r/facepalm↗
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Facepalm🤦🏻♂️ for silly, cringey, and embarrassing moments. Do not post memes, breaking news, or Reddit screenshots.
8.1M subscribers270 posts / mo in Sep 2026 (incl. ~1% by known bots)191 authors / mosince 2009
r/facepalm has 8.1M members (+0.4% over the last 12 months). It gets about 270 posts a month from 191 people. Top topics: SpellingErrors, StupidityScenes and SaysMeaningSays.
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Topics and brands on r/facepalm
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Share of the subreddit's posts
- SpellingErrors0.1%
- StupidityScenes<0.1%
- SaysMeaningSays<0.1%
- DumbAndIdioticRoasts<0.1%
- Social Media Drama<0.1%
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- Yahoo!
- NPR
- FactCheck
- Politico
- Joshwho
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