About r/tifu
In its own words:
/r/TIFU means Today I Fucked Up
The community was created on Mar 4, 2012, which makes it 14 years old. Since Oct 19, 2026, it has gained 1,842 subscribers (+0.01%). It sits just behind r/OldSchoolCool (#42) and ahead of r/WritingPrompts (#44) in our ranking.
What sets r/tifu apart
Compared with other large communities, r/tifu leans heavily on text posts (95% of recent posts; the typical Top 100 subreddit sits at 17%). Relative to its huge audience, posting is calm — around 1.0 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. Its rhythm is strongly tied to time zones: the busiest hour (21:00 UTC) sees about 9.0× as many posts as the quietest (11:00 UTC).
Subscriber growth
Between Sep 19, 2026 and Oct 29, 2026, r/tifu grew from 18,964,642 to 18,972,490 subscribers (+7.8K, +0.04%). That is about 196 new members per day. The chart uses our weekly snapshots (8 so far), so it gets longer every week.
Top posts on r/tifu this week
This week’s highest-ranked posts, in Reddit’s own order (collected Oct 29, 2026).
- TIFU by removing all the tape marks from a theater stage before rehearsalu/immense_colleague · Oct 28 · text post
- TIFU by boiling eggsu/blubber-disc · Oct 23 · text post
- TIFU by showing up to class 15min before it endedu/Sorry_One1072 · Oct 27 · text post
- TIFU when I asked someone from Nagasaki what her city is famous foru/withoutfurther · Oct 29 · text post
- TIFU by mourning a friend who was still aliveu/Ketsukoni · Oct 26 · text post
- TIFU: cheesecake editionu/Outrageous-Neck-4797 · Oct 26 · text post
- TIFU by drinking a mysterious monster energy drinku/ThunderCock42O · Oct 23 · text post
- TIFU now my boss thinks I’m a pervertu/guuuuurlly · Oct 29 · text post
- TIFU by getting stuck in my headboardu/Leftover_Stickers · Oct 27 · text post
- TIFU by not knowing what being a brony actually meansu/the_amazing_wonderer · Oct 28 · text post
All-time top posts
The highest-ranked posts in the history of r/tifu, from 2017 to 2022, ranked by Reddit.
- TIFU by buying everyone an AncestryDNA kit and ruining Christmasu/Snorkels721 · Dec 24, 2018 · 149,680 points · 9,150 comments · text post
- TIFU by living in a dark bedroom for 6 years.u/moby323 · Jan 26, 2019 · 127,905 points · 2,605 comments · text post
- TIFU by spending the last year on reddit talking to myself after being muted.u/Bufger · Apr 10, 2019 · 133,101 points · 3,181 comments · text post
- TIFU by owning a Golden Retriever while being Black.u/AgentPapier · Aug 5, 2020 · text post
- TIFU: I have officially branded myself as the biggest perv... and I 100% deserve it...u/Taway1234123491121 · May 17, 2019 · 116,057 points · 16,639 comments · text post
- TIFU by lying to my wife for 13 years…u/Moocow870 · Jan 14, 2022 · 124,479 points · 3,979 comments · text post
- TIFU by wearing a shawl, which ruined my relationship with my GFu/filterface · Oct 17, 2019 · 110,347 points · 12,125 comments · text post
- TIFU by stuffing my face with edibles before dinner with my wife's parents.u/drmcsinister · Jan 9, 2018 · 79,784 points · 4,284 comments · text post
- /r/tifu last weekendu/ThatAstronautGuy · Aug 10, 2017 · 98,083 points · 1,572 comments · image
- TIFU by confiscating my son’s Gameboy and hiding it. For 18 years...u/cbelt3 · Apr 5, 2021 · text post
What r/tifu talks about
Looking at the titles of 112 recent posts (Oct 21–Oct 28), the words that come up most are “friend”, “accidentally”, “trying”, “making” and “telling”. Other frequent themes are lie, thought, life, sending, hooking and coworker. Recurring phrases include “unnecessary lie”, “incompetent spoiled”, “spoiled teenager” and “coworker car”. By format, 95% are text posts and 5% are links.
Popular post flairs: S (63), M (25), L (10), XL (4), Removed - Rule 1-C (3).
Activity and best time to post
r/tifu gets about 19 new posts a day. The public archive holds 569,841 posts and 15,185,698 comments in total, about 26.6 comments per post. Last week the busiest day was Wednesday (20 posts) and the quietest was Monday (12). Posting peaks around 21:00 UTC and is lowest around 11:00 UTC.
Rules of r/tifu
The moderators of r/tifu list 8 rules. In short:
- Use proper formatting
- Posts must be about you
- Must be your fault
- No overly vulgar posts/Illegal Advice
- Must be actual fuckups
- Be civil and don't be disruptive
- No self-promotion
- Mod discretion
How to join
Open reddit.com/r/tifu 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/tifu have?
r/tifu has 18,972,490 subscribers (Oct 29, 2026), which makes it the #43 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 7,848 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Oct 29, 2026.
How old is r/tifu?
r/tifu was created on Mar 4, 2012, so it has been around for 14 years.
How active is r/tifu?
Moderately: r/tifu gets about 19 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 569,841 posts and 15,185,698 comments. In a sample of 112 recent posts we counted 104 different authors.
When is r/tifu most active?
Based on post counts from Oct 21, 2026 to Oct 27, 2026, the busiest day was Wednesday and the quietest Monday, and most posts arrive around 21:00 UTC, with the fewest around 11:00 UTC. More posts also means more competition, so a quieter hour can help a post get noticed.
What is r/tifu about?
The community describes itself as: “/r/TIFU means Today I Fucked Up” Recent post titles often mention friend, accidentally, trying, making and telling. Most posts are text posts (95%).
Is r/tifu safe for work?
Yes. Reddit does not mark r/tifu as an 18+ (NSFW) community. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.
How do I post on r/tifu?
Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/tifu accepts text posts only. It has 8 posted rules, starting with: “Use proper formatting”; “Posts must be about you”; “Must be your fault”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.
Which communities are like r/tifu?
Communities with similar topics include r/todayilearned (41.7M), r/Futurology (21.7M), r/WhatsWrongWithYourDog (2.3M), r/astrophotography (2.6M) and r/memes (36.1M).
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/tifu.