"What have I done...". Instant Regret (in'-stint rē-gret') n. a subreddit dedicated to deliberate actions that unexpectedly lead to undesirable consequences and horrible results; things which may cause someone to say, "oh man, did I just screw the pooch!" Founded 2014 · 4.5M members · links only
4.5M members. The best post we have captured here reached
25.5K upvotes, which works out to
6 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.
99%
Video 99%Image 1%
What the ceiling looks like
The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.
Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.
What is r/instant_regret?
r/instant_regret (""What have I done..."") describes itself this way: Instant Regret (in'-stint rē-gret') n. a subreddit dedicated to deliberate actions that unexpectedly lead to undesirable consequences and horrible results; things which may cause someone to say, "oh man, did I just screw the pooch!". It was founded in 2014 and has 4.5M members.
How many members does r/instant_regret have?
r/instant_regret has about 4.5M members. ViralHunt has tracked 311 of its posts; the biggest reached 25.5K upvotes, which is 6 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/instant_regret?
"Robber chose the wrong cashier" reached 25.5K upvotes and 447 comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/instant_regret.
What subreddits are similar to r/instant_regret?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/LeopardsAteMyFace, r/awfuleverything, r/interesting, r/im14andthisisdeep, r/JustGuysBeingDudes, r/freefolk.
What kind of posts do best on r/instant_regret?
Of the posts we hold, 99% are video posts and 1% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/instant_regret?
Across 311 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Monday at 07:00 UTC (14.5K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 01:00 UTC (10.6K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 18:00 UTC (9.3K 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/instant_regret?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/instant_regret has 14.8K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 5 posts from it in the last 30 days.
See what is climbing here before you write
ViralHunt tracks Reddit and eight other networks, records how every post grows, and puts what is taking off in front of your team in one list.
Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/instant_regret, 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.