HASHTAGS/#whale

#whale

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

243posts tracked
12.9Mtotal engagement
8networks

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 →

Top #whale posts ALL NETWORKS

INST4.5M
INST3.7M
TIKT1.3M
TIKT929.6K
INST240.4K

Most viral #whale on Bluesky

BLUE326
BLUE140
BLUE118
BLUE100
BLUE85

Most viral #whale on Instagram

INST4.5M
INST3.7M
INST240.4K
INST105.1K
INST71.3K

Most viral #whale on Douyin

DOUY
Whales Don't Sink Immediately After Death
@Boling Talks Animals · Douyin
122.1K
DOUY53.8K
DOUY
Classic Scene of a Blue Whale Feeding
@Boling Talks Animals · Douyin
50.2K
DOUY
Giant Sea Creature
@Earth Exploration Channel · Douyin
44.9K
DOUY26.6K
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Most viral #whale on TikTok

TIKT1.3M
TIKT929.6K
TIKT189.3K
TIKT146.4K
TIKT135.5K

Most viral #whale on X / Twitter

X / 899
X / 878
X / 316
X / 3
X / 3

Most viral #whale on Mastodon

MAST140
MAST81

Most viral #whale on Tumblr

TUMB211
TUMB169

Most viral #whale on Pinterest

PINT
whale
@PastalPunk · Pinterest
564

#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).

Which hashtags go with #whale?

Other tags with volume on the same networks: #ocean, #science, #wildlife, #nature, #biology, #oceanlife.

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.

By hour (UTC)

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