About r/photoshopbattles
It sits just behind r/Documentaries (#40) and ahead of r/OldSchoolCool (#42) in our ranking.
What sets r/photoshopbattles apart
Compared with other large communities, r/photoshopbattles leans heavily on images (96% of recent posts; the typical Top 100 subreddit sits at 9%). People mostly look and upvote here rather than comment — about 6.3 comments per post, against 16.2 for a typical large subreddit. Relative to its huge audience, posting is calm — around 0.2 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.
Top posts on r/photoshopbattles this week
The most upvoted posts of the past seven days, in the order Reddit ranks them (collected Oct 29, 2026).
- PsBattle: angry wild hamsteru/QueenViolets_Revenge · Oct 23 · image
- PsBattle: praying catu/squirell123 · Oct 25 · image
- PsBattle: Thrift Store Doll.u/Minifig81 · Oct 23 · image
- PsBattle: flying dogu/F0regn_Lawns · Oct 27 · image
- PsBattle: The image shows "Jumbo," a massive steel containment vessel transported on a 64-wheel trailer to the Trinity Site in New Mexico during the Manhattan Project in 1945.u/VerGuy · Oct 24 · image
- PsBattle: A cat with Veggietale toysu/Nick00Nick · Oct 24 · image
- PsBattle: Cat Lounging and Listening to Musicu/MalachiteMushroom · Oct 23 · image
- PsBattle: Snoopy Smashu/Dangerous-Staff9172 · Oct 23 · image
- PsBattle: wooden cowboy carvingu/B00kN_rd · Oct 24 · image
All-time top posts
The highest-ranked posts in the history of r/photoshopbattles, from 2017 to 2022, ranked by Reddit.
- PsBattle: Guy steals US Congress speaker's podiumu/Cistoran · Jan 6, 2021 · image
- PsBattle: Trump watching people celebrate his lossNov 7, 2020 · image
- PsBattle: trump peekingu/jebbaok · Oct 28, 2020 · image
- PsBattle: Two Ukrainian kids paying their respect to Ukraine troopsu/artunitinc · Feb 26, 2022 · 82,932 points · 465 comments · image
- PsBattle: This cat with a skull on his chestu/crazedgunner · Sep 22, 2017 · 79,619 points · 1,326 comments · image
- PsBattle: French President celebratingu/frotteman · Jul 15, 2018 · 76,247 points · 1,081 comments · image
- PsBattle: A jewel in the seau/frankmathews36 · Jan 17, 2018 · 74,361 points · 552 comments · image
- PsBattle: This hedgehog posing in a tiny kayaku/Mal3ficent · Oct 17, 2017 · 71,053 points · 545 comments · image
- PsBattle: Obama winning connect four against Stephen Curryu/Greekheaded · Mar 27, 2021 · image
- PsBattle: Cat looking over Christmas sceneu/dabaers · Dec 21, 2017 · 68,497 points · 810 comments · image
What r/photoshopbattles talks about
Across 25 recent posts (Oct 22–Oct 28), the words that come up most are “psbattle”, “frylock”, “mascot”, “costume” and “cat”. Other frequent themes are battle, president, united, states, talking and meat. Recurring phrases include “psbattle frylock”, “frylock mascot”, “mascot costume” and “united states”. By format, 96% are images and 4% are links.
Popular post flairs: Removed (8), Bad Title (5), Battle (4), Low Quality Pic (1).
Activity and best time to post
r/photoshopbattles gets about 3.7 new posts a day. The public archive holds 697,547 posts and 4,389,324 comments in total, about 6.3 comments per post. Last week the busiest day was Thursday (9 posts) and the quietest was Monday (0). Posting peaks around 14:00 UTC and is lowest around 00:00 UTC.
Rules of r/photoshopbattles
The moderators of r/photoshopbattles list 9 rules. In short:
- Subjective Title
- Request
- Bad Link
- Image Content
- Submission Deleted
- NSFW
- Junk / Off Topic
- Top Level Comment Without Original Photoshop
- Missing Title Prefix
How to join
Open reddit.com/r/photoshopbattles 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/photoshopbattles?
r/photoshopbattles has 20,326,095 subscribers (Oct 29, 2026), which makes it the #41 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking.
How active is r/photoshopbattles?
Moderately: r/photoshopbattles gets about 3.7 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 697,547 posts and 4,389,324 comments.
When is r/photoshopbattles most active?
Based on post counts from Oct 21, 2026 to Oct 27, 2026, the busiest day was Thursday and the quietest Monday, and most posts arrive around 14:00 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 is r/photoshopbattles about?
r/photoshopbattles is a large Reddit community. Recent post titles often mention psbattle, frylock, mascot, costume and cat. Most posts are images (96%).
Is r/photoshopbattles safe for work?
Yes. Reddit does not mark r/photoshopbattles as an 18+ (NSFW) community, and its own rules forbid NSFW content. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.
How do I post on r/photoshopbattles?
Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/photoshopbattles accepts link and media posts (no plain text posts), with images enabled. It has 9 posted rules, starting with: “Subjective Title”; “Request”; “Bad Link”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.
Which communities are like r/photoshopbattles?
Communities with similar topics include r/FunnyAnimals (8.7M), r/AnimalsBeingDerps (8.5M), r/funny (67.6M), r/aww (37.9M) and r/mildlyinteresting (25.4M).
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/photoshopbattles.