How the memes communities compare
Membership is concentrated: the three largest communities hold 73% of all members on this list, so most of the memes conversation happens in a handful of places. r/memes is both the biggest and the busiest, with about 196 new posts a day. Per member, the liveliest is r/meme: 75 posts a day from 3M members — a smaller crowd, but an engaged one. Among the communities we track weekly, r/meme grew fastest recently (+0.10%, +3K members since Oct 19). The oldest is r/memes, founded in 2008, and every community here is more than five years old — this is a long-established corner of Reddit.
The 9 biggest memes subreddits
r/memes 36,124,588 members · ~196 posts/day · +32.8K since Oct 19 · since 2008Memes! A way of describing cultural information being shared. An element of a culture or system of behavior that may be considered to be passed from one individual to another by nongenetic means, especially imitation.
r/HistoryMemes 12,777,151 members · ~66 posts/day · +5.1K since Oct 19 · since 2012A place for history memes about events over 20 years ago.
r/BikiniBottomTwitter 4,780,769 members · ~8.4 posts/day · +770 since Oct 19 · since 2016Spongebob memes
r/marvelmemes 4,296,959 members · ~35 posts/day · +1.2K since Oct 19 · since 2014Welcome to r/marvelmemes: The home of Marvel memes on Reddit!
r/PrequelMemes 3,820,149 members · ~7.4 posts/day · +609 since Oct 19 · since 2016Memes of the Star Wars Prequels.
- Rr/RelationshipMemes ↗ 3,752,826 members · ~2.3 posts/day · since 2015
💕 The home of fun, relatable, funny, cute, and positive memes that celebrate happy, healthy relationships of many kinds 💕
- Lr/lotrmemes ↗ 3,070,296 members · ~61 posts/day · +1.5K since Oct 19 · since 2012
Come on in, have a seat! This subreddit is a warm resting place for all weary travelers who are fond of Tolkien and his works. We welcome all Tolkien related content! Grab a pint, a long pipe, and relax.
- Mr/meme ↗ 2,962,611 members · ~75 posts/day · +3K since Oct 19 · since 2008
r/meme is a place to share memes. We're fairly liberal but do have a few rules on what can and cannot be shared.
r/animememes 2,112,086 members · ~10 posts/day · +450 since Oct 19 · since 2012An anime meme subreddit that's friendly for women, queer people, and generally marginalized anime fans who want a break from how toxic anime spaces usually are. Of course, anyone is welcome, but be respectful to the intention of …
What these communities upvoted this week
A cross-section of this week's top posts from the bigger memes subreddits, in the order Reddit ranks them.
- Mouthwatering........r/memes · Oct 24
- There’s always a catchr/HistoryMemes · Oct 24
- it appears you have the sudsr/BikiniBottomTwitter · Oct 25
- that would be the final straw!r/memes · Oct 23
- I understand where they were coming fromr/HistoryMemes · Oct 29
- RIP Sir Patrick Stewart 😭r/BikiniBottomTwitter · Oct 29
Choosing where to post
Competition for attention differs a lot: r/BikiniBottomTwitter has 4.8M members but only about 8.4 new posts a day — roughly one new post for every 569.1K members — while r/memes gets about 196 a day, one for every 183.9K. A strong, well-made post therefore has more room to be seen in r/BikiniBottomTwitter; r/memes is better when you want quick replies. Rule sets vary: of the communities we have rules for, r/PrequelMemes lists 14, against 6 in r/memes, so a post that is fine in one can be removed in another.
A simple rule of thumb: ask questions in the specialised communities and share your best finds in the big ones, where they can reach the most people. Always read the rules in the sidebar first — each community is run by its own volunteer moderators. Our guide to searching Reddit explains how to dig through any of these communities, and the subreddit info tool gives you the stats of one we don't list.
Frequently asked questions
Which memes subreddit has the most members?
r/memes is the largest, with 36,124,588 members, followed by r/HistoryMemes (12.8M) and r/BikiniBottomTwitter (4.8M).
Where are the most new memes posts?
By new posts per day, r/memes leads with about 196, ahead of r/meme (75). Counts are averages over the last seven days.
How many memes communities are on this list?
We list 9 active, safe-for-work memes communities with at least 25,000 members each, 73.7M members in total (people can be in several). Reddit has many smaller ones too; our guide on searching Reddit shows how to find them.
What is the oldest memes subreddit?
r/meme, created on May 26, 2008.
Are these memes subreddits safe for work?
Yes. Every community on this page is public and not marked 18+ by Reddit, and we filter out communities whose name or description points to adult content.
Data: Reddit's public subreddit search and the Arctic Shift archive (Oct 30, 2026), growth from SubMouse's weekly snapshots. Member counts of communities outside our Top 1000 come from the archive and can lag a little. Not affiliated with Reddit.