About r/cringe
Community guide
r/cringe is #804 in our SFW Top 1000 (about 1.3 million subscribers). Recent activity samples show 2.1 posts/day in recent samples (~64% video, ~27% text, ~9% link). Public rules we collected include: Rule 1 - Doesn't directly involve two people; Rule 2 - No minors (under 18 years of age); Rule 3 - No videos featuring mentally ill people; Rule 4 - Title Isn't Descriptive; Rule 5 - Intentionally Cringe-worthy/Fake OR Scripted.
What belongs here
Stay inside the room’s stated scope rather than adjacent off-topic dumps. Self-promotion and ads are limited—read those rules before linking your own work. Match posts to: Rule 1 - Doesn't directly involve two people; Rule 2 - No minors (under 18 years of age); Rule 3 - No videos featuring mentally ill people; Rule 4 - Title Isn't Descriptive.
How it differs from lookalikes
Prefer this room when your post matches its description and rules—not merely a larger sibling community. Skim the full public rule list once rather than assuming defaults from similar subs.
Practical pointers
Read the live sidebar/rules before posting; collected snapshots can lag. Common flairs in samples include: Video, Text.
SubMouse Editorial
It sits just behind r/resumes (#803) and ahead of r/Funnymemes (#805) in our ranking.
What sets r/cringe apart
Relative to its huge audience, posting is calm — around 1.6 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 (0.00% since Oct 29, 2026), which is common for very mature communities.
Subscriber growth
Between Oct 29, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026, r/cringe climbed from 1,325,320 to 1,325,377 subscribers (+57, +0.00%). That is about 14 new members per day. The chart uses our weekly snapshots (2 so far), so it gets longer every week.
Activity and best time to post
r/cringe gets about 2.1 new posts a day. The public archive holds 406,873 posts and 5,361,157 comments in total, about 13.2 comments per post.
Rules of r/cringe
The moderators of r/cringe list 10 rules. In short:
- Rule 1 - Doesn't directly involve two people
- Rule 2 - No minors (under 18 years of age)
- Rule 3 - No videos featuring mentally ill people
- Rule 4 - Title Isn't Descriptive
- Rule 5 - Intentionally Cringe-worthy/Fake OR Scripted
- Rule 6 - No Mirrored Content. No spam. No Music videos. No mobile links.
- Rule 1 - No Posting Comments on YouTube
- Rule 2 - No Posting Personal Information
- Rule 3 - No Uncivil or Bullying Comments
- Rule 4 - No posting mirrors of content.
How to join
Open reddit.com/r/cringe 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 big is r/cringe?
r/cringe has 1,325,377 subscribers (Nov 2, 2026), which makes it the #804 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 57 members between Oct 29, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026.
How active is r/cringe?
Moderately: r/cringe gets about 2.1 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 406,873 posts and 5,361,157 comments.
What is r/cringe about?
r/cringe is a large Reddit community. Recent post titles often mention stumbled, across and monster.
Is r/cringe safe for work?
Yes. Reddit does not mark r/cringe as an 18+ (NSFW) community. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.
How do I post on r/cringe?
Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/cringe accepts both text and link posts. It has 10 posted rules, starting with: “Rule 1 - Doesn't directly involve two people”; “Rule 2 - No minors (under 18 years of age)”; “Rule 3 - No videos featuring mentally ill people”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.
Which communities are like r/cringe?
Communities with similar topics include r/TikTokCringe (5.7M), r/niceguys (1.6M), r/dadjokes (12.2M), r/thisismylifenow (1.3M) and r/mashups (1.3M).
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/cringe.