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**What happened to people who ask reddit for advice or help?** Did they take Reddit's advice? How did it turn out? Read the best updates by redditors and find out what happened after their original post. Founded 2020 · 4M members · text posts only

4M members. The best post we have captured here reached 15K upvotes, which works out to 4 per 1,000 members.

4peak upvotes per 1,000 members
4Mmembers
15Kbest post
3.5Kmost comments
523posts 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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The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

CONCLUDED 297 ONGOING 97 NEW UPDATE 49 INCONCLUSIVE 23 EXTERNAL 21 REPOST 18 SUSPECTED FAKE 2

What the ceiling looks like

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

Women turns up to pay for her wedding that we don’t have in the diary. Her wedding is tomorrow.

↑ 15K 💬 470 text 2026

Dog acting weird about one breast. Am I crazy to be worried?

↑ 14.8K 💬 569 question 2026

TIFU by not telling my doctor how many Tic-Tacs I eat per day + 2 year update

↑ 13K 💬 1.2K text 2026

I [27/M] am dating a girl [28/F] with a really odd "quirk" and I'm not sure this is too big a red flag or just a case of nerves?

↑ 12.4K 💬 685 question 2026

I (24F) made a fake Tinder, matched with my boyfriend (26M), and he wants to meet up

↑ 12.1K 💬 675 text 2026

I’m furious at a photo someone put up of my husband, he insists I’m overreacting

↑ 12K 💬 545 text 2026

the boss who fired me got hired at my new job — and she’s joking about how bad my work was

↑ 11.7K 💬 476 text 2026

Me [25F] with my boyfriend [26 M] of six months. I'm about to break up with him over a backpack but I need to know if I'm overreacting

↑ 11.7K 💬 573 text 2026

AITA for the email I sent to a teacher about her "You have to include everyone" rules, saying that was a dangerous lesson?

↑ 11.4K 💬 785 question 2026

My [34M] ex-wife [32F] divorced me after she got cancer so that she could "leave" first, now she wants to come back - should I give her another chanc…

↑ 11K 💬 818 question 2026

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/BestofRedditorUpdates, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/BestofRedditorUpdates?
r/BestofRedditorUpdates describes itself this way: **What happened to people who ask reddit for advice or help?** Did they take Reddit's advice? How did it turn out? Read the best updates by redditors and find out what happened after their original post. It was founded in 2020 and has 4M members.
How many members does r/BestofRedditorUpdates have?
r/BestofRedditorUpdates has about 4M members. ViralHunt has tracked 523 of its posts; the biggest reached 15K upvotes, which is 4 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/BestofRedditorUpdates?
"Women turns up to pay for her wedding that we don’t have in the diary. Her wedding is tomorrow." reached 15K upvotes and 470 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/BestofRedditorUpdates.
What subreddits are similar to r/BestofRedditorUpdates?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/LeopardsAteMyFace, r/awfuleverything, r/interesting, r/doordash, r/dogpictures, r/youngpeopleyoutube.
What kind of posts do best on r/BestofRedditorUpdates?
Of the posts we hold, 60% are text posts and 40% are question posts.
When is the best time to post on r/BestofRedditorUpdates?
Across 510 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Thursday at 18:00 UTC (5.3K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 15:00 UTC (5.2K avg upvotes), Sunday at 15:00 UTC (4.9K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Monday. 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/BestofRedditorUpdates?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/BestofRedditorUpdates has 9.3K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 141 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/BestofRedditorUpdates, 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.