About r/TrueCrime
Community guide
r/TrueCrime (#307, about 3.4 million) discusses true crime (description empty). Rules ban personal info/personal stories/suspect-pointing, glorifying criminals/violence, ads, memes, dehumanizing speech/frontier justice, video/self-promo, sensational titles, off-topic moralizing/bigotry, and missing-persons posts; text guidelines apply. Text/Image (~4.1 ppd).
Cases without vigilante energy
Discuss cases; don’t glorify violence, name suspects casually, or post missing persons.
No memes or sensational titles
Text guidelines apply; no memes, video dumps, or sensationalist headlines.
Practical pointers
Thin mixed samples; mark graphic content when needed.
SubMouse Editorial
It sits just behind r/BaldursGate3 (#306) and ahead of r/DestinyTheGame (#308) in our ranking.
What sets r/TrueCrime apart
Relative to its huge audience, posting is calm — around 1.2 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. Growth has more or less levelled off (0.02% since Oct 29, 2026), which is common for very mature communities.
Subscriber growth
Between Oct 29, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026, r/TrueCrime climbed from 3,402,675 to 3,403,270 subscribers (+595, +0.02%). That is about 149 new members per day. The chart uses our weekly snapshots (2 so far), so it gets longer every week.
What r/TrueCrime talks about
We read the titles of 39 recent posts (Oct 29–Nov 4), the words that come up most are “case”, “crime”, “killer”, “true” and “evidence”. Other frequent themes are videos, exposed, serial, help, behind and disturbing. Recurring phrases include “true crime”. By format, 49% are text posts, 26% are images and 15% are videos.
Popular post flairs: Crime (4), Not Crime Content (3), 10a63e06-a7e8-11eb-a730-0e4344500965 (2), Not a good fit (1), Warning: Graphic/Sensitive Content (1), Documentary (1).
Activity and best time to post
r/TrueCrime gets about 4.1 new posts a day. The public archive holds 81,657 posts and 965,967 comments in total, about 11.8 comments per post. Last week the busiest day was Saturday (7 posts) and the quietest was Sunday (4). Posting peaks around 15:00 UTC and is lowest around 05:00 UTC.
Rules of r/TrueCrime
The moderators of r/TrueCrime list 11 rules. In short:
- No personal information, personal stories, or indicating suspects.
- Don't Glorify Criminals or Violence
- No advertising
- Respect other users
- No memes
- No dehumanizing speech or frontier justice
- No video posts / self promotion
- Text posts guidelines
- Rule 9 - No sensationalist titles
- Rule 10 - Off-topic/moralizing/misogyny/sexism/racism
How to join
Open reddit.com/r/TrueCrime 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 subscribers does r/TrueCrime have?
r/TrueCrime has 3,403,270 subscribers (Nov 2, 2026), which makes it the #307 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 595 members between Oct 29, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026.
How active is r/TrueCrime?
Moderately: r/TrueCrime gets about 4.1 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 81,657 posts and 965,967 comments.
When is r/TrueCrime 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 15:00 UTC, with the fewest around 05:00 UTC. More posts also means more competition, so a quieter hour can help a post get noticed.
What is r/TrueCrime about?
r/TrueCrime is a large Reddit community. Recent post titles often mention case, crime, killer, true and evidence. Most posts are text posts (49%).
Is r/TrueCrime safe for work?
Yes. Reddit does not mark r/TrueCrime as an 18+ (NSFW) community. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.
How do I post on r/TrueCrime?
Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/TrueCrime accepts both text and link posts, with images and galleries enabled. It has 11 posted rules, starting with: “No personal information, personal stories, or indicating suspects.”; “Don't Glorify Criminals or Violence”; “No advertising”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.
Which communities are like r/TrueCrime?
Communities with similar topics include r/nottheonion (26.1M), r/technicallythetruth (5.9M), r/RelationshipMemes (3.8M), r/Shoestring (5.2M) and r/buildapc (8.5M).
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/TrueCrime.