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Shitty Life Pro Tips

A place for the shittiest, most mocking "pro-tips" you can think of. Whether you want to let us know how glue can help out your hair or the quickest way to clog a public toilet, we're the place to post.

1.7M subscribers74 posts / mo in Sep 202645 authors / mosince 2012

r/ShittyLifeProTips has 1.7M members (+1.1% over the last 12 months). It gets about 74 posts a month from 45 people. Top topics: Toilet Tips, Life Pro Tips & Tricks and Weight Loss Tips.

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Size and growth

How r/ShittyLifeProTips has grown

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Subscriber growth

Subscribers over time

+1.1%in 12 months · +0.2% in 3 months · +0.0% in 1 month
Oct 20261.7M
Growing1.7M subscribers
Data since Mar 2018Live · through Oct 2026
r/ShittyLifeProTips

Monthly activity

Posts, comments and authors per month

−20%vs Sep 2025 · −5.3% last 3 months vs the 3 before
Sep 202674
QuieterPeaked at 2.1k in Dec 2021
Data through Sep 2026 · October usually lands mid-November

What people talk about

Topics and brands on r/ShittyLifeProTips

Top topics

Share of the subreddit's posts

  1. Toilet Tips1.7%
  2. Life Pro Tips & Tricks1.5%
  3. Weight Loss Tips1.4%
  4. Faking Death and Living Life1.1%
  5. Speeding Tickets & Police Interactions1.1%

Brands people mention

Most-mentioned brands and sites, last 12 months

  1. Wolfram
  2. xkcd

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Posts and activity for Sep 2026. Members from Reddit's subscriber counts. Read from the same data the app runs on. Our research