About r/ShittyLifeProTips
In its own words:
A place for the shittiest, most mocking "pro-tips" you can think of. Whether you want to let us know how glue can help out your hair or the quickest way to clog a public toilet, we're the place to post.
Community guide
r/ShittyLifeProTips (#632, about 1.7 million subscribers) is oriented around: A place for the shittiest, most mocking "pro-tips" you can think of. Whether you want to let us know how glue can help out your hair or the quickest way to clog a public toilet, we're the place to post. Recent activity samples show 2.6 posts/day in recent samples (~62% text, ~38% image). Public rules we collected include: LPTs MUST be shitty; No KYS posts; No reposts; No circlejerking; NSFW discretion.
What belongs here
Stay inside the room’s stated scope rather than adjacent fandoms or general off-topic dumps.
How it differs from lookalikes
The length of the public rule list is itself a signal: skim all of them once before assuming defaults from similar communities.
Practical pointers
Read the current sidebar/rules on Reddit before posting; collected rules can lag. Search the sub before reposting common clips or questions.
SubMouse Editorial
The community was created on Jan 31, 2012, which makes it 14 years old. Since Oct 26, 2026, it has gained 217 subscribers (+0.01%). It sits just behind r/learnart (#631) and ahead of r/privacy (#633) in our ranking.
What sets r/ShittyLifeProTips apart
r/ShittyLifeProTips is more of a browsing community than a debating one: 5.6 comments per post on average, well under the Top 100 median of 13.1. Relative to its huge audience, posting is calm — around 1.5 new posts a day per million members, which puts it in the quietest fifth of the Top 100. A good post has less competition here.
Subscriber growth
Between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026, r/ShittyLifeProTips went up from 1,679,733 to 1,681,239 subscribers (+1.5K, +0.09%). That is about 34 new members per day. The chart uses our weekly snapshots (9 so far), so it gets longer every week.
What r/ShittyLifeProTips talks about
Looking at the titles of 29 recent posts (Oct 29–Nov 4), the words that come up most are “slpt”, “lpt”, “life”, “instead” and “save”. Other frequent themes are family, quick, become, successful and free. Recurring phrases include “slpt save” and “become successful”. By format, 62% are text posts and 38% are images.
Activity and best time to post
r/ShittyLifeProTips gets about 2.6 new posts a day. The public archive holds 239,444 posts and 1,348,683 comments in total, about 5.6 comments per post. Last week the busiest day was Sunday (7 posts) and the quietest was Wednesday (1). Posting peaks around 12:00 UTC and is lowest around 00:00 UTC.
Rules of r/ShittyLifeProTips
The moderators of r/ShittyLifeProTips list 6 rules. In short:
- LPTs MUST be shitty
- No KYS posts
- No reposts
- No circlejerking
- NSFW discretion
- Remain civil
How to join
Open reddit.com/r/ShittyLifeProTips 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/ShittyLifeProTips have?
r/ShittyLifeProTips has 1,681,239 subscribers (Nov 2, 2026), which makes it the #632 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 1,506 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026.
How old is r/ShittyLifeProTips?
r/ShittyLifeProTips was created on Jan 31, 2012, so it has been around for 14 years. The oldest post in the public archive is from Feb 7, 2012.
How active is r/ShittyLifeProTips?
Moderately: r/ShittyLifeProTips gets about 2.6 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 239,444 posts and 1,348,683 comments.
When is r/ShittyLifeProTips most active?
Based on post counts from Oct 29, 2026 to Nov 4, 2026, the busiest day was Sunday and the quietest Wednesday, and most posts arrive around 12:00 UTC, with the fewest around 00:00 UTC. More posts also means more competition, so a quieter hour can help a post get noticed.
What is r/ShittyLifeProTips about?
The community describes itself as: “A place for the shittiest, most mocking "pro-tips" you can think of. Whether you want to let us know how glue can help out your hair or the quickest way to clog a public toilet, we're the place to post.” Recent post titles often mention slpt, lpt, life, instead and save. Most posts are text posts (62%).
Is r/ShittyLifeProTips safe for work?
Yes. Reddit does not mark r/ShittyLifeProTips as an 18+ (NSFW) community, and its own rules forbid NSFW content. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.
How do I post on r/ShittyLifeProTips?
Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/ShittyLifeProTips accepts both text and link posts, with images and polls enabled. It has 6 posted rules, starting with: “LPTs MUST be shitty”; “No KYS posts”; “No reposts”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.
Which communities are like r/ShittyLifeProTips?
Communities with similar topics include r/LifeProTips (23.1M), r/UnethicalLifeProTips (2.2M), r/elonmusk (2M), r/shittymoviedetails (1.5M) and r/productivity (4.3M).
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/ShittyLifeProTips.