r/Cartoons. For fans of cartoons! We welcome all forms of professionally animated television shows and movies. Amateur shows, cartoon strips, live action, and self promotion should not be posted here. Please read over our rules before submitting. Welcome! Founded 2009 · 403.3K members
408K members. The best post we have captured here reached
67.5K upvotes, which works out to
166 per 1,000 members.
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.
Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.
What is r/cartoons?
r/cartoons ("r/Cartoons") describes itself this way: For fans of cartoons! We welcome all forms of professionally animated television shows and movies. Amateur shows, cartoon strips, live action, and self promotion should not be posted here. Please read over our rules before submitting. Welcome. It was founded in 2009 and has 403.3K members.
How many members does r/cartoons have?
r/cartoons has about 408K members. ViralHunt has tracked 1.4K of its posts; the biggest reached 67.5K upvotes, which is 166 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/cartoons?
"The first openly gay character in a childrens animated film (ParaNorman)" reached 67.5K upvotes and 681 comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/cartoons.
What subreddits are similar to r/cartoons?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/Trumpvirus, r/alaska, r/Louisiana, r/popculture, r/Antimoneymemes, r/BlueskySkeets.
What kind of posts do best on r/cartoons?
Of the posts we hold, 48% are image posts and 23% are gallery posts.
When is the best time to post on r/cartoons?
Across 1.4K timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Tuesday at 21:00 UTC (10.6K avg upvotes), Thursday at 08:00 UTC (10.2K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 22:00 UTC (9.6K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Sunday. 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/cartoons?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/cartoons has 23.2K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 610 posts from it in the last 30 days.
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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/cartoons, 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 We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is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.