HASHTAGS/#pain

#pain

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

237posts tracked
11.6Mtotal engagement
7networks

We track 237 posts using #pain across 7 networks, carrying 11.6M engagement between them — an average of 48.8K per post.

It is used most on Bluesky: 159 of the 237 posts we hold, 67% of the total.

Where it performs hardest per post, though, is TikTok, averaging 329.2K — 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 →

Top #pain posts ALL NETWORKS

TIKT3.2M
TIKT3M
TIKT1.9M
DOUY548.9K
DOUY477.9K

Most viral #pain on Bluesky

BLUE70
BLUE25
BLUE16
BLUE14
BLUE12

Most viral #pain on TikTok

TIKT3.2M
TIKT3M
TIKT1.9M
TIKT335.2K
TIKT161.6K

Most viral #pain on Douyin

DOUY548.9K
DOUY477.9K
DOUY250.9K
DOUY
Re: Pain's Isekai Life from Zero!!! [Minato Arc]
@—Summer Autumn Winter— · Douyin
249.1K
DOUY151K

Most viral #pain on Instagram

INST20.6K
INST16.5K
INST8.4K
INST2.2K
INST2.2K

Most viral #pain on X / Twitter

X / 237
X / 167
X / 160
X / 119
X / 109

Most viral #pain on Pinterest

PINT29.7K
PINT7.3K
PINT1.3K
PINT
Pinterest post by @ninjamitton
@ninjamitton · Pinterest
1K
PINT
Pinterest post by @laraerios3
@laraerios3 · Pinterest
1

Most viral #pain on Mastodon

MAST98

#pain in five questions

What is #pain and where is it used?

A hashtag with 237 posts tracked by ViralHunt across 7 networks, mostly on Bluesky (159 posts). Those posts add up to 11.6M engagement, about 48.8K per post.

Where does #pain perform best?

On TikTok: 329.2K 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 #pain?

Mostly on Mondays, around 13:00 UTC: 18% of the 221 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 #pain most?

achronicvoice.com (Bluesky, 23 posts), males-in-pain.bsky.social (Bluesky, 23 posts), omnimedical.bsky.social (Bluesky, 13 posts), neuropsychiatry_ (Instagram, 11 posts), riddlebm.bsky.social (Bluesky, 7 posts), overtime (TikTok, 6 posts).

Which hashtags go with #pain?

Other tags with volume on the same networks: #chronicpain, #gay, #chronicillness, #gaykink, #depression, #love.

When people post with #pain

Hour of day and day of the week of the 221 dated posts carrying this tag (times in UTC). The busiest hour and day are marked.

By hour (UTC)

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