#whale
The most viral posts using #whale across TikTok, Instagram, X, Facebook and Pinterest — ranked by real engagement tracked by ViralHunt.
We track 243 posts using #whale across 8 networks, carrying 12.9M engagement between them — an average of 52.9K per post.
It is used most on Bluesky: 100 of the 243 posts we hold, 41% of the total.
Where it performs hardest per post, though, is Instagram, averaging 176.4K — 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 #whale on Bluesky
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Most viral #whale on Instagram
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Most viral #whale on Douyin
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Most viral #whale on TikTok
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Most viral #whale on X / Twitter
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#whale in five questions
What is #whale and where is it used?
A hashtag with 243 posts tracked by ViralHunt across 8 networks, mostly on Bluesky (100 posts). Those posts add up to 12.9M engagement, about 52.9K per post.
Where does #whale perform best?
On Instagram: 176.4K 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 #whale?
Mostly on Thursdays, around 19:00 UTC: 23% of the 222 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 #whale most?
science (Instagram, 36 posts), bigearthdata.ai (Bluesky, 29 posts), general.knowledge.booster (Instagram, 7 posts), dailymail (TikTok, 7 posts), drvanessapirotta.bsky.social (Bluesky, 6 posts), toppnews.bsky.social (Bluesky, 4 posts).
When people post with #whale
Hour of day and day of the week of the 222 dated posts carrying this tag (times in UTC). The busiest hour and day are marked.
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