About r/standupshots
Community guide
r/standupshots (#247, about 3.9 million) is for photos of stand-up comedians (description empty; rules define the room). Submissions need a comedian photo; OC preferred; no tweet screenshots; no insults about appearance or talent/career; no bigotry; no spam/self-promo accusations or vote-manipulation claims in comments. Image/Link (~2.3 ppd).
Photo of the comic
Feature a photo of the comedian—not a tweet screenshot. Original content preferred; respect repost policy.
Critique the bit, not the body
Appearance and career/talent insults are banned; so is bigotry about gender or orientation.
Practical pointers
Don’t accuse posters of spam or vote manipulation in-thread—report instead.
SubMouse Editorial
It sits just behind r/podcasts (#246) and ahead of r/DiWHY (#248) in our ranking.
What sets r/standupshots apart
Compared with other large communities, r/standupshots leans heavily on images (95% of recent posts; the typical Top 100 subreddit sits at 17%). Relative to its huge audience, posting is calm — around 0.6 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/standupshots grew from 3,904,882 to 3,904,927 subscribers (+45, +0.00%). That is about 11 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/standupshots gets about 2.3 new posts a day. The public archive holds 56,310 posts and 721,351 comments in total, about 12.8 comments per post. Last week the busiest day was Monday (10 posts) and the quietest was Saturday (0).
Rules of r/standupshots
The moderators of r/standupshots list 9 rules. In short:
- Do not insult a submitter's physical appearance.
- Do not insult a submitter's talent/career.
- Submissions must feature a photo of the comedian.
- Repost Policy
- Original Content Preferred
- No accusations of spam/self-promotion.
- No bigotry regarding gender or sexual orientation.
- No accusations of vote manipulation.
- No pictures of tweets
How to join
Open reddit.com/r/standupshots 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/standupshots have?
r/standupshots has 3,904,927 subscribers (Nov 2, 2026), which makes it the #247 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 45 members between Oct 29, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026.
Is r/standupshots still active?
Yes. r/standupshots gets about 2.3 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 56,310 posts and 721,351 comments.
What is the best time to post in r/standupshots?
Based on post counts from Oct 29, 2026 to Nov 4, 2026, the busiest day was Monday and the quietest Saturday. More posts also means more competition, so a quieter hour can help a post get noticed.
What kind of posts are on r/standupshots?
r/standupshots is a large Reddit community. Recent post titles often mention rip, captain and vote. Most posts are images (95%).
Is r/standupshots SFW?
Yes. Reddit does not mark r/standupshots as an 18+ (NSFW) community. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.
What are the rules of r/standupshots?
Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/standupshots accepts link and media posts (no plain text posts), with images and galleries enabled. It has 9 posted rules, starting with: “Do not insult a submitter's physical appearance.”; “Do not insult a submitter's talent/career.”; “Submissions must feature a photo of the comedian.”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.
What subreddits are similar to r/standupshots?
Communities with similar topics include r/marvelstudios (4.9M), r/BikiniBottomTwitter (4.8M), r/15minutefood (3.8M), r/Marvel (3.8M) and r/oddlyspecific (3.8M).
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/standupshots.