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r/heartwarming

Heartwarming: For everything that makes you feel better.. /r/heartwarming is a place where you can post things that you come across that bring you joy and make you feel a little better. Submissions can be videos or images, or even stories of good experiences. We hope that this is also a place where you can come to find some of that joy when you need it. Sharing our gratitude and happiness with each other can be one of the best things we can do for ourselves and others. Thanks for joining us! Founded 2010 · 155.7K members · text posts only

163.7K members. The best post we have captured here reached 51K upvotes, which works out to 312 per 1,000 members.

312peak upvotes per 1,000 members
163.7Kmembers
51Kbest post
1.3Kmost comments
545posts 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.

79% 12%
Video 79% Image 12% Text 5% Gallery 2% Link 1%

The topics it labels

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

People 402 Animals 84 Reunion 19 News 11 TikTok videos 4 Mod News 3 Meme 1 Animals [Annoying Music Warning] 1

What the ceiling looks like

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

A son’s love for his mother is one of the strongest in this world

↑ 51K 💬 315 video 2026

He won at life ❤️

↑ 35.3K 💬 222 video 2026

Hardworking dad worked 3 jobs in order to buy his daughter her dream dress for the school dance.

↑ 34.7K 💬 625 video 2026

This is why men want daughters.

↑ 30.9K 💬 309 video 2026

She’s a real hero. The way she treats this girl with so much patience and gentleness is beautiful to see. ❤️

↑ 25.5K 💬 373 video 2026

A father fought through a windstorm to save the tree his late daughter planted. A parent’s love truly never ends. 🥹🤍

↑ 24.8K 💬 157 video 2026

Appreciative kids are the best!

↑ 23.8K 💬 291 video 2026

The purest reunion after long day at school ♥️🥹

↑ 23.4K 💬 104 video 2026

Faithfully waiting for his return everyday with love

↑ 22.2K 💬 1.3K video 2026

This brother with Down syndrome meeting his baby sister for the first time

↑ 22.1K 💬 129 video 2026

Communities its size

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

r/heartwarming, in numbers

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

What is r/heartwarming?
r/heartwarming ("Heartwarming: For everything that makes you feel better.") describes itself this way: /r/heartwarming is a place where you can post things that you come across that bring you joy and make you feel a little better. Submissions can be videos or images, or even stories of good experiences. We hope that this is also a place where you can come to find some of that joy when you need it. Sharing our gratitude and happiness with each other can be one of the best things we can do for ourselves and others. Thanks for joining us. It was founded in 2010 and has 155.7K members.
How many members does r/heartwarming have?
r/heartwarming has about 163.7K members. ViralHunt has tracked 545 of its posts; the biggest reached 51K upvotes, which is 312 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/heartwarming?
"A son’s love for his mother is one of the strongest in this world" reached 51K upvotes and 315 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/heartwarming.
What subreddits are similar to r/heartwarming?
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/heartwarming?
Of the posts we hold, 79% are video posts and 12% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/heartwarming?
Across 545 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Wednesday at 06:00 UTC (14.3K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 23:00 UTC (13.3K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 12:00 UTC (12.1K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Thursday. 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/heartwarming?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/heartwarming has 16.5K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 144 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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