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r/1940s

69.1K members. The best post we have captured here reached 1.4K upvotes, which works out to 21 per 1,000 members.

21peak upvotes per 1,000 members
69.1Kmembers
1.4Kbest post
180most comments
300posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

80% 11%
Image 80% Gallery 11% Link 6% Video 2% Text 1% Question 1%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Film Star 110 Daily Life 73 Movies 17 Pin Up 6 Music 5 Discussions 2 Video 1 Advertisements 1

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Young lady posing by the beach, 1945. Kodachrome shot.

↑ 1.4K 💬 33 image 2026

Kodachrome shots of Marilyn Monroe on her red sweater, 1946.

↑ 1.3K 💬 25 gallery 2026

Actress Gene Tierney posing in a tied crop top, 1940s. Kodachrome shot

↑ 1.1K 💬 22 image 2026

Kodachrome shot of a lady at beach, 1940s.

↑ 1.1K 💬 20 image 2026

Marilyn Monroe at Santa Monica Beach, California 1946. Kodachrome shots

↑ 1.1K 💬 8 gallery 2026

Ava Garner at the beach, 1944-5

↑ 1.1K 💬 23 image 2026

Ava Gardner posing at the beach, 1945.

↑ 1.1K 💬 19 image 2026

Marilyn Monroe in the beach of Malibu, California, 1945. Kodachrome shot

↑ 1.1K 💬 12 gallery 2026

Marilyn Monroe at the pool of the hotel in Jones Beach,Long Island, New York, July of 1949. Prmoting the her film "Love Happy". Kodachrome shots

↑ 1K 💬 11 gallery 2026

Kodachrome shot of Ava Gardner 1948.

↑ 1K 💬 13 image 2026

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/1940s, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

How many members does r/1940s have?
r/1940s has about 69.1K members. ViralHunt has tracked 300 of its posts; the biggest reached 1.4K upvotes, which is 21 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/1940s?
"Young lady posing by the beach, 1945. Kodachrome shot." reached 1.4K upvotes and 33 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/1940s.
What subreddits are similar to r/1940s?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/greenland, r/FreeFolkNation, r/InvictaSolaris, r/Leakednews, r/LetsDiscussThis, r/loveland.
What kind of posts do best on r/1940s?
Of the posts we hold, 80% are image posts and 11% are gallery posts.
When is the best time to post on r/1940s?
Across 300 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Thursday at 18:00 UTC (729 avg upvotes), Saturday at 22:00 UTC (499 avg upvotes), Friday at 20:00 UTC (461 avg upvotes). The busiest day is Tuesday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/1940s?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/1940s has 820 upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 147 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/1940s, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.