People Who Ate The Onion. A subreddit for screencaps of people who failed to see The Onion's articles as satire. Founded 2016 · 614.6K members · links only
614.1K members. The best post we have captured here reached
58.9K upvotes, which works out to
96 per 1,000 members.
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.
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Image 98%Link 2%
What the ceiling looks like
The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.
Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.
What is r/AteTheOnion?
r/AteTheOnion ("People Who Ate The Onion") describes itself this way: A subreddit for screencaps of people who failed to see The Onion's articles as satire. It was founded in 2016 and has 614.6K members.
How many members does r/AteTheOnion have?
r/AteTheOnion has about 614.1K members. ViralHunt has tracked 101 of its posts; the biggest reached 58.9K upvotes, which is 96 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/AteTheOnion?
"The Onion’s bias is showing again" reached 58.9K upvotes and 709 comments in 2019, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/AteTheOnion.
What subreddits are similar to r/AteTheOnion?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/popculture, r/ProgressiveHQ, r/Snorkblot, r/Yosemite, r/StarWarsBattlefront, r/thescoop.
What kind of posts do best on r/AteTheOnion?
Of the posts we hold, 98% are image posts and 2% are link posts.
When is the best time to post on r/AteTheOnion?
Across 101 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Thursday at 14:00 UTC (34.9K avg upvotes), Sunday at 14:00 UTC (31.8K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 16:00 UTC (31.4K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Wednesday. 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/AteTheOnion?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/AteTheOnion has 34.2K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty.
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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/AteTheOnion, 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 We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is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.
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