HASHTAGS/#mayday

#mayday

The most viral posts using #mayday across TikTok, Instagram, X, Facebook and Pinterest — ranked by real engagement tracked by ViralHunt.

111posts tracked
2.6Mtotal engagement
3networks

We track 111 posts using #mayday across 3 networks, carrying 2.6M engagement between them — an average of 23.3K per post.

It is used most on Douyin: 80 of the 111 posts we hold, 72% of the total.

And Douyin is not just where the volume is: it is also where the tag performs best per post, averaging 32K.

Ranking comes from the posts themselves rather than from how often the tag appears, and it is recalculated as new posts are collected. How we measure this →

Top #mayday posts ALL NETWORKS

DOUY694.3K
DOUY259.3K
DOUY
Qingdao University 2026 Graduation Ceremony (Slightly Damaged Version)
@Qing Xiao Jun (Qingdao University Jun) · Douyin
218.4K
DOUY197.3K
DOUY184.1K
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Most viral #mayday on Douyin

DOUY694.3K
DOUY259.3K
DOUY
Qingdao University 2026 Graduation Ceremony (Slightly Damaged Version)
@Qing Xiao Jun (Qingdao University Jun) · Douyin
218.4K
DOUY197.3K
DOUY184.1K

Most viral #mayday on Bluesky

BLUE20.3K
BLUE3.9K
BLUE1.8K
BLUE1.6K
BLUE350

Most viral #mayday on X / Twitter

X / 1.4K

#mayday in five questions

What is #mayday and where is it used?

A hashtag with 111 posts tracked by ViralHunt across 3 networks, mostly on Douyin (80 posts). Those posts add up to 2.6M engagement, about 23.3K per post.

Where does #mayday perform best?

On Douyin: 32K engagement per post on average, which is also where it is posted most.

When do people post with #mayday?

Mostly on Saturdays, around 13:00 UTC: 32% of the 111 dated posts fall in the three hours around that time. Posting when the tag is active is posting when someone is reading it.

Who uses #mayday most?

An Apple🥕 (Douyin, 7 posts), movietoast.bsky.social (Bluesky, 4 posts), 一颗苹果🥕 (Douyin, 3 posts), lilrhodyvisbrigade.bsky.social (Bluesky, 3 posts), Salty Fish Channel QAQ (Chasing 100k followers) (Douyin, 2 posts), Nine Days Talk (Douyin, 2 posts).

Which hashtags go with #mayday?

Other tags with volume on the same networks: #douyin_selection, #douyin_music_lounge, #music, #concert, #liangjingru, #appletv.

When people post with #mayday

Hour of day and day of the week of the 111 dated posts carrying this tag (times in UTC). The busiest hour and day are marked.

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