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r/rupaulsdragrace

r/rupaulsdragrace is a safe-for-work community on Reddit, ranked #832 on SubMouse with 1,278,666 subscribers and about 26 new posts a day.

Rank (SFW)#832
Subscribers1.3M
Growth since Nov 2+512
Posts per day26
Posts all time576.2K
CreatedNov 2011
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About r/rupaulsdragrace

In its own words:

Do you have what it takes? Only those with Charisma, Uniqueness, Nerve and Talent will make it to the top! Start your engines...and may the best drag queen win! Dedicated to everyone's favorite drag queen tv show.

Community guide

r/rupaulsdragrace (#832, about 1.3 million subscribers) — Do you have what it takes? Only those with Charisma, Uniqueness, Nerve and Talent will make it to the top! Start your engines..and may the best drag queen win! Dedicated to everyone's favorite drag queen tv show. A recent sample averaged 26 posts a day (~32% image, ~28% text, ~19% video). Its public rules include: Rule 1 - Follow Reddiquette. No Bigotry. No Microaggressions. Respect Contestants.; Rule 2 - No Spoilers. Mark all threads spoiler for 24 hours following an episode.; Rule 3 - No Streams. Don't ask for or share them. It is listed under “Entertainment”.

What belongs here

Stay inside the room’s stated scope rather than adjacent off-topic dumps. Spoiler tags matter for fresh releases, endings, or results. Low-effort or empty shitposts are often removed—add real context.

How it differs from lookalikes

Prefer this room when your post matches its description and rules—not merely a larger sibling community. Skim the full public rule list once rather than assuming defaults from similar subs.

Practical pointers

Read the live sidebar/rules before posting; rules can change. Err on spoiler tags. Search before reposting. Common flairs include: General Discussion, Meme, RPDR UK S8, Community Question.

The community was created on Nov 15, 2011, which makes it 14 years old. Since Nov 2, 2026, it has gained 512 subscribers (+0.04%). It sits just behind r/minipainting (#831) and ahead of r/WWE (#833) in our ranking.

What sets r/rupaulsdragrace apart

Posts here spark a lot of conversation: the archive averages 27.7 comments per post, roughly 2.1× the typical big subreddit (13.0).

Subscriber growth

1.28M1.28MSep 19Nov 9, 2026

Between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 9, 2026, r/rupaulsdragrace grew from 1,275,038 to 1,278,666 subscribers (+3.6K, +0.28%). That is about 71 new members per day. The chart shows 10 weekly subscriber counts.

Top posts on r/rupaulsdragrace this week

What the community upvoted most over the last seven days, as ranked by Reddit (collected Nov 8, 2026).

  1. I'm not joking bitch! 💙u/HollowNomad23 · Nov 5 · image
  2. MY SENATOR’S FAVORITE DRAG QUEEN IS ALYSSA EDWARDS🩷u/aingaingaing · Nov 4 · video
  3. Your favorite's favorite and favorited just won Texasu/coldbrew-but-warm · Nov 4 · image
  4. One day me and my country was out flipping…u/MistyBelladonna · Nov 4 · image
  5. Onya Nurve stuns as Amy Whinehouse 🥹u/Skythegsparten_ · Nov 2 · gallery
  6. Drag Race Philippines honoring Jiggly with a "Night of 1000 Jiggly Calientes" runway 🕊️u/s_sant_guz · Nov 7 · video
  7. I'm not gonna pretend everything will magically be fixed overnight, but god it feels good to have a nationwide scream of "FUCK THIS SHIT."u/bondfool · Nov 4 · image
  8. Newly appointed Democratic campaign team strategist Loosey LaDuca announces a major change to the US national anthemu/saintrorem · Nov 4 · image
  9. The Met has officially announced this year's theme: extraORDINARYu/cactuswithacyst · Nov 6 · image
  10. Stuck in Hyrule where the trade left her.u/chotomatekudersai · Nov 5 · image

All-time top posts

The highest-ranked posts in the history of r/rupaulsdragrace, from 2018 to 2026, ranked by Reddit.

  1. AOC has just been re-elected in New York’s 14th Congressional District. Condragulations, queen! 💙💙💙u/lucyb37 · Nov 4, 2020 · image
  2. Phi Phi is not holding shit back!u/DanDelta100 · Feb 16, 2018 · 29,867 points · 834 comments · link
  3. Oh. She said thatu/hoesbeinghoes · Jun 13, 2025 · image
  4. Petition to ban X links on /rupaulsdragraceu/Inevitable_Dog2719 · Jan 22, 2025 · text post
  5. NPB weighs inu/aaronarium · Sep 11, 2025 · image
  6. Kelly Mantle shares a thought on the Epstein Listu/Werwanderflugen · Jul 17, 2025 · image
  7. Marti G Cummings - Drag Activist & running for for NYC City Council arrested last nightu/kitschharris · Jun 3, 2020 · image
  8. the vixen stating nothing but straight facts!u/cas2ie · Jul 19, 2020 · image
  9. PREACH IT TRACY👏🏼u/No_Vanilla7487 · May 2, 2023 · 24,194 points · 457 comments · image
  10. He’s not wrong and I’m still thoroughly entertained 10/10u/idontreallylikecandy · Jan 18, 2021 · video

What r/rupaulsdragrace talks about

We read the titles of 156 recent posts (Oct 29–Nov 5), the words that come up most are “drag”, “race”, “halloween”, “season” and “episode”. Other frequent themes are favorite, queen, denali, katya, trixie and bianca. Recurring phrases include “drag race”, “drag queen”, “canada drag” and “verbal abuse”. By format, 32% are images, 28% are text posts and 19% are videos.

  • drag 37
  • race 24
  • halloween 16
  • season 10
  • episode 9
  • favorite 6
  • queen 6
  • denali 5
  • katya 5
  • trixie 5
  • bianca 5
  • show 4
  • poll 4
  • series 4
  • hate 4
  • roast 4
  • good 3
  • moment 3

Popular post flairs: General Discussion (56), Meme (19), RPDR UK S8 (10), Community Question (9), Season 17 (6), Fan Art 🎨 (6).

Activity and best time to post

r/rupaulsdragrace gets about 26 new posts a day. The public archive holds 576,241 posts and 15,977,550 comments in total, about 27.7 comments per post. Last week the busiest day was Saturday (31 posts) and the quietest was Friday (17). Posting peaks around 20:00 UTC and is lowest around 09:00 UTC.

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Posts per hour of the day, UTC, Oct 29, 2026 – Nov 4, 2026
Images 32%Text posts 28%Videos 19%Galleries 16%Links 5%

Rules of r/rupaulsdragrace

The moderators of r/rupaulsdragrace list 9 rules. In short:

  1. Rule 1 - Follow Reddiquette. No Bigotry. No Microaggressions. Respect Contestants.
  2. Rule 2 - No Spoilers. Mark all threads spoiler for 24 hours following an episode.
  3. Rule 3 - No Streams. Don't ask for or share them.
  4. Rule 4 - No Reposts
  5. Rule 5 - Low effort/unrelated to RPDR/fantasy seasons
  6. Rule 6 - No personally identifiable information
  7. Rule 7 - Meet and Greet photos must include a short description of the event.
  8. Rule 8 - Post titles must be searchable
  9. Rule 9 - Do not promote your instagram, etsy, etc in the title of your post

How to join

Open reddit.com/r/rupaulsdragrace 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/rupaulsdragrace have?

r/rupaulsdragrace has 1,278,666 subscribers (Nov 9, 2026), which makes it the #832 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 3,628 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 9, 2026.

When was r/rupaulsdragrace created?

r/rupaulsdragrace was created on Nov 15, 2011, so it has been around for 14 years.

Is r/rupaulsdragrace still active?

Yes. r/rupaulsdragrace gets about 26 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 576,241 posts and 15,977,550 comments. In a sample of 156 recent posts we counted 130 different authors.

What is the best time to post in r/rupaulsdragrace?

Based on post counts from Oct 29, 2026 to Nov 4, 2026, the busiest day was Saturday and the quietest Friday, and most posts arrive around 20:00 UTC, with the fewest around 09:00 UTC. More posts also means more competition, so a quieter hour can help a post get noticed.

What kind of posts are on r/rupaulsdragrace?

The community describes itself as: “Do you have what it takes? Only those with Charisma, Uniqueness, Nerve and Talent will make it to the top! Start your engines...and may the best drag queen win! Dedicated to everyone's favorite drag queen tv show.” Recent post titles often mention drag, race, halloween, season and episode. Most posts are images (32%).

Is r/rupaulsdragrace SFW?

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

What are the rules of r/rupaulsdragrace?

Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/rupaulsdragrace accepts both text and link posts, with images, videos and galleries enabled. It has 9 posted rules, starting with: “Rule 1 - Follow Reddiquette. No Bigotry. No Microaggressions. Respect Contestants.”; “Rule 2 - No Spoilers. Mark all threads spoiler for 24 hours following an episode.”; “Rule 3 - No Streams. Don't ask for or share them.”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.

What subreddits are similar to r/rupaulsdragrace?

Communities with similar topics include r/IASIP (1.4M), r/history (18.8M), r/rnb (1.6M) and r/progresspics (2.5M).

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/rupaulsdragrace.

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