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, ai, and hard time, 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
: "People who say that AI will revolutionize entertainment media by allowing people to "make" their perfect media/literature fail to realize that that will ruin pop culture as we know it by removing shared experience. You can't talk to others about your perfect show, because only you have seen it."
5 posts
#2
Ideas
: "We should stop playing chess. It requires you to make sacrifices for the benefit of few to win the game. What's the point of winning a game without your squad?"
1 post
Popular Topics in r/Showerthoughts
#1
Looking For
27 posts
#2
Annoying
19 posts
#3
Looking
14 posts
#4
Ai
: "If Ai takes over the internet, r/Showerthoughts might be the one subreddit it can never truly understand. It doesn't shower."
8 posts
#5
Hard Time
6 posts
#6
Relationship
6 posts
#7
Frustrating
5 posts
#8
Job
4 posts
#9
Showerthoughts
: "If AI takes over the internet, r/Showerthoughts might be the one subreddit it can never truly understand. It doesn't shower."
4 posts
#10
Music
3 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
: "What if we're all secretly in a Coma?"
74 posts
#2
Casual Thought - Pending
: "The ocean contains countless tons of dissolved CO2; therefore, the ocean is a soda."
6 posts
#3
Musing - Pending
: "Carl Sagan poetically and beautifully stated that "We're made of starstuff". But in much closer proximity to us in the chain of things that we're made from is poop."
4 posts
#4
Forbidden Topic – Removed
: "“TV” is obviously a word I don’t spell out to my wife for my young kids not to know what I’m saying. I just use the word television."
2 posts
#5
Speculation - Pending
: "What if our consciousness derives from the symbiotic relationship between bacteria and human cells, rather than the brain alone?"
2 posts
#6
Showerthought - Pending
: "The internet overall hates age gap relationships, yet actively celebrates Johnny Sins who’s 47 and makes videos with 18 year olds on the regular."
2 posts
#7
Common Error - Removed
: "Rushing a fraternity at a U.S. college can be Russian Roulette, literally and figuratively."
2 posts
#8
User Deleted
: "[ Removed by moderator ]"
1 post
Member Growth in r/Showerthoughts
Yearly
+178k members(0.5%)
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Last updated: October 2, 2026