About r/RoastMe
In its own words:
Roasting (v.) - To humorously mock or humiliate someone with a well-timed joke, diss or comeback. (As defined by urbandictionary) Hone your roasting skills, meet other roasters, and get yourself roasted! Everybody needs to laugh at themselves! And other people, of course!
Community guide
r/RoastMe is a consent-based roasting gallery: people post themselves to be humorously mocked under a strict verification and safety rule set. Rank #134 (about 6.0 million subscribers). Collected rules cover verification, underage bans, photoshop limits, consent, anti-doxxing, anti-abuse that isn’t funny, and depression/suicide resource handling—this is not an open insult free-for-all.
What it is
Roastee photo posts (image/gallery heavy in samples) that meet verification/consent rules, plus roast comments that stay in “funny mock” territory rather than unfunny abuse.
Practical pointers from rule titles
Follow verification and image-hosting rules on Reddit before posting yourself. No underage subjects. No doxxing. No ads. Mods frame a don’t-be-evil / resources posture for serious distress—treat that as a hard boundary, not comedy fuel.
SubMouse Editorial
The community was created on Apr 22, 2015, which makes it 11 years old. Since Oct 26, 2026, it has gained 1,175 subscribers (+0.02%). It sits just behind r/Awwducational (#133) and ahead of r/Tinder (#135) in our ranking.
What sets r/RoastMe apart
Compared with other large communities, r/RoastMe leans heavily on images (51% of recent posts; the typical Top 100 subreddit sits at 17%). Posts here spark a lot of conversation: the archive averages 45.2 comments per post, roughly 3.2× the typical big subreddit (14.0). Its rhythm is strongly tied to time zones: the busiest hour (21:00 UTC) sees about 16.0× as many posts as the quietest (12:00 UTC).
Subscriber growth
Between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026, r/RoastMe grew from 6,002,766 to 6,007,510 subscribers (+4.7K, +0.08%). That is about 108 new members per day. The chart uses our weekly snapshots (9 so far), so it gets longer every week.
What r/RoastMe talks about
We read the titles of 142 recent posts (Oct 29–Nov 5), the words that come up most are “roast”, “cry”, “worst”, “college” and “turned”. Other frequent themes are good, laugh, 19f, halloween, round and probably. Recurring phrases include “recently turned”, “good job”, “job thinking” and “month ago”. By format, 51% are images, 47% are galleries and 1% are videos.
Activity and best time to post
r/RoastMe gets about 20 new posts a day. The public archive holds 526,846 posts and 23,789,435 comments in total, about 45.2 comments per post. Last week the busiest day was Saturday (30 posts) and the quietest was Sunday (12). Posting peaks around 21:00 UTC and is lowest around 12:00 UTC.
Rules of r/RoastMe
The moderators of r/RoastMe list 13 rules. In short:
- The Verification Rule
- The Photoshop Rule
- The Underage Rule
- The Image Hosting Rule
- The Unfunny Abuse Rule
- The Suspicious URL Rule
- The Inappropriate Flattery Rule
- The Meta Post Rule
- The Doxxing Rule
- The Consent Rule
How to join
Open reddit.com/r/RoastMe and press “Join”. Read the community rules in the sidebar before you post: every subreddit is run by its own volunteer moderators.
Frequently asked questions
How many members does r/RoastMe have?
r/RoastMe has 6,007,510 subscribers (Nov 2, 2026), which makes it the #134 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 4,744 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026.
How old is r/RoastMe?
r/RoastMe was created on Apr 22, 2015, so it has been around for 11 years.
How active is r/RoastMe?
Moderately: r/RoastMe gets about 20 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 526,846 posts and 23,789,435 comments. In a sample of 142 recent posts we counted 111 different authors.
When is r/RoastMe most active?
Based on post counts from Oct 29, 2026 to Nov 4, 2026, the busiest day was Saturday and the quietest Sunday, and most posts arrive around 21:00 UTC, with the fewest around 12:00 UTC. More posts also means more competition, so a quieter hour can help a post get noticed.
What is r/RoastMe about?
The community describes itself as: “Roasting (v.) - To humorously mock or humiliate someone with a well-timed joke, diss or comeback. (As defined by urbandictionary) Hone your roasting skills, meet other roasters, and get yourself roasted! Everybody needs…” Recent post titles often mention roast, cry, worst, college and turned. Most posts are images (51%).
Is r/RoastMe safe for work?
Yes. Reddit does not mark r/RoastMe as an 18+ (NSFW) community. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.
How do I post on r/RoastMe?
Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/RoastMe accepts link and media posts (no plain text posts), with images, videos and galleries enabled. It has 13 posted rules, starting with: “The Verification Rule”; “The Photoshop Rule”; “The Underage Rule”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.
Which communities are like r/RoastMe?
Communities with similar topics include r/30PlusSkinCare (2.5M), r/Wellthatsucks (4.6M), r/fantasyfootball (3.5M), r/Jokes (30.4M) and r/MurderedByWords (3.4M).
Stats from public data (data updated Nov 2, 2026; activity, rules and archive totals via the Arctic Shift archive, Nov 6, 2026). Point and comment counts are archive snapshots and can be lower than on Reddit today. SubMouse is an independent directory and is not affiliated with Reddit or the moderators of r/RoastMe.