#onthisday
The most viral posts using #onthisday across TikTok, Instagram, X, Facebook and Pinterest — ranked by real engagement tracked by ViralHunt.
We track 2052 posts using #onthisday across 7 networks, carrying 37.2M engagement between them — an average of 18.1K per post.
It is used most on Bluesky: 1820 of the 2052 posts we hold, 89% of the total.
Where it performs hardest per post, though, is TikTok, averaging 214.5K — so the tag is posted most in one place and lands best in another, which is exactly the difference worth knowing before choosing where to use it.
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 →
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Most viral #onthisday on Bluesky
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Most viral #onthisday on TikTok
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Most viral #onthisday on X / Twitter
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Most viral #onthisday on Tumblr
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Most viral #onthisday on Mastodon
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Most viral #onthisday on Instagram
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Most viral #onthisday on Pinterest
#onthisday in five questions
What is #onthisday and where is it used?
A hashtag with 2.1K posts tracked by ViralHunt across 7 networks, mostly on Bluesky (1.8K posts). Those posts add up to 37.2M engagement, about 18.1K per post.
Where does #onthisday perform best?
On TikTok: 214.5K engagement per post on average, even though it is posted more on Bluesky. It is used in one place and works better in another.
When do people post with #onthisday?
Mostly on Sundays, around 13:00 UTC: 25% of the 2K 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 #onthisday most?
jmshistorycorner.bsky.social (Bluesky, 318 posts), themelodychamber.bsky.social (Bluesky, 157 posts), nothingsacredwa.bsky.social (Bluesky, 148 posts), f1history1950.bsky.social (Bluesky, 132 posts), laliga (TikTok, 64 posts), keemokazi (TikTok, 41 posts).
Which hashtags go with #onthisday?
Other tags with volume on the same networks: #digitalart, #birds, #douyin_selection, #photo, #anime, #vtuber.
When people post with #onthisday
Hour of day and day of the week of the 2K dated posts carrying this tag (times in UTC). The busiest hour and day are marked.
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