The AskReddit community is celebrating its 10th anniversary, so we wanted to wish them a happy cake day, give a friendly plug to their special redditor-designed t-shirt benefitting Doctors Without Borders, and share some of our favorite posts and comments from the past decade.
Hundreds of posts make it onto the front page of Reddit every day, but few will ever rise high enough to sit among Reddit’s all-time highest-rated posts. Only the very best earn that honor.
So, in this article, we list some of the highest-rated Reddit posts of all time. Naturally, some subreddits are more popular than others, so we’re limiting this list to one post per subreddit.
But first, for those who aren’t familiar with the community, r/AskReddit has been a staple of our site since its inception back in January of 2008, as recognizable to redditors now as upvotes and AMAs. With over 18 million subscribers, it’s one of the largest communities on Reddit, where users ask unique questions each day in posts that receive thousands of replies filled with surprising anecdotes, hilarious jokes, and even the occasional poem and watercolour painting.
In America, tensions between the public and the police are long-established. Everything came to a head again in 2020 with the murder of George Floyd.
This video shows a member of law enforcement standing in front of his team, claiming that “everybody’s trying to shame us”, while interspersed with clips of police brutality.
It’s not an easy watch, so proceed with caution.
Sometimes, the questions that reach the top of the community are deeply personal, as we saw earlier this year when one user asked, “Redditors with less than a year left to live, what is on your bucket list and how can we help you?” Other times, the questions take a creative turn, challenging redditors to think of clever responses to novel prompts like “If authors ‘covered’ novels, the way musicians cover songs, which covered novel would you be most excited to read?”
Self-help is another common theme in the community, with advice-oriented questions generating thousands of crowd-sourced life pro tips. In fact, one of the most upvoted r/AskReddit questions of all time is “What are the best free online certificates you can complete that will actually look good on a resume?”
It’s a wonderful thing to be able to share your passions with family and friends. When it comes to video games, that can be tricky if you’ve been playing the game for years, have mastered everything about it, and thus have a different perspective.
This comic, upvoted 269,000 times, represents that charmingly. The experienced player is shielding the younger one from enemy fire while they learn the controls.
If you’ve ever taught someone the ropes on games like World of Warcraft or Fortnite, you should relate to this comic.
Of course, if you visit r/AskReddit at the right moment, you might also find a humorously passive-aggressive question at the top, like the elegantly simple “Redditors who have eaten at the Times Square Olive Garden, why?” or the more meta “People who make passive-aggressive posts on /r/Askreddit that accomplish nothing, why do you do this?”
And these are just the questions. The real magic of r/AskReddit is in the comments that follow, where redditors have shared some of the most fascinating and unique stories on the internet, every day for the past ten years.
