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r/funny

r/funny is one of the ten biggest safe-for-work communities on Reddit, ranked #2 on SubMouse with 67,638,445 subscribers and about 160 new posts a day.

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Rank (SFW)#2
Subscribers67.6M
Growth since Oct 19+11.1K
Posts per day155
Posts all time11.8M
CreatedJan 2008
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About r/funny

In its own words:

Reddit's largest humor depository

The community was created on Jan 25, 2008, which makes it 18 years old. Since Oct 19, 2026, it has gained 11,120 subscribers (+0.02%). It sits just behind r/announcements (#1) and ahead of r/AskReddit (#3) in our ranking.

What sets r/funny apart

Compared with other large communities, r/funny leans heavily on images (50% of recent posts; the typical Top 100 subreddit sits at 9%).

Subscriber growth

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Between Sep 19, 2026 and Oct 29, 2026, r/funny climbed from 67,595,612 to 67,638,445 subscribers (+42.8K, +0.06%). That is about 1,071 new members per day. The chart uses our weekly snapshots (8 so far), so it gets longer every week.

Top posts on r/funny this week

The most upvoted posts of the past seven days, in the order Reddit ranks them (collected Oct 29, 2026).

  1. Romantic moment interrupted by an uninvited guestu/Dizzy_Log2916 · Oct 23 · video
  2. Varying degrees of success.u/hamizoing · Oct 25 · image
  3. You're in my spot, Johnu/_bluebird7_ · Oct 26 · video
  4. It was an honest mistake...u/lectric_7166 · Oct 23 · image
  5. I would stay there for another half hour...u/Skyton_wil · Oct 29 · video
  6. New Zealand Architectureu/rikashiku · Oct 24 · video
  7. I got dolled up for an awards show and inadvertently went as Zuul (Ghostbusters).u/resgestae · Oct 28 · image
  8. Cat food dispenser runs out of kibbleu/Rooonaldooo99 · Oct 25 · video
  9. Passive Pumpkin Carvingu/ozzy_thedog · Oct 27 · video
  10. Those covid lockdowns..u/sarusadanus · Oct 27 · video

All-time top posts

The highest-ranked posts in the history of r/funny, from 2016 to 2025, ranked by Reddit.

  1. My cab driver tonight was so excited to share with me that he’d made the cover of the calendar. I told him I’d help let the world seeu/the_Diva · Dec 28, 2017 · 269,279 points · 2,315 comments · image
  2. Guardians of the Front Pageu/iH8myPP · Dec 5, 2016 · 222,208 points · 4,149 comments · image
  3. The conversation my son and I will have on Christmas Eve.u/Romobyl · Dec 19, 2017 · 219,562 points · 4,814 comments · image
  4. The Denver Broncos have the entire town of ‘South Park’ in the stands for today’s NFL game.u/Exclamation_Marc · Sep 27, 2020 · image
  5. Printersu/System32Comics · Sep 10, 2019 · 220,425 points · 2,501 comments · image
  6. Just increased my car’s value by 1 billion dollarsu/RudyWillingham · Jul 30, 2020 · video
  7. My grandma wanted some “creative” grad photos of my friend since we’re graduating at the same time. This was her least favoriteu/Toll_House69 · May 5, 2020 · image
  8. Today one of my 4th grade students renamed himself "reconecting ..." on our Zoom call and pretended that he was having internet issues to avoid participating in our lesson.u/reddericks · May 11, 2020 · link
  9. Zuckerberg right nowOct 4, 2021 · 208,216 points · 3,932 comments · image
  10. Reddit's Immigrantsu/iH8myPP · Jul 29, 2017 · 180,654 points · 2,510 comments · image

What r/funny talks about

Across 694 recent posts (Oct 21–Oct 28), the words that come up most are “video”, “cat”, “life”, “halloween” and “bro”. Other frequent themes are work, school, fun, dude, show and thought. Recurring phrases include “nathan fielder”, “las vegas”, “jesus christ” and “christ died”. By format, 50% are images, 36% are videos and 10% are text posts.

  • video 10
  • cat 10
  • life 8
  • halloween 8
  • bro 8
  • work 7
  • school 7
  • fun 7
  • dude 6
  • show 6
  • thought 6
  • name 6
  • found 6
  • home 6
  • wrong 6
  • funniest 6
  • meme 6
  • king 5

Popular post flairs: Rule 10 – Removed (18), Rule 1 – Removed (13), Rule 2 – Removed (11), !Rule 6 - Forbidden title - Removed (11), Rule 3 – Removed (8), Verified (6).

Activity and best time to post

r/funny gets about 160 new posts a day. The public archive holds 11,786,778 posts and 120,993,302 comments in total, about 10.3 comments per post. Last week the busiest day was Sunday (183 posts) and the quietest was Tuesday (123). Posting peaks around 20:00 UTC and is lowest around 02:00 UTC.

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Posts per hour of the day, UTC, Oct 21, 2026 – Oct 27, 2026
Images 50%Videos 36%Text posts 10%Links 3%

Rules of r/funny

The moderators of r/funny list 10 rules. In short:

  1. All posts must make an attempt at humor.
  2. No memes, HIFW, MRW, MeIRL, DAE, or similar posts.
  3. No reposts.
  4. No personal info, no hate speech, no harassment.
  5. No politics or political figures.
  6. No forbidden titles, low-effort titles, or posts about Reddit cakedays.
  7. No gore, pornography, or animal cruelty.
  8. No unoriginal comics.
  9. No pictures of just text.
  10. No social-media, messaging, or AI-generated content.

How to join

Open reddit.com/r/funny 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 members does r/funny have?

r/funny has 67,638,445 subscribers (Oct 29, 2026), which makes it the #2 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 42,833 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Oct 29, 2026.

How old is r/funny?

r/funny was created on Jan 25, 2008, so it has been around for 18 years. The oldest post in the public archive is from Jan 26, 2008.

How active is r/funny?

Very active: r/funny gets about 160 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 11,786,778 posts and 120,993,302 comments. In a sample of 694 recent posts we counted 583 different authors.

When is r/funny most active?

Based on post counts from Oct 21, 2026 to Oct 27, 2026, the busiest day was Sunday and the quietest Tuesday, and most posts arrive around 20:00 UTC, with the fewest around 02:00 UTC. More posts also means more competition, so a quieter hour can help a post get noticed.

What is r/funny about?

The community describes itself as: “Reddit's largest humor depository” Recent post titles often mention video, cat, life, halloween and bro. Most posts are images (50%).

Is r/funny safe for work?

Yes. Reddit does not mark r/funny as an 18+ (NSFW) community. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.

How do I post on r/funny?

Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/funny accepts both text and link posts, with images and videos enabled. It has 10 posted rules, starting with: “All posts must make an attempt at humor.”; “No memes, HIFW, MRW, MeIRL, DAE, or similar posts.”; “No reposts.”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.

Which communities are like r/funny?

Communities with similar topics include r/FunnyAnimals (8.7M), r/Jokes (30.4M), r/ProgrammerHumor (4.8M), r/StartledCats (1.6M) and r/nosleep (18.2M).

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/funny.

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