r/Showerthoughts is a subreddit with 34.2M members. The most common kinds of discussions are pain & anger and ideas, and the community frequently discusses looking for, annoying, looking, hard time, and relationship, and they frequently recommend/review breakfast food and deodorants.
A subreddit for sharing those miniature epiphanies that make the mundane more amazing.
Popular Themes in r/Showerthoughts
#1
Pain & Anger
: "Police cars used to say “Protect and Serve.” Now it’s “Law Enforcement.” Maybe that says something. It used to sound like the job was serving and protecting people. Now it sounds like the priority is enforcing the law."
6 posts
#2
Ideas
: "The 'Terminator' film is not just made up story. With the advancement of Open AI, it literally could happen in our lifetime."
3 posts
#3
Money Talk
: "My bank account and my will to diet have the same balance: zero. Body: Just transferred my last $12 to savings. It immediately called me a comedian and left."
3 posts
#4
Advice Requests
: "How do I build Karma on here? New to this place - be kind."
2 posts
Popular Topics in r/Showerthoughts
#1
Looking For
27 posts
#2
Annoying
19 posts
#3
Looking
14 posts
#4
Hard Time
6 posts
#5
Relationship
6 posts
#6
Karma
6 posts
#7
Ai
: "If you feel evil enough, could you theoretically sue a small business with Ai food pictures to the ground for ‘false advertising’ [american court system]?"
6 posts
#8
Music
5 posts
#9
Frustrating
5 posts
#10
Job
4 posts
Products Discussed in r/Showerthoughts
Breakfast Food
1 review
#1
IHop
5.0★ from 1 review
Deodorants
1 review
#1
Bum Bliss
5.0★ from 1 review
Flair Used in r/Showerthoughts
#1
Removed
: "Swimming in the sea without doing anything has always been very boring, but yesterday I had the chance to try paddleboarding, my perspective on the sea changed, it was very enjoyable."
132 posts
#2
Casual Thought - Pending
: "Since facial hair grows by default, it’s kind of weird how it used to be rebellious to NOT be clean shaven."
22 posts
#3
Musing - Pending
: "It is substantially more suspicious to board an airplane wearing a parachute than to board a boat wearing a life jacket."
18 posts
#4
Speculation - Pending
: "In a future where AI is sold to supplement people's own intelligence, there will be lobby groups invested in keeping consumers unintelligent through poor education."
6 posts
#5
Showerthought - Pending
: "Assuming two factor codes are truly random, every possible six digit code is entered many times by different people every day."
4 posts
#6
User Deleted
: "[ Removed by moderator ]"
4 posts
#7
Forbidden Topic – Removed
: "Reddit mods don’t consistently apply community rules."
3 posts
#8
Common Error - Removed
: "The English language has words for the months of the year, and words for the days of the week, but does not have words for the weeks of the month. And, yet, it has a specific word for intentionally throwing someone out of a window with malevolent intent."
1 post
#9
[Speculation]
: "Will future generations (ex. my future children) be able to quote the Substitute Teacher sketch?"
1 post
Member Growth in r/Showerthoughts
Yearly
+164k members(0.5%)
Similar Subreddits to r/Showerthoughts
r/AskReddit
59.6M members
4.5% / yr
r/ChatGPT
11.6M members
4.1% / yr
r/collapse
567k members
5.8% / yr
r/indiasocial
1.8M members
11.4% / yr
r/indonesia
977k members
5.0% / yr
r/kolkata
474k members
13.8% / yr
r/meme
2.9M members
6.5% / yr
r/memes
36.0M members
1.5% / yr
r/sciencefiction
317k members
14.2% / yr
r/TeenIndia
549k members
81.4% / yr
About
GummySearch helps people research Reddit communities by organizing activity, growth, themes, and post-level signals into one place.
This page gives a focused view of r/Showerthoughts, including current member size, discussion patterns, product reviews, and related communities to explore.
This data is synced periodically so insights stay current and useful for ongoing research.
Last updated: September 10, 2026