About r/woooosh
In its own words:
A subreddit about people who miss the joke/satire.
Community guide
r/woooosh (#937, about 1.2 million) showcases people missing an obvious joke or satire—the whoosh over the head—with context required and bait discouraged.
What belongs
Clear woosh moments (light samples ~1 post/day). Rules: show a woosh; no identifying info; no reposts; effortful titles; no karma/woosh bait; show context; no explicit content; no hate.
Versus PeterExplainsTheJoke
That room explains jokes to the confused. woooosh screenshots the miss itself as the content.
Practical pointers
Include enough context; don’t manufacture bait wooshes.
SubMouse Editorial
The community was created on Nov 1, 2016, which makes it 10 years old. Since Oct 26, 2026, it has gained 135 subscribers (+0.01%). It sits just behind r/IndiaSpeaks (#936) and ahead of r/CrossStitch (#938) in our ranking.
What sets r/woooosh apart
r/woooosh 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 0.9 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/woooosh went up from 1,134,926 to 1,135,996 subscribers (+1.1K, +0.09%). That is about 24 new members per day. The chart uses our weekly snapshots (9 so far), so it gets longer every week.
Activity and best time to post
r/woooosh gets about 1.0 new post a day. The public archive holds 296,982 posts and 1,664,815 comments in total, about 5.6 comments per post.
Rules of r/woooosh
The moderators of r/woooosh list 8 rules. In short:
- Show a Woooosh.
- No Identifying Information
- No Reposts
- Place Effort Behind Titles
- No Karma or Woooosh Bait
- Show Context
- No explicit content.
- No Hate
How to join
Open reddit.com/r/woooosh 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/woooosh have?
r/woooosh has 1,135,996 subscribers (Nov 2, 2026), which makes it the #937 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 1,070 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026.
How old is r/woooosh?
r/woooosh was created on Nov 1, 2016, so it has been around for 10 years. The oldest post in the public archive is from Nov 15, 2016.
How active is r/woooosh?
Moderately: r/woooosh gets about 1.0 new post a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 296,982 posts and 1,664,815 comments.
What is r/woooosh about?
The community describes itself as: “A subreddit about people who miss the joke/satire.”
Is r/woooosh safe for work?
Yes. Reddit does not mark r/woooosh as an 18+ (NSFW) community. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.
How do I post on r/woooosh?
Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/woooosh accepts link and media posts (no plain text posts), with images enabled. It has 8 posted rules, starting with: “Show a Woooosh.”; “No Identifying Information”; “No Reposts”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.
Which communities are like r/woooosh?
Communities with similar topics include r/Sneakers (5.6M), r/soccercirclejerk (1.5M), r/Jokes (30.4M), r/Filmmakers (3.1M) and r/PeterExplainsTheJoke (3.7M).
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/woooosh.