalm accepts link and media posts (no plain text posts), with images and galleries enabled. It has 10 posted rules, starting with: “No uncivil, bigoted, misogynist, misandrist, racist comments or posts.”; “No Misinformation”; “No Memes”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.
Which communities are like r/facepalm?
Communities with similar topics include r/listentothis (17.9M), r/Coffee (2.5M), r/buildapc (8.5M), r/Jokes (30.4M) and r/todayilearned (41.7M).
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/facepalm.