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74K members. The best post we have captured here reached 539 upvotes, which works out to 7 per 1,000 members.

7peak upvotes per 1,000 members
74Kmembers
539best post
438most 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.

54% 25% 10%
Question 54% Text 25% Image 10% Gallery 6% Link 4% Video 2%

The topics it labels

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

CULTURE 128 MISC 50 LIFESTYLE 35 FOOD 22 LANGUAGE 21 HISTORY 17 POLITICS 11 EDUCATION 6 SHITPOST 5 SURVEY 3

What the ceiling looks like

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

Japanese people who have been to the US, what did you think when you visited an American 7-Eleven for the first time?

↑ 539 💬 171 gallery 2026

Is this real life everyday?

↑ 402 💬 183 video 2026

How surprised were you when you started seeing kei cars and kei trucks pop up outside of Japan, whether it was on the internet or in person?

↑ 250 💬 55 image 2026

Confused about Japanese art/history

↑ 235 💬 72 gallery 2026

How famous is this person in japan?

↑ 182 💬 64 image 2026

Do you know anyone in your family who has relatives who immigrated to the U.S. or Brazil during the 19th or 20th century?

↑ 173 💬 45 image 2026

Why does Kimi Onoda hate foreigners that much?

↑ 96 💬 438 link 2026

Old lady fell hard and everyone pretended it didn't happen.

↑ 87 💬 62 text 2026

How is Bleach viewed in Japan today?

↑ 84 💬 20 image 2026

Do most Japanese people know that Japanese culture is popular abroad?

↑ 81 💬 40 question 2026

Communities its size

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

r/AskAJapanese, in numbers

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

How many members does r/AskAJapanese have?
r/AskAJapanese has about 74K members. ViralHunt has tracked 300 of its posts; the biggest reached 539 upvotes, which is 7 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/AskAJapanese?
"Japanese people who have been to the US, what did you think when you visited an American 7-Eleven for the first time?" reached 539 upvotes and 171 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/AskAJapanese.
What subreddits are similar to r/AskAJapanese?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/greenland, r/FreeFolkNation, r/InvictaSolaris, r/Leakednews, r/LetsDiscussThis, r/stevehofstetter.
What kind of posts do best on r/AskAJapanese?
Of the posts we hold, 54% are question posts and 25% are text posts.
When is the best time to post on r/AskAJapanese?
Across 300 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Tuesday at 14:00 UTC (83 avg upvotes), Saturday at 20:00 UTC (62 avg upvotes), Tuesday at 16:00 UTC (50 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/AskAJapanese?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/AskAJapanese has 41 upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 281 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/AskAJapanese, 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.