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r/ShitAmericansSay

Shit Americans Say. Have you recently seen something amusing out of the States? Of course you have! Post it here. Shit Americans Say: we can't make it up. Founded 2013 · 982.1K members · links only

987K members. The best post we have captured here reached 22.6K upvotes, which works out to 23 per 1,000 members.

23peak upvotes per 1,000 members
987Kmembers
22.6Kbest post
2.7Kmost comments
774posts 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.

83% 14%
Image 83% Gallery 14% Video 2% Text 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.

Europe 52 Food 46 Language 33 Canada 27 Exceptionalism 26 Ancestry 18 Economy 16 Healthcare 16 History 15 Transportation 13

What the ceiling looks like

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

"If you're okay with flock cameras , you're a communist."

↑ 22.6K 💬 236 image 2026

"All that shit is $48 US dollar"

↑ 22.2K 💬 468 image 2026

THIS IS AMERICA. We eat bacon. We drink bourbon...

↑ 19.4K 💬 519 image 2026

"The South is in America"

↑ 18K 💬 668 image 2026

"These are biscuits, not your sad little pretender version of them you refer to as scones"

↑ 16.9K 💬 594 image 2026

Billie Eilish thinks Europeans don't have ketchup or microwaves

↑ 14.6K 💬 2K video 2026

“The size of a coffee in Europe.”

↑ 13.5K 💬 2.1K image 2026

"The European mind cannot comprehend a Costco hot dog cart attachment."

↑ 13.5K 💬 1.9K image 2026

“First, it’s spelled Liter.”

↑ 13.2K 💬 602 image 2026

A European?

↑ 10K 💬 164 image 2026

Communities its size

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

r/ShitAmericansSay, in numbers

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

What is r/ShitAmericansSay?
r/ShitAmericansSay ("Shit Americans Say") describes itself this way: Have you recently seen something amusing out of the States? Of course you have! Post it here. Shit Americans Say: we can't make it up. It was founded in 2013 and has 982.1K members.
How many members does r/ShitAmericansSay have?
r/ShitAmericansSay has about 987K members. ViralHunt has tracked 774 of its posts; the biggest reached 22.6K upvotes, which is 23 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/ShitAmericansSay?
""If you're okay with flock cameras , you're a communist."" reached 22.6K upvotes and 236 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/ShitAmericansSay.
What subreddits are similar to r/ShitAmericansSay?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/popculture, r/StarWarsBattlefront, r/BlackPeopleofReddit, r/Archaeology, r/illinois, r/ChicagoSuburbs.
What kind of posts do best on r/ShitAmericansSay?
Of the posts we hold, 83% are image posts and 14% are gallery posts.
When is the best time to post on r/ShitAmericansSay?
Across 774 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Tuesday at 13:00 UTC (6K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 10:00 UTC (4K avg upvotes), Saturday at 09:00 UTC (3.8K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Wednesday. 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/ShitAmericansSay?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/ShitAmericansSay has 7.9K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 307 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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