r/nottheonion

Sadly, this is not the Onion.

For true stories that you could have sworn were from The Onion.

Community Stats

Subscribers: 26M
Content rating: SFW
Created: 2008-10-25
Posts per day: 17/day
Comments per day: Very high
Top post: 71k upvotes
Top 100 median: 36k upvotes
Competition: Low competition
Peak hour: 6:00 AM UTC

r/nottheonion is a SFW subreddit with 25.8 million subscribers, created in 2008. Posts average about 17 per day, and comments arrive too frequently to measure precisely. Top posts this year scored up to 70.5K upvotes, with a typical top-100 post earning 36.3K. It's a low-competition community — the 100th-ranked top post of the past year is from 334 days ago. Browse 26 closely related communities below to find similar subreddits.

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