r/Showerthoughts is a subreddit with 34.2M members. The most common kinds of discussions are ideas and pain & anger, 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
Ideas
: "The person that manages to increase life span of dogs and cats will be insanely rich."
13 posts
#2
Pain & Anger
: "Life is so fragile, yet so abundant."
6 posts
#3
Advice Requests
: "Am I too old to find love? I’m 38F, a freelance content writer, with no kids, just my dogs. I’m curious how many of us are still single at this age."
6 posts
#4
Solution Requests
: "If Netflix had workout videos I would actually use it. And it would be superior to You Tube"
1 post
#5
News
: "America's gerontocracy might just be a symptom of its broken safety net and the older generation is clinging to power because they're absolutely terrified of retiring into the society they built."
1 post
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
Music
6 posts
#7
Love
5 posts
#8
Frustrating
5 posts
#9
Job
4 posts
#10
Sesame Street
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
: "Hanlon's Razor isn't that trustworthy considering stupidity leads to malice and malice is born from stupidity."
152 posts
#2
Casual Thought - Pending
: "When people stop calling you old man, you probably are an old man."
19 posts
#3
Musing - Pending
: "Pee generally gets dirtier when it goes into the toilet."
6 posts
#4
Speculation - Pending
: "Going millions of years back in time and killing a fish would cause millions of people to vanish from the Earth today."
6 posts
#5
Common Error - Removed
: "Vampires musy irradiate an aura if their clothes also don't appear in mirrors "
3 posts
#6
User Deleted
: "[ Removed by moderator ]"
2 posts
#7
Forbidden Topic – Removed
: "If polyamorous marriage is ever legalised and made commonplace, the term "wife/husband-in-law" may become a thing."
2 posts
#8
Showerthought - Pending
: "Vampires have to emit an aura, if their clothes are also invisible in a mirror. "
1 post
Member Growth in r/Showerthoughts
Yearly
+115k members(0.3%)
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Last updated: August 4, 2026