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Bad Roommates: Tales of Irritation. Give us your tales of bad roommates. The gross, the annoying, the psychotic. And if you have the solution to bad roommates, please let us know! Founded 2013 · 559K members

560.9K members. The best post we have captured here reached 9.7K upvotes, which works out to 17 per 1,000 members.

17peak upvotes per 1,000 members
560.9Kmembers
9.7Kbest post
1.4Kmost comments
719posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

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Text 67% Question 20% Gallery 6% Image 6% Video 1% Link 1%

The topics it labels

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Serious 102 WARNING - Gross 64

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

When the state police thought I murdered my roommate for a few hours.

↑ 9.7K 💬 387 image 2026

Roommate keeps stealing food, so here we are locking cupboards

↑ 7.1K 💬 343 gallery 2026

My roommate went full crazy.

↑ 4.1K 💬 727 image 2026

[Final Update] Our roommate made the news

↑ 4K 💬 159 gallery 2026

Almost burnt my room

↑ 3.5K 💬 394 image 2026

It’s kick out day and roommates haven’t stirred.

↑ 3.2K 💬 64 image 2026

Update 3 (FINAL!!) Karla is moving out on October 1st

↑ 2.6K 💬 224 gallery 2026

Almost sliced my leg open when taking out the trash, all because my roommate has no common sense!

↑ 2.4K 💬 118 gallery 2026

Update: locking my pantry cupboard to stop Karla (fake name) from stealing my food

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Roommate expects me to wake up at 1–2 AM every night to let her in. Am I being unreasonable?

↑ 2.3K 💬 1.4K image 2026

Communities its size

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r/badroommates, in numbers

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What is r/badroommates?
r/badroommates ("Bad Roommates: Tales of Irritation") describes itself this way: Give us your tales of bad roommates. The gross, the annoying, the psychotic. And if you have the solution to bad roommates, please let us know. It was founded in 2013 and has 559K members.
How many members does r/badroommates have?
r/badroommates has about 560.9K members. ViralHunt has tracked 719 of its posts; the biggest reached 9.7K upvotes, which is 17 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/badroommates?
"When the state police thought I murdered my roommate for a few hours." reached 9.7K upvotes and 387 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/badroommates.
What subreddits are similar to r/badroommates?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/popculture, r/ProgressiveHQ, r/Snorkblot, r/Yosemite, r/DailyShow, r/complaints.
What kind of posts do best on r/badroommates?
Of the posts we hold, 67% are text posts and 20% are question posts.
When is the best time to post on r/badroommates?
Across 719 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Monday at 23:00 UTC (1.8K avg upvotes), Saturday at 19:00 UTC (1K avg upvotes), Saturday at 11:00 UTC (905 avg upvotes). The busiest day is Wednesday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/badroommates?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/badroommates has 1.3K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 306 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/badroommates, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.