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Ask the United Kingdom. The #1 subreddit for Brits and non-Brits to ask questions about life and culture in the United Kingdom. We invite users to post interesting questions about the UK that create informative, good to read, insightful, helpful, or light-hearted discussions. Founded 2011 · 2.4M members

2.4M members. The best post we have captured here reached 18.9K upvotes, which works out to 8 per 1,000 members.

8peak upvotes per 1,000 members
2.4Mmembers
18.9Kbest post
20.1Kmost comments
1.2Kposts 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.

93%
Question 93% Image 5% Gallery 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.

Serious Answers Only 523 Answered 27 Locked 11 Casual 7 Mentions London 2 + 1 Jubilee Chicken 1 AskUK - /r/popular 1 Mentions Doncaster 1 Serious Replies Only 1

What the ceiling looks like

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

Did anyone else dream of moving to America when they were younger, but just think f*ck that?

↑ 18.9K 💬 2.4K question 2020

My girlfriend just ate a digestive with cheese like it was a cracker. This is absolutely mental, right?

↑ 15.2K 💬 4.7K question 2022

Can any Dentists explain the differences in these, or the need for so many variations of toothpaste?

↑ 14.1K 💬 1.6K image 2025

Why is everyone so anti drug but pro alchohol?

↑ 13.8K 💬 2.1K question 2022

Why are the British plug prongs so thick compared to the North American plug prongs?

↑ 13.6K 💬 3.6K gallery 2024

Is anyone else feeling unsafe today because of how drunk everyone is? As a woman, I have never felt so scared and harassed walking home

↑ 13.5K 💬 1.3K question 2021

What are peoples thoughts on the queue?

↑ 13.2K 💬 2.5K question 2022

What is a massive British scandal that most people seem to not know about?

↑ 12.9K 💬 877 question 2022

Can we all just agree to use the metric system?

↑ 12.6K 💬 1.6K question 2021

What is that thing in my garden?

↑ 11.6K 💬 3.4K image 2026

Communities its size

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

r/AskUK, in numbers

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

What is r/AskUK?
r/AskUK ("Ask the United Kingdom") describes itself this way: The #1 subreddit for Brits and non-Brits to ask questions about life and culture in the United Kingdom. We invite users to post interesting questions about the UK that create informative, good to read, insightful, helpful, or light-hearted discussions. It was founded in 2011 and has 2.4M members.
How many members does r/AskUK have?
r/AskUK has about 2.4M members. ViralHunt has tracked 1.2K of its posts; the biggest reached 18.9K upvotes, which is 8 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/AskUK?
"Did anyone else dream of moving to America when they were younger, but just think f*ck that?" reached 18.9K upvotes and 2.4K comments in 2020, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/AskUK.
What subreddits are similar to r/AskUK?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/PcBuild, r/ukraine, r/GlowUps, r/LosAngeles, r/Scotland, r/AmongUs.
What kind of posts do best on r/AskUK?
Of the posts we hold, 93% are question posts and 5% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/AskUK?
Across 1.2K timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Thursday at 07:00 UTC (5.8K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 21:00 UTC (4.9K avg upvotes), Saturday at 07:00 UTC (4.5K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Monday. 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/AskUK?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/AskUK has 9.9K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 306 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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