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r/hamstersNSFW

A subreddit dedicated to all things hamster related. Founded 2011 · 184.3K members

185.4K members. The best post we have captured here reached 13.1K upvotes, which works out to 70 per 1,000 members.

70peak upvotes per 1,000 members
185.4Kmembers
13.1Kbest post
544most comments
720posts 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.

32% 29% 17% 11% 9%
Gallery 32% Image 29% Video 17% Text 11% Question 9% Link 2%

The topics it labels

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

Question :confused: 219 Adorable Hammy :Happy: 158 Funny Hammy :hamster: 77 New Hamster :Happy: 58 First Time Owner :CoolHammy: 42 Rainbow Bridge :SuperSad: 32 Setup tour :amazed: 30 Other 20 Discussion :shocked: 19 Enrichment/Toys :eatingtreat: 13

What the ceiling looks like

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

Do y’all think this is good enrichment?

↑ 13.1K 💬 196 video 2026

i just learned that Hong Kong has IDs for pets. which of course includes hamsters

↑ 12.7K 💬 77 image 2025

Concerned

↑ 12K 💬 204 video 2026

I thought it important to share this

↑ 11.3K 💬 222 image 2025

Help! 20 year old hamster - advice for improving quality of life?

↑ 9.6K 💬 349 video 2026

Found Atticus under my fridge this morning. I didn't even know he escaped.

↑ 9K 💬 222 image 2026

Lady from a painting

↑ 8.2K 💬 67 image 2025

Hamster carrying my finger??

↑ 8.1K 💬 98 video 2026

Why does my hamster look so stupid?

↑ 8.1K 💬 188 gallery 2025

Update on the hamster I found abandoned in the woods

↑ 7.8K 💬 316 gallery 2025

Communities its size

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

r/hamsters, in numbers

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

What is r/hamsters?
r/hamsters describes itself this way: A subreddit dedicated to all things hamster related. It was founded in 2011 and has 184.3K members.
How many members does r/hamsters have?
r/hamsters has about 185.4K members. ViralHunt has tracked 720 of its posts; the biggest reached 13.1K upvotes, which is 70 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/hamsters?
"Do y’all think this is good enrichment?" reached 13.1K upvotes and 196 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/hamsters.
What subreddits are similar to r/hamsters?
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/hamsters?
Of the posts we hold, 32% are gallery posts and 29% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/hamsters?
Across 720 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Saturday at 07:00 UTC (5.5K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 03:00 UTC (4K avg upvotes), Sunday at 10:00 UTC (3.4K 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/hamsters?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/hamsters has 6.2K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 310 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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